Academic Year 2017 - 2018
Hello, my name is Miss Clementson and I teach some of the younger children in school in Reception and Year 1. In my spare time I love baking and I am a huge fan of The Great British Bake Off, although some of my creations are not quite up to their standard! I am a big fan of WWE and try to watch them every time they come to Sheffield. I host international students from Sheffield and introduce them to our culture and some of the beautiful sites around South Yorkshire. Some of you may also spot me taking part in historical shows around the country during the summer months!
In school I am also Science Leader and promote Science up to year 6. I plan a Science Week every year that the whole school takes part in. We have Science theatre groups that come in to perform Science shows to help make Science fun and exciting, and Science week is kicked off with an assembly full of different experiments! They do not always go to plan but we certainly have lots of fun!
Our class is called The Polite Pirates and we strive to always follow our school rules and make a classroom a happy, exciting and lovely place to be! Miss Hodgson is our full time teaching assistant. Miss Crookes supports us in the morning and Miss Rowson supports us during the afternoon. Miss Watkins and Miss Tomison have joined us for the Summer Term and are studying towards their teaching degree.
Our classroom is set up to incorporate the seven areas of the Early Years curriculum and the Year 1 curriculum. Our classroom promotes enquiry and challenge within these areas. We learn by observing and experimenting and by being independent learners. We have a large playground that enables us to take our learning outside and apply our skills. We have an outdoor reading area, mud kitchen, large construction area, sand pit, digging pit and bikes, trikes and scooters. We have our own flower bed where will plant flowers, sensory plants and vegetables later in the year.
Every week we take part on Welly Walk in our Nature Reserve. We love our "Trekking Tuesdays!" We explore the environment and learn about changes throughout the year and have lots of exciting adventures! We build dens and hideouts during imaginative play and also help to care for the plants and animals that live in our school environment.
Class Information.
We have begun PE lessons in the hall every Friday morning.
Please send your child with their wellington boots every day so they can access our mud kitchen.
Please see our fantastic photo gallery showing all the fun we have while learning!
In school I am also Science Leader and promote Science up to year 6. I plan a Science Week every year that the whole school takes part in. We have Science theatre groups that come in to perform Science shows to help make Science fun and exciting, and Science week is kicked off with an assembly full of different experiments! They do not always go to plan but we certainly have lots of fun!
Our class is called The Polite Pirates and we strive to always follow our school rules and make a classroom a happy, exciting and lovely place to be! Miss Hodgson is our full time teaching assistant. Miss Crookes supports us in the morning and Miss Rowson supports us during the afternoon. Miss Watkins and Miss Tomison have joined us for the Summer Term and are studying towards their teaching degree.
Our classroom is set up to incorporate the seven areas of the Early Years curriculum and the Year 1 curriculum. Our classroom promotes enquiry and challenge within these areas. We learn by observing and experimenting and by being independent learners. We have a large playground that enables us to take our learning outside and apply our skills. We have an outdoor reading area, mud kitchen, large construction area, sand pit, digging pit and bikes, trikes and scooters. We have our own flower bed where will plant flowers, sensory plants and vegetables later in the year.
Every week we take part on Welly Walk in our Nature Reserve. We love our "Trekking Tuesdays!" We explore the environment and learn about changes throughout the year and have lots of exciting adventures! We build dens and hideouts during imaginative play and also help to care for the plants and animals that live in our school environment.
Class Information.
We have begun PE lessons in the hall every Friday morning.
Please send your child with their wellington boots every day so they can access our mud kitchen.
Please see our fantastic photo gallery showing all the fun we have while learning!
Summer Term
Silly Sock Day!
Thank you to everyone who wore "silly socks" to raise awareness of Autism. There were some fabulous socks but these really stole the show!
PE
We have continued to travel using different parts of our body and in different directions. We are more confident using the apparatus and are linking our movements together. We have also been practicing curling and stretching using different parts of our bodies and have been playing instruction games to practice these!
