Category: Class

A Healthy, Happy Week.

Scott Grason-Taylor

This week in Learners Class, we have been super healthy!

We have enjoyed our swimming session at the pool.  Our water confidence is growing with each week we go! It’s lovely to see such happy faces in the pool.

Alongside swimming this week, we have been lucky to have enjoyed some dance sessions with Hannah Verity Dance. This is always a winner with Learners class as we dance to the music and learn new routines.

Now the warmer weather is here, this makes running our daily kilometre much more enjoyable, We have delighted in trying to pace our jogging technique this week.

In PHSCE this week, we have been learning more about finances, recognising the money we use and discussing the range of ways we can pay for the things we need.

Also, with the Queen’s Jubilee just around the corner, we are continuing to learn about British Values. Even better, we have had some visiting teachers from other classes to help us learn. What a treat!

Let’s hope the sun continues to shine.

Join us here next week, to find out what Learners have been up to!

Learner Class 🙂

Summer is on the way!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Summer is certainly on the way. We have enjoyed having our playtimes on the field this week and being able to leave our coats inside.

The learning in the classroom has been busy as always.

In history, we have kick started our new topic of ‘Dinosaurs’, as you can imagine this certainly sparked real excitement in class. We used books from the library to find out some very interesting facts and can’t wait to keep on finding out more in the coming weeks.

Our focus artist in Art this term is Pablo Picasso and this week, we have been drawing some Picasso-style animals. There are definitely some budding artists among us!

In RE, we have discussed the meaning of the word ‘Gospel’ and how Christians interpret the good news that Jesus brings. This week we have thought in particular about how Jesus showed forgiveness to others.

In PHSCE we recognised we have to pay for the things that we buy and we have been able to identify the everyday things our families need to spend money on. 

Swimming is most definitely the highlight of our week. We are just loving going to the local pool and learning new skills!

Keep posted nest week to find out what exciting things we have been learning about!

Learners love to learn!

 

Fitting Five Days of Learning into Four!

Scott Grason-Taylor

It has been another busy week of new learning for the Pioneers. We are following our interest in eggs and popped down to the forest to consider,discuss and build some nests. We asked,”What does a nest need to be?” and “Where should a nest be located?”

The Pioneers selected materials and discussed the shapes and structures required to keep the egg safe. No eggs were cracked in the making of these nests.

The nest needs to be “comfy” and the tree selected should be “stable”. We had a walk around to look for the best tree. “Nests should be in a tree to be safe from badgers and foxes”. “They are predators”

Way back in October when we were all small, we had a fiddle around with some seed heads and collected some for planting in the spring. The time has come to get them potted up and labelled.

Some are even poking through the soil already.

Exciting times.

Maths Magic has been taking place all over the place as Pioneers discover how amazing arrays are. We looked at different ways to arrange 12 and spotted columns and rows.

So much maths chat.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us with our learning this week. Sleights is a wonderful place to learn.

Happy Learning

A busy week in Leaders

Scott Grason-Taylor

The children have enjoyed another busy week in school.

This week, we have continued to spend time preparing for the SATs assessments, which will take place next week. We are incredibly proud of the positive and hard-working attitudes that the children have had towards their preparations and we know that they are ready to give them their all next week.

In addition to SATs preparations, Leaders were back in the pool this week and impressed me with their water confidence. On Wednesday afternoon, the children also enjoyed learning about and playing cricket with Mr Gokool.

To finish off a busy four day week, the children continued to learn the song ‘Happy’, which is our focus in music this half term. We hope everyone has a very happy weekend.

Four days of fun and learning.

Scott Grason-Taylor

Even though it’s been  a four day week, we’ve been so busy!

In Maths we have been focusing on position and direction. We have practised quarter turns, half turns, three quarter turns and full turns. We took our learning outside on Wednesday to practise our left and right movements. 

We are starting to learn a new song in music, called ‘Zoo Time’. It’s definitely catchy!

We have been busy writing book reviews this week, reading books is something Learners Class love, so it was easy to write down our recommendations to others.

