The children have had a fantastic start to Green Lanes and we are really proud of how well they have settled in. Please can you check that your child's shoes are clearly named. The children do take them off during the day and it would help us enormously if all of the shoes can easily be reunited with their owner! Thank you for your support with this. We look forward to working with your children throughout the year and if you have any questions or concerns, please just ask.

Year 1 have had a lovey time settling in to their new classes and have enjoyed practising their new routines. In our topic sessions the children have loved learning about different drawing techniques and applying them when drawing Fizzy! In our English lessons the children have begun to show their amazing writing skills and in our maths they have practised prepositional language. Please make sure all jumpers and coats are named. If you haven’t done so already we would love a family picture to add to our class photos! 

Year 2 have had a great start to the year. They have all settled into the new routines really well and have been practising our whole school focus of 'Calm Classrooms'. The expectations are higher in year 2 but we have already seen some fantastic work with sentence composition in writing and numbers to 100 in maths. We have started our new Art topic exploring mark making and have been creating our own games in PE. 

Year 3 are off to a great start! We have been busy exploring mark making and painting techniques within our Art lessons and showed off what we have learnt with a final piece depicting the fictional monster 'the hippocrump'. The children have been excited to start their French lessons and began sharing what they already know about the country and language. We have began our Science topic learning about Rocks, Soil and Fossils and have sent out a letter detailing our upcoming trips to support our learning.

We are so proud of how calmly the children have transitioned into their new Year 4 classrooms. It’s been fantastic to see them adapt to their surroundings and the new routines of the KS2 corridor. In Maths, they have revisited place value and in English, they have revised some key grammar around word class that will help them with their writing projects throughout this term. The children have also explored shape and form in our afternoon Art lessons, focussing on contours, detail and negative space. Our new journaling books are a big hit; children have been able to use time throughout the day to record key events and express their feelings. Finally, well done to everyone on a great first swimming session!

Year 5 have settled in really well coming into a new year group with new surroundings and new expectations. We have been impressed with how they have approached everything that they have done so far and have already been showing some good resilience and maturity towards their learning. We have so far been understanding place value in Maths and how we can compare numbers effectively. In English we have started our class book, learning about the explorer Shackleton. The children have been producing some really lovely watercolour pictures in our Art sessions as well, creating unique landscapes based on the artist that we have been looking at.

We are so impressed with how the children have started the new term! They have been working so hard and getting used to the responsibilities and expectations that come with being in year 6. We have already started lots of new topics such as; writing autobiographies in English, learning about WWII in history, singing war and peace songs in music and football skills in PE. All of this and we have only been back a week and a half!

On Monday we have Mrs Moxham coming from Stanborough to do some sports leadership training with the children and the whole year group are also taking part in a sporting activity next Wednesday afternoon. Children will therefore need to be in PE kits on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday next week but not on Tuesday. We are looking forward to a busy week of sport!

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