A giant visitor

24th March 2022Charlotte Burn

Foundation have had a visit from a very tall, stomping giant this week who was looking for a boy called Jack…. He wasn’t able to find him but instead left the children some beans to plant and a story for the children to read called Jack and the Beanstalk.

We have planted our beans and have made diaries to record what happens to them over time and hopefully we might have some beanstalks for our outside area.

Then in Science we looked at parts of a plant, labelled and drew them as well as doing some still life drawing of Pansies and Daffodils.

 

We also planted cress seeds and have watched them grow over the past week. We are going to harvest the crop and put in a sandwich for the children to taste.

 

 

In Maths we have done the number bond rap to 10  Let’s all do the 10 dance (number bonds to 10 song) – YouTube
I Know My Number Bonds 10 | Number Bonds to 10 | Addition Song for Kids | Jack Hartmann – YouTube
and using the part, part whole model and a tens frame to help us work out the number bonds to 10. E.g 8+2=10, 7+3=10.

 

Earlier this week we wore odd socks to celebrate awareness of Downs Syndrome day. The children decorated some brilliant odd socks too.

The children have enjoyed riding their bikes and scooters around the Key Stage one playground this week for our Big walk and wheel event. This will continue into next week.

 

Coming up in the next few weeks we will be looking at different Easter activities, Mother’s Day cards and looking for signs of Spring in our local woodland environment.

 

We hope you all have a wonderful Easter break and the sun continues to shine. Thank you for all your support over the past term with your child/children’s learning.

 

 

 

Busy little bees this term!

3rd March 2022Charlotte Burn

This term has been so busy and exciting for the children with Pancake Cake and World Book Day all in the same week! Read on to see what else we have been up to.

 

We have been looking at how we change over time. The children have loved guessing who the baby pictures belong to. We have had some great discussions about what we are able to do now that we couldn’t do as a baby or a toddler.

In Math the children have been investigating measuring. We have had lots of fun measuring different things around the classroom and also each other! We have looked at key vocabulary such as longer, shorter, taller, wider, rulers and measurements.

This week has been full of extra WOW days including Pancake Day and World Book Day.

The children enjoyed tasting pancakes and learning about why some people celebrate Pancake day/ Shrove Tuesday. They designed their own pancakes and we discussed what type of toppings they love to have on top of them. The children were lucky enough to taste some traditional pancakes in the classroom with some lemon juice and sugar. The overall outcomes was that the children thought they were delicious!

For World Book Day the children and staff came dressed in some fabulous costumes. The Foundation Stage staff came dressed as characters from The Little Miss and Little Mr Men book series. I wonder if you can name us all ?

We also had a brilliant time inviting our parents and carers in to share The Very Hungry Caterpillar story with us and to be involved in some activities alongside their children. The children went to a great effort to dress up and also brought in their favourite books to share with the classes.

The Winners of our best dressed costumes were

two very hungry caterpillars, a gingerbread lady and the bad tempered ladybird!

Foundation 11/2/22

8th February 2022Charlotte Burn

Reception have had a really busy term. We have welcomed back Miss Burn from Maternity leave who is now in Pine Class as their class teacher along with Mrs Lim. 

We have been on a lovely but chilly winter woodland walk looking for signs of spring around our school environment. The children spotted some flowers starting to bloom, a lot of trees still bare and we even saw a red kite flying over our playing fields.

The children had the opportunity to celebrate Chinese New year and tasted prawn crackers. They made some Chinese lanterns, decorated tigers and learnt to write their names using the Chinese alphabet.

 

We have finished our story ‘The Sleepy Bumblebee’ and have rewritten it ourselves changing the characters, the children had some fabulous ideas to really enhance the story. 

Taking part in internet safety day this week has been a great experience to find out about families we facetime that we can’t always see and how incredible the internet is allowing us to share and see families across the world. It has also shown us how important it is to stay safe online and to be aware of what your children are accessing on phones and tablets. 

 

After half term we have a new exciting topic of ‘Growing’ and we can’t wait to share all our wonderful work with you.

Have a fun filled February half term ! We can’t wait to hear all about your adventures!

Year 1 Blog January 2022

20th January 2022Ben White

We have been working really hard on our reading and writing in Year 1. With the help of Fred we are starting to use our sounds to build words when we are writing. Some of us are able to write our own sentences with capital letters, finger spaces and full stops! We have had a very naughty goblin in our classroom who keeps throwing our teacher’s things everywhere! We are hoping to catch him soon so we do not have to keep cleaning our classroom. We are all enjoying learning our sounds everyday and are all looking forward to getting our certificates for reading at home.

We are Math Superstars! We have been naming 3D shapes, we have been on a shape walk around the school and we could find lots of cylinders and cuboids around our school. I wonder which 3D shapes we can see on our way home from school? We are now looking at adding numbers to 20. We are using number lines, ten squares, cubes and even our fingers. We are trying to add them as quickly as we can.
Do you know about houses and homes? We are thinking about our homes and why they are important to us. We have been looking at different types of houses in the area, we know about semi-detached, detached, terrace houses, flats and bungalows. We have been looking at what kitchens looked like in the past. Did you know that people in the past did not have an oven, they had a range with a fire in. Everything came from the fire!

This week in Art we have linked our learning from Topic through the work L.S Lowry. We have created our own interpretations of ‘Coming Home from the Mill’.

We have learned how to draw buildings and ‘matchstick’ people. Take a look at some of our pictures.

Ella Rory Rocky  Alex

Maryam

 

In the next few weeks:

Coming up, we have an exciting week of looking at a surprise story, we cannot wait!

We will be looking at subtraction in Maths – taking away numbers within 20 and going onto looking at numbers up to 50.
We will be learning the story of Handa’s Surprise – acting it out, eating fruit from the story and doing lots of wonderful writing!

We will be learning what our address is and thinking about why our address is important. We will also be looking at why we do not share our address with strangers.