We wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you from Key Stage 1 to everyone who helped raise money towards the buddy benches. We were blown away by the kind donations, which will help us buy two handcrafted buddy benches for the playgrounds as part of our current expedition.
Well done to everyone who donated money and completed their sponsored walk today. It really was a big crew effort!
We look forward to sharing our designs and the finished product shortly.
As part of World Kindness Day and Odd Socks Day, we have been thinking about how we can be special, stand out and kind.
We came up with some lovely suggestions to make sure we are kind and make each other happy.
On Friday 1/2K discussed their thoughts on our most recent case studies; Rosa Parks and Remembrance. They discussed why they thought Rosa Parks was a hero and how her brave actions changed the world. They also discussed the life of the soldiers and why they thought they were heroes.
Thank you to our expert visitors this week – ex Army Steph and Cornet player Sean!
Shout out to Elisa’s continued hard work and beautiful home learning. Well done to Mateo for working hard in Maths and expedition.
We have been artists this week in expedition using different materials and techniques to create our Flanders Fields and Poppy Wreath art!
We have been writers and learned about subjects and verbs, to write some lovely independent sentences.
In crew we learned about being a good friend.
A little visitor left us a special note to keep an eye on 1M ready for World Kindness day next week…
Have a great weekend 1M!
Mr Meade #LovePlover
This week the children have enjoyed making poppies and talking about the reason we use them to remember and celebrate.
We had an amazing assembly from Elizabeth’s mum, as an Expert visitor, speaking to us about her life as a soldier. We also had a moving assembly, featuring Mr Chandler playing us the last post on his trumpet.
We have been learning about verbs as action words, please talk about verbs at home in your everyday activities.
Well done to those children who sent in their wonderful home learning!
Here are some examples from John and Almina.
Well done to Alfie, for his hard work in phonics and showing his mum his achievements at home.
#Love Plover
Maths:
This week 1/2K have been getting active in the classroom. We’ve been enjoying some counting exercises to warm up for Maths! We have also been bringing technology into the classroom during our Maths lesson and working in pairs to develop our team working skills.
English:
This week we have been learning all about independent clauses that contain a subject and a verb with a little help from Beyoncé. We used pictures from our class story to inspire our writing and the children wrote some excellent sentences! I’m so proud of them.
Art:
As part of our remembrance topic, we have been creating Poppy art. First we drew our poppies using wax crayons. Then we used the water colours to create a background. We were able to wash over our wax crayon picture without it smudging; it was like magic! The children talked about using different colours to represent the smoke there might have been or browns puddles to make mud. We also made poppies using wire, buttons and cupcake cases. It was very fiddly but we are so pleased with the result.
Crew:
As part of our We Care Wednesday, we were exploring the nature of friendships and discussing what it takes to be a great friends. We decided that the most important quality in a friend is to be kind and caring.
On Thursday 16th November, we are delighted to have local book shop ‘Boggledybooks’ in school to run their brilliant value book fayre.
All books are brand new and £1, £2 or £3 so it is a great opportunity to get stocked up for Christmas.
They will be in school all day, so your child can bring in money and will be taken to the book fayre to choose a book. If you prefer to visit yourself, they will be in school till approx 3:45.
We look forward to seeing you then.
Mrs Graves
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