Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

On Friday 8th February we celebrate Chinese New Year at Ascot. 

Children can wear traditional Chinese dress or red/pink clothes to  to school - it is year of the snake! 

Parents are invited to join our assembly on the basketball court at 7.55am.

After assembly the children return to class for fun activities.

Happy New Year!

Art

Last week, we were learning how to weave card, it was very tricky, but with a little help the children produced some superb pieces.

Numeracy

Last week, we finished the week by looking at number stories or word problems. The children enjoyed acting out the word problems and then have a turn at writing their own.

Science

Last week, we went on a materials hunt around the primary building. The children were given a material to look for and had to record all the objects that contained that material.

Literacy

Last week was an action packed week in Literacy. We were looking at rhyming words and patterns and the use of adjectives in poems.

Some lessons were used to look at a pirate song.

Some lessons were used to construct playdough people according to the adjectives the children had chosen.

Numeracy

Last week, we spent a lesson looking at place value, and in particular, the tens and the units. Our activity involved making tens using the tens sticks and units from the cubes.

Sports day 2013

Last Saturday, we also had our annual Sports day. There was a good turn out for the day and thank you to all the parents for your kind words about the day (and my poor MC skills!)

Numeracy

Last week, we were learning about 3D shapes and how they are different to 2D shapes. Here the children are making their own 3D shapes.

Dance Lessons

Just to remind parents that this half of term will be dance and not swimming.

So please make sure your child has their PE kit and not their swimming kit on Friday.

Many thanks

K Linden

Sports day reminder

Parents are invited to Key Stage 1 Sports Day at 8am on Saturday
12th January, 2013. Children need to come to school in house
colours and trainers. Please bring a hat and sunscreen as there will
be little shaded areas.
Events are based on winning points for their houses. There will be
year group races for children to compete for individual awards.

Events
8am Registration in class
8:15am Cheering
8:30am Individual races on the track:
              Running
              Egg and spoon
              Obstacle
              Dressing up
              Sack race
              Relay
              Parent / teacher race
9:00am Timed events in houses on the basketball court:
              Under over
              Basketball dribble
              Under
              Football dribble
              Skipping
              Hockey dribble
9:30am award ceremony
10:00am Teachers take children to the canteen for snack.
                 Parents are to collect children from the canteen.


Water, drinks and ice-cream are available on the field. From
08:00am a food court is available in the canteen.

Welcome back

Dear Parents and children,

I am delighted to say welcome back to a new and exciting term. I hope that everyone had an amazing holiday and I would like to thank everybody for their generous and kind gifts last  term. Kru B and I were very humbled by all the kindness and appreciation we have received.

This term promises to be an exciting term and we will continue to keep you all inform of the happenings in Y1L.

Once again, you have my deepest gratitude,

Karel Linden