Category: Learners Class

A busy week as always in Learners Class. 

This week we have welcomed a new member of our class – Story Mouse. Story Mouse has very quickly made lots of new friends and has become a very popular Learner. We have enjoyed reading and telling stories to Story Mouse and are excited to learn more about his role in our classroom. On Thursday, Story Mouse left us a letter with a gift of HIS/HER favourite book to share. We delighted in sharing the story together and were eager to write letters in response.

We are continuing to enjoy learning more about the past and have been thinking about Museums this week. We discussed the Museums we had visited and also the Museums we would like to visit in the future. We watched some virtual tours and talked excitedly about artefacts and their importance.

We have also produced some stunning artwork this week, inspired by this term’s artist Kandinsky. The pieces of art were just amazing. We hope you enjoy them too!

We are busy preparing for Harvest Time and rehearsing our own class song, it’s going to be sensational!

Happy Learning as always 🙂

Learners Class

Learners have worked hard this week to gain more confidence in maths reasoning and problem solving. We have enjoyed using practical resources to help us learn more about number and place value. We applied our skills to enable us to solve problems, using a range of strategies. We are becoming proficient problem solvers and are working hard to build understanding and deepen our learning. What a productive week!

Also this week, we have immersed ourselves in the past. We have been learning more about how Whitby has changed over the years and have really enjoyed comparing old photographs to those of modern day. We were fascinated to find how some areas of Whitby still look very similar.

On Thursday, we recognised World Heart Day by sharing the book ‘In my Heart’ by Jo Widek’ We discussed how we could keep our hearts healthy and happy. 

An awesome week of learning again Learners Class! Learners Class just love to learn.

Even though we’ve had a four-day week, it has certainly been jam-packed. We have packed in so many learning opportunities into our four days.

We had a great time on Tuesday afternoon, as we travelled to Caedmon College for a multi-skills festival. We enjoyed throwing, jumping and running activities and had some great team spirit and lots of enthusiasm. 

This week we have started a new writing focus around our town of Whitby. We are in the process of creating an advert to persuade others to visit our lovely town. With this in mind, we created mind-maps of the places we liked to visit in Whitby and the activities we enjoy there. We worked in teams, drawing and labelling pictures to aid our learning.

In History, we have been learning about Frank Meadow Sutcliffe and have become very interested in sepia photography. So much so that we decided to create our own versions. These will be displayed in our classroom for us to enjoy.

We have enjoyed PE, computing and have shared many stories together this week too. 

There is always a buzz for learning in Learners Class. 🙂

Learners have had a week full of super learning. We started the week with our new RE topic, around belonging to a faith community. We thought about the groups we belonged to. We drew pictures and discussed how belonging to our special groups made us feel. This prompted some meaningful conversations and discussions. 

On Tuesday, we had so much fun clapping and dancing to the beat of some ‘groovy’ music. Beat is our music focus this half-term and we are SO going to enjoy finding the beat in different music types.

In Science, we are learning more about seasonal change. So on Thursday, we headed down to the forest to see the signs of Autumn for ourselves. Amongst other things, we found autumnal leaves, brambles and acorns. We enjoyed some painting in the forest too. We figured out how we could make the secondary colours we needed (orange, purple and green) from mixing the primary colours that we had (red, blue and yellow). The sun was shining and we had a fun packed day learning outdoors. It is safe to say we had the BEST day!

We can’t wait to see what next week has in store!

Learners Class 🙂

Learners dived straight into their learning with enthusiasm and gusto this week. We may only have had a four-day week, but we have achieved a great deal.

On Wednesday, we delighted in being able to watch the Tour of Britain cycling race go right passed our school. There were cheers and gasps as the cyclists and safety vehicles whizzed passed. This has inspired our writing this week and we have been including onomatopoeia words in our writing about the race.

In maths this week, we have been sorting objects into groups and using ten-frames to build teen numbers. Learners have shown such confidence in their learning this week, which is wonderful after the long summer break.

We enjoyed PE with Mr Gokool and learning more about keeping safe online, with Mrs Gurney.

We have shared stories, explored the classroom and enjoyed playing together this week. We have settled into our new class and routines with independence and ease. There have been smiles all round. What a fabulous start to the school year! 