On Thursday, we marked National Hedgehog Awareness Week by having a fully hedgehog day! Everything we did was connected to hedgehogs (even maths). In the afternoon we made hedgehog bookmarks and we took three hedgehog houses down to the forest. We  really hope we get some spiky visitors!

The weather is getting warmer and it’s wonderful to be able to take our learning outdoors.

If anyone has any hedgehogs in their garden, please post a picture on tapestry and we will make a plan of local hedgehog sightings. #hedgehog heroes.

 

A Visit to The Library

Scott Grason-Taylor

We make a regular visit to our school library on a Friday but this week we went on a journey to The Mobile Library and that was an adventure.

Mr Grason accompanied us on our walk and helped the Pioneers to locate The Mobile Library. We were all looking for the big lorry however it had broken down so a smaller van packed full of books had come in its place. The sun was shining so this was just fine for us. The Pioneers sat in the Carpark with boxes of books and the very patient librarian talked each Pioneer through the checking and scanning of the books.

This showed our Christian Value of Service in action.

We now have a selection of borrowed books in the classroom and we will make a return visit soon.

Thank you to the library service for wonderful service. 

Happy Reading!

Digging in the Dirt

Scott Grason-Taylor

We started our new term by digging in the dirt. It was the best kind of dirt for digging in too as it was soft and wet and even wetter by the time we finished.

The objective was to expose the root system of the plants and to talk about the function of each plant part. We also made comparisons,looking closely at the leaves and the flowers on our field and in the forest. We used a key to spot and name the plants we had found.

On return to the classroom we looked with magnifying glasses,watched videos and chopped up the plants with scissors.

Later in the week we painted the flowers!

 

Our First Week Back After Easter

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello Visitors,

Our first week back has been jam-packed with lots of learning about new topics.

In RE we have started to explore the question: ‘What would Jesus do?’. We have focused on the parable of ‘The Two Builders’ this week, from Matthew 7:24-27. We discussed the parable’s meaning: if we trust in God, and live the life that he wants us to live, we will lead a successful and happy life. 

We have also worked hard to complete a poster about animals in English lessons. We have included conjunctions and relative clauses within our writing, and practised drawing the animal of our choice. Did you know that snow leopards can’t roar?

Finally, we wanted to share our new Christian Value with you all: Service. We will be exploring this in Collective Worship each day, and completing activities that are related within our prayer spaces. 

We hope you have had a great week too.

Discoverers 

 

Welcome back!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello families,

I hope that you had an enjoyable Easter break.

Leaders have enjoyed their first week of the Summer Term and it has been lovely for me to get to know them more this week. It is certainly going to be a busy final term at primary school for the children, with lots to look forward to.

This week, the children have been introduced to our new Christian value: service. Over the coming weeks, we will be looking out for acts of service in our class that we can share and celebrate together.

Throughout this week, the children have impressed me with their incredibly positive and mature attitudes towards SATs preparations. We have been busy revisiting learning and practicing answering a range of questions in preparation for the week commencing 9th May.

In addition to SATs preparations, we have also started our new topic for the Summer Term, which is “Animals”. Over the next two weeks in English, the children will be focussing on animals that are leaders – like our class name – with a particular focus on lions. This week, the children have watched video clips of lions in action in order to begin to describe an event. A range of vocabulary and sentence types have been used and I am looking forward to reading the finished descriptions next week.

In art, the children created some creative double page spreads in their sketch books, which showcase their research into the life and techniques of Leonardo Da Vinci. This term, our art specialism will focus on drawing and the children are looking forward to developing their skills over the coming weeks.

First week of Summer term!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello families,

After having two weeks off, it was so lovely to see all of our friends again! We have started our summer term with lots of new learning. In Religious Education, we have started exploring the question of ‘What kind of world did Jesus want?’ We thought about what the world is like today and what we would like it to be like. This fits perfectly with out current Christian value of ‘service’ and in worship this week, we have explored things that we can do to help each other. 

In art, we have started to explore the work of ‘Dante Rossetti’ and have learnt some facts about his life. We have also started to look at the Ancient Greece period in history. Lots more fun learning to come!  

Thank you for reading and see you here next week!

Adventurers