Year One have been working extremely hard to learn a liturgical dance for their mass. As a class, the children came up with the moves to fit the song, ‘Noel’. They have practised and are now feeling confident for the mass next week.
Determination
Applying phonics knowledge
Reception have enjoyed applying their growing phonics knowledge in different ways these past few weeks. They have played bingo, board games, made words with phonics multi-link or phoneme flipcharts and written captions to match pictures. Continue Reading
Loose Parts Play
Reception are becoming more independent and creative with the loose parts materials. They are beginning to use their imaginations to develop their own creations. High levels of involvement and engagement have been evident during their play. Continue Reading
Making Sets
Reception have enjoyed their early maths lessons inspired by ‘Big Ideas in Early Mathematics’. They have been using lots of mathematical vocabulary and have partaken in some critical thinking to sort objects (and themselves!) into sets. The children enjoyed taking turns to sort by their own criteria. The rest of the class needed to identify… Continue Reading
Year 5 Forest School
During their Forest School session, Year 5 took part in some active maths work by playing a game of Place Value Bingo. They searched the Forest School for clues, and then had to work out mental calculations so they could match the answers to their bingo boards. Continue Reading
Schools 500
Our school entered a number of teams into the Newcastle Schools 500 Games this year and everyone who took part showed excellent commitment, determination, passion and teamwork in their sporting activities. Both of our cross country teams won medals for their team efforts, with the boys coming in first place and the girls winning silver. Two of our pupils also… Continue Reading
Pobble Launch Day- My Life as a Window
Reception enjoyed imagining what they would be able to see if they were a window. They thought of their own place for their window to be and talked about their ideas in groups. They drew their window and showed what they could see before writing down their sentences. Reception used some fantastic adjectives and had… Continue Reading
Handwriting in Year One
Year One have been really trying to improve their handwriting. Each day the children focus on a letter and practise it using the lead ins and flicks following our handwriting scheme called Letter Join. Today the children were practising the letter ‘f’. Continue Reading
Problem Solving in Year One
Year One have been working on Place Value this week dealing with numbers up to 100. They have looked closely at number order and used mathematical language such as more and less, greater than and smaller than. The children spent time using Base 10 equipment breaking down numbers into their tens and ones and then… Continue Reading
Fractions in Year One
This week Year One have been investigating quarters. First of all the children looked at shapes and how to quarter them. They discovered that the shape is only in quarter if all parts are exactly the same size. The children had fun working with their learning partners trying to sort shapes into ‘quarters’ and ‘not… Continue Reading
