Category: Whole School

In literacy this week we have been learning the letters ‘p’ and ‘n’.  On Monday we began by sorting items in a ‘feely’ bag – does the item begin with ‘p’?  We had a ‘yes’ hoop and a ‘no’ hoop, listening to initial sounds as well as developing some data handling skills.  We did it together as a class just to see how to do it, then had a go in small groups.

Here we are practising the sounds ‘p’ and ‘n’:

The ‘n’ song and action are about an aeroplane, we have enjoyed flying around the room.

In numeracy we have been working with numbers 4 and 5.  We have been singing number songs, counting objects and working on number formation.  5 is quite tricky so we had two days of lots of different activities out to allow us to practise.

We have been reading some stories about being kind to each other and how we can help each other.  We looked at lots of pictures of different behaviours and decided if behaving in a particular way is a ‘green’ choice or a ‘red’ choice.  We were very good at deciding where each picture should go and we worked really well together to make these posters for our classroom.

On Thursday we were learning about 2D shape.  We were remembering the names of the shapes we already knew as well as learning some new ones – pentagon, hexagon and octagon.  We have been describing the shapes using their properties, discussing how many sides and corners they have, we also used lots of good maths describing words like, curved, straight, edge, point.  We played with the shapes to create pictures in many different ways, looking at the shapes and working out hpw they can be put together.

We were delighted on Friday when we were told that we were the winners of the ‘peg challenge’ – ask your child to tell you all about it!  Mrs Kennedy is very proud of us and we got to go outside to play early for break time today and we had the playground to ourselves for a while.

As we had our sports clothes on already we went to the hall for some Zumba with our buddies.  We have also done some yogo in the classroom this week, using the ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ story and doing some yoga poses to go along with it.  Mrs Kennedy did it too so she wasn’t able to take pictures!

Have a lovely relaxing long weekend.  Love P1B and Mrs Kennedy

What a busy week we all had in P7a. In French we played a game where you had to find someone who had done certain activities during the holidays eg  “tu as fait du camping? ” (did you go camping?). The winner was the first to find 12 different people for each of the activities. The focus was on asking and answering questions.

In numeracy we did 3 inspirational maths lessons from Professor Jo Boaler at Stanford University. The focus of these is on growth mindset and starting with good principles of teamwork. One of the tasks involved the children working in groups to complete the four 4’s (they had to find numbers from 0-20 only using four 4’s), not as easy as it sounds…As next week is maths week we will continue to challenge ourselves with some of these problem solving activities.

As part of the Cake Fest project we made Victoria Sponge Cake this week. The focus was on using the all in one sponge method and on making buttercream icing. Weight and measurement was important again as was:  oven temperatures and timing during baking and consistency for the sponge and icing. Every child took part and then ate their end product. 100% of the class agreed that our sponges tasted better than shop bought !

In PE we continued extreme dodge ball with Mr Logan and started a 2 week mini orienteering course.

In literacy and expressive arts our main focus was on creating and performing our “Great Springfield Bake Off Assembly”. Thank you all for coming along and leaving such positive feedback ! Mrs Gordon was very proud of the final performance and everyone worked really hard to learn their words and speak loudly and clearly. Each group created their own mini act to help everyone find out more about baking and food hygiene, along with a few fun acts to showcase our skill-set in comedy and ICT.

Have a great weekend from Mrs Gordon and P7a.

On Monday morning some of us made new play dough.  We followed the recipe, using cups and a table spoons to measure the ingredients. We put lavender from Mrs Kennedy’s garden in it to make it smell nice and it worked! We have had lovely squashy, nice smelling dough all week.  I wonder what other smells we could try?

We began the week learning the ‘a’ sound.  We are very good at the ‘Ants on my Arm’ song and action.  I’m sure we could sing it if you ask us.  We practised writing ‘a’ in lots of different multi-sensory ways.

On Wednesday we introduced the ‘t’ sound and started using magnetic letters to help us to build and read words.  We made ‘at’ by listening for the sounds, counting how many sounds we needed and then finding the right letters.  We also practised reading the word, sounding out and then blending the sounds together.

On Tuesday we had PE in the hall.  We have been learning how to move around the hall safely, sharing the space and making sure our ‘bubbles’ don’t pop if we go too close to another person.  We traveled in lots of different ways – walking, running, hopping, skipping and galloping.  We also practised  basic moves too – throwing bean bags and balls, balancing on a beam and jumping over hurdles.

We have been working with number 3 this week, singing number songs to begin to think about counting  up and down and one more, one less. 3 is quite a tricky number to write so we have been practising in lots of different ways and went outside to write 3s all over the playground with chalk.

On Friday we had our first visit to the library.  Mrs Manlove gave us a very warm welcome and we enjoyed choosing and reading our books.  We are looking forward to visiting each week.

As always we have been busing playing this week. Here are a selection of pictures of what we have been up to:

Enjoy your weekend.

From Mrs Kennedy and P1B x