Tad!!!

By Jodie Buss31st March 2025

F2 have loved reading the story ‘Tad’ by Benji Davies!!!

This story has inspired us to explore the lifecycle of a Frog, discussing how Tad starts his journey and where he ends up!

We have learnt lots of new key vocabulary, such as ‘frog spawn’ ‘tadpole’ ‘froglet’ and ‘frog’… and discussed how the life cycle continues and goes round and round.

Mrs Buss brought in some pretend frog spawn- chia seeds- we added water and mixed the gloopy mixture together to resemble real life frog spawn!

The children had a great time feeling and describing the spawn- describing it as “gooey’ “wet” “thick” and “gloopy”!

We had a great time mark making and drawing our own life cycles and could confidently talk about the process and change from frog spawn to frog!

Holi!

By Jodie Buss17th March 2025

F2 have had a wonderful day celebrating and learning all about the Hindu festival ‘Holi’ …

…a festival of colour and light!

We welcomed in the Spring festivities with this colourful and bright festival learning all about the traditions of Holi and how people from all around the world join in with the festival and share experiences together!

Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring. It celebrates the eternal and divine love of the deities Radha and Krishna!

We danced, sang and loved exploring colours in a variety of ways- paint throwing, mixing paint, face paints, water paint, colourful scarves and chalking patterns!

Here’s a few of our favourite snaps… (the paint throwing was definitely the best part!!!)

Obstacle fun!

By Jodie Buss12th March 2025

This morning as part of our ‘board game day’ we played Obstacle Course Tiles and had lots of fun outside in the sunshine moving our bodies!

We worked together and helped each other, demonstrating different movements and exercises!

F2 Games Afternoon!

By Jodie Buss11th March 2025

Thank you to everyone who attended our ‘Bring a Board’ Stay and Play afternoon!

The children had a wonderful afternoon playing a variety of old and new board games!

This term we decided to host our stay and play out of the classroom and try something a little different…never underestimate the power of a good old board game! These help children develop and build a variety of skills- patience, sharing, turn taking, logic and reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking!

Here are a few snaps of the afternoon…

 

Spring has Sprung!!!

By Jodie Buss6th March 2025

Spring has definitely arrived in F2 today!

With the sunshine arriving we all headed outside to crack on with some Spring cleaning! Lots of washing, cleaning, digging and pruning of the flowers!

We have been very busy bees tidying our wonderful outdoor area and looking for signs that Spring has arrived and the season has changed!

We have enjoyed learning all about Spring…a time of growth and colour… and enjoying some ‘Spring time’ Easter treats… hot cross buns, after learning the song Hot Cross Buns!!!

Jack and the Beanstalk!

By Jodie Buss6th March 2025

What a wonderful week F2 have had continuing with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk!

This week the beanstalk in our classroom seemed to grow even larger, reaching our classroom ceiling!!!

We found some HUGE shoes which can only belong to the GIANT as we tried them and they were much too big for us!

We have loved pretending to be the giant and answer lots of questions which we discussed together. The children played the part very well and loved our hot-seating activity! This inspired our writing and we thought of lots of good adjectives to use to describe the giant!

With lots of adventures climbing beanstalks and painting endless and endless giant leaves and beans we have had a fantastic week!

 

Eco Warriors

By Jodie Buss10th February 2025

A few snaps of the last few weeks of Eco Club! Each week these lovely bunch turn up after school to discuss all things eco and discuss and think of ways on how we can become a more eco-friendly school in the future…

They recently presented and launched their recycle bottle cap scheme to the full school in assembly, explaining the scheme and how we can re-use plastic bottle caps to trade in for ‘earth tokens‘ to buy recycled school equipment. The eco-warriors designed and presented their own power-point to school and have since been monitoring and promoting the collection of bottle caps through school!

Alongside this the eco warriors collect paper waste daily from around school and make sure this is recycled properly with the help of Mr Wileman. Each Friday they present the ‘Treasure Tree’ to the phase that has done the best at recycling and managing paper waste!

This week we also had a very busy eco club covering the school grounds and checking for litter. We found lots of waste and litter that had not been put in bins so we have made it a priority to keep an eye on this and make sure we litter pick weekly!

We had a little bit of fun afterwards, raiding the recycling bins and making some wonderful creations from recyclable materials!

Piet Mondrian!

By Jodie Buss3rd February 2025

F2 have taken inspiration from the famous artist Piet Mondrian this week, creating their very own abstract pieces of work!

We researched and discovered lots about the famous Dutch artist and looked closely at the colours and shapes he used in his artwork!

We loved his use of squares and rectangles and how he focused a lot on primary colours!

We had great fun cutting shapes and making our very own Mondrian pieces!

They look magnificent displayed around our classroom and art area!!!

Lunar New Year!

By Jodie Buss3rd February 2025

F2 had a wonderful time celebrating and learning all about the Lunar New Year!

We arrived to school wearing the lucky colour red and learnt that this year is the year of the snake!

We read the old traditional Chinese story of ‘The Great Race’ and how people all over the world celebrate the Lunar New Year with traditional festivities!

We had a marvelous time exploring traditional Chinese dancing and music and made our own decorations- lantern making and mark making Chinese symbols!

It was a great day for keeping our fingers busy as we practiced our cutting skills and eating with chopsticks at the lucky red Chinese cafe! Here we tasted some yummy traditional Chinese food which allowed us to use our senses to smell, touch and taste a variety of culinary delights- noodles, prawn crackers, fortune cookies, rice and sweet chilli sauce!

The Three Little Pigs!

By Jodie Buss14th January 2025

This week in F2 we had a surprise basket of props in our classroom! We had to use the clues to guess what traditional tale we would be reading… sticks, straw, bricks and a pig?! Can you guess what it is???

The Three Little Pigs!

We loved reading this story and started learning some signifiers to retell to each other!

We then went off into the classroom and became very inspired with our role-play area and puppets to retell the story and make our own boiling pot of WOLF STEW! Here’s a few snaps of how we got busy in the afternoon and fully embraced our new story!