Friday 22nd December 2017
As our first term in Elm class draws to a close, we would all like to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year!
We have been busy this week with our Christmas service in St. Hilda's Chuch, having our Christmas party, going to the cinema, and making cards and calendars for…
Wednesday 20th December 2017
What a fun-filled time we have been having at school! Over the last few days, we have watched the Key Stage One and Early Years Christmas performances, laughed our socks off at the Pantomime and taken part in the Christmas Carol concert at our local church. We were given a wonderful Christmas…
20th December 2017
We had a wonderful Christmas party this week. The children came to school looking gorgeous in their party clothes and brough biscuits, sweets, cakes and crisps to share with their friends...how kind!
In the school hall we played musical bumps, musical statues, Christmas stations and pass the…
Posting our letters to Father Christmas!
Last week we all wrote a letter to Father Christmas. We practised writing our names and our ages and some of us wrote sentences while others had a go at cutting out pictures of the toys we would love to get for Christmas.
On Friday we went to the post box to post our letters. Lots of Mummies,…
Friday 15th December 2017
Elm class are looking forward to next week! We have the cinema trip on Monday, our Christmas celebration in St. Hilda's church on Tuesday, Christmas dinner and our party all going on. Fun times ahead!
This week, we have spent a long time lovingly creating our calendar in class and Christmas…
14th December 2017
We really enjoyed performing our Christmas play this week. It was called 'Santa needs help' and it helped us to understand all of our previous learning this term to do with people who help us. Santa has a very accident prone Christmas Eve and needs help from lots of different people. We dressed up…
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…
Friday 8th December 2017
Christmas has well and truely arrived in Elm class!
The children have been busy decorating the classroom and helping out with jobs for the school fair, in between working very hard and completing assessments in the classroom!
We had a visitor on Thursday. #ThatPoetryBloke came to do a whole…
Wednesday 6th December 2017
We are learning about the Nativity in class this week. Our teachers are making it fun and interesting by allowing us to explore the story in lots of different ways. For example, we have worked with our friends, made story maps, watched cartoons and even made phonecalls to tell the news. I wonder…
Friday 1st December
We have moved on with our multiplication and division in maths this week. We have been learning to multiply by 1, 2 and 3 digit numbers and are fine- tuning our dividing skills by dividing 3, 4 and 5 digit numbers by a single digit. We have been applying our skills to some multi-step problem…
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…
Wednesday 29th November 2017
Although we are still working our socks off, we have begun to make preparations for Christmas! In Hymn Singing, we are learning Christmas songs and carols. Some of them are traditional Christmas carols, some old favourites and some different and new. We are looking forward to performing them to…