Beach Party Reminder!

Monday 18th July – Beach Party for Fireflies & Grasshoppers

Due to the hot forecast we have moved our beach party to the morning as it will be a little cooler.

* Come to school in a summer outfit – shorts/t-shirt/dress (No flip flops please)

* Please send your child to school with sun cream applied, a water bottle and a sunhat/cap.

* Don’t forget your £3 for an ice cream, in the afternoon.

Many thanks,

Mrs Morris & Mrs Fox

Titanic Museum

Titanic at sea

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/maritime-museum/exhibition/titanic-and-liverpool-untold-story

William and his family enjoyed a trip to Liverpool to visit the Titanic exhibition, in the Maritime Museum.

This is a permanent exhibition and is FREE!

Just a 5 minute walk away is the ‘Museum of Liverpool’ which is also free entry and worth a visit too.

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museum-of-liverpool

Parent Feedback Appointments

Good afternoon,

If you have returned the form to request a time for an appointment, your child will have brought a slip home today (30.6.22) with their time.

If you would like an appointment, please return your form as soon as possible to book one.

Many thanks,

Mrs. N. Morris

Designing our own seaside towns

In Geography, Grasshoppers have been learning about the human and physical features of a seaside town. They have taken inspiration from one of the books we have explored this term called ‘Postcards from Crabby Spit’. The book is set in Australia and follows a family who are on holiday there.

The children designed their own seaside town, choosing the features that they wanted and planning where to place them.
They then chose a name for their town and wrote a leaflet to persuade visitors that their resort was the best place to visit, by describing some of the exciting things they would be able to see and do there.

Outdoor multiplication

Grasshoppers have been using leaves and other items in nature such as, flowers, sticks and crab apples to create representations of multiplication number sentences. We enjoyed working outside!

Boat Making

In Science, this afternoon Grasshoppers have been making the boats that they have designed. They chose the materials they wanted to use for the hull and to make the mast and sail.
The children had a range of different materials to choose from: plastic, metal, cork, cardboard, sponge, fabric, felt, foam, wood and paper.
Once made, they tested them to see if they floated, sank or tipped over. They evaluated their boats and thought about what they might change next time and if they could improve their design.

Class and Year 6 Leaver’s Photographs – Thursday 19th May

Chris and Jo Maddox, the school photographer will be in school tomorrow morning to take class photographs of the children. They will also be taking photographs of the Year 6 Leavers group.

If your child has PE please could they come in in their school uniform and bring their PE kit with them.

Baking Lamingtons

Yesterday, the Grasshoppers made Australian Lamingtons, with the help of Mrs Markall.
A Lamington is an Australian cake made from square pieces of sponge cake coated in chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. Delicious!

Large scale art work – Uluru

Alongside the art work we have been doing in class, linked to our topic of Australia, we have been working on a large scale painting of Uluru.
The children have used a dot painting technique to create features of the picture.
They also used watercolours and the dot technique to create the birds around the painting.
Year 1 children added the finished touches on Monday.

Art Workshop

We have been very lucky to have Rory McCann, our mural artist, visiting school for the day. He has returned to deliver art workshops in different classes.
Our workshop, in Grasshoppers, was called ‘Koala up a Tree’.

Rory demonstrated how to mix and apply watercolour paint. Also, how to create highlights, how to create textures by layering the paint and the importance of putting your own interpretation into your art work.
We learnt some new skills, which we will be able to apply to our work in the future, and we had a lovely morning.

Well done Grasshoppers!

Well Done Certificates

Well Done certificates, this week, are awarded to Zac Robinson and Jack Dewhurst-Cousins.

Our Spelling Shed ‘Super Spellers’ this week are:

1st – Teddy Yarwood

2nd – Zac Robinson

3rd – Ruby Robinson

Grasshoppers Daily Plan Friday 18th February Remote Learning

Good Morning Grasshoppers.

Attached is the plan for today’s remote learning. All the links you need are included within the plan, they are in blue and just need selecting. Please send in any photographs of completed activities to the Grasshoppers email address and I will respond

Week 7 18.2.22 Remote Learning.

I hope you all have a super day.

Stay safe.

Mrs Cains

‘Animal Man’ Visit

Yesterday afternoon, the Grasshoppers had a visit from Simon, from Corner Exotics. We all learnt so much about the world and the animals that live in it. In particular, those from Australia and those animals with similar adaptations.

