Pride of Prince Edward

We are so proud of the first person in Pearl class to achieve the Pride of Prince Edward award this year.

This is why you have won this award:

Miss Varley wrote: I am so pleased to have you in my class. I couldn’t imagine my classroom without him. He always tries so hard with everything that he does, always has a smile on his face and is someone who never gives up no matter how tricky he may find it.

Will you be the next person to win it?

Superstar Writer of the Week – Autumn 1 – Week 3

A truly deserving Superstar Writer of the Week.

You deserve this award for your fantastic retelling of the story Baboon on the Moon in your own words. You got on without a fuss, remembered to check for capital letters and full stops and even included adjectives and conjunctions into your sentences to add more detail. Well done!

Mathematician of the Week – Autumn 1 – Week 3

Congratulations to our Mathematician of the Week this week.

You have impressed all of the adults in Pearl class with your knowledge of partitioning a two-digit number into tens and ones. You have super quick recall of these facts as well.

The World’s Largest Lesson

This week, we completed the World’s Largest Lesson. This is aimed at making adults and children across the world more aware of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. In 2015, 193 countries across the world agreed by 2030 to achieve the following three things:

• End extreme poverty
• Fight inequality and injustice
• Tackle climate change

Did you know that there were 17 Global Goals in total?

Do you know what any of them are? 

We watched a short video that helped us to explain what the World’s Largest Lesson was about. Click here if you would like to watch this video again.

This year’s focus is on food, sustainability and hunger.

We watched a video that helped us to understand the focus this year. Click here if you would like to watch the video again and remind yourself of what the video was about.

We then set to work on deciding what our favourite foods were and looked at where they came from, how they got to our plate and what they were packaged in.

We promise to look after our world. We promise not to throw materials that can be recycled like cardboard and plastic in the bins. We promise to try and eat every piece of food that we have on our plates. Pearl class – September 2017

Football with SUCF

This week, Miss Varley had an extra special surprise for us. For our PE session, we got to work with Ash from the Sheffield United Community Foundation.

He taught us for to dribble and pass between a short distance and by the end of the session, we were able to put these skills to the test when we split into 4 teams and had a game of fottball against each other.

We can’t wait for our next session with Ash.

‘Little steps… Big control’

Forest Schools… Part 2

Today we had our second Forest Schools session with Sarah and Matt.

We warmed up by playing Winter Dragons. To be the dragon, we had to show Sarah our scary dragon faces and do the loudest dragon possible. This game helps us to warm up our bodies before we do any other activities.

Today, we split up into groups and went creeping and crawling in the Secret Garden to hunt for bugs. We didn’t know what we were going to find. Sarah and Matt told us how to collect the bugs carefully using some special bug pots. We had to look high and low but we were able to find lots of bugs.

We found bugs that we knew like spiders and woodlice but we also found bugs that we weren’t sure of. Sarah and Matt showed us how to use some special identification charts so we could tell what type of bug that they were.

After that, we started to hunt and forage around the Secret Garden to see what we could use to make a potion. Some of us made magic potions with magical spells and some of us make special perfumes that we could take home to our families.

Forest Schools is our favourite activity ever! We can’t wait for our next session!

Superstar Writer of the Week – Autumn 1 – Week 2

Just take a look at our fabulous Superstar Writer of the Week.

This young lady has wowed the adults in Pearl class this week. We have been writing super sentences to match images from the silent film ‘Baboon on the Moon’ and you were able to check each sentence for capital letters, full stops, conjunctions and adjectives.

A true superstar!

Mathematician of the Week – Autumn 1 – Week 2

Congratulations to our second Mathematician of the Week.

You have been answering lots of questions on the carpet, explaining how to know and answer to an adult and have been trying your best all week! Keep it up!

Forest Schools

This week, we had our first Forest School session with Sarah and Matt from the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust. Even though it was raining, it didn’t stop us from having the best time outside.

We played Winter Dragons before we started our first activity called ‘Woolly Worms’. This a activity is one designed to help us look carefully around the environment to find a woolly worm. We had to be quiet as to not disturb them and use our eyes carefully to try and spot them.

After Woolly Worms, it started to rain so we worked together in teams to build a den. We used the materials that we could find in the secret garden and some big plastic sheets from Sarah and Matt. This was our favourite part of the morning.

Our final job of the morning was to use some clay to make a woodland creature to help us to keep our dens safe. We were able to use materials we found around us to add features to our creatures.

We cannot wait for our next Forest School session!

Mathematician of the Week – Autumn 1 – Week 1

What a fantastic start to the year for our very first Mathematician of the Week in Pearl class.

You have impressed the adults this week with your super quick recall of counting in steps of 2, 5 and 10 and then steps of 3 and 4. Keep up the hard work!