Summer 2
Well done Posties on a fantastic sports day! You were all great sports people and showed brilliant skills! What was your favourite activity?
This week we have been practising our cutting skills using a knife. We have also been tasting fruit and deciding which fruits would be better in a smoothie.
What an amazing term! This week we visited Curious Kids Town and the children had a ball! Lots of role play, sharing, negotiation and fantastic behaviour. When we finished, the lady running the session gave the Posties 11/10 for their tidying!
We had some exciting visitors this week. They were not ordinary visitors, they had fur, scales or shells!
The Posties class have completed 100 Class Wide Rewards, amazing work everyone! To celebrate we had a card and board game party. Board and card games offer a variety of developmental benefits, including improving cognitive skills, social-emotional skills, and fine motor skills. They also promote critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities. The children had a great afternoon.
In athletics this term, the children will be developing skills required in athletic activities such as running at different speeds, changing direction, jumping and throwing. In all of these athletic based activities, the children will engage in performing skills and measuring performance, competing to improve on their own score and against others. In our first lesson, we worked on moving at different speeds over varying distances.
In History Mrs Critten (who used to teach at Walkley Primary School) came in to talk about going to school in the 1960s. We heard about how different school was then and how some things are the same. The children sat beautifully and asked really insightful questions
Eid Mubarak!!
In this lesson, the children learned to use the terms “full”, “half”, “quarter” and “three-quarter” to describe turns. They were familiar with “half” and “quarter” from the previous block on fractions, but “three-quarter” was a new concept to them. The children were given lots of opportunities to practically turn objects as well as experience the motion of turns themselves. The children are starting to be able to identify the size of a turn by looking at the starting and finishing position of a shape as well as drawing the result of a turn.
We loaned some old toys from Weston Park museum and had a chance to explore them.
