Noticeboard
There has been a school email sent to inform you that this Thursday will be a non-uniform day.
This is an opportunity for children to wear special cultural clothes, dress up in the colours of one of the flags they have drawn on their ‘bag of belonging’ handprint, or dress in home clothes to represent themselves.
**PLEASE NOTE: We will also be cooking on this day. Children will wear aprons but there is a risk that children may get their clothes dirty. Please bear this in mind and send in a change of clothes (and let you class teacher know this) if your child is wearing something particularly special.
May Fair 2024 – Saturday 18th May
Maypole Dancing – 2:30pm
Infant School choir – 3:00pm
We will send more information out at the beginning of next week about the logistics and what to wear and meet.
Each class is also now starting to collect ‘Jolly Jars’ for this event also. There are posters on the class windows. Fill empty jam jars with small goodies that can then be won by children on a stall. There is a small prize for the class in the school that collects the most! Bring them into class as soon as they are completed.
English
Spelling:
1 Teach the /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and q
2 Teach the /ɜː/ sound spelt or after w
3 Teach the /ɔː/ sound spelt ar after w
Keywords to read then spell: parents clothes want was would should
Reading : Sharing books and folk tales from various cultures represented in our school and classes.
Maths
Completeion of our final work on our Fractions Unit
Find three-quarters
Count in fractions up to a whole
Enrichment Week Activities
Shine – Outside games from around the World
PE – Maypole Dancing
Art – Celebrating the different cultures in our classes
Modern Languages – Children and staff will be coming in from Redmaids school to teach us some words and phrases in different languages. Maple class will look at German and Sycamore will look at French.
Geography – Continue with our study of a contrasting location – Columbia, looking at the Human Geography aspects including their culture.
Music – Continue to learn and practice our whole school song ready to record and perform together at the end of the week. The song will be sung in a round and is from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tuesday:
A language workshop – French or German
A whole school assembly about belonging
Geography, following on with our next session of a contrasting location of Colombia or
Art, celebrating the different cultures in our classes
Wednesday:
Share our bags of belonging that represent us and our families (see message re. bags of belonging below)
Create class bunting using our handprints decorated with flags brought in from home.
Art celebrating the different cultures in our classes
Singing songs from different cultures and recording a song that the whole school have learnt.
Thursday: Non- Uniform Day
Cookery workshops for both classes, Maple in the morning and Sycamore in the afternoon – the children will collaborate to make a range of dishes including:
Aloo Tama;
Vegetable Dhansak;
Gari Foto;
Somali Rice;
Pineapple salsa;
Salade caprice des reines;
Za’atar bread.
An outside company who work in schools for similar projects are coming in to provide this activity. They have been made fully aware of all the allergies, intolerances and religious and cultural restrictions that apply to ingredients they have chosen to use. If you have any further questions, please do ask your class teacher.
More art celebrating the different cultures in our classes. Some of our work will be displayed in the hall, ready for our after school food event.
3.30pm: Whole school cultural food event (you will have had a previous email about this). Some of the food the children have made on the day in the above activity will be available for you to try at this event.
Friday:
Celebration assembly as normal
A whole school sharing session of what we have learned and enjoyed from the week
Writing about our week and writing ‘Hello’ in the languages represented in our classes.Singing songs from different cultures
My Bag of Belonging– If your child was not in school last week, we can give them one on Tuesday and will make sure their sharing time is kept to the end of the week.
For those in school last Thursday we sent home a paper bag containing the following…
1.A blank handshape. Please colour the blank handshape with a flag or flags of the countries represented in your family.
2. Please also bring your bag back to school on Tuesday 7th May with a few objects or pictures which are special to you, to talk about in class. The children will bring their bags home at the end of the week but we will keep the hands to make into bunting in school.
Finally, to enhance the children’s experience we are asking for any parents which speak another language to come and read to your child’s class with a story you enjoy at home. If you would like to volunteer for this, please email your child’s class email to arrange a time and date.
Thank you in advance for your support in making this week special and memorable for the children.