sharing a shell and other books by Julia Donaldson

This week,
We will be reading some of the books by Julia Donaldson, one of her most famous books is one of the children's favourites, 'The Gruffalo', but we will be enjoying some of her other stories including 'superworm' and 'sharing a shell'

The children will have some superhero challenges to go with the superworm story and we will be making a display of the seaside to go with the 'sharing a shell' story.

Do have a look at the sharing a shell story if you are not familiar with it, it is a delightful story about friendship with lots of rhyming, beautiful illustrations, colours and glitter.

This week we will be exploring rhyme, thinking about words that rhyme and playing rhyming games.  Amanda

CAKE SALE TODAY....

CAKE SALE TODAY.....

We are having a cake sale today after school in aid of Cancer Research, please come and enjoy our homemade selection of cakes.

This is in memory of our lovely colleague Katrina Green.

Reception transition

Hello all! 

All the Pre-school children have had their second transition session to reception now. We went on a tour around the school, during which some children recognised some familiar faces! The children then had some more time to explore the reception classroom as well as have a go at writing their names!

Next Thursday, 4th July, all the children will be together for the final transition session and we would invite all parents to stay for an introduction to reception by Mr. Farrington and myself (Mr. Gibson). It will be an opportunity to ask any questions that you have and hand in the paperwork we handed out during the first transition session. 

We look forward to meeting all of you! 

Reception team

Wednesday of reading week!

We continue to enjoy the stories of John Burningham, including our Trubloff story. We read the story this morning and gave Trubloffs sister a name' Trubla' and enjoyed some drama, with the children being mice, hiding from the big fat cat.

Many of the children have enjoyed listening to a different John Burningham story every day and
are beginning to decide on their favourite, we will let you know which one it is.
Thank you for returning the book journal, the children are going to add some more pages before we send them home again.

Tomorrow we are making badges to celebrate how much we love books!

the pool is open so swimming starts again tomorrow.
                  .Amanda

Monday.

We spent the morning with reception class today making mouse ears,  drawing family portraits, playing sound games and making mouse models.
we finished the morning singing 5 mice all wearing our mouse ears.

Tomorrow the children will be binging home a book journal, please fill in with your child and bring back each day so we can add to it.

lots more activities tomorrow.

do you know the story of Trubloff yet?                     Amanda.

reading week

This week we are taking part in the school reading week.
We have started to look at the book 'Trubloff' ' by John Burningham. my blog last week tells you what the story is about.

we join reception for a morning of 'mouse' activities, including the story, mouse ears, words and silly sentences and making models.

This week we will be making a list of all the words that start with the sound m, and using the words to make up silly sentences.

AmandaThe children will be asking their families what their favourite books are,  so get thinking and help the children to write your choices in the 'reading passports' they will be bringing home.

POWSA Social

POWSA Social

Hi there guys,
Just to let you know that the next POWSA meeting is being held on the 9th July at 19:45 at the new Wagamama restaurant in Brewery square. New faces are always welcome.  We are a small group of committed parents and teachers who enjoy raising money for our school and children, and without all your help and support this just wouldn't happen.  However, our core group is getting smaller and smaller and as a consequence recent events have been much harder to organise and run.  Therefore we would ask you to seriously consider coming along to the next meeting, ask your questions, find out what its all about and see if becoming a POWSA member is something you would like to do.  There is no expectation on your time, we won't sign you up to do anything, we just ask you come along, meet us and enjoy a nice meal.  If you do fancy coming would you be kind enough to let a POWSA member know, or leave your name with the school office, just so we can ensure a big enough table.
Hope to see you there!

Trubloff

Today we read the story of Trubloff  by John Burningham as our introduction to school reading week that starts on Monday.

Trubloff the mouse lives with his family in the village inn but dreams of becoming the greatest balalaika player in the whole country and one night he runs away with a band of gypsies who promise to teach him to play. Trubloff's poor family are overcome with worry but in the end it is Trubloff's gift for music which saves them from an awful fate.

All the school will be reading, exploring and learning from this book next week, we look forward to spending the morning with reception on monday and welcoming some suprise story readers in during the week.

Watch out for questions about favourite family books and requests for photographs of unusual places you and the children have been found reading a book.
Amanda

a good start to the week!!

Parents,
we have had a great day today, I think everyone enjoyed the zoo lab visit. We had a chance to see a tarantula, snake, land snail and other creatures, look at the display to see more and have a go with the recordable pegs to hear what the children have to say.

Can anyone remember which insect has 250 legs??

We hope to have our picnic tomorrow.

Have you read Mr Gibson's blog? its on our pre school page.

Amanda

Parents,
This week we start the week with a visit from Zoo Lab who will be bringing lots of insects and mini beasts for us to look at and learn about.The theme will be a book called ' Creepy House'.

After the visit (weather permitting) we will be taking a picnic up to the field and then we will be having a bug hunt.
 We will repeat this activity later in the week so as many children can take part as possible.
The children will then be looking at the bugs they have found through the microscope onto the computer screen.
The  children will also be going to the school library to look for non fiction books about insects and bugs.
Some of the other activities this week will include making insects from salt dough, pond dipping, drawing and painting pictures, rhyming words and sounds.

Next week the 24th June is a school themed reading week, we have lots of fabulous activities planned so watch this space!



Amanda

Transition to Reception...

Hello all! 

I have finally had the chance to meet most of the children that will be starting in reception this September and I am becoming extremely impatient! All the children had the chance to explore their new classroom and are certainly enthusiastic about their learning. There will be another session for each group of children before a final session where the whole class will be together. We hope to do a tour of the school during the next session so we are all hoping for sunny weather!

If any children missed, or were unable to attend, the previous two Thursday's sessions then please let the school know and we will make sure that they have the chance to attend.

I look forward to seeing all of you again!

Mr. Gibson

Dear Parents,
This week we will be creating our Fathers Day card and talking about super heros, discussing real super heros and asking the children who is their superhero!

We will also be continuing with our words that begin with f, and exploring words that rhyme with the words we have already found that begin with f.!

Do have a look at our very long list of our words that begin with f, the children thought of every one themselves.

The children are trying very hard to only use kind and polite words to each other, so everyone will get a caterpillar badge at the end of the day if they are able to achieve this, when everyone on the class list has achieved this the children have chosen to go on a picnic as a treat, as we will be revisiting this issue a lot with the children we hope the issue of kind and polite words will resolve itself.
Amanda

things that start with f

Welcome back to the second half of the summer term, we are looking forward to spending lots of time outside exploring and learning.

Before the holiday the children were enjoying making and playing with paper aeroplanes. So last Friday we made a list of all the things we could think of  that can fly both natural and man made. (can you add to our list?) we will be making lots of the things the children have chosen and seeing if we can make them fly!

we will also be thinking of all the words we can that start with f.
we will be contining to plant and care for our vegatables and plants.

looking forward to a sunny half term.

NO SWIMMING MONDAY 3RD JUNE.