Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
Can you believe we are in the final term of the reception year!! With this in mind the children have started doing some of their learning in 'carousels'. This is where activities are set up and the children go to their station as a group and work with a bit more independence to complete the tasks. We have been so impressed with how well they have focused.
In phonics the children have now learned 'oi' and 'ear' and have been reading and writing words containing this diagraph and trigraph and have been practicing them in their carousel activities. In math's the children will continue to practice subitising amounts up to 10 and this is linking to all the celebrations around VE Day.
Speaking of VE Day, we hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday and had the chance to celebrate with your family and friends. On Thursday we will be celebrating VE Day in school, we will be doing lots of activities to support the children's understanding of this very important day!
Welcome back to the final term in Reception and hoping the sun continues to shine throughout! This week the children have thrown themselves into the learning of our new topic, 'Between the Stars and the Sea'. We have developed our learning of Planet Earth using the fabulous book, 'Here We Are' by Oliver Jeffers and from this learning, the children produced some fantastic collages. As part of Forest Schools, we thoughtfully made notes about the things we love about Earth. As a unit we placed the notes in a time capsule and buried it in the school garden, which hopefully will be shared one day in the future!
In phonics we continued our digraph learning with 'ur' and 'ow'. The children are trying so hard to combine all of their phonics and tricky word knowledge to read and write simple words and sentences. In mathematics we worked on retrieval of skills and knowledge learned with numbers to 10. The children were amazing at applying their learning in simple number games.
To end the week we have touched on VE Day celebrations, in preparation for the upcoming bank holiday. Children may come to school dressed in red, white and blue on Thursday 8th May as part of these celebrations. We wish you a wonderful long weekend and look forward to seeing the children back in school on Tuesday.
Happy Easter everyone!
We have had a fabulous final week for the spring term. We have enjoyed many exciting events throughout the week from our very own Easter egg hunt to the tug of war yesterday! We have also attended the Easter egg exhibit in the main hall and have seen many egg-cellent entries. I think the children have absolutely cracked it this year. (Get it?)
The children have had bundles of fun and they have been absolutely phenomenal throughout. They have brought enthusiasm and joy to each event and it has certainly set us up well for the Easter holiday.
As today is our final day ahead of the Easter holidays we would just like to remind you that school will reopen on Monday 28th April at the usual time of 8:45.
As the weather has been lovely, and let's hope it is here to stay, if the children need sun hats, bottles and sun cream when we come back then please do bring it in. We kindly ask that is all labelled though.
On behalf of the Reception team, we would like to say a big thank you for all your help. We can't believe there is only one term left!
We would also like to wish Mrs Lupton a wonderful retirement. Thank you so much for being our very first Head Teacher - you have given us memories to last a lifetime.
We have enjoyed delving into the story of the Gingerbread Man this week. The children have enjoyed acting out the story with small world props and also pretending to be the gingerbread man themselves!
They became scientists when we asked the question, 'why can't the gingerbread man swim across the river?'. The children had some different ideas such as 'he will melt'. We tested the ideas by putting the gingerbread man in the water, some thought he would float and others thought he would sink. They found out the gingerbread man floated while he was whole, that he crumbled, got soggy and began to dissolve. When he was in little pieces he began to sink. They were using all the new scientific words, including 'irreversible change'.
In maths the children are going to be exploring 'subtraction' and in phonics they have looked at the long diagraph 'oo' in words like 'food' and 'moon' and the short diagraph 'oo' in words like 'look' and 'book'.
We are so looking forward to seeing you all at Mrs Lupton's celebration picnic on Friday at 1pm, thankfully the weather looks good. Don't forget your picnic!
Our Traditional Tales' learning this week took us to the world of 'The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf'. We listened and retold different versions of the story using a range of puppets to help.
During the middle of the week, we extended our scientific knowledge comparing a range of materials and their properties. The children then demonstrated their learning by designing their very own dream house!
We ended the week with a 'Career's Fair'. Each class had two visitors to learn about what life is like for them in their chosen career. The children asked some extremely thoughtful questions and showed amazing listening skills. Thankyou to our visitors, we really enjoyed our afternoon.
Our digraph learning with 'igh' and 'oa' continued this week and in mathematics we continued our knowledge of doubles using pictorial representations. Wishing you all a wonderful Mothering Sunday! We also look forward to seeing you at our Whole School Picnic on the afternoon of Friday 4th April.
In a world of pure imagination… the children have been creating more stories and acting them out for their classes to see. With their new found imagination, we have met new characters and the children have been experimenting with new vocabulary. It has been so wonderful to see their confidence grow and to delve deep into their imagination.
It was equally lovely to see the wonder in their eyes as we went on an adventure. This week we have been focusing on the story of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. This, of course, meant another trip to the little bears house. Uh oh! The house was such a mess. However, we have the kindest and most helpful children who chose to help tidy the house.
In Phonics we have now started Phase 3 phonemes. This phase will include lots of digraphs and trigraphs. We learnt 'ai' (tail in the rain) and 'ee' (sheep in a jeep).
In maths this week we have been learning about 'doubling'. This means that we have two of the same thing.
Mrs Wessels
Mrs Armstrong
Mrs Turner
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