It was a wonderful experience and the children were very enthusiastic about touching and holding a variety of animals.

A blue tongued skink, carpet python, black ring-neck snake, boa constrictor, Madagascar cockroach, pygmy hedgehog, chinchilla, scorpion, giant spiny stick insect, Avicularia tarantula, salmon pink bird-eater tarantula, Honduran curly haired tarantula, Australian green tree frog, African bullfrog, Horsefield tortoise and an East Australian bearded dragon.

We will be exploring some of the issues that Simon talked about and researching some of the animals further, in the classroom.

I think the photographs show how much the children enjoyed the visit!

Corner Exotics Visitor

You should have received a letter via email about our class visit from Simon from Corner Exotics, on Thursday 10th February. If you haven’t or would like a hard copy, please contact Mrs Lloyd in the school office.

Many thanks.

Welcome back!

Welcome to the Spring term!

Happy New Year to you all, I hope you have enjoyed the Christmas break.

Please have a look at our class information page for a reminder of PE days, water bottles, reading books and other useful information.

Our topic for the Spring term is ‘Australia‘.

You can also find the curriculum overview below, on the information page.

(Click on the link below for a clearer view.)

Australia Curriculum Overview Spring term 2022

A Miracle In Town!

Grasshoppers would like to present their performance of ‘A Miracle In Town!’ We have really enjoyed learning the songs and preparing the different scenes. We hope you all enjoy watching it.

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

 

Spelling Shed

Please can the children ensure that they do use Spelling Shed throughout the week to learn the phonic sounds or spelling patterns that have been taught each week.

Miss Relph sets assignments for the Year 1 children, as they have their phonic session with her.

For the Year 2 children, each spelling pattern that they have been taught in class will be set as an assignment but there are very few children accessing these, each week.

The log in details for your child will be in their blue reading record. Please get in touch if you have any problems.

Many  thanks for your support.

Money Games

This week, in our maths work we have been focusing on money.  Please find below some money games that I have shown the children in class. The children were keen to play them at home and will help support their learning.

Many thanks.

Coin Calculator

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/coinCalculator/index.html

Toy Shop

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Coins Game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Pay using 1 coin game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=payusingonecoinv3

Nativity – A Miracle In Town!

This week, the children have been given their lines to learn for our class nativity.

Please could you support your child to learn their lines. Those children with narrator parts do not need to learn their lines off by heart, but they do need to be very familiar with the words so that they can read them fluently and confidently.

Unfortunately, we will have to video our performance to be viewed online, as we did last year. We all feel very disappointed that we can’t do a proper performance, this year, but we are still having fun learning the songs and rehearsing our parts. Fingers crossed that next year we will be back on stage with an audience.

Many thanks for your support.

 

Christmas Lunch 2021

The children will be served their Christmas Lunch on Wednesday 15th December, the menu is below.  Please can we ask that you log onto ParentPay by the end of the previous week to pre-book your child’s meal (please select the roast dinner option – as although this shows roast beef it will be the Christmas dinner).  If you haven’t yet activated your child’s ParentPay account please contact the school office for a copy of their activation code.

Don’t forget all children in Fireflies and Grasshopper are entitled to free meals under the Government’s Universal Infant Free School Meals Scheme.

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Half-term

Hello Grasshoppers!

I hope you all have a lovely half-term break! You have worked really hard the past 8 weeks and I’m looking forward to the second half of the term.

Click on the link below for a Supertato challenge, if you should wish to have a go at it!

 Supertato Half-term

Supertato & The Super-Duo Behind the Book – The Bright Emporium

Number bonds at home

Please could the children continue their learning at home by having a go at the games to help them learn their number bonds.

Click on the link below for a list of resources.

Games to help you learn your number bonds

Start with your number bonds to 10. You need to know them so you can instantly recall pairs of number that go together to make 10.

If this is tricky, find pairs of number that total 1 – 9 first.

Eg, Number bonds to make 5.

5 + 0, 0 + 5, 4 + 1, 1 + 4, 3 + 2, 2 + 3

If you are confident with these numbers try your number bonds to 20.

Year 2 children that are confident with 20 can move onto number bonds to 100.

A number bond is just a pair of numbers that go together to make a total.

 

Supertato!

If you have a spare 5 minutes, listen to the story of Supertato! We will continue working on this next week.

Watch out for those evil peas!

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