Italy – Miss Cooney

Our Class Team

 

 

Teacher HLTA TA TA TA CA
Emily Cooney Jackie Coysh Lynette Kearns Gina Horner Stevie-Lee Johnstone

Contact the teacher at emily.cooney@abbotsleaschool.co.uk

Our Weekly News

In the boxes below, you can read about our best moments in school.
We are sharing our weekly news every Friday.

Week 23+

Italy class have this week worked so hard in all their activities and are ready for a well deserved half term break!

We loved our new story in English, The Tiger Child. We made Chatta boards and retold the story in our own words.

In maths we applied our knowledge of addition and subtraction to complete our number problems. We are excellent mathematicians!

In PE, we climbed, jumped and crawled our way around a giant obstacle course to improve our balance and gross motor skills.

We celebrated Valentines Day with lots of arts and crafts, glitter and paint!

On Wednesday we celebrated one of our student’s birthdays with cake and dancing! We loved it!

The children enjoyed starting our new History topic, all about Kings and Queens. We designed and built our own castles with Lego and wooden bricks.

Italy class wish all our families a wonderful break.

Week 22+

What a fun filled week Italy class had! We continued our celebrations of Chinese New Year by learning to write our names in Chinese. In computing, we researched our Chinese zodiac sign and painted our animals. We also made fierce looking dragons!

Week 21+

Italy Class started off the week by finishing their learning around ‘The Gingerbread Man’ story. They made moving Gingerbread characters and created ‘Wanted’ posters.

We marked the start of Chinese New Year by sharing the story of the Chinese Zodiac and used small world characters to retell the story of ‘The Great Race’ in a sensory tray. The children have engaged in lots of craft activities too and made their own lucky red envelopes and Chinese blossom tree printings.

On Wednesday they enjoyed a Chinese dancing and drumming experience. Next week Italy Class are starting their swimming lessons so this week we have been preparing by sharing social stories and visuals.

Thank you Italy Class for a wonderful week!

Week 20+

This week Italy class have immersed themselves in the story of the Gingerbread man!

In English, we used chalk to draw and sequence the story outside, taking turns to role play the different characters. We even sampled some gingerbread biscuits and used incredible adjectives to describe the way it felt, tasted and looked.

We did lots of work on our fine motor skills, combining maths and playdoh to help us with our subtraction problems and then recorded our findings. Later on in the week, we explored 2D shapes and used our knowledge of their properties to make houses for the Gingerbread man. Everyone was so creative.

In food technology, we made our own Gingerbread man biscuits! We carefully read the recipe and combined all the ingredients to make our tasty treats.

Well done Italy class and to our students working at home this week, you are all amazing!

Week 19+

Italy Class started their week by either creating a Chatta Board to share their weekend news or using a laptop to type their news using the Widgit symbols. We loved listening and hearing about what they had been up to. For World Religion Day on Monday the pupils visited each of the Key Stage Two classes and learnt about the major world faiths. They took part in food tasting sessions and crafted lots of religious symbols. In PE the children worked on their balancing skills and completed a giant obstacle course. In English the class have shared their ideas for a new alphabet display showing all of their favourite things and they have enjoyed listening to the traditional tale “The Gingerbread Man”. On Wednesday Italy Class followed instructions and completed a fun science experiment showing how soap helps to remove germs from our hands. Thank you for a brilliant week Italy Class. Have a lovely weekend!

Week 18+

On Monday Italy Class joined together with Spain Class for their first gymnastics session. Both classes loved using all of the different apparatus and each of the pupils did super waiting for their turn.

This week in Maths the class have been subtracting using part-whole models and they have been using play-dough to help them with their Maths work. Each child completed a subtraction squish!

In English the children have done some independent writing and have been discussing their favourite books. They have also done fantastic first self-portraits which we are going to display in class next week.

Italy Class loved returning to the Adventure Playground this week and the swing is proving to be very popular!

Week 17+

It was lovely to see the children in Italy Class again on Wednesday following the Christmas break, all pupils were happy to return to school.

This week the pupils have been reminded of the importance of washing their hands and challenged to clean pen off pretend hands with cherry smelling soap in the class messy tray. They impressed us with their handwashing skills!

In Literacy the students recalled their holiday news and in Maths as part of our work around ‘New Year’ we have been learning about and ordering the months of the year.

The Italy Class Team hope you all had a fabulous Christmas break and wish you a very Happy New Year!

Week 15+

This week Italy class have been in full swing of our Christmas festivities. We all enjoyed our Christmas lunch on Wednesday with special decorations in the dining hall. We especially loved the jokes in the Christmas crackers!

In class, we’ve decorated gingerbread biscuits, made baubles and Christmas wreaths.

We performed our Nativity and sang beautifully!

Our trip to the pantomime on Friday was the highlight of our week. We watched Beauty and the Beast and enjoyed snacks and drinks!

