week ending 17th July 2015

This week has been Sports Week and the children have been incredibly active learning a range of new skills and activities. So far they have taken part in:Team building exercise, climbing through a spider tower to jump down an inflatable slide; table tennis; kwik cricket; multi-skills; cheer leading; climbing and karate. A team of students form Sprowston High School came on Wednesday afternoon to set up and coach the children through a carousel of different ball-skill based activities. Weather permitting we will be practicing sports day on Thursday before the big event on Friday! The children have been learning a special cheer routine to perform before the start of the races and are very excited to show this to you. We will be sending home 2 reading books for all scheme readers this week for them to read and discuss during the holiday. It is hugely beneficial for all children to read regularly during the holidays and we would encourage everyone to take part in the library summer challenge as well as just focussing on these books. We will also be sending home the summer writing challenge, and we would encourage everyone to write just one sentence a week to help keep their skills in focus and to avoid the dreaded 'summer dip'! Please remember that, if you would like additional work for your child, you can also access a wide range of activities and games covering the curriculum through your child's Education City login details. Thank you for all of your support with you child's learning this year and for all of our other activities - we have had a great year and wish you all a relaxing summer!

week ending 10th July 2015

This week is our last 'normal' week before breaking up for the holidays! In English, the children have been reading 'The Days The crayons Quit' and enjoyed looking at each crayon as an individual with feelings and opinions. Each class had a debate to try and resolve the conflict between yellow and orange about who should be the colour of the sun and each half put their case forward very well. The children then chose their own crayon to write about and came up with some lovely ideas, before putting this altogether in their own letter as a crayon. In maths we have been learning about positional language and direction. The children have learnt about right, left, clockwise, anti-clockwise, on, in, over, under, next to, in front of and behind! On top of this they have explore making quarter turns and have put this into practice by being human beebots and giving each other directions to navigate between two points. We also finish our topic 'Rupert's Garden' this week and the children are using their designs to build a scale model garden chair. They will be using a range of tools and materials to build this and will evaluate their work against the design when completed. Next week is Sports Week and the children will need to come to school dressed in PE kits every day - kits are being sent home this week for this reason. Everyone has now been to visit their new teacher and they are very excited about moving to year two - the teachers will all be availble to meet at the Summer Fete this Friday, and you are also welcome to come about see their work from this year in the current classrooms - we hope to see you (and some sunshine) this Friday.