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What a fantastic way to start the weekend!
Today at Westfield Infant School we had great fun learning with our families. We learnt all about our chosen vocabulary words which links to our Route to Resilience project.
Can you remember the words you have learnt about?
Everyone had great fun visiting the different classrooms to build on each character muscle to help us become resilient children and adults. We got the opportunity to co-operate with each other as well as working independently. We used our perseverance skills even when we found things tricky and then showed great problem solving skills when completing physical activities.
What other activities did you do? Which was you favourite?
Thank you to everyone that came to make it a very enjoyable learning experience and enjoy looking through the photographs!
On Wednesday Mrs Hutchinson told us all about the charity Baby Basics Leicester. She asked everyone if they could think of any things that babies need. The children came up with some really good ideas such as bottles, blankets, toys, clothes, nappies, toiletries etc and some children came out to the front of assembly to show these things.
Baby Basics Leicester provides baby equipment for people who may not be able to afford them. Mrs Hutchinson asked us if we knew how much it cost to buy all the things you need and the answer was £226.52
We are asking parents/carers if they have any new or nearly new baby equipment that they could donate to this charity. There is a moses basket in the reception area for you to add items to.
https://www.babybasicsleicester.co.uk/
Unfortunately we have not yet received the resources to enable us to run the Power Maths Family Learning Session on Tuesday 25 September. We have had to take the decision to postpone it until Monday 8 October, when we expect all the fantastic resources will have arrived.
In the meantime please take a few minutes to watch the Power Maths video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4jiZj28C48
A brief explanation of what Power Maths is:
Power Maths is an exciting whole-class mastery approach that works for every child. The only mastery programme created in partnership with White Rose Maths, it’s written specifically for UK classrooms by leading mastery experts, and is recommended by the DfE.
We have chosen to introduce Power Maths to Westfield Infant School because it is:
A world-class and unique mastery teaching model created by leading educational experts from the UK and China.
An exciting growth mindset and problem solving approach helps spark a curiosity and excitement for maths and equips children with deeper understanding.
Developed alongside a group of teachers to ensure Power Maths meets all the needs of children in the UK.
Today is Roald Dahl Day and to celebrate the occasion each class have been reading one of Roald Dahl's famous stories!
This afternoon each class learnt about Roald Dahl's life.
Can you remember what he used to do before he wrote books?
Each class then took part in an exciting activity based on the book they had been reading.
Can you remember what book your class looked at?
We all had so much and love his stories.
Which one is your favourite?
Today pupils from Year 2 became 'Street Detectives' as we walked around the local area near our school.
We looked at various features of the locality, including different types of houses and we thought about how the land had been used.
The walk was a brilliant opportunity to talk about road safety and we kept a look out for things in our local area designed to keep pedestrians safe including traffic crossings and bollards.
Child can you be 'Street Detectives' on your route to school? Talk to your grown ups about the types of buildings you see and the materials used to build them.