This term we will be chatting about children’s rights during circle time.

Today we spoke about fairness and found out that being treated fairly was one of our rights.  We all tried to share an example of when we were treated fairly or unfairly.  We are going to try and treat each other fairly in class – this could also be reinforced at home.  Look out for your child coming home with a special ‘I treated someone fairly’ sticker.

Here are a selection of our own experiences of being treated unfairly or fairly:

Immediately after circle time the children all strived towards being extremely fair friends.  Willow decided that since Keir shared his pine cones she should tidy his rubbish.  Many friends said that tomorrow they needed to try and be kind to Angus because he had helped them to get their packed lunches – they thought that by ‘paying back’ a favour they were being fair! 🙂  Oliver was fair to his friends by letting them in front of him when we lined up.  Aaryn and Erin were fair to everyone by holding the doors open for the entire class. We also played fairly during a running game after circle time.  Well done everyone! Keep it up!

This term:

• We will have PE on Thursdays and Fridays.  Please ensure your child has their PE kit in school everyday.  We will also have games outside every Friday afternoon – you may wish to send trainers to school on a Friday for this.  I hope to teach the children how to play rounders.  We will also have dance every Tuesday.
• We will continue to go to library every Friday.  Children will only be issued with a new book if they have returned their book from the previous week.
• Reading will be on Mondays and Thursdays.  Please check the reading diaries/record for more information.
• Homework will continue to be issued on a Monday via the school Blog.  Please check the Blog every Monday.
• We will be doing a mini forest topic.  This will involve 4-6 sessions in the forest.   More information to follow.
• We will be trialing a new online reading programme for extra literacy revision.  This will require the children to log in for approximately 20 minutes per week.  More information to follow.
• We will continue to be learning a new sound most weeks with revision weeks dispersed throughout the term.  The elephants and tigers will no longer be getting their sound books updated each week.  This is because they are progressing beyond the sounds provided on the sound sheets.   Instead their new sounds will be posted on the Blog with possible activities to try.  New words will continue to be sent home for the pandas and tigers.

Wishing you all a happy holiday!  Thanks to you all for another great term!

I hope you all enjoy the ‘brownies’ that many children are taking home today! 🙂

We made a healthy dairy snack today as we have been learning why dairy products are important.  We have also been finding out where and how dairy products are produced.  We worked in groups to chop and prepare a selection of fruits.  We added some low-fat natural yoghurt and then, for our favourite part, we blended it using the electric whisk. We were delighted to use this!

This lucky little chap helped Mrs Duncan with the washing up by licking out the bowl…..

We also made use of the fantastic selection of puzzles that the children had brought in to share with their friends.  They were all very eager to show their friends how their puzzles fitted together – it was lovely to see them sharing so nicely!

Last week we had great fun celebrating Easter with P1W. We went to the field and rolled our eggs.  We also had an Easter egg hunt and hunted for chocolate eggs that the Easter bunny had hidden for us.  We have been learning about the significance of these traditions.