Autumn 1
As part of our school's commitment to teaching British values, the children were taught about democaracy. The Jolly Posties were able to vote for their Infant representatives today.
During science today, the children learned 6 classifications for animals. After discussing each picture, they chose to put the pictures under a heading. Once I got out the toy animals and added them to the mix, the children discovered they needed another classification of 'Arachnids' and the spiders didn't match any of the others.
In this fundamentals lesson, the children were exploring combination jumping and skipping in an individual rope.
In this lesson the children were learning how to make an image using an ipad. They found Doodlebuddy in an art folder on the tablet and were able to load it up. In order to make a picture they needed to learn how to change colours, pen sizes and use undo.
In RE the children have been learning the Christian creation story. Here they are creating freeze frames of the different parts
In our fundamentals lesson today, the children were exploring jumping, hopping and skipping actions. They needed to land on the balls of their feet to stay balanced, move from one foot to another with soft bent knees and swing their arms to help them move forwards. Their social learning was to support and encourage others. Emotionally, they were trying to challenge themselves to get the best score for themselves. They were also trying to identify what movement to choose to succeed in the games we were playing.
We are working with our class book "The Jolly Postman" in English at the moment. In this lesson, we were learning that names need a capital letter when other nouns don't. In this task the children were sorting names from ordinary nouns and then rewriting them with capital letters. Great teamwork guys!
Today in Geography, we did some fieldwork. The children had a map of the school grounds and needed to read it to find 5 specific places. The children were brilliant and really understood the 2D map and were able to translate it into the real world.
In Forest school today, we discussed RE and the idea of creation. We walked carefully up to Forest School and saw all the things in Sheffield. We then looked for different natural things in our field and placed them in a line. Afterwards, we then went into our forest area and listened to various sounds and created some natural creations in our Forest Area!
Today's Forest school adventure was all about fishing! We used our imaginations to take up the very calming and relaxing sport of fishing. The children were learning to tie the string on a stick they deemed an approriate length. Some were experts at it and helped others.
Unfortunately, yesterday had weather warnings for wind, which is the most dangerous weather for forest school. This meant we had to cancel. However, we managed to spend the afternoon up there today, learning the rules and having a brilliant time making leaf mandalas.
In English, the children were learning about adjectives and nouns. They used the characters from Anansi to choose the correct adjective for the noun.
In RE, the children were introduced to Abbey Owl. Her name means ‘wisdom’. Our first challenge from Abbey owl was to understand the term ‘creation.’ The children were asked to create something using construction, paper or junk modelling. They reflected on what they have created at the end of the lesson. Abbey asked “How did it feel to create it? How do I want my creation to be treated? Who would I trust to look after it?”
Children should now be confident representing and counting numbers to 10. They can say the numbers to 10 verbally, represent objects and images using counters and cubes, and write the numeral to match. In this small step, children learn to recognise each numeral as a word.
12/9/25. Spellings. Each Friday your child will bring home a spelling sheet so the can learn some easy spellings at home. They are encouraged to complete at home and bring back in by the next Thursday. The spellings will also be on ed shed and we have sent logins home today too. There will be a quick test on Friday to check their knowledge.
In this PE lesson, we were exploring changing direction and dodging. The children had to decide which direction they were going to move into, move their feet to change direction.
In PE this term, we are learning the fundamentals of fitness and sport. This lesson was to explore how our bodies feel when running at different speeds. The children were trying to keep a steady breath, move their arms faster to help move forward quickly and run on the balls of their feet.
This week we are reading Anansi the spider. The children worked in groups to act out the parts of the story.
In this small step, children continue to count objects, but this time they are asked to count a specific number of objects from a larger group. This requires children to be more organised and careful when counting. From a larger group, children select a given number of objects and count them out. When asked “How many?”, they should be able to recall the final number they said. Children who have not grasped the cardinal counting principle will recount the whole group again.
The aim of this small step is for children to be able to fluently count to 10 when counting objects. Focus on the five counting principles when assessing children’s ability to count accurately. The one-to-one principle: Children assign one number name to each object that is being counted. The stable-order principle: When counting, the numbers have to be said in a certain order. The cardinal principle: The final object in a group is the total number of objects in that group. The abstraction principle: Anything can be counted, including things that cannot be touched, such as sounds and movements, for example jumps. The order-irrelevance principle: The order in which they count a group of objects is irrelevant. There will still be the same number.
In Geography, the children were learning key human features, including: city, town, suburb, village, factory, farm, house, office and shops. They also practised geographical skills by using maps to locate Walkley, Sheffield and the UK.
In this small step, children learn that collections of objects can be sorted into sets based on attributes such as colour, size or shape. Sorting enables children to consider what is the same about all the objects in one set and how they differ from the objects in other sets. Children need to understand that the same collection of objects can be sorted in different ways and should be encouraged to come up with their own criteria for sorting objects into sets.
