We have been looking at our community and what we can do to make it better. 1 Red decided that the wind had blown everything towards our classroom and because we are a school community they wanted to clear the area. The children did a brilliant job just in time for the parents coming.
Year 1 hosted a coffee morning for their parents as part of their ‘unity in the Community’ theme. They shared reading, maths and physical games with their adults and it was a great success. Many of the parents said what a great time they had had and that they wished they could have stayed longer. Our children, as usual, were brilliant and showed off many off their skills and even introduced their parents to each other to increase their community. Well done Year 1!
Councillor David Francis joined us as a special guest in our assembly. He is a local councillor who is a member of the Green Party. He talked to us about what inspired him to want to make a difference in his local community and then presented the Eco Warriers with the Eco -Schools Award flag and certificate.
We look forward to welcoming him back to school so that he can find out more about our Conservation themes.
Unity In The Community is a lovely theme which teaches us all about our surrounding areas and to look at them in different ways. We have been looking at not taking our lovely area for granted and to think about it with positivity. We had a look at some very boring signs that we often see in the area around us and we decided to allocate each sign a sound. After a while we realised that we had become composers and had created a musical story. We then used 2Simple to generate our story and listened to our creations. Look out Top Of The Pops!
This week in our ‘Unity In The Community’ theme, we have been looking at the importance of crossing the road safely. We looked at the Green Cross Code and worked with our partners to design our own posters and discuss what is right and wrong about certain scenarios that we have witnessed both in the community and on the class videos.
The theme of this Years Mental Health Week is ‘Let’s Connect’. Connection is vital for our wellbeing. Let’s Connect is about making meaningful connections and Miss Smith from the Healthy Minds Team came into school to today and delivered and assembly to encourage our children (and staff) to connect with others in healthy, rewarding, and meaningful ways.
To celebrate Mental Health Week in school and to raise awareness of the importance of children’s mental health we have completed lots of different activities in class through out the week.
Last week the School Council and Eco Warriors worked together on a bird feeder project. We had a visit from Groundworks who talked to the children about visiting the tip, why you would go and what the children had dropped off. We then discussed how we deal with rubbish and recycling and the importance of 3 R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
We learned the importance of keeping the earth happy and the damage of climate change. The teams made bird feeders from recyclable material and then we hung them around our gardens! The two groups worked so well together and were a credit to us all.
This week in our Maths we have been matching numerals to its picture form then trying our best to write the number word. This has been very tricky, especially the writing of the word in its number form but we didn’t give up. We then used our great communication and language skills to explain to our partner what picture we were looking at. Our partner had to listen very carefully and draw what we had said, sound easy? Well we did it back to back so we really had to concentrate on our partners words and directions. It was geat fun!
