Year 1 Eatwell Project

Year 1 took part in the Eatwell Project last week, baking delicious carrot cake muffins! 🥕

The children loved the experience and will hopefully be able to repeat at home to share their skills.

Eatwell Project Baking

Last week, Year 1 pupils all took part in their Eatwell Project and baked healthy carrot cake muffins. The children loved having the opportunity to practise their cooking skills and were encouraged to have a go at measuring, grating, mixing etc. There is a photo of the recipe here. Could your child ‘teach’ you how to make these healthy muffins at home? We would love to see photos of your baking in class or on the blog.

Year 1 World Book Day!

We are looking forward to seeing you in your costumes or pyjamas for World Book Day celebrations tomorrow.

You are welcome to bring in your favourite book (or the one perhaps your costume is based on) to read in class tomorrow. Please make sure it is clearly named so we can make sure your book returns home safely.

Year 1 Reminder

A reminder to Year 1 children to bring in their named ‘Special object’ tomorrow as part of our British Values week theme ‘Ownership and Sharing’.

Value of the Month- March

Thank you for all your support with the value of the month for February, which was Caring. At Newdale it is wonderful to watch the children display their caring sides whilst in class and out on the playground.

Our value of the month for March is Belief

What are beliefs?
Trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something)

Our focus on Beliefs has three strands:

· Believing in our own abilities and encouraging the abilities of others.
· Being able to understand that not everyone shares the same belief.
· Being able discuss reasons why we believe in the things we do

Suggestions for parents to work with children at home:

Discuss what the word means:
– Accepting that something is true/exists
– Having trust, faith or confidence in someone/something
– Self-belief – trust in your own abilities

Discuss with your child who they trust the most and why. Explain that this means they have belief in their abilities to care and look out for them.
Explore different religions; explain that people have different beliefs and that we should respect them even if their beliefs are different to their own.
Self-belief- discuss with your child how they feel about their learning and other skills and attributes. Talk about what they could do when faced with a challenge. It’s important that children learn the importance of perseverance even when faced with difficulties.
One of our British Values is Democracy. You could talk to your child about the purpose of Parliament. Discuss the importance of voting, and the fact that individuals vote for parties they believe will do an effective job in government.

Please let your child’s teacher know if we can celebrate any work from home, in school.
Feedback on the values and what you do at home is really valuable to us and we really appreciate all your support.
If you can support us in any way, please get in touch via the school office.

Achievement Awards

Miss Clay’s class- Jacob for working hard towards SATs at home and in school.

Mrs Thomas’ class- Milly for producing some fantastic writing- a future estate agent…!

Mr Banfield’s class- Olaf for following the SMART code and making school enjoyable for visitors to our classroom.

Miss Myler’s class- Sophie for always bringing a smile to everyone’s face!

Mr Jackson’s class- Roland for impeccable behaviour, always being beautifully polite and caring to others in the class.

Miss Macfarlane’s class- Matthew of working really hard with his reading at home.

Mrs Pablos/ Mrs McLaughlin’s class- Erica for brilliant analogue time telling.

Mrs Trevor’s class- Gabriella for progressing in class with the quality and quantity of her work but most importantly her enthusiasm towards reading at home. Keep it up, we are proud of you!

Miss Newport’s class- Sophie for fantastic attitude towards all of her learning and for always smiling.

Miss Jones’ class- Alfie for great effort in his handwriting and for being polite to everyone!

Miss Hailey’s class- Karlie for having a fantastic week, working really hard in all subjects.

Miss McCullagh’s class- Noah for having a brilliant attitude towards your learning and producing a fantastic piece of independent writing.

Mrs Plimmer’s class- Max for Dot Dash Robot work.

Adult achievement awards

Evie in year 3 would like to nominate Mrs Trevor, ‘for always making lessons fun’.

Miss Hailey would like to nominate Mrs Huda, as she has been really supportive in year 1. She is calm and welcoming to everyone, and she has endless patience!

Smart cup winners

Miss Myler’s class as they have approached some really tricky concepts positively and they have had a great first week back because of it.

Star reader year 1,2,3- Megan from year 3 for reading well at home and for always being really keen to read with adults in school.

Star reader year 4,5,6- Adan from year 5 for reading eight times over half term and has also read four times this week. Amazing dedication and hard work.

Our Great Fire of London 🔥🔥

We have been working really hard this week to build our very own Pudding Lane. First, we designed and built our own house models. Then, we took our houses to Base Camp to construct a street. Miss Taylor helped us to start a fire in the ‘bakery’ and we watched as the fire spread along the whole street.

The Great Fire of London 🔥

As a grand finale to our Great Fire of London topic this half term, this week the children have created their own model London city of 1666!

Today we recreated the Great Fire at Base Camp with Miss Taylor using our models. All we discovered about how the Fire spread from house to house came to life!

Can your child tell you about how the Great Fire was eventually stopped?

 

Our investigation into waterproof materials 💦

Our class bear Bert doesn’t like getting wet in the rain very much so we decided to make an umbrella for him. Today, we carried out a science experiment to test which materials are waterproof and which are not!

Can you remember which material you decided would make the best umbrella?