Christmas week

The last week of term has been very Christmassy. On Thursday we had our Christmas party. We played lots of games including Musical Chairs without the chairs! We did some dancing and finally had a visit from a surprise guest - Santa. we sung him some Christmas songs and then he answered some questions.

On party day we had our lunch in the classroom, it was fun to all sit together and listen to Christmas music while we ate.

Earlier in the week we had some parents come to visit us and tell us about Christmas in their home countries. A big thank you to Pierre's Mum who told us about Christmas in France, Finn's Mum for telling us about Norway and Cajsa's Dad for talking to us about Sweden.

Finally the reception team wish you all a very merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you in 2010.

Thank you for your very generous gifts, we will really enjoy spending them.

Christmas plays

This is YR, we are doing our Christmas play for our Mums and Dads to watch. Our play was called the Nutcracker. We dressed up as sweets and did a dance. We really enjoyed doing our dance. Miss Linton, Ms Redpath and Mrs Williamson were very proud of us for our fantastic singing and dancing.

We have been working very hard this week on our play the 'Nutcracker' and hope you will enjoy watching our performances next week. Our costumes look great, so a big thank you to everyone for getting those ready!
We were lucky enough to have some visitors on Tuesday morning who had their own show to share with us. We really enjoyed watching them and had lots of questions to ask afterwards. They kindly left one of their beautiful puppets for us to keep and play with in the class.
We will have our teddy mask competition next week. Thank you for all those that have arrived already. Deadline is Monday 7th December.

Visit to the woods

Another incredibly busy week in YR!! First of all a big thanks to all those parents who have helped us out this week in different ways.

This week we have learnt our dance ready for the KS1 Christmas show. We have also been learning some Christmas carols as part of the show - Away in a Manger, I Saw Three Ships and The Holly and The Ivy.

In maths we have been finding one and two more and less.

On Tuesday we all visited Leigh Woods. We were quite lucky with the weather, not too wet and muddy. We all had a great time collecting leaves, twigs and lots of other interesting things. Mrs Redpath and Miss Linton were really impressed with our observational skills and how interested we were in everything we saw.

On Friday, we had a special treat , a nativity performed by the Bristol Old Vic theatre school followed by a Christmas display day with lots of glitter!

More teddies

This week our activities have been based around the book Going on a Bear Hunt which we all really loved. We have acted out the story and done some drawings of what happens in the story. Later in the week we have been thinking about words that tell us where things are. We took photos of our teddies in different places around the classroom such as on the chair, in front of the playhouse and under the table.

This week in PE we have been competing in a virtual festival - all the other schools in the local area have been taking part and will share results to find the winners in the cluster! We played a game called Dishes and Domes. The eventual winners were strawberries - congratulations.

This week we have also started to practise for our Christmas play, the nutcracker suite.

The Three Bears

This week most of our activities have been based around the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have acted out the story, cooked some porridge, made stick puppets and started to learn the three bears rap. In maths we have been finding things around the classroom that are taller and shorter than our teddy bears.
This week we have all been up to use the computer suite for the first time and played a three bears game which helped us to practice our mouse skills. We had to click and drag the three bears to the right sized bed, lay the table for breakfast and dress the bears for their walk.

Diwali

This week we have been learning all about Diwali. We have listened to the story of Rama and Sita and acted it out using masks. We have also made Diwali cards, lights and some rangoli patterns too.

In maths we have been thinking about repeating patterns and have made some patterns using shapes, beads and pegs.

On Thursday we learnt a fireworks song and added some actions to it. Some of us decided to make some chalk firework pictures too.

Harvest and a special visitor

Lots going on again this week at Luckwell. On Tuesday we had a visit from Celso Paco who is visiting from Mozambique. He told us some stories and played some music on his African instruments. On Wednesday we had a harvest assembly led by our local vicar, Michael. Thanks to everyone who donated tins, we had a great number which I'm sure will be greatly appreciated by the people who receive them. Finally on Thursday it was open day. We performed our nursery rhymes and the teachers and Mrs Roberts thought we were excellent. We then had a chance to show our parents our learning diaries. The best bit was our treat afternoon. We played some games, then had snacks while we watched Horrid Henry. A well deserved afternoon for some very tired children.
YR have had a fantastic start to their time at Luckwell and have really impressed all the staff with their behaviour and how well they have gelled as a class. Thanks to all the parents for their support this term and we hope you have a great half term with lots of fun and rest.