Music
We have been exploring different sounds and have experienced different musical instruments. We learnt how to make quiet and loud sounds and how to use the instruments to make low and high sounds. We had so much fun and used instruments including triangles, drums, tambourines, glockenspiels, claves and even a gong!
Table of Honour
Well done to our two Pirates who sat at our Table of Honour! You make our school a lovely place to be with your fabulous manners, great listening and kindness!
Easter!
We had lots of fun completing our Easter activities. We had an Easter bonnet competition and decorated our bonnets at home. Here are some of our creations. Aren't they fabulous? Everyone worked so hard! The Easter Bunny came to visit us and left an egg in our Easter baskets too!
Spring 2
We have had a very busy half term and have had lots of fun! We are learning to be independent learners and use what we learn in our provision activities. We love to find a comfy place to read books with our friends or by ourselves, plan and build models with our friends, play Jenga to support our motor skills and concentration, use the dough to make different food items and most of all we love to sit and write!
We have been learning Phase 3, 4 and 5 sounds in our phonics lessons and applying them to our reading and writing. We have also been assessing our own writing against success criteria so we can see what we need to practice. We get the chance to talk about our writing with a friend and discuss together what our next steps for learning are. We have been learning about non-fiction books and have been exploring headings, labels, photos, pictures and captions. We have written our own captions about animals to explain what we know about them.
In Maths we have been learning about shapes and their properties and enjoyed playing games especially when we had to guess the shape hidden in a bag! Our partner had to give clues using properties and we had to guess it correctly! We have been using a variety of resources to add and subtract including counters, objects, money, number lines and some of us have been learning to add by partitioning numbers into tens and units.
In PE we have been learning about different ways of travelling. We have been using different parts of our bodies to travel in different directions. We have been using the apparatus to travel and have been moving through, over, under and around it. We have also been bouncing and jumping and are learning to land safely when jumping off equipment.
We invited our mum or grandma to school for the afternoon to celebrate Mother's Day. We had so much fun and really enjoyed spending special time together. We made cornflake buns, decorated plant pots, planted some flowers and coloured Mother's Day bouquets in together. We also had a drink and a biscuit together while our adults read us a story and while we read to them. We made lots of special memories together!
We enjoyed World Book day as we all came dressed as our favourite character! We wrote about our character and were really proud of our writing! Can you name all the characters in the photo below?
Some of us made Easter bonnets at home and they are AMAZING!
Please see the photos below of our learning! We are very proud of what we achieve!
Mother's Day afternoon
Provision Activities
Literacy Activities
Maths Activities
PE
World Book Day
Spring Term
This half term our topic is Magical Storyland! We will be reading lots of different traditional tales and fairytales and be immersing ourselves in magical fantasy worlds! We have lots of exciting activities planned including a fairytale day, a visit from real knights and a pyjama day where we will be reading stories in our PJ's and drinking hot chocolate! We will also be preparing for our special mothers day celebration soon!
Week 5 - Little Red Riding Hood
We have had a very busy week this week! Our topic was Little Red Riding Hood. During Guided Reading we read the story and some of the words were covered up. We had to use the pictures and the text to guess the missing word. We used the pictures and text to help us answer "how" and "why" questions. We all enjoyed this and are becoming experts!
We baked some gingerbread men this week in groups. We practised measuring out ingredients and reading the scales, reading the recipe, mixing, rolling and decorating. We had so much fun and they tasted delicious! They didn't run away this time!
We also had a visit from the knights and ladies of Escafeld Medieval Society to end our fairy tale topic. We had previously written them letters to ask if they would like to come to Little Red Riding Hood's picnic with us and we asked if they could bring us some weapons to show. They brought us lots of things to see including clothes, armour and weapons. The Black Knight was very mischievous and tried to steal fairy tale objects but Sir Michael and Lady Meghan saved the day!
We also had pyjama day on Friday where we read our favourite books together and listened to stories, The Polite Pirates love reading, especially in our special reading den and we had a lovely day! We brought our favourite teddy to school to read a story to and we enjoyed a hot chocolate!
