School Curriculum and General issues
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Oblong Or Rectangle?
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Is there a maths wizz out there who can give me the latest on this old chestnut, please? Last time I asked a numeracy consultant, I was told that we were supposed to explain that a rectangle was a shape with 4 right angles and therefore could be either an oblong or a square. Is that still right, or is oblong met with sharp intakes of breath as it once was? Thanks, Tracylu
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How To Plan Weekly For Topics?
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For anyone who still uses topics to help plan - Could you help me?? Once you have decided on your topic and maybe written ideas under the 6 areas of learning.... How do you transfer those ideas on to weekly plans? Do you just do one focus activity a week or one a day? Or can you just tell me the process you follow? Thanks in advance xx
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Hi all, After half term my children want to learn about animals that live in the forest, trees and birds. This leads on nicely from our last topic of fairies, where we watched a fairy episode of 'The Magic Faraway Tree' which is where their topic ideas stemmed from for the new topic. This also ties in nicely with our trip which is to a national forest. Any ideas how to organise the topic and ideas? I almost feel that it is so vast that I don't know how to scale it down into managebale weekly chunks. Only thing that I really want to do is decorating trees, tree ring patterns, tree rubbing collages. Thanks
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Road Safety And Transport
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I'm covering an absence in nursery (have never worked withthis age before) and their topic after half term is road safety and transport. Any ideas, songs, websites gratefully appreciated. Thank you in anticipation and hope you are all enjoying half term.
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Nursery Report
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Hi, I have 62 nursery reports to write and my head doesn't mind the format. Has anyone got anything which is easy to complete, eg, tick box or something which is not time consuming. Thanks for your continued help. Sue x
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Very Busy Spider
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We are currently doing topic on minibeasts- will be reading Very Busy Spider-when we go back after half term-any ideas to follow up either literacy based/craetive or other ??? Brain dead at moment-thought I would ask here first before I trawl through other resources. We have provided identification sheets for minibeasts, looked at caterpillars/butterfles/ladybirds and now the turn of spiders ( I hate them by the way!!!)Children are loving the topic by the way. Thanks for any help.
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Rockets
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Hello. Our reception class are hoping to fly into space this week, making our own rockets and launching them. Can any one help with how we can launch them. I know one way is with bi carb and vinegar and I've been told you can also do it using a bike pump. Can any one help? We idealy want them to be able to launch their rockets themselves and not rely on us. Thanks alot. Jodes
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Class Assembly
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We are having a whole school sports week after half term - and it's our turn to do a class assembly. We're a Catholic school so we do have to have some reference to God/Jesus. Initial thoughts were to do something based on using our talents, but I'm not sure. Any ideas for songs, hymns ... anything really ... would be gratefully received.
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Pirate Boat
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Hi there, Just wondered if anyone knows where we can purchase a Pirate Ship for our outdoor area. Ideally would like a multicoloured one. If not do you know of any other great outdoor play equipment companies? Thanks
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Hi, Has anyone got any good ideas of quick little rhymes/action rhymes to do with the children in between sessions as fillers. I have done 'can you do what I do?' and clapping patterns to death and in need of some other ideas to grab the childrens attention. I am in FS1 but also work a lot with FS2. Many thanks Lorraine