A very active week

We have a had a very healthy week in school with lots of extra PE activities. On Tuesday Debbie Scroggs from Ashton Park came to do some Wake and Shake activities with us. This is something we do everyday for 10 minutes and Debbie gave us lots of good new ideas. Then on Wednesday we had our normal PE session. On Thursday we had a fun fitness session with Julie. She got us doing lots of fun moves and we made an animal dance. Although we are pretty tired with lot of coughs and colds going round we all participated well.
We have also been busy this week getting props ready for our Nursery Rhymes which we will be showing parents at 9 o'clock on Thursday. We hope to see lots of you then. Have a good weekend.

Full time

This has been YR's first full week in school and what a great week it's been. Miss Linton, Mrs Redpath and Mrs Williamson are all very proud of us. We have all made new friends, tried different activities and behaved well. Today was celebration assembly and all the teachers commented on how well YR sat and listened. We were really pleased to be the winners of the Golden Lunchbox, presented to the class who the SMSA's choose for being the best behaved at lunchtime. Fantastic news!

This week we have been singing some number rhymes, reading some more rhyming stories and learning to use the digital camera. We finished our week off by making a giant fruit salad containing some delicious fruits. A big thank you to all the parents for their donations of fruit.

Have a lovely weekend!

Lunches and lots of shapes

This week we had a chance to find out what lunch at Luckwell is like. On Monday and Tuesday our Mums, Dads and grandparents joined us, if they were able. Then on Friday the whole class met together for the first time and all got to have a play in the top playground with the rest of KS1. Great fun!
This week we have been focusing on shape, had fun doing some hand and footprints and also met one of the school's regular supply teachers Miss Gower.
Next week we are looking forward to being full time members of Luckwell Primary school. Have a restful weekend and hopefully see lots of you on Monday at the parents meeting - 2:45 pm in the classroom.

Our first PE sessions

Our third week at school and we are all getting to know the routines and each others names really well. This week we have made a paper plate face, done some more counting activities, chosen reading books and had our first PE lesson. We also all enjoyed reading Each Peach Pear Plum and playing rhyming games. Next week we will be staying for lunch and it's our last week of being part time. Have a fun weekend.

Our second week

We have had another very busy week in YR. This week we have been thinking about feelings, how our faces show how we feel and what makes us feel happy and sad. We have also been singing lots of number rhymes and playing some number games. Today we learnt what to do when the fire alarm sounds and our teachers were very proud of how well we did this. Have a good weekend.

Our first week

Welcome to the YR blog. This has been our first week in school and what a busy week it has been! We have all settled in really well and our teachers have been very pleased with us.
We have enjoyed doing lots of different activities, learning some new songs and making new friends.
Have a great weekend!

Last Couple of Weeks

We have had another busy couple of weeks. We set our butterflies free. Joe says 'they took a bit of time to leave the sack as they thought it was home'.

We enjoyed our first egg hatching. Cheepy is amazing!

We know so much about lifecycles now and have made some lovely non-fiction books using the computer.

Tie my kangaroo down sport!

What an exciting week we've had!

As Ava is off to Australia next week, we enjoyed a special 'Australia day' on Thursday with Mr and Mrs Gregory taking the helm.

We had such fun, racing like kangaroos, making boomerangs and making delicious Lamington cakes.


We even made vegetable kebabs and threw them on a traditional Aussie barbie!

Thank you to Mr and Mrs Gregory for bringing in their lovely gazebo and all their books and Aussie toys. We wish we could all go with you Ava, and so does Mrs Thwaites! - Please take lots of pictures!

We were very sad to say goodbye to the lovely Miss Welton and hope she finds a job very soon and she taught us so much. She is a great teacher!

On Friday we had to say goodbye to another special person - Nicola. Thank you for helping us over the past few months Nic. We loved having you in our class. Bye bye.

On Friday we enjoyed a minibeasts compost workshop with Helen the 'rubbish teacher'. We all loved being worms - especially Olivia!

The animals went in two by two

We've had a really active week in Reception. We have been practicing our Country Dancing as well as the races for sports day.

On Wednesday we enjoyed learning about how to stay safe on the road with Louis's Roadshow.

We are continuing our topic on animals, building a zoo with Miss Welton and performing in a fantastic assembly on Noah's Arc.

In number work we have been working with data, creating pictogram graphs of the teacher's favourite foods and our favourite animals.



Come and see the catterpillars building their caccons in our classroom - We hope for a transformation soon.

We are looking after the vegetables in the outside area. Our potatoes are getting really big now!!!