We baked some gingerbread men this week in groups. We practised measuring out ingredients and reading the scales, reading the recipe, mixing, rolling and decorating. We had so much fun and they tasted delicious! They didn't run away this time!
We also had a visit from the knights and ladies of Escafeld Medieval Society to end our fairy tale topic. We had previously written them letters to ask if they would like to come to Little Red Riding Hood's picnic with us and we asked if they could bring us some weapons to show. They brought us lots of things to see including clothes, armour and weapons. The Black Knight was very mischievous and tried to steal fairy tale objects but Sir Michael and Lady Meghan saved the day!
We also had pyjama day on Friday where we read our favourite books together and listened to stories, The Polite Pirates love reading, especially in our special reading den and we had a lovely day! We brought our favourite teddy to school to read a story to and we enjoyed a hot chocolate!
Week 4 - Hansel and Gretel
We have been lucky to have had several visitors this week. We have been learning how to help people if they are poorly and put them in the recovery position. We got to try this with our friends so we could learn what to do.
We have also had a visitor from Tell Tale Hearts who performed "Suitcase Stories." She brought lots of items in her suitcase and told us some stories from around the world. They had lots of fantastic characters including fairies and dragons! We even got to keep our own little "monkey" after she told us a story about a mango tree in India.
We have also been learning about how to keep safe when using the internet for "Safer Internet Day." We listened to a story about three monsters who had their art work posted on their school website. Lots of people wrote lovely comments on the website but someone wrote a very mean comment and put some thumbs down and laughing faces. We learnt that you can report nasty things and tell a grown up so they can help you. We looked at our school website too and talked about all the positive things we could see. We practiced being kind to each other, like you should on the internet. We walked around the class and shook hands with our friends and told them something positive about them! It made us feel happy and special!
We have also had a visitor from Tell Tale Hearts who performed "Suitcase Stories." She brought lots of items in her suitcase and told us some stories from around the world. They had lots of fantastic characters including fairies and dragons! We even got to keep our own little "monkey" after she told us a story about a mango tree in India.
We have also been learning about how to keep safe when using the internet for "Safer Internet Day." We listened to a story about three monsters who had their art work posted on their school website. Lots of people wrote lovely comments on the website but someone wrote a very mean comment and put some thumbs down and laughing faces. We learnt that you can report nasty things and tell a grown up so they can help you. We looked at our school website too and talked about all the positive things we could see. We practiced being kind to each other, like you should on the internet. We walked around the class and shook hands with our friends and told them something positive about them! It made us feel happy and special!
Week 3 - Fairy Tales
This week we have been learning about Fairy Tales and Traditional Tales. We came to school and found a crime scene in our classroom! There were dishes tipped over, porridge all over, a broken chair and a bed that had been slept in. We searched for clues and came to the conclusion that Goldilocks had visited and made a mess! We wrote a Police report so they knew what happened. We also wrote letters to our favourite fairy tale characters to ask them something we really wanted to know about them. In maths some of us have been learning the value of digits in a two digit number and have been using base tens to read and make tens and units. We have been practicing tying shoe laces by attaching ogre feet to our feet and we have been cutting swirls to attach together and make a beanstalk. We have been making Elsa's magic hands with water and glitter and we put them in the freezer to see what happened. When the ice started to melt the glitter ran out like magic. We have lots of fun learning about fairy tales in preparation for our fairy tale day in week 5.
Week 2 - The Gingerbread Man
This week we have been learning about the Gingerbread Man story. We were very lucky because he came to visit us! At the beginning of the week he left lots of clues behind and crumbs were everywhere when we came back in the classroom from assembly! Later on in the week we spotted him peeking in the window from the corridor when we were doing our learning. As soon as we left the classroom he disappeared and later on he returned outside the classroom window! He left us some clues to follow and we read them carefully. They took us on a hunt around school and we finally found the last clue in our classroom. The Gingerbread Man told us he had a lovely week at Park Street School watching everyone learn and he left us some little gingerbread children he had baked himself, although they weren't magic like him. He told us he left to find his family and keep them safe from the sly fox, but maybe one day he will return!
