Fun in the sun! ☀️

24th May 2023A Welburn

We’ve had lots of fun in the sunshine this week in Crew Welburn! We’ve made slides for dinosaurs, transported water using pipes and funnels, and even splashed our feet in our make shift paddling pools to cool off! The children are really developing their independence, curiosity and team work this week, and are working well together to explore how different things work – it is lovely to stand back and watch them forming strong friendships with each other!

The children have also been enjoying indoor provision, and are still excited by our story, Little Red Riding Hood. We spotted a wolf in school last night, so Leon decided to dress up as the Woodcutter to scare him away, and some of the boy and girls even made up a song to scare him off! We hope he doesn’t come back!

Reading Vocabulary

23rd May 2023Ruth Shields

This morning we played one of our favourite games: Round table.

Each pair has 1 whiteboard and pen between them. They are et a challenge and given 2 minutes to complete it. Sounds easy… think again. During the task the children aren’t allowed to talk to each other and in addition, they need to be using their skimming and scanning skills not only in the text but to ensure they aren’t duplicating answers.

The task today was to use 2 pages of the text to find as many verbs as they could. We have been using these games to consolidate our learning and ensure we are confident with word classes.

The Pebble in My Pocket

15th May 2023Kate Thompson

Today in Crew Thompson’s reading group, we solved a jigsaw of the front cover of our new book. We found out that the title is The Pebble in My Pocket and the author is Meredith Hooper. Afterwards, we had a fantastic discussion about what the book could be about and had lots of questions after reading the blurb.

Y1 reading!

5th May 2023Lauren Marsh

With the phonics screening getting closer in June, we are really trying to push reading at home. Unfortunately there is only 4/25 that have read more than once this week. I am no longer sending home any other homework other than a reading book and RWI sounds. Please can this be completed with children at least 3 times a week.

The reading cafe has had a massively positive impact with reading on a Thursday with 10/25 adults reading with their child in this session. We really appreciate parents/carers spending this time to read with your children.

Please can all RWI books come back in again next week as we are missing a lot of books and I need to look through what we are missing and charge for missing books.

Thank you, I know by giving this a massive push at home too over the next few weeks we will see a massive difference in the children’s confidence in reading and your child will move up RWI groups.

Reading and grammar in MI

2nd May 2023Stacey McClare

We recapped apostrophes in our grammar session today, completing some activities on white boards and with our partner. We then applied our knowledge to a range of questions. We then explored a practise sats paper in our reading lesson. Children text marked confidently, unpicking vocabulary before answering questions. Our inference skills are really improving, our Wednesday inference sessions are really supporting us and helping us to become more confident when answering these type of questions.