Lewes New School Blog

Catch up with what’s been going on in the different classes…

June 25^th

Last week the Nursery children spent most of the week looking at books, how they are made, what they are used for, and the different types of books that can be found in the world. This led to most of the children making their own books in some way, shape or form. Laurie made a story book, ‘The Big Hurricane’. It’s a story about how the wind blew in the night . . . “even though the person on the television said it was going to be sunny!”, blowing over cars and causing mass disruption.

Daisy made a picture book that she may add words to, and an art book where she plans to keep all her paintings.

On Monday Daisy and Ines came into class wanting to write numbers so this week we have been looking at numbers, what they look like and how to form them. We have made a number line to help us remember what the numbers 1-10 look like, some children have used it to practise counting. Jude spotted that the line starts with a zero and ends with a zero (10).

Next week we will be gathering the children’s ideas about how they would like to see our outside area being developed even further. We will also be asking for your opinions, so get your thinking caps on!

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This week in Class 1 the children have been eager to write, write and write again! I have been most impressed, as both year 1 and reception children have found many reasons to write this week! Whether that be writing secret coded messages to the Earth Spirits (fairies to you and me) or to write a rude story about Stinky The Stag Beetle there has been a wealth of writing this week in Class 1. Will Turner wrote a hilarious story about Snotty the Stag Beetle, who was a keen footballer and modeller of clay!!!! World cup fever has been evident in the classroom with many of the year 1 boys writing about mini beast footballer champions!

Meanwhile Molly Rose has inspired many of the children to begin a Fairy/Earth Spirit project, by bringing in a small fairy world complete with star encrusted leaves. This led to a larger fairy world being created by many of the children, including Molly Rose, Talia, Madeline, Eartha, Delia, Isobel, Lottie, Django and Orya! They created a beautiful fairy forest, Django wrote a long letter to the fairies, which explained what they had done. Lottie and Molly Rose wrote tiny messages on tiny cards. Molly Rose wrote her message in a secret code that only true fairies can crack!

It has been amazing to observe those children of reception age who have quite clearly been processing so much with regard to writing, that it appears that they can just suddenly write simple sentences, Luca is one such child, it appears that all of a sudden he wants to write, and so he is!!!!!!!! Ah truly, the fairies have been working their magic!!!

This week Class 2 have been planning an interactive science exhibition, inspired by the science museum visit last term. We reflected on our learning and gathered together all that we learned about light and shadow. We have divided up the different aspects of our project and now have a plan for how to get our exhibition ready for the end of term.

We have also been working hard to finish selected writing projects and to publish them, many of us putting our new touch typing skills into practice. We hope to have lots of Class 2 stories ready for the new Library and writing room by the end of term. We have also been busy with our times tables challenge; making tables posters; learning our number bonds to 20, 50 and 100 and practising our mental maths in a way that consolidates what we have learned this year.

We’ve also been working hard to get ready for sports day (next Thursday) practising all the different activities and organising ourselves into our teams. We are looking forward to the event, and hope to see you there! Have a great weekend everyone.

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In Class 3 this week we have all been revelling in our camp experience! We’ve been sharing all the different skills that we learned from our woodland escapade as well as reflecting on how we were applying our learning habits whether it be putting up tents independently (not me!); persevering with whittling our first piece of wooden cutlery; having the resolve to make a fire without using matches, or working as team whilst playing ‘capture the flag’. We have been recognising the qualities that this range of activities has presented us with and how we have learned from them.

We are now in the final throes of preparing our science presentation with everything we have learned from our experiments and investigations with David (Isobel). We are looking forward to using a range of methods in our presentations including slide shows, video and drama! Watch this space….

We are also in the midst of looking back over the year with regard to all we have learned in our maths work and revising and consolidating areas such as long multiplication and division as well as fractions, decimals and percentages but to name a few. We are also discussing the best strategies for solving number problems and how these strategies may well differ yet glean the same final response.

We have been continuing with our sports challenges, preparing ourselves for the county athletics meet next week as well as attempting as much as possible of our non-standard bronze certificate in swimming.

We are continuing to care for our mini-tyre gardens in the playground too. We have discussed and deliberated how often we should water them in hot weather, how we can eradicate the slugs as well as the best moment to pick a ripe strawberry!