Week 14+

This week Italy Class enjoyed a trip to ‘Imagine That’ Discovery Centre. The class were joined by all their friends from Key Stage 2. They visited the Imagination Village, Art and Science Zones and made both snow and slime. The children have been discussing their favourite moments from the trip ever since. Italy Class have been rehearsing for their Christmas play and back in class they have helped to make some props for the occasion, they are looking forward to sharing the play with classes from the other key stages next week. In Maths they have been learning about time and in particular the order of the days of the week. In Design Technology the children made their very own Christmas trees which are displayed in our classroom. On Friday the pupils helped to make a Zen Garden in their Life Skills lesson as part of their learning around being mindful and as always they loved attending their enrichment clubs in the afternoon. Have a lovely weekend Italy Class!

Week 13+

This week Italy Class visited the new playground area for the first time and they absolutely loved it! They were pleased to hear that we will be going to the playground twice each week.

To mark the start of Advent the class listened to the story of “The Kindness Elves” and made a class advent calendar with a daily act of kindness behind each door.

In English they re-enacted the story of “The Naughty Bus” which included driving the bus through cereal and washing the bus in the sink and they completed their story boards showing the different parts of the story. Unfortunately, our very own class naughty bus toy went missing during the week and the Italy pupils made ‘Wanted’ posters to help track it down.

In Maths the children have been jumping back on a giant number line to help them answer subtraction calculations. We have also been counting down the days to our Key Stage trip to ‘Imagine That’ next week!

We can’t wait!

Enjoy the weekend Italy!

Week 12+

This week in Italy Class we have made a whole class story map for our class reader “The Naughty Bus” which we are all looking forward to seeing on display next week. Some of the pupils made Chatta boards too and shared their retelling of the story with their friends.

In Maths the pupils have been learning about subtraction and using practical resources to complete take-away problems.

In Science the children used their sense of touch to help them guess items in a feely bag and they labelled photographs of themselves showing all their different body parts.

Computing, Judo lessons and of course Friday’s enrichment clubs continue to be a huge hit! The children have been greeting each other in French too – Salut!

Looking forward to seeing you all again next week Italy Class to continue our learning around the Christmas story.

Have a lovely weekend!

Italy Class Team

Week 11+

Italy Class started the week by designing a range of juggling balls after having a big think about what makes a good juggling ball and they are looking forward to making them over the coming weeks.

As part of World Nursery Rhyme Week the children acted out “The Wheels on the Bus” and they enjoyed listening for the first time to their next class story book “The Naughty Bus”. The book got a thumbs up from all the pupils!

The class have been working really hard in their Phonic lessons with lots of new sounds being learnt and they even used trigraphs from this week like ‘ear’ and ‘air’ when labelling the body parts in our Science lesson.

In Maths the children have been doing lots of addition work. In Geography we have been learning about the countries of the United Kingdom, the pupils used Purple Mash on the iPads to label each of the different countries.

This week we have introduced a daily “Dough Disco” too, it is just before our English lesson so helps get our hands warmed up for writing!

Have a wonderful weekend Italy Class!

Week 10+
Week 9+

Italy Class have had a great first week back at school and have transitioned back in to the school routines brilliantly following their week at home.

They have loved their Phonic lessons and have busily been sorting words with different graphemes and making phonic flowers. A highlight was popping letters in words written on bubble wrap as they were practising their sounding out skills.

In Literacy the children have written postcards sharing their half term news and also used their senses to describe fireworks. In Maths they have been using pegs on coat hangers to work out different number facts and then comparing these using the terms ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’.

In our Project work this week we have learnt about the continents of the world and Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. The children have made some fantastic Rangoli patterns using colourful rice and they also used a paint package on Purple Mash to design one on an iPad too.

In Life Skills they heard the story “Scaredy Squirrel” and talked about how the squirrel could be feeling at different points in the story and what zones he might be in. We learnt about ‘positive thinking’ and considered ways of viewing situations more positively.

Most importantly we have celebrated a birthday this week too!

Well done for all your hard work this week Italy Class! Keep it up!

Week 8+

Italy Class started the week by decorating the character tubes they painted towards the end of last week in preparation for the school’s Halloween party.

In their Literacy lessons they made a Chatta board sharing the steps they took to make their character tubes with others. They also wrote Mrs Tobin lovely messages to thank her for the toys she kindly donated to the class. Phonics has been a real hit this week with all the children working really hard in our morning sessions.

On Wednesday the class braved the torrential rain and visited the school library, they hunted for books based on their own interests. In Mathematics we have been looking at bar models and we have been exploring different ways of making a given number using Numicon.

We had a very special Food Technology session on Tuesday and we made some delicious chocolate apples. Most of the class didn’t even wait for the chocolate to set before getting stuck in!

