Thank you to all the children who put on their hats for World Mental Health Day yesterday to raise awareness and money for the charity, Coventry and Warwickshire Mind.
We have raised over £200!
Thank you for your generosity.
As a school, we will be raising money for the charity ‘Mind’ this Monday 10th October as part of World Mental Health day 2022. Children may come to school wearing a hat of any kind in return for a donation to ‘Mind’.
This week in year 1 we have been exploring forest school. We used our senses to learn more about our outdoor environment. We then wrote some fantastic sentences in English about what we could hear, smell, feel, see and taste.
In history this week we explored the question ‘Did Granny have an Xbox?’ – the children shared their own grandparents stories before exploring some of the toys their grandparents might have played with when they were 5. We had had a go at using chalk to create pictures, building our own toys with Lego as well as outdoor activities like hopscotch, skipping and hula hooping.
During our morning assembly today the children were introduced to our new ‘Music of the Week’ initiative. A piece of music has been carefully selected for each week of the academic year and the music will be playing as children enter and leave assemblies throughout the week. The music has been selected from periods in history dating back to the Baroque period (approx 1600AD). Details of the name of the music and composer will be on display in the school hall all week and teachers also have access to the weekly poster and music so may also share and use the music within the classrooms. I will also aim to share the music and a link on the school website so that you can listen to and share the music at home with your child.
This week’s piece ‘Aquarium’ is was written by French composer Camille Saint-Saens in 1922 and is from his musical suite of fourteen movements, The Carnival of the Animals. You may recognise it as it has been used many times on television and in film.
Please note that the Autumn term class teacher newsletters have been combined into one bumper weekly newsletter. This, a long with each of the class newsletters individually, can be downloaded below:
Thank you to Chloe from Spaghetti Maths for coming in to host a whole school assembly this morning.
We are hoping to run a Spaghetti Maths club after school to promote amazing creative maths. If you would like to join please visit https://www.spaghettimaths.co.uk/select-course/ to secure your place!
Today the children have enjoyed becoming teachers!
Firstly, thank you for the support over the weekend in helping the children to have conversations with their grandparents about was life was like for them when they were little.
Today the children enjoyed sharing their stories and pictures with each other. We have all learnt SO much about the lives of all our grandparents (including that All Souls used to have toilets on the playground!)
We have had a very busy week settling into life in Year One!
We have spent lots of time recapping our sounds that the children learnt in phonics last year. We have also done lots of activities in maths to practice our number recognition, formation and counting.
We have enjoyed spending time outside appreciating all of God’s creations by identifying and drawing them.
Additionally, we kicked off this terms science topic ‘plants’ by observing closely and drawing different plants within our school environment. We also explored different types of leaves and had a go at painting our own.
We have also enjoyed exploring the new books in our classroom by reading with our friends.
We are looking forward to a new week and the new opportunities it will bring.
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts and prayers are with His Majesty and The Royal Family at this extremely difficult time.
May she rest in peace.
Well our first forest school session just so happened to be on one of hottest days of the year but we were so grateful for the cool shade.
We explored the rules of forest school and then set to building homes for animals that we would find around our school environment.
The children worked brilliantly together and we cooled off with ice lollies at the end. We can’t wait for next week!
