On with the adventure!

We are having great fun playing in our ships and learning about great explorers.  This week we have learned about Scott and Shackleton in the Antarctic and about Captain Cook discovering Australia.

In PE we have been playing being crew members and practising our balancing skills.  The scheme of work we are using has suggested some simple homework you might like to try.  When the adverts come on during a programme you are watching, stand on one leg and try and balance like that for the duration of the advert.  When it changes, change legs and get the children to talk about which leg they find easiest.  Is it on the same side of the body as the hand they write with?

This week is Mr Pegrum’s final week with us.  The children have loved working with him and will miss him.  We have really appreciated all of his hard work and are sure you join us in thanking him and wishing him all the best as he continues in his studies.

The children are working hard on their spellings and doing well on their weekly tests.  Thank you for all your support.  The spelling for the rest of the term are below. Harder:

Spellings to be tested 4^th February

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

but
put
us
do
home
over
green
sixteen

Spellings to be tested 11^th February

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

first
after
once
last
next
now
again
later

Easier:

Spellings to be tested 4^th February

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

it
in
is
like
want
big
no
come

Spellings to be tested 11^th February

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

you
of
to
day
way
was
for
can

All Aboard for a day on the ocean waves!

We have had a great day and would like to thank you so much for all your help with the sewing and cooking.  The children were so enthusiastic and seemed to really enjoy all the different activities.

Here are some pictures of what we got up to.

Sailors need to be fit and able to follow instructions.

They need a good sense of balance so they don’t fall overboard!

They need to know sea shanties because it helps them work harder.

They need to be able to cook (and identify different types of rocks around the world!)

They need to be able to sew and tie knots.

They need to be able to read a map and find buried treasure! 

Welcome to Term 3

On the first day of term the teachers were busy having a PE INSET day. As you will see on our curriculum overview on the school website we have begun to implement a new PE Scheme of Work called’ Real PE’. To compliment the new SOW, we will put a quick and easy Home Challenge on the blog. Here is the first challenge.......

For how long can you balance on one leg?

Can you improve your time?

 Don’t forget to try the other leg too!

Here are a few pictures of our visit from ‘Sir Ralph’:

The children have been very enthusiastic about our ‘Newbridge 50’ learning question ‘Who discovered what?’ Thank you to those who have already brought things in for the learning wall about Christopher Columbus or other explorers. Please do keep bringing things in.

In Science, we are looking at ‘Animals including humans’ for ‘Show and Tell’ we thought the children might like to become experts on a particular animal of their choice and share their knowledge with the class! Also, if the children have explored another country, perhaps whilst on a holiday, they might like to share their experience during ‘Show and Tell’ time.  If you have a photo, we would love to display this in the classroom.

As I am sure you all know, we have now started giving the children spellings to learn. These will be will be handed out on a Friday and tested the following Wednesday. The children have been told the spellings and that they should use the ‘look’ ‘say’ ‘cover’ ‘write’ and ‘check’ method to help learn them. The children will be learning to spell tricky keywords and some of the words they learn in their daily phonics lessons. If your child has difficulty remembering the whole word, please encourage them to write as many sounds as they can hear. If your child is a confident speller, encourage them to write sentences which include these words.

Here are the spellings for the next few weeks just in case they don’t make it home in the book bag.  Some children may find these challenging so we have provided them with easier ones.

Harder spellings:

 Spellings to be tested 21st January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

about
then
have
good
may
way
Monday
Tuesday

Spellings to be tested 28^th January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

from
them
that
down
made
make
nine
time

Easier spellings:

Spellings to be tested 21^st January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

mum
dad
look
me
and
on
the
am

Spellings to be tested 28^th January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

see
my
at
yes
can
he
she
play