YR update

We have been so busy during the last couple of weeks we forgot to do our blog! Look at the photos of our wonderful trip to the zoo. We enjoyed the workshop and looking at all the exciting animals.

We have been building a zoo in the outside area, playing in our petshop, and have even started growing catterpillars - check next week to see what they grow into! Lots more fun for us to come this term, and we love having 3 teachers to work with. Well done Miss Welston for teaching us so well!

Look at our beetroot. We planted it on the allotment and its grown so high!

Friday 8th May

This week we have been continuing our plants topic - planting and looking after the vegetables. Our radishes and lettuces are growing so fast!

In maths, we have been describing the height of different objects and people. We discovered that age doesn't make a difference to height as some of us four year olds are taller than the five year olds, and some of our teachers are very old and not that tall!

We have been enjoying learning with Miss Welton who has been doing lots of fun activities with us.

On Friday some of us helped to bake bread rolls - they were yummy!

Growth in action

We had a lovely time on Friday exploring the Alderman Moors Allotments. Phil, the site manager, gave us a guided tour. We played the vegetable game, guessing which seeds matched which veg - we were very good at it!








Mr Thwaites let us dig up some leeks on his allotment. We had a good nose around the greenhouse and planted some beetroot.

Mrs Thwaites said she was very proud of us - we were so well behaved and set a grand example for Luckwell.

We would like to go back in the autumn and see how our seeds have grown.

spring has sprung

We have had a wonderful first week back, spending lots of time outside in the sunshine. We went on a spring walk and collected things to make natural collages. We have been learning more about using money and giving change. In music this week we had great fun learning to play the drums 'samba style' with Year 5. On Friday we dressed up as pirates and had a fun pyjama party. Look at the video of our star dancers!

Year R Explore

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Yesterday we went on a fantastic trip to Explore @ Bristol. We really enjoyed the Airport Roleplay area where we dressed up and took on the roles of pilots, passengers and air traffic controllers. Ashley got lots of stamps in her passport

We loved all the exhibits, especially the magical hot air balloon and the colour activities upstairs. In the Planetarium we went into space and explored the milky way! Thank you to all the helpers and parents for coming with us. It was a really special day. 'Thumbs up' says Jorja.

Red Noses

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes - triangles, circles, squares and oblongs and 3D shapes - cylinders, pyramids, cubes and cuboids. We have been on a shape hunt round the school and found shapes in all sorts of places. Lucy Nixon and Jorja enjoyed using the number lines.

We have been investigating our transport topic by making boats and testing them in the water tank.

Today was Red Nose Day. We were allowed to wear silly clothes and red noses. We had a fun whole school dance in the playground. We are really looking forward to playing in our space rocket that Shona and Nicola made!

By Jorja, Macy and Lucy N

Wheels and thrills

We had great fun this week using our bikes to negotiate obstacles in the playground. We were very creative in using the cones and hoops to weave in and out. Tom has mastered the art of the emergency stop, including a hand signal!

We have continued to explore non-fiction texts, leaning about different modes of transport.

In numeracy we are getting very good at subtracting and lots of us are writing fantastic number sentences.

Mrs Thwaites was really impressed with all the letters and sounds we have learned since she last taught us. There were so many names on the smiley board they wouldn't fit on the paper! Well done Year R - a fantastic week.

Happy half term everybody!

We enjoyed our time playing in the snow last week, and the extra day off from school! We have been working extra hard this week though!


In Numeracy we have been learning all about how to tell whether an object is heavy or light.




In Literacy we have been writing lists of our favourite foods and making up some alternative names for fruit and vegetables. Orange pin or space rocket for dinner anyone?

We enjoyed making Jam sandwiches with Mrs Gregory and she was impressed that we remembered the recipe from last week.

Happy half term everyone! :)

Chinese New Year

This week we have been learning how to measure all sorts of objects and today Mrs Thwaites set us a whole class challenge - we worked in pairs to make smakes and measure them to find out which was the longest and the shortest. It was great fun!





As part of our Chinese New Year week we tried Chinese food. Jack B especially enjoyed using the chopsticks. We all has a great time singing Chinese songs and becoming a fire eating dragon. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year

We are enjoying being back at school and sharing our news, as we missed each other during the holidays.


We have begun to explore our new topic, Food and Shops by learning about money and visiting the local shops on North Street. We proved to be very good bargain hunters, making our pocket money stretch a long, long way!

Everyone bought a piece of fruit on the trip and on Friday Shauna helped us make a fruit salad. We all had some and it was delicious!