Brilliant Buddies and Marvellous Maths

30th November 2022A Malone

Every Friday afternoon, Acorns meet up with their buddies in Sycamores and Oaks, for a session of shared reading and singing. It’s a lovely opportunity for classes to come together and enjoy some social time. It really helps to develop social, communication and language skills, and gives the older children a sense of responsibility to look after their Acorns friends.

In Maths this week, Reception have been exploring the number 9. We discovered that it is a square number, and investigated which other numbers are square.

Year 1 have been working hard at addition and using part-whole models.

Our Week in Acorns!

23rd November 2022A Malone

Another fantastic week in Acorns!

Exploring and creating repeating patterns in Maths

We went on a shape hunt around school

 

Our phrase of the week is ‘Understand Others’, so we worked together and helped each other to complete some tricky jigsaws.

 

Reception worked hard in phonics. Look at their writing!

 

We created collages of crosses for our Inter Faith week work.

We read ‘The Paper Dolls’ by Julia Donaldson, and then worked hard at our cutting skills to create our own!

This week in Acorns

18th November 2022A Malone

This week we have been exploring our new topic ‘Marvellous Machines’. We read ‘No-Bot the Robot with no Bottom’ by Sue Hendra, and then designed and built our own robots!

We have also been investigating 2D and 3D shape in maths, and doing lots of phonics, reading and writing.

On Friday we dressed in spots for Children in Need.

 

 

 

 

 

This Week in Acorns

10th November 2022A Hearn

First week back in Acorns and we’ve got off to a flying start! We’ve learned new letter sounds in phonics, explored ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson in English, found out about different ways to represent numbers in maths, and have also done some Halloween activities. We’re looking forward to starting our new topic – Marvellous Machines – and finding out about all sorts of technology.

                                    We painted and decorated some Halloween cats!

           We had our class photo taken to go in the Shields Gazette!

 

Reading Club

14th October 2022A Hearn

Reading club is every Thursday after school in Acorns classroom, with Mrs Malone, Miss Henderson and Jo-Anne. We read books together, listen to stories, explore characters, play games and even do a little bit of singing and drama! It’s lots of fun and we get the chance to see our friends in other classes too.

 

Sharing a book

 

Hansel and Gretel’s House

 

 

 

Fun in Acorns!

13th October 2022A Hearn

Today we invited parents and carers into school to join in with a phonics session.

We learnt the sound, did the action and sang the song, and then we read with our grown-ups. Everyone had fun as well as learning new things!

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s Explore!

10th October 2022A Hearn

Our topic in Acorns is ‘Let’s Explore’.

We will be finding out about our school, local community and the wider world, as well as exploring vehicles and journeys. We will also be developing our construction skills, building dens, houses and bridges.

We went on a journey around our school

 

We went on a ‘bear hunt’ and then built some bear dens.

 

We explored maps and made our own.

 

Investigating vehicles and transport

 

 

This Week in Acorns

10th October 2022A Hearn

This week reception learned all about the letters i, n, m and d. We can now blend our sounds to read lots of new words! We’re getting on well with our new reading books too! We have also explored the numbers 3 and 4, made our own playdoh and worked hard at following instructions and working together.

Year 1 have been writing sentences using adjectives, exploring number bonds using part whole models, and finding out about parts of the body in science.

Everyone has been working super hard!

 

 

Developing motor skills through making friendship bracelets.

 

Working together!

 

 

New Beginnings

10th October 2022A Hearn

We have had a marvellous start to the school year in Acorns. So far we have had a visit from Goldilocks, built bear dens, explored the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, begun our phonics learning and also become ‘world explorers’.

Here are just a few things we have been getting up to…..

All about 2

 

Phonics

 

A visit from the school nurses

 

Self portraits

 

Year 1 working hard at science

 

Master engineers!

Summer Fun in Acorns

20th July 2022A Malone

This half term in Acorns has absolutely flown by! We can’t believe that Year 1 are ready to move on to their new adventure in Year 2, whilst Reception have been helping to make our new Fellgate pupils feel welcome during their transition sessions.

 

Here are just a few snippets of what we have been getting up to over the last few weeks.

Making sandwiches for our strawberry tea

Fun at our strawberry tea, in memory of our colleague Alison Thompson

 

Minibeast hunting

 

In DT, our topic was ‘Chop, Slice and Mash’. First we tasted some ready made sandwiches, then we shared our ideas about our own likes and dislikes. We used various kitchen tools to chop, slice, mash and grate, and then designed our ideal sandwich.

We created our sandwiches and taste-tested them, sharing them with other children in school. Then we said what we would change next time. It was so much fun!

 

 

Our half-termly parent/carer activity. We created portraits of each other.

 

In the last week of term we said a final goodbye to our buddies in Year 6 (Oaks), with personalised cards and ice pops. We wish them luck in their new schools!

 

Every day has been a new challenge and all of the class team are super proud of each and every one of our Reception and Year 1 children. We can’t wait to see what September brings!