Learners love to learn 🙂

This week we have been incredibly excited. A huge crane arrived at school, to deliver the new Early Years buildings. Learners class were so excited and delighted in going outside to watch. We were amazed!
Monday and Tuesday saw the transition of the Year 2’s to Adventurers Class and we welcomed in the new Year 1’s with open-arms! We had a wonderful few days in our new classes and I know the new Learners will be wonderful.
In English this week, we have been using Christina Rossetti’s ‘What is Pink’ poem for inspiration and decided to write our own class poem. Please check out our video on Tapestry of our wonderful poem, we all felt very proud.
In Science this week, we have been focusing on how we keep ourselves healthy. We have been describing balanced meals, using different food groups and have also been able to identify the need to exercise, drink plenty of water and sleep to keep ourselves fit and strong.
As always, we have enjoyed reading and listening to stories in class this week. Some Learners even brought in their own books from home and read these to their peers. This is always fabulous to see. There is always a buzz for learning in Learners Class! 🙂

What another wonderful week we have had. It is SO true, Learners class love to learn!

Today (Thursday), has been our amazing musical extravaganza in Church. It was fantastic! We all felt so amazingly proud to be part of such a wonderful school community.  Every class performed and each were outstanding. We could all feel the positive energy within the Church this afternoon. 

In Learners Class we reflected on the value of Trust and performed our music focus song of ZooTime. This was so much fun and we loved sharing this fun song with our friends and families.

In Science this week,, we have been thinking about the nutrients we get from the foods we eat and how this helps our bodies to grow. We have been paying particular attention to our school dinners, seeing if we can spot the proteins and carbohydrates on our plates.

We have been continuing to learn more about the artist Paul Klee this week. His love for colour inspired us to create our own personal colour charts – linking each colour to our feelings and emotions. We also perfected our skills of blending two colours together – this was harder than it sounds – we found that using oil pastels made the technique a little easier!

Another wonderful week of learning. We are Learners by name and learners by nature!

Learners have embraced poetry in English this week. We have been looking closely at Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘What is Pink?’. We discussed the language and mood the poem evokes. We then began to create our own colour poems, thinking carefully about our word choices and the overall feeling of the poem. We are very proud of our poems so far and hope to put all our ideas together to create a class poem to perform next week. 

In Science we have been learning about our senses, we can identify the parts of the body that enable us to see, hear, taste, touch and smell. 

In Art, we have been drawing in the style of Paul Klee. Drawing on our sills of mark making and using light and dark tone, we drew a Paul Klee style portrait. We listened to relaxing piano music as we drew and our final pieces were wonderful. 

We are enjoying singing in class in preparation for our musical concert in Church next Thursday (7th July) at 1.30pm.

Learners Class love to learn 🙂

We have had a week full of the great outdoors this week. We have enjoyed our first School sports day in two years and it was sensational! The sun was shining, the children tackled each activity with a sense of fun and positivity. They cheered each other on and supported their friends and siblings. Our families were able to spectate this year. There were smiles all round! 

On Friday, we ended the week with a visit to the forest. The weather was beautiful, we found some shade and laid out some rugs and cushions. We read and enjoyed stories together, we sketched using grass and charcoal, we climbed trees, and we even practised our singing for the up and coming church concert. We embraced every moment of being outdoors.

In maths, we have been measuring water this week and learning about capacity and volume. Whilst in science, we have been identifying parts of our bodies.

We were delighted to receive a reply from our hedgehog awareness letters (sent to our neighbours last week) and were lucky to receive a gift of a hedgehog ornament along with a letter. This certainly made our day and we were so thankful to our kind neighbour.

Who knows what next week will have in store?

Read our blog next week to find out!

Learners class.

Wow! What an exciting week we have had. We enjoyed our usual swim session on Tuesday and we are becoming so much more confident in the water.

In RE, we have begun to discuss our new focus question ‘What makes some places sacred?’ We had purposeful discussions about the word sacred and we drew pictures of our own ‘safe’ places and were able to explain why it was special to us.

On Thursday morning we were lucky to welcome local artist Liz Collier into Learners class. She worked with us all morning to create some art pieces around the theme of ‘diversity’. This will be collaborated into a whole school art piece and we are so excited to see the final result. Enjoy our pictures below;-

To add to our excitement, we were able to watch the demolition of our pre-school building this week. This was fascinating and a big moment for the school, as we look forward to the building of our new Early Years classrooms! There were lots of ‘oooohs’ and ‘aaahs’ from the children (and staff) as the building came crashing down! As our writing topic is currently letter writing, we have been inspired to write our next letter to the builders on site, we are thinking carefully about the questions we may ask them.

What an exciting week!

Learners class