This week we had great fun playing with the parachute. It was a super windy day and the parachute was flying high !

We also spent some time with our new teachers and we are now officially Year 1 boys !

We had a lovely time watching Year 2’s ‘Hats Off’ show. They were so good at singing and speaking and have inspired us to sing and speak out next Monday at our final assembly.

Last week we enjoyed cooking with Hector and Chris’ Mummies. thank you for coming in to decorate cakes with us!

We have continued our learning about money. Here is a game you could play at home

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

Today is the last day for reading books and on Monday we will be sending home the boys books so you can enjoy sharing together their wonderful learning journey in Reception.

We have our picnic on Tuesday to look forward to and our final whole school assembly on Thursday. The school day ends at 12 noon on Thursday.

Have  a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

What a busy week we have had in RKZ ! We started the week with our wonderful sports day where the boys all did brilliantly running, jumping and throwing. It was a hot day but the boys did so well, giving their absolute best in each race. Well done to everyone !

We then had our Reception summer concert on Wednesday where, again , the boys were amazing. They gave a wonderful performance of songs and poems to all their parents and families as well as the Pre-Prep boys, and the Year 3 boys. In front of quite a large audience they showed confidence and clarity as they recited both group and individual poems.We are so proud of all the boys.

In Maths we began learning about money. It is an important skill to know the coins and the way money works in our country. Talk about money at home when you are out and about to develop the boys understanding. They really enjoyed playing with all the coins and setting up a sweet shop!

The boys have also had so much fun playing with water this week. They are little scientists in the making, making observations, testing out their ideas and describing what’s happening.

We have also been making music this week, using the instruments to tap or shake out the beat as we sang our songs.

Next week is our last week for reading.

There are no more show and tell sessions until the boys come back to school in September. Next Wednesday the boys will spend some time with their new teachers in the morning.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Mrs Zacharia and Miss Barr

It was big smiles all round this week as we had our whole school photo and our class photo. the boys were all looking super smart and I am sure you will be delighted with these happy momentos from their first year at Lochinver. We all shouted ‘porridge!’ to make big smiles !

In Literacy we have been working hard on our digraphs and tricky words. We have read and written lists of words and used our tricky words in sentences. Thank you for all your support at home with learning to spell tricky words. This week will be our last week of tricky word books at school.

In Maths we have been learning about capacity. The boys have enjoyed thinking about measuring the capacity of containers with water and have also done some active Maths filling boxes with cubes and bricks. talk about capacity at home in everyday life when filling glasses at meal times for example.

We have enjoyed the sun this week at last ! On Monday we took our story to The Headmasters lawn . We had great fun doing leaf rubbings,playing ‘duck duck goose’ and sharing our story at the end of the day.

We are also busy practicing for Sports day and our Reception concert next week. Please check your communication diaries to see which colour team your son is in and send them to school on Monday in P.E kit with their team colour T-shirt. We look forward to seeing you there on Monday at 9am on the music field. Our Reception concert is on Wednesday at 2.15pm. Please come straight to the Theatre.

Next week is our last week of library books. Please return any books you have at home next Wednesday.

This will be our last week of show and Tell

Boys for next week are

Monday-Soren

Tuesday-Taylan

Wednesday-Zane

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

We had super fun at welly time this week. We made dens using big sticks and played in the hammocks

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We also enjoyed a visit from Ark Farm. We saw sheep, goats and a donkey and we could pet them all. There was also lots of chickens and ducks and some big rabbits we could stroke. There was even a friendly dog who walked about with us as we  met the animals

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In Maths we were learning about weight. We used the scales to weigh cubes and pencils. We counted how many cubes weighed the same as each item.

Talk about weight at home, comparing the weight of different things around the house.

We are spending lots of time in literacy practicing our digraphs and trigraphs and using them in words and sentences. We are also working hard on learning to read and write our tricky words.

Our Show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Lewis

Tuesday-Maaran

Wednesday-Max

Thursday-Raphael

Friday-Sathiya

Next Tuesday is our whole school photo. Please send the boys in full school uniform for this. Wednesday , we have our class photo, full school uniform on this day also please.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia.

We had a lovely start to the final weeks of Summer with a visit to our pond. The boys enjoyed using the nets to catch and observe the pond life. We saw newts and snails and pond skaters.

In Literacy we listened to the story of Super Tato and made wanted posters for Evil Pea ! The boys had great fun remembering all the things Evil Pea had done and thinking of places he might be hiding. Then we made our own Evil Peas in Art.

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In Maths we have been looking at odd and even numbers.

Have a go at this game to practice the numbers

.https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/coconut-odd-or-even

We also had time to do some lovely cake decorating. thank you to our lovely parent for coming in to help the boys.

We have also been practicing our sawing on the woodwork bench again. The boys have been super careful and enjoyed learning this skill.

Our show and tell songs have been lovely this week, well done to all the boys who have done theirs. Next week show and tell is

Monday-Gabriel

Tuesday-Harry

Wednesday-Hector

Thursday-Kaya

Friday-Leonardo

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

This week we have been doing lots of learning around our tricky words. The boys have been amazing at practicing reading and writing them at home and are really enjoying the spelling we do at school. We read and wrote the words together and then wrote sentences,  wrote words on white boards and practiced beautiful handwriting independently. We have also been practicing all the digraphs and sounds we know and did a fun rainforest word hunt!

