Our first week back

In Y1H we have been busy getting to know each other and finding out about 'ourselves'. In our first Science lesson we studied the different parts of our human bodies. We then drew around our friends with chalk and then helped one another write labels for different body parts. 

Welcome back!

Dear Parents,

We hope that all of our students have had a fantastic summer and are feeling refreshed, ready for an exciting new academic year.

New staff

We would like to welcome a new addition to the teaching staff, Miss. Samantha Yell, who will be working in Year 1. She is excited by the challenges ahead and ready to bring her skills and knowledge to help develop the Primary team.

New Canteen

The canteen has been fully refurbished both in the kitchen and serving areas. The menu has been revamped by the new catering team - so the children will have plenty to choose from to keep them energised and well fed to meet the challenges of the school day!

Homework

This will begin as of Monday next week, as we will use this week to get the children settled into their new classrooms and routines.

Below is a table which outlines which day your child will require their PE/ swimming kit at school:

	Y1H	Y1Y	Y2J	Y2K
PE	Monday	Tuesday	Thursday	Friday
Swimming	Friday	Thursday	Monday	Wednesday

After school pick up - In Key stage 1, please remember that all children who are not attending ECAs and have not been picked up will wait at the steps in the front office area.

Well Done RM!!

Well what a fantastic year for RM!! Yesterday we all received a certificate for our special efforts in Reception this year. 

Wishing you all happy holidays and the very best in Year 1!!!!

Regards
Mrs. McDonald

Superhero party!!

The children are very excited about having a Superhero party and have been busy this week making masks and belts to wear on Friday. Please don't worry if you don't have a costume as we are making accessories for the children to wear over their regular clothes. 

Today we asked the children to make an invite for their favourite bear or toy to come to the party. Please can you let your child bring in their toy tomorrow (Thursday) so we can prepare some outfit for them too!!

Superhero belts!

Superhero mask!

Down in jungle where nobody goes...!!

Last week we looked at jungle animals. The children enjoyed singing and dancing to "Down in the jungle where nobody goes" and loved adding more animals and their sounds onto the song. If you would like to sing with your child please follow the link below.
"Down in the jungle where nobody goes"

In maths we have been studying position language, 'on' , 'in', 'next to', 'beside', 'under' and 'in-between', 'inside', 'outside' etc.

On Tuesday we celebrated Kao-Mun's birthday in style with lots of yummy food, sausages, dim-sum, jellies and a fantastic spiderman cake! Thank you to Kao-Mun's parents for a great party!

Can we have you junk please?!

Next week we will be doing all about recycling. Please could we have your junk such as empty boxes, toilet rolls, yogurt pots, plastic bottles etc.

Thank you for your support!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

During our last week of minibeasts we read the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle. In literacy the children sequenced the life cycle of a butterfly. In Maths this week we looked at time, and talked about what we did at certain times of the day. We also made our very own rainbow clock. 

In our joint activities with RS we did lots of crafts including balloon painting to make a hungry caterpillar, a paper plate ladybird and a paper chain caterpillar practising our patterning. We also made some lollipop dragonflies and toilet roll butterflies. Ms Smith had a cool adding machine which we enjoyed playing.

Miss Smith's adding machine

Toilet roll butterfly

Making mini beasts

Paper chain caterpillars

The Hungry Caterpillar

Making mini beasts!

What time is it?

A lollipop for the hungry caterpillar

A paper chain caterpillar

Playdough food for the hungry caterpillar

Dragonflies

We can find a pattern!