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So far this term, Y4M have been learning to play the notes B A and G on the recorder. With dexterity and finess, we are becoming more confident moving between notes when playing complex pieces of music and are able to recognise the difference in the pitch in each note played. We are also refining playing as a group so that our timings coincide with each other.
Here is one of the pieces we learnt today using the note G…
Bravo and encore Y4M!!!
Year 1 have really been enjoying our weekly Jigsaw lessons with Jigsaw Jack. This week we were looking at what our responsibilities were for being a member of a class, in order for all children to learn in a safe space.
This was some of the ideas the children came up with. We wrote all our ideas down so we can keep referring back to this week after week!
Over the past two weeks Year 3 have been discussing how we would like our school to be.
We had Jigsaw Jino to help us. We discussed what types of things would happen in a nightmare school and how these things would make us feel if they happened in our own school.
We talked about rubbish being all over and the school being dirty, children hurting each other and if there was broken equipment. Nobody wanted to be in a school like this and we discussed how we look after our school to make sure non of these things happen. We then drew a picture of our nightmare school and the bad things that may be in it.
This week we have discussed what our dream school may be like.
Jigsaw Jino came to help us again. We discussed how having nice things such as computers and nice books make a good school. That kind, helpful teachers and children who are friends make a school a nice place to be.
Again we discussed how we could make this happen in our school. We talked about the responsibilities we have and how our school golden rules help us to have a nice school. Things like looking after equipment, keeping our hands and feet to ourselves and being kind makes our school a nice place to come everyday. We the drew our dream school next to our nightmare school and talked about which one we like the most and why.
To start our Year 4 Autumn Term, the children have been utilising the Jigsaw approach to identify the skills and qualities required to work together as an effective TEAM in all areas of our learning this academic year.
Through class discussion, we shared our own opinions of the qualities we thought were vital for TEAMWORK …below are just a few of the qualities we identified:
RESPECT
INCLUSION
HONESTY
KINDNESS
APPROACHABILITY
VALUING OPINIONS
ABILITY TO LISTEN
TOLERANCE
RESPONSIBILITY
FAIRNESS
TAKING TURNS
As a class, we will endeavour to implement and build upon these qualities throughout our learning in Year 4 this year…TEAMWORK=DREAMWORK!
Our new Foundation Stage 2 children have loved getting outside and enjoyed exploring our fabulous outdoor area this week.
Outdoor play has so many developmental benefits. It helps our children to develop self-confidence, independence and self-esteem.
They also become aware of limits, boundaries and challenge in their play.
Our children get the opportunity to develop their social skills by listening, paying attention and sharing play experiences – this helps them explore their feelings and develop self-discipline.
Outdoor is a great time for their physical development too… our climbing wall proved a great challenge, it got us problem solving and using our gross motor skills, working out how to pull and push and where to place our hands and feet can be tricky at times! It also showed how determined our children are, as they tried and tried again until they got to the top, never giving up, well done everyone!
Year 3 were very excited this week to meet Jigsaw Jino.
Jigsaw Jino helps the class to learn about lots of different things during our Jigsaw PSHE lessons.
This week Year 3 have looked at things they have achieved so far in their life and things they are proud of.
We talked about how we feel when we are proud of ourselves and some of the things we have done to be proud of. We are proud of achievements such as learning to write, ride our bikes, tie our shoe laces and count to a thousand. We are also proud of being good friends and being kind to each other.
We decide what we were most proud of and wrote them down on our gold coins to post in the proud box.
Year 3 have many things to be proud of and can not wait to achieve more during the year to be proud of.
Our Christopher Pickering Book Sale was a huge success! We will be holding another one very soon!
A special thanks goes to the school council for voting for the books sale, helping to organise it and run it!
All proceeds will be put towards playground equipment for the whole school, as voted for by our school council!
On Friday, our school councillors and house captains had an exciting meeting with our local councillor – Councillor Henry. Our children had the opportunity to have their voices heard by the councillor about what they do within Christopher Pickering to support the school. Councillor Henry shared some useful tips about how we can work together with her to incorporate British Values (even more than we already do!) into our school.
After our meeting, our house captains took the pleasure of showing Councillor Henry around our school, gardens and playground. They took ownership and developed leadership with the help of our special visitor!
Today children learned what a secret is. We played ‘Whisper or Mime’
We discussed ‘good’ secrets, like birthday presents and nice surprises, and ‘worry’ secrets – secrets that may make you feel sad, confused or nervous.
We discussed the importance of telling somebody if we had a secret that we didn’t feel comfortable keeping.
We thought about who we would tell our ‘worry’ secret to.
In today’s PSHCE lesson, year 5 had a discussion about how to stay safe online and the positives and negatives of an online community. We played the ‘online safety’ game: Each child had three cards, one labelled ‘safe’, one ‘unsafe’ and one ‘I’m not sure’.
The teacher read out different statements and the children made decisions, using their cards to show the class their answer.
Some of the statements were both safe and unsafe depending on the context, so we used this opportunity to explain that being online can have good/bad/positive/negative consequences.
Easier statements:
Harder statements:
Year 5 were able to share their thoughts and feelings on each statement; the lesson was extremely useful for the pupils to learn and adapt their knowledge of online safety.
