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.