Finally in our Focus sessions the pupils have learnt how to sew and created their own Halloween finger puppets. A big thank you to all the children in Italy Class for their hard work this term. We hope you have a lovely half-term break and look forward to seeing you again soon! Italy Class Team

Week 7+

Italy Class have shown great interest in Halloween and this week they have been busy designing and making their very own pumpkins.

In their English lessons the children have been thinking of words they could use to describe their pumpkins and they have been learning how to put these words in to sentences to introduce their pumpkins to others.

In Maths they have been partitioning numbers in different ways and they loved using counters to show this on part-whole models. In our Project lessons the children excitedly looked at their friends’ baby photos and family trees, thank you so much for sharing these with us. We all had great fun guessing who was who from the photographs and talking about how we have changed.

In Food Technology the class made a delicious apple and blackberry crumble and for one of their sensory breaks the instruments came out and they were all engrossed playing along to popular pop hits. Fridays continue to be a firm favourite of Italy Class, the children just love going to their chosen enrichment club in the afternoon.

Thank you Italy for a lovely week!

Week 6+

This week Italy Class have enjoyed sampling apple pie and they each made a colourful fruit salad in their Food Tech session.

In Project lessons we have been talking about our families and each child has created their very own family tree.

On Wednesday we visited the library and shared the story “The Day the Crayons Quit”.

In Life Skills the children have been learning about personal achievements and they have been sharing their own ‘proud moments’ with each other.

The class continue to love their Judo lesson on a Monday and have impressed us all with how many of the moves they are remembering from week to week.

On World Poetry Day they had great fun using Halloween-themed mash cams to put themselves in the role of witches, ghosts and wizards and they wrote fantastic poems all about what we can see at Halloween time. In Maths they have continued their work comparing quantities and numbers using the language ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’.

Have a lovely weekend Italy Class!

Week 5+

Italy Class started the week by celebrating European Language Day, we visited all of the Key Stage 2 classes and we learnt about Spain, France, Portugal, Greece and Italy. We tasted lots of different foods, we really enjoyed trying new breads, cheeses and meats. We finished off our special day building Italian landmarks with sugar cubes and making jewellery out of colourful pasta pieces. We even had a tasty chocolate ice-cream to end our day.  In English this week, we have been reading and discussing the book ‘Oscar Got the Blame’ by Tony Ross, we found this book really funny and have been comparing it to our previous story ‘Not Now Bearnard!’.  In Math’s this week we have been introducing new vocabulary, ‘Greater than, Less than’ and ‘Equal to’ and have been putting them to use, comparing different numbers. In our project lessons, we have continued with our discussions about childhood.  We thought about what job’s we might like to have when we grow older, we have a class full of future pilots, singers, train drivers and teachers to name just a few!

 

Keep up the hard work Italy Class!

Week 4+

It has been a really busy week in Italy Class.

On Monday we had our second Judo lesson which was loved by all. On Tuesday we read the story “The Messy Magpie” and we had a fantastic interactive online session with Kirsty, the Waste Awareness Officer from the Liverpool Recycling Discovery Centre. Kirsty told us all about how we can help to look after our planet and she even answered the brilliant questions the children had about recycling.

The colourful fruit kebabs made in Food Tech this week went down a treat with all children having at the very least a little taste. Well done everyone! On Wednesday we were super busy preparing for the KS2 Mini Olympics afternoon as part of National Fitness Day, we started off by making Italian flags to wave at the opening ceremony and we had much fun participating in all the wonderful activities planned by Miss Gibney. Thank you Miss Gibney! Italy Class are really enjoying their Clubs on Friday afternoons too with Lego, Yoga, Art, Coding and Music options on offer. We hope you have a lovely, relaxing weekend everyone after such a busy week! Enjoy! Italy Class Team

Week 3+

Australia class has had a very busy second week.

This week in Italy Class we have continued to do work based on ‘Not Now Bernard’ by David McKee. The story is proving very popular will the class and through it they have been finding out about questions and question marks.

In Maths the children have loved working with tens frames and have been using counters to show different ways of making numbers. We have been warming up for our Maths lessons by doing some number aerobics too.

On Monday we celebrated ‘Roahl Dahl Day’ and we wrote about our own dreams and made dream catchers after sharing parts of ‘The BFG’ story. Another lovely week! Thank you everyone! Italy Class Team

Week 2+

Italy Class have had a fantastic start to the new school year!

Well done everybody. The children have enjoyed getting to know their staff team and explored their new learning environment. They loved hearing the story of “Not Now, Bernard” by David McKee and had lots of fun acting out alternative endings for the story with stick puppets. In their Maths lessons they have used both Numicon shapes and Base 10 resources to show how many tens and how many ones are in each of the different teen numbers. There was great excitement when we made banana smoothies in Food Tech this week and lots of children willingly had a taste. Thank you for a lovely first week of school everyone, we look forward to seeing you again on Monday!

Italy Class Team

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