Transition to Class 3b!

By admin21st July 2016

The last 3 weeks have been very busy in 3b! We have done lots of getting to know each other, learning and exploring inspirational people! The children have all settled in wonderfully and have really taken ownership of their classroom. We are all ready and set up to come back in September and start our year 3 learning! Have a great summer 3b!

We all had great fun being involved in using basketball wheelchairs and practising steering, turning and going under bridges!

We also had Kate Gray come in a visit us. She is a Paralympic swimmer who really inspired us all to set ourselves goals, believe in ourselves and others and remember that nothing is possible by always say ‘I can’!

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See you in September Year 2!

By l hearn21st July 2016

Year 2 are settling well into their new classrooms and routines. We have had a lovely last day learning about Nelson Mandela and doing PE in the sunshine! We really enjoyed playing football, tennis and having a go at archery!

Have a fantastic summer holidays and see you in September!

Year 2 team

Being Determined in Year 1- Countess Way

By Mrs l Jenkins20th July 2016

Year 1 has had a really good week even in the heat!

We have been talking about our learning zones and about how to behave in our talking trio groups.

A lot of the children know that green is ‘good’ and mistakes are ‘good’ (for more information look up ‘Growth Mindsets’ )

We have been engrossed in our phonic sessions and they LOVE the phonic games online.

The main ones are:

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jolly+phonics+youtube&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

We recapped phase 2 and 3 and will be teaching phase 5.

We have also sent you some homework for the holidays about our key author ‘Julia Donaldson’

Any questions or if you need any more information come and ask the year 1 team 😀

Also, let’s Welcome Mrs.Hover back from her maternity leave! We are so glad you are back 😀

Strong and Powerful Classrooms

By Mrs c Hern20th July 2016

Today, Upper Juniors have been busy designing their own classrooms. We believe that it is important that all of the children take ownership over their classrooms and work in partnership with each other and the teachers.

Some fantastic suggestions were put forward by the children and they have already started to act upon these ideas. The children understand that their environment can constantly change and be adapted to the type of learning that they are experiencing. I am excited to see how their environments progress over the course of the year.

Miss Sheridan stars in a video blog for Accelerated Reader!

By admin20th July 2016

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Accelerated Reader is a tool that we invested in back in September. It assesses children’s reading skills and signposts them to read appropriately challenging books – difficult enough to keep them engaged but not so difficult that they become frustrated. We call this their ‘Zone of Proximal Development’ (ZPD). The concept of the ZPD was originally developed by Vygotsky who believed that the role of education is to give children experiences that are within their zones of proximal development, thereby encouraging and advancing their individual learning. At Brooklands Farm, a lot of our teaching practice is underpinned by Vygotsky’s theories so we were delighted when we discovered Accelerated Reader! View Miss Sheridan’s blog to find out more:

 

Click here to view Miss Sheridan’s video blog!

Police visit!

By l hearn20th July 2016

Today we had an exciting surprise visit from the police! They let us try on their uniforms and go inside the police car! They even put the sirens on and let us ‘beep’ the horn!

“I felt excited.”

“Wow! Now I want to be a police man!”

“Police cars are really cool. My favourite part was when people got put in (tried on) handcuffs!”

This was a really exciting experience and we will talk more about the police in our ‘Inspiration and Aspiration’ project!

Golden Tea!

By S Marriott18th July 2016

It was great to see different members of Year 3 and 4 attend Golden Tea this week.

Well done and thank you for always showing above expected behaviour.

We will be able to have one more Golden Tea this week before the Summer break.

Golden Tea Week 2

Miss Marriott and Miss Courtney

Head of Year 3 and Head of Year 4