Category: Holly Class
Open Day
We had a wonderful open day on Wednesday and the children enjoyed lots of Easter activities including making Easter baskets and Easter nests.Thank you to all the parents who came into school to experience the learning opportunies afforded to their children and the rich extra curricular activities…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 22 March 2018
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 12/03/18
This week we have been busy doing our assessments in all curriculum areas.The children have tackled the questions enthusiastically and worked to the best of their ability.We are very proud of them all! Well done to Isla who has worked particularly hard this week and is our Friday certificate…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 15 March 2018
Category: Holly Class
World Book Day
We have had a lovely day in Holly Class today, sharing the children's stories and looking at their wonderful costumes!! Well done to everyone who made such a fantastic effort.
All children that entered the book cover competition will find out about the winners in tomorrows celebration…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 8 March 2018
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 19th February 2018
Welcome back everyone we hope you have had a restful and exciting half term holiday!!
We are currently working hard on writing list poems and will be producing our own poems about monsters.The poems are based on ' The Brown Bear 'and we have been generating adjectives with out talk partners to…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 22 February 2018
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 22nd January
Another very focused and hard working week in Holly class!!
The children have been classifying and identifying features of animals this week recording what they have found out about mammals,reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds.They then sorted pictures of various animals into their categories…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 25 January 2018
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 15th January
Despite the wintery conditions the children have continued to work their socks off this week!!
We have been completing our non-chronological reports about cats and it is quite amazing to see how much progress has been made in both the quality and quantity of the writing the children are…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 19 January 2018
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 9th January 2018
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you had a restful and enjoyable holiday with your families.
The children have been eagerly telling us what they did over Christmas and making New Years resolutions such as keeping their bedrooms tidy.I wonder how long that will last?!!
In literacy this week…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 11 January 2018
Category: Holly Class
Christmas Build up!
Thank you to everyone for all your support over the past couple of weeks with costumes and the learning of words.I'm sure you all enjoyed the Christmas performance of 'Father Christmas and Uncle Holly'. We were very proud of all the children!!
The children are all very excited and have so much…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 14 December 2017
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 27th November 2017
As part of our school ethos to further develop a love for reading among all children in school ,our librarian Mrs Shelia Sylvester has been reading fiction stories to the children this week.
This week we evaluated our growth mindset learnt skill which was fastening our shoe laces in Holly…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 30 November 2017
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 20th November
This week we have problem solving using 3D shapes.Using a selection of pyramids, cones, cubes, cylinders and spheres the children attempted to build the tallest tower they could.After experimenting in groups they considered the questions:
Which shapes are best to build with?
Which shapes…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 23 November 2017
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 13th November
We are continuing to work on the properties of shape this week in maths and are striving hard to name and identify 3D shapes in the environment.We sorted the objects the children brought in from home into their relevant shapes.
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In literacy this week we have been writing a…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 16 November 2017
Category: Holly Class
Week beginning 6th November 2017
This week we have been looking at the properties of 2D shapes.We have discussed and reasoned about similarities and differences between shapes.For example:
What is the same about a rectangle and square? What is different?
Look at the circle, square and triangle which is the odd one out?…
Posted by /blog/category/holly-class on 9 November 2017
Category: Holly Class
