Being Brooklands Boys and Girls

By Mrs S Taylor11th January 2016

In assembly today Mrs Higginbottom talked to us about what it meant to be Brooklands boys and girls. We thought about the qualities we need to have to be part of the Brooklands team and what we would need to do to Open, Grow and Believe.

Some of the words we came up with were:

Learning zone 4 or 5

High well being

Reciprocal relationships

Gotcha smiles

Open dialogues

Growing our relationships

Good eye contact

Believing in ourselves, others and our team

If you get a chance to, maybe your children could talk to you about what they have done at school today to Open, Grow & Believe.

 

Big Build Ignite – Construction!

By 10th January 2016

After we went to see the building site we went into the hall to use all f our big building materials to create our own houses.

 

Miss Mason read us ‘The Three Little Pigs’.

We looked at different types of houses on the big board.
And we built, built, built!

Big Build Ignite – The Building Site

10th January 2016

We are really lucky to have a building site right on our doorstep. To ignite our new Three Little Pigs/Building project we went to see what was going on! It was super exciting to see the huge crane lifting parts of the roof frame on to the house. All the building materials were on display and we could see a forklift truck come and gather the materials.

New Handwriting scheme: kinetic-letters

By Mrs l Jenkins9th January 2016

http://kinetic-letters.co.uk/how-does-kinetic-letters-work/

It is so important that the children start to form the letters correctly once they start writing letters this will help will joining letters up later on.
There is a lot of information on the website but please come and ask the team if you would like so more information.
The children enjoyed forming letters in the glitter and moving their bodies to make a ‘h’ and a ‘d’.

Making maps using a success criteria

By Mrs l Jenkins9th January 2016

The children made their own maps following a visual success criteria. We came up with the success criteria as a class. To have a good map you need to have: roads, roundabouts, houses, cars, shops, schools, traffic lights etc. They were able to review their learning through GOLD ‘you’ve got it!’ And GREEN ‘grow your learning’ they continued to add to their maps. Well done!
Do you know your address? Could you write a sentence… I live at…

Well Done being able to assess your own learning and your peers!

Three Little Pigs- Ignite

By Mrs l Jenkins9th January 2016

The children spent time in the small hall just using the construction and blocks to make different houses. They worked together organising how it would look and discussed what it needed, ‘Now it needs a door.’ ‘I’ve put the windows here.’

Phonic Focussed Morning Learning!

By Mrs l Jenkins9th January 2016

Wow! The children have come back ready to learn this week! They have been so engage during the new morning work when they are dropped off in the morning from 8:20til8:30. They are so fresh and focussed this time of the day and it is a good opportunity for the parents to see them applying phonics and to look at the newly introduced digraphs.

Keep up the great learning!