Christmas ‘Stay and Play’

By Jodie Buss5th January 2023

A big THANK YOU to all the parents who attended our F2 Christmas ‘Stay and Play!’ The afternoon was a huge success and the children loved getting creative with you all and showing off all their amazing work and classroom! We are super proud of all the progress the children have made so far this academic year and it’s lovely to see them share this progress with you! Ourselves and the children take great pride in our work and our classroom environment and your feedback certainly proved that! Here are a few snaps from our little event, again thank you for all your continued support!

The Foundation Stage Team!

Our fabulous ‘Harty’!

By Jodie Buss30th November 2022

To finish our story ‘You must bring a hat!’ we had the best afternoon celebrating with our very own HARTY (hat-party!)

We made our own invites, lists for party food and prepared our own party sandwiches! We had a fabulous afternoon with party games, dancing, singing and a HAT CONGA!!!

Fire Engine Visit!

By Jodie Buss17th November 2022

After Bonfire night Foundation Stage had a wonderful visit from our firefighter friend Gary! He brought his firefighting team to show us the big red fire engine! We had a brilliant afternoon talking about what firefighters do and what they need! We got to sit in the fire engine and have a go with the water hose! Before Gary left he even let us listen to the siren! We had a super afternoon and enjoyed making and painting our very own fire engines back in the classroom!

‘You must bring a hat!’

By Jodie Buss17th November 2022

This week Foundation Stage read the story ‘You must bring a hat!’ We loved reading the story and exploring all the characters from the book!

The story inspired us with so many fantastic ideas but also some wonderful questions! Mainly regarding the ‘monocle wearing badger!’ What was a monocle? Why was he wearing one? Have we ever seen one? And what would you need it for? We decided to investigate this and examine our very own monocle! We inspected and examined pictures of people wearing monocles and discussed all those questions… What was it? What was it used for? We came to the conclusion that it was something “from the olden days” because the pictures were “black and white and we don’t see them anymore!”. We realised it was to help you see and compared them to glasses today and how they looked different, how had they changed? This was a brilliant topic for discussion and we had great fun exploring the monocle further in our “olden days hat shop!”

 

 

Hat Crazy!

By Jodie Buss16th November 2022

This week we introduced our new story ‘You MUST bring a hat!’

The children LOVED this story and it inspired us to get HAT CRAZY!

We have explored all different types of hats…tall hats, spotty hats, sparkly hats, HUGE hats! And have loved using our imagination to describe them and discuss what they might be useful for!

We have looked at iconic hats through history, characters who wear hats and hats from all around the world!

The children hosted their very own ‘HAT-WALK’…strutting their stuff down our very own red carpet!

We also had a ‘Mad-Hatter’ tea party…but of course to attend…YOU MUST BRING A HAT!

 

The Story of the First Diwali…

By Jodie Buss3rd November 2022

This week Foundation Stage have loved learning, exploring and celebrating all things Diwali! We loved reading the story of the first Diwali… the story of ‘Rama and Sita‘ and had great fun acting out the story with props! In continious provision we have explored Rangoli patterns, Mendhi hands and made some fabulous Diva pots! We have enjoyed learning about Hindu traditions and the festival of light!