Some children also made their own sandwiches for lunch this week. They had lots of fun and enjoyed eating them!
Some children also made their own sandwiches for lunch this week. They had lots of fun and enjoyed eating them!
Week 1 - The Three Billy Goats Gruff!
We have had lots of fun this week building bridges for the Billy Goats to travel across and we also made puppets of the characters in the story. We have used the puppets in our puppet show to use story language to retell the story and some of us even made up our own tale!
We have had a very busy week learning number bonds in maths and have used several different methods to work out the answer including the bar method and using ten frames. We have also begun to use a number line to add numbers together and have been practicing "counting on."
In literacy we have been learning to answer questions about stories. We have learnt to look at the pictures and at words in the text to find answers by being detectives. We have described the goats and the trolls in the story by thinking of different adjectives. We also brought our favourite books in from home to share with our friends. Here are some of us reading. Can you see what our favourite books are? Can you spot yours?
We have had a very busy week learning number bonds in maths and have used several different methods to work out the answer including the bar method and using ten frames. We have also begun to use a number line to add numbers together and have been practicing "counting on."
In literacy we have been learning to answer questions about stories. We have learnt to look at the pictures and at words in the text to find answers by being detectives. We have described the goats and the trolls in the story by thinking of different adjectives. We also brought our favourite books in from home to share with our friends. Here are some of us reading. Can you see what our favourite books are? Can you spot yours?
Autumn Term
We have had such a busy term and for some of us this has been our first term in full time school! I am incredibly proud of everyone for their hard work, determination and positive attitude to learning. Our classroom is such a lovely place to be and everyone is succeeding with their learning targets and making progress!
Our topics this term have been "Ourselves" and "Colour and Light." This has included learning about celebrations, family, friendship and Christmas.
Please see our fantastic photos of some of our activities this term!
Our topics this term have been "Ourselves" and "Colour and Light." This has included learning about celebrations, family, friendship and Christmas.
Please see our fantastic photos of some of our activities this term!
Independent Learning Time
We work very hard during our independent learning time and apply the skills we have learnt during class and group learning work. Please take a look at some of our activities and see how hard we have been working!
Maths Activities
The Polite Pirates love maths and enjoy completing activities during our independent learning time. We have been focusing on mastery and some children have even been asking for challenges to complete during their independent learning time! You can see us using different methods to add and subtract and to find the missing numbers as well as splitting numbers into groups.
Three Little Pigs
Every week we visit our nature area for our welly walk. We complete different activities and this term we have focused on changes around us and the weather. We also made some stick houses for the Three Little Pigs. We are very proud of our houses!
Literacy
We have been working hard to develop our phonics skills this term and apply them to reading and writing. We really enjoy our guided reading sessions and 1:1 reading with an adult. We display our work on our "Superstar" wall so please come in and have a look!
Computing
Year 1 have been working hard in the computer suite every week. We have been learning how to hold a mouse correctly, how to click and drag, how to open a programme in different ways, close windows, save work and complete games! We have had so much fun and are really confident logging on and shutting down a computer too!
All the Polite Pirates have been learning to programme too. We have used Beebot to follow instructions and create our own instructions for him to follow.
All the Polite Pirates have been learning to programme too. We have used Beebot to follow instructions and create our own instructions for him to follow.
Christmas Dinner and Christmas Party
Our Nativity
Children in Need!
Academic Year 2016-2017
Teddy Bears Picnic
This week we have been on a Teddy Bears picnic! We all took our favourite teddy bear to the nature area and had so much fun! We made sure our teddy shared our lunch as we all sat together in the shelter and on the stepping stones. After our picnic we played lots of games with our teddy and our new friends. We went on a bear hunt, played hide and seek, looked at how the nature area is beginning to change for autumn and went on a hunt for mini beasts. We found lots of spiders!
Look at how much fun we had!
Look at how much fun we had!
