You will be pleased to know that the nativity play is looking amazing and we can’t wait to share it with you next Wednesday – Friday for Grandparents. It will be a prompt start, so please make sure you bag your seat early!
Thank you to all everyone who sent contributions in for the Christmas fayre and all of you who attended. We hope you had a great time and won lots of things for Christmas! Also, you will have had the opportunity to see our beautiful Christmas trees which the children decorated on Monday.
With great excitement on Monday morning, we saw the arrival of three little elves in KS1 – Snow drop, Coco and Snowflake. The children have enjoyed reading elf stories and finding phonemes within text. They have also created their own elf, thinking about whether it is a boy or girl, giving it a name and thinking about what it will wear, what it likes and what it dislikes.
In Maths, Year One have begun learning about 2D shapes. They have been naming them and starting to look at their different properties through games and activities. One group in Year Two have also been focusing on 2D shapes, their names and properties. They have been able to find lines of symmetry on the shapes and if there is more than one. The other group have been working with 3D shapes. They have done a range of activities to explore the properties of each of the shapes and gaining confidence identifying and naming them.
We have been looking at the seven continents. We are getting really good at naming them and love singing the continents song. We have been reading some key facts about each of them, which are the largest, smallest, warmest and coldest as well as what animals live there etc..
In Science we have been thinking about which materials we might use for specific purposes. We investigated how different materials behaved when they were put into water. We noticed that some absorb the water, some, the water just ran off. Materials like paper just disintegrated. We then thought about which materials would make a good rain coat by being waterproof, but also flexible.
We had some fantastic discussions in PSHE about how we live in community. We had some great ideas about how we can contribute to our Cookridge community by doing things that are helpful eg. tidying the library, picking up litter and simple things like holding doors open for people. It was lovely for some of our Year One children to also visit Cookridge Care Home this week too, in our wider community, to read with some of the residents there.
Dates for your diary.
Wednesday 10th December -Doors open at 2.15pm – Christmas production (The show will start promptly 2.25/2.30)
Friday 12th December (10 am) – Grandparent Christmas production event
Monday 15th December (am – Time TBC) – Singing outside Asda
Tuesday 16th December – Christmas disco – Straight after school
Tinshill Drive
Cookridge
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS16 7DH
0113 386 2500