Good afternoon all,
Welcome, salutation and hello all! We are back, Jack Frost is calming down and what more can we ask for! You will not to be seated reading this weeks blog as children have completed a whole booklet story and a humongous gingerbread man writing frame! With our return to school in 2025 writing waits for nobody and we began with completing a Goldilocks and the 3 bears story. Key language, funny ideas and brilliant phonics throughout. As we encounter these familiar traditional tales, we aim to make them more personal and change key details of the story. E.G characters, setting, endings. Some children created classic happy every after, some hilariously thought Golilocks should be gobbled up for her light fingered nature – very strict! In mathematics our counting becomes higher and higher and important we are matching the numerical value. Children organised number knowledge, built cottages with number constraints and even combined our larger numbers to create on the spot sums of addition and subtraction. We really are a bunch of clever clogs. In our topic work children have mapped the school playground and classroom, thinking of orientation and location of things. We then were inspired by Matty Long’s Salty Dogs map and create a fantasy map. We have had the classic pirate sea monkeys, monsters in the sea, lovely picnic fields, volcanos aplenty, fishing ponds, shipwrecks, treasure islands, spooky caves and many more wacky and interesting features for our maps. We even got to show them off to our wonderful friend Miss Silvester who came to Pendle Class and celebrate our maps and heap the children with praise for unique shape and structure. Children also made mini accounts of themselves growing up. We looked at the time we have been here on this earth as babies and transitioned into toddlers and now children! Before you know it high school will be here and we shall all be scratching our heads thinking where the time went! On a special note to finish in R.E we lead the whole school in Monday worship, sharing our Glory Be prayer to the school. We need to go forth and share prayer with others this term. Luckily for Pendle Class we have YOU! Next week we are going to try to record and send home our Glory Be prayer via Seessaw. I would love it if you could watch it and home and our aim is to inspire you with the love of the Lord. Finally, I have sent WOW moments home. No more than 1 a week. It can be a simple moment that has made you go wow! From acts of compassion to incredible mathematics and anything in-between! Thank you children for an excellent week! I cannot wait to see you all Monday!
With love,
Mr McGill