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In Maths we have been learning about doubles and halves. Doubles were easier than halves!Keep  practicing this at home, looking for doubles and halves of objects around you at home.

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Hopefully  the boys beans all arrived safely home ! Some of them were growing very tall ! Please keep us updated on their growth at home , and if you get any beans !

We had a lovely cookery session this week where we made fruit pizzas !

Show and tell for after half term is to sing a song . If the your son is happy to share a song that would be lovely but don’t worry if not just choose a poem or a story.

Monday-Aari

Tuesday -Agustya

Wednesday-Ayden

Thursday-Chris

Friday-Dhruv

Have a lovely half term break .

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

We had a wonderful time on our trip to Knebworth this week. First we walked over a mountain , through a maze and over a torrential river !

Then we went on a dinosaur walk spotting dinosaurs in the forest. We saw all kinds of dinosaurs and read all long names.

Then we had a well deserved lunch and a play on the adventure playground.

In Maths this week we have been learning about doubles. The boys were so good at this ! Keep practicing double numbers at home and when you are out and about.

Our growing theme in class continues as we have watched our chicks and caterpillars getting bigger. The chicks fly off tomorrow to a bigger home and we hope next week the caterpillars will have formed their chrysalis’s ready to change inti butterflies.

Thank you for attending open classroom this week , it was lovely to see your and for the boys to share their learning with you.

Next week we will finish our show and tell on babies with

Monday-Soren

Tuesday-Taylan

Wednesday-Zane

We will start a new theme  after half term.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

This week we have continued with our learning about growing and started to look at the life cycle of a chick. We had eggs delivered to the classroom and all the boys observed the chicks hatching out of the eggs.

We have talked and written about how this happens and the life cycle process. They are all so interested and knowledgeable about the natural world !

We have also bean writing up our bean diary. The beans are growing !

They continued their investigations of the natural world in welly time this week, thinking about what birds eat and making bird feeders.

We have been enjoying this beautiful weather, adding water to our outside provision and taking our learning outside as much as possible.

We continue to practice our cursive script. The boys are all getting so good at writing.

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In Maths we have been counting forwards and backwards to 20, looking at bigger numbers and how they are composed.

Practice this at home counting everyday things and trying to go backwards as well.

We enjoyed cooking agin this week and made some lovely vegetable rice wraps with Ethan’s Mummy. Thank you for helping us!

Our Show and Tell boys for next week are

Monday-Lewis

Tuesday-Maaran

Wednesday-Max

Thursday-Raphael

Friday-Sathiya

Have a lovely sunny weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, MIss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

This week has been all about caterpillars and butterflies. We started the week listening to and watching the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The boys loved joining in with all the fruits. They wrote their own little book and drew and coloured the fruit. Within this story we go over the days of the week again. Practice saying the day with the boys each day so they get to know the sequence of a week. They also painted little caterpillars and looked at the life cycle of butterflies. In computing some of the boys chose to make a butterfly picture and print it out .

In Maths we have been counting forwards and backwards to 20. We used this skilll to think about one more and one less. Try this at home counting on or back from a given number and asking the boys the answer to one more and one less questions. Here is a game could could also play. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/robot-more-or-less

The boys have all done very well learning their tricky words . There are new lists in their yellow books for next week.

We are loving seeing all the gorgeous baby photos the boys are sharing and they are enjoying talking about how they have grown.

We enjoyed cooking on Thursday with Taylans Mum and Louis Mum and  Dad, we made some lovely biscuits. Thank you for coming in.

Show and tell for next week

Monday-Gabriel

Tuesday-Harry

Wednesday-Hector

Thursday -Kaya

Friday-Leonardo

Have a lovely Bank holiday weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

This week we started our new topic on growing. We began by listening to the story of Jaspers Beanstalk by Mick Inkpen then we planted a bean. We talked about what we needed to plant the bean and what the bean needed to grow. We are looking forward to watching what happens to our beans over the next few weeks. I wonder if it will grow into a beanstalk like Jaspers !

In Maths we have been doing addition by counting on. Try this at home as a quick way to add two groups. See if the boys can start at 5 then try counting on from bigger numbers.

This week we have started to self assess our work. We choose green if we could do the work confidently and independently, orange for finding it a bit tricky and red for needing a bit of adult support. This is a system the boys will get used to using as they move in to Year 1 and beyond and helps with reflecting on their own learning.

It was Earth Day this week .We were lucky to have a workshop on Wednesday from Green up your act.we learned about the things we can do to save our Earth. We looked at pictures and videos of the oceans and beaches. The boys understood that we must recycle and not leave litter on the beaches. They all made a super fish from cork and recycled plastic

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Welly time this week was all about learning to use the garden tools. The boys were really sensible at using the loppers and helped with tidying up the trees and plants.

Show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Aari

Tuesday-Agustya

Wednesday-Ayden

Thursday-Chris

Friday-Dhruv

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr, Mrs Zacharia