Transition
As the weather becomes brighter and we near the end of the academic year you may be thinking about your child’s next steps as they journey into Year 1. Moving to Year 1 is perhaps a less significant change for children, and that’s because we’re a happy and healthy place to learn where we all know each other.
A zoom meeting for parent’s starts our transition process, here you will meet the Key Stage 1 staff and find out about the Year 1 curriculum.
The zoom meeting is on Tuesday 25th June 6-7 for all reception parents. Please follow the link that will be emailed to you.
The next step is for your child to spend some time in the Year 1 classrooms. They’ll meet the teachers and join in with the learning, they’ll get a taste of what it’s like to be in Year 1. The whole-school transition, later in July, completes the process, by spending a morning with their new class teacher.
This is a really exciting time of year, moving on and taking those next steps whilst continuing to strengthen the effective learning behaviours they have established in Reception.
Thank you Miss Parwani!
Today was Miss Parwani’s last day of teacher training with us in Year 1. She has done a brilliant job and the children have loved having her in the class. We are sad to see her go but we had a really fun afternoon saying goodbye in the sunshine!
All the children wrote a message in her goodbye card and I was really impressed with her kind and thoughtful they all were.
She will now move on to the next stage of her teaching journey as an ECT and we wish her all the best going forward.
Thank you Miss Parwani!
Summer2: Week3
This week, has been a busy fun filled week.
We have started practising our dance around the May Pole ready for the summer fair. The children have been inspired by videos of others doing it and were very excited to get started themselves.
PE
During PE lessons, we have been practisig some of the different sports day activities. Please see your child’s sports day team below. Your child will need to come to school wearing their team colour tshirt on the day.
Handwriting
We have been recapping the letters a and g this week in handwriting.
We have also been practsing forming the letters m and n.
Maths
During maths this week, we have been looking at counting up to 20 objects.
Help at home: by getting different amounts of objects upto 20. Support your child with counting them.
Living and Learning:
The children were talking about consent during this weeks living and learning session. We discussed the importance of being asked for consent before taking a picture. The children understood that it’s their right to say no if they don’t want one taken.
We also talked about stop means stop. You have the right to say stop if you don’t like something.
If someone was being unkind I would tell them to stop.
If someone tried to hurt me I would say stop.
Poetry Picnic
We have been performing our poem this week with musical instruments. The children enjoyed selecting which instrument they would like and following the beat of the poem.
Sports Day
I have attached the groups for sport day. Please ensure your child comes in a plain tshirt that is their team colour.
Living and Learning: PANTS (the underwear rule)
In Living and Learning this week, we have discussed the NSPCC’s underwear rule and talking about the acronym PANTS.
More information about the Underwear Rule, including a short film and a parent guide can be found here including a parent guide for you to follow up this learning at home.
Food Technology: Summer Garden Salad
Today, Year 3 made a Summer Garden Salad! The children prepared all the ingredients, assembled the salad and ate almost all of it.
We used the bridge and claw cutting skills to cut up all the vegetables. The bridge was best for the new potatoes and the plum tomatoes. The claw was more suitable for the gem lettuce leaves and cucumber.
The carrot was grated to keep it fine and we boiled the new potatoes until they were soft!
We stayed safe by using these skills carefully and taking our time.
After we assembled all of the vegetables, we whisked together the yoghurt, oil and vinegar for the dressing.
Everyone tried it and the majority of us loved it! The dressing made it flavoursome and we liked the colours of all the ingredients.
Help by making it again at home! The recipe has been sent home with the children. Can you add something new? Could you try a different dressing?
Allergen Grange Sports Day 2024
Some of our speedy Y5 and Y6s took part in Allerton Grange’s annual primary school sports day!
We took part in a range of events such as 200m sprint, javelin and 50m relay.
We had a brilliant morning and even managed sixth place! Well done to everyone for taking part.
We are designers!
This half term in topic, we are designers.
We’re going to be design, making and evaluating a pouch! Year 4 will get to choose the purpose of their pouch; it could be a pencil case, a purse or a general pouch.
A key skill that we’ll be using to make these pouches will be sewing. We have been practising sewing using a running stich and an over stitch.
We followed these instructions:
1. First, thread the needle and tie a knot in the thread.
2. Then, complete a running stitch using your Binka fabric.
3. Finally, tie a knot at the end of the stitch and cut the excess thread.
The vocabulary for this topic can be found below:
Help at home by asking your child to define what a product is.
Spelling list for 3.2
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
- alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
- homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
- alternative graphemes: sc
- spelling patterns: que
- alternative graphemes: u spelled ou
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| he’ll | scenery | bicycle | mosque | enough |
| heel | decide | possession | direction | mission |
| describe | plain | height | surprise | fascinate |
| league | plane | scissors | increase | magician |
| exercise | fatigue | groan | unique | country |
| guide | confusion | grown | rain | science |
| passion | tongue | fraction | rein | rogue |
| picturesque | politician | optician | reign | rough |
Production: Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits!
Hi everybody!
Please make sure you bring your costumes and props outlined in last week’s letter to school no later than Friday 21st June, in a named plastic bag. If you don’t have any of the items listed for your role, please let an adult in Year 5 or Year 6 know before this Friday.
Keep practising your lines at home and get into the character you are portraying!
Thanks everyone!
PE: Tennis
This half term our focus sport is Tennis. So far, we have practised our throwing, catching, serving and striking skills. Year 5 are now trying to hit a moving object with accuracy.
Today, we played hand tennis to help with our hand-eye coordination. The children also had time to explore with a ball and racket each. Our challenge is to improve our ‘keepy-uppies’ score. At the end of the lesson, we moved on to tennis football, where the children had to hit the ball into each other’s goals whilst the defenders stopped the ball with their racket.
Help at home: Go outside and practise throwing and catching with a tennis ball. Or, why not try our ‘keepy-uppies’ challenge? What’s your best score?
