Rowan Class News

Welcome to Reception / Year 1

Week beginning 14th September 2015 Activities this week have been based around our focus book ‘Noah’s Ark’. Year 1 have been retelling the story and have produced some sentences based on their favourite part of the story. Reception have enjoyed retelling the…

Welcome to Year 2

Last week it was lovely to see you all looking refreshed and ready for the new school year! We were learning all about the brain and having a growth mindset, and this week we will be putting it into action…

DISNEY DAY!

The infants have had so much fun today celebrating Disney Day! In the morning we worked in groups to complete four activities based on the Disney films: Frozen, Peter Pan, Cars and Planes. For a playtime treat the children enjoyed…

Rec/Y1 update…

This week has been the final week of our ‘Animal Allsorts’ topic.

Year 1 have been creating Animal fact files, with the help of non-fiction books and the internet.

In Maths both Reception and Year 1 have been focusing on ordering Days of the Week and Months of the Year. Year 1’s have also been telling the time to the nearest quarter of an hour as well as learning about 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 turns. To listen to the ‘Months of the year’ song we have been learning click here

DSCN7408A couple of weeks ago Reception were very excited and amazed when they watched Year 3/4 re-enacting a battle on the playground, displaying impressive shields. Reception have enjoyed making their own shields this week!

Next Week:

* We look forward to starting our new topic ‘Where Shall We Go’

* The last transition afternoon on Monday and the new Reception children join us.

 

Purple Mash

Reception and Year One have been using PurpleMash to learn where all the keys are on a laptop keyboard. 2Type has lots of different games to practise these skills. Have a go at home by clicking on the PurpleMash picture below.…

To the potting shed…

What a busy first week back we have had! In literacy Year 1 and Reception have been singing along to the song based on The Gingerbread Man. We have begun to retell the story in our own words. We have…

Mini First Aiders!

This week the Infants were taught First Aid. We learned how to put someone in the magic position or ‘recovery position’. We also talked about ringing 999 in case of an emergency and the information that we might need to…