We have loved celebrating the coronation in school today, we enjoyed all the different activities in class. At lunchtime we managed to get outside and have a picnic with the whole school and sit with our Year 5 buddies. It was lovely to see everyone dressed up in red, white and blue and as members of the royal family.
Yesterday we started our History topic on the royal family, we discussed what do I know about the royal family? What would I like to find out about the royal family? What is happening at the weekend and who are the members of the royal family? We learnt about the different members of the royal family and made their family tree as a class, then in groups. We were really impressed that the children worked together as a team and could make the family tree.
We are so excited for next week We are going to re-enact the coronation of King Charles and compare this to Queen Elizabeths coronation. We are also going to find out more about the royal family together.
Royal Family Challenge
I have set for your homework a challenge to carry out research and find an interesting fact about the royal family that you can share with the class. You can be as creative as you like and think about how you might display, present or share this interesting fact in class. You might want to build a model that explains your fact, you could draw a picture and write your fact like a fact file, you might even want to make a video like a news report!
Please bring you interesting fact into school by Thursday 11th May (or if it’s ready before that’s fine too!).
Maths: This week we have continued looking at the numbers 6-10 and that they can be composed of 5 and a bit representing them in different ways using a range of resources. We have used the STEM sentences 5 needs____to make___ ___ is made of 5 and___. We have also drawn our own cherry part-part whole diagrams to represent these numbers!
Mrs Hotchkiss came in to teach us a few lessons too, we looked at greater than >, equal to = and less than < please can you ask your child at home what the symbols mean, maybe they can write their own. I think you will be very impressed with how quick the children are with their answers !
English: we have started to orally retell The Cave Man Next Door and create our own story maps ready for us to start writing it up next week.
Computing: we had to order pictures for making rice krispie cakes and jelly, it was very tricky but we did it. We are getting quicker at logging on and off Purple Mash. Please keep practising.
PE: due to the bank holiday we will have PE on Tuesday so we don’t miss out, please come in your PE kit on Tuesday.
RE: We continued our discussion about how Jesus appeared to his disciples in the upper room we imagined that we were the disciples and thought of questions we would ask Jesus. More excellent independent writing, I have enjoyed seeing all the childrens confidence grow and I love how they challenge themselves and how they are are using their phonics knowledge to write without any adult support! We are incredibly proud of Year 1.
Library
On Friday afternoon we will be visiting the library, I have the library cards ready for those who brought the form back and if you would like your child to bring a book home, please bring in your library card.
Let’s Celebrate:
Well done to our awardees: for being a great role model in Year 1 and for super focus in RWI and excellent sentences in English.
Henry is going home with this person for her excellent Maths work, you didn’t give up when you found it difficult and you became more confident by the end of the week, well done:)
Reading Challenge:
Due to a busy day and week we will award the reading challenge winners next week in our assembly.
Reminders:
Don’t forget to wear your PE kit on Tuesday next week.
Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.
Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.
Please bring in spare clothes for your child.
Please check the home learning section for the homework,
Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.
Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher