‘Talk time’

By Jodie Buss9th January 2025

Here is a little snap shot our Christmas tree, which is still up in January and has moved itself into our role-play kitchen area!

We have decided to keep our wonderful tree up just a little bit longer to give our children the opportunity to come back to school and talk about their Christmas experiences and events! We have loved having lots of circle times this week about what we have done/ received and felt over Christmas and the extra time and chance for this opportunity for discussion has allowed our children to process their experiences more thoroughly. It has been a great opportunity for language development and role-play, as the children have been making their own Christmas dinners and sitting round the table together as a family!

Can you guess what it is yet?!

By Jodie Buss9th January 2025

This week Mrs Buss had changed around some of our classroom and had started to create a fabulous space for us to build some houses!!! The children were a big help and wanted to build a house using bricks! We discussed what houses were made from and how our own houses were built.

We decided to do some brick printing ready to create one of our houses. We had great fun looking at bricks, and the colours. The children mixed lots of colours together to make the perfect brick shade red/brown and loved getting stuck in pushing their bricks and stamping on the paper! We made a great brick wall and had lots of fun in doing so!

This term our topic is ‘Houses and Homes’ and we will be looking at different houses around the world and how they are made… Can you guess what our story could be in Literacy? Something with a brick house, a straw house and a stick house…

“Oh the weather outside is… FREEZING!”

By Jodie Buss9th January 2025

Winter is HERE! In Science this week we have been looking at the changing in the seasons and weather and boy can we tell that Winter is here!

The Children arrived at school on Tuesday to see that Jack Frost had been overnight and had turned our Foundation Stage garden into a wonderful delight of ice, sparkles and frozen frost! We have had such fun wrapping up warm and exploring the great outdoors to explore ice- what is it? How does it happen? what happens to it? So many great questions and discussions, explorations and observations to discover the answers!

The children have loved touching it, writing their names in it and trying very hard to break it! Great team building and skills as they tried a variety of tools to attempt to smash and break the ice! We have also enjoyed looking at nature around us and how the frost has affected some of the trees, leaves and plants! We had a lovely idea to use our warm hands to help warm up some of the frozen leaves!

And we also couldn’t help but have a sing song outside with our boom box…of course ‘Let it go’ by Elsa had to come out!

Jackson Pollock

By Jodie Buss9th January 2025

F2 have been very busy studying and researching the artist ‘Jackson Pollock’ over the last term! Today the children had great fun creating their own Jackson Pollock inspired artwork by flicking and splatting their brushes to create very colourful and bright masterpieces!

The children had great fun mixing and making their own colours and enjoyed splatting paint whilst listening to some music! This definitely got our creative juices flowing and we had so much fun dancing, painting and expressing ourselves! Definitely our favorite artist technique studied so far!

Exploring SNOW & ICE!

By Jodie Buss23rd November 2024

F2 started off the day with ‘Wellness Wednesday’ drinking pink milk and having a chat with biscuits! We counted the scoops of magic as the milk turned a yummy strawberry pink and tasted delicious!

When we looked outside we saw that the weather had suddenly changed and it had begun to SNOW! Mrs. Read and Mrs. Buss were very excited! As well as all of the children!!! We quickly stopped all of our activities and got wrapped up ready to explore the snow!

We had so much fun whirling and twirling in the snowflakes and couldn’t help but sing along with the boom box to some snowy tunes, ‘Let it go’ a firm favourite!

We loved exploring the snow and talking about the weather. The temperature has definitely got colder the last few weeks and we have been able to see that in our Foundation garden. Lots of us enjoyed going on a ‘ice hunt’ and looking for ice in the garden and mud kitchen. We explored how it felt, what happened when we held it tightly and how the ice had frozen leaves on the floor!

This exploration led to lots of chat and discussion when we went back inside to warm up. We talked about what ice was and explored using a bucket of ice we had collected. We realised as it started to drip that ice was just frozen water and that when it melted it turned back into water! The children loved looking at huge pieces of ice, icebergs, on the computer and in some of our books in the classroom!

Another “best day” according to Archie, what could be better than biscuits, pink milk and snow!!!!

 

Eco Club

By Jodie Buss23rd November 2024

This week the Eco-warriors got busy in Eco club devising a plan of action to launch their new re-cycle scheme in school collecting bottle caps!

The warriors have been busy creating a power-point in their own time that they are going to share with the whole school in an upcoming assembly- explaining to all pupils and staff about how they plan to collect plastic bottle caps in the hope of earning some ‘earth tokens‘ to trade in for some recycled school equipment. The eco-warriors presented their power-point to one another in tonight’s club, getting creative afterwards in making posters and slogans to post up around school. Tonight’s club allowed for lots of ideas, conversations and debates! The warriors have shown great independence and ownership over all these schemes and tasks and have managed to keep up their last scheme of collecting paper waste, emptying paper bins daily and awarding the ‘Treasure Tree’ every Friday in Golden assembly!

Well done guys, get saving them bottle caps! 

 

‘You must bring a hat!’

By Jodie Buss19th November 2024

F2 have been reading the story ‘You must bring a hat‘ by Simon Philips!

As part of our WOW day the children wrote invitations to the biggest, “bestest” hat party of them all… and guess what everyone was invited! We thought about what would make a great party…’sandwiches, balloons, dancing‘ and of course the main requirement… HATS!

The children wore some amazing hats and paraded them around in our ‘HAT-WALK’ dancing and singing as they went! The morning was filled with games, singing, fun and hats and we had plenty of party food and balloons!

The children enjoyed describing their hats to one another and exploring how they were all so very different…just like them!

Eco Workshop!

By Jodie Buss14th November 2024

This week our eco-warriors and school counsellors were lucky to take part in an ‘Eco Workshop’ were our friend Rob from the ‘School Cycle Scheme’ came and chatted to us about the good and bad benefits of plastic. We talked about the properties of plastic, what makes it a strong and reliable resource and ways we can reuse it. We looked at other materials and this led to lots of discussions about materials and their properties and the impact these materials can have on the planet. Our eco-warriors were shocked to realise just how much plastic waste Hull has alone and how that even after 500 years of possible decomposing, it never fully disappears! Rob showed us some of the ways his ‘Recycle Scheme’ is starting to change this in Hull and how our eco-warriors can be apart of this journey. Our children were very inspired by this discussion and have started the ‘Treasure Tree’ award this week in an attempt to get our school classes using their paper bins productively. We are about to start our plastic bottle cap recycling journey too, and will hopefully raise some earth tokens in order to buy some recycled equipment for our school!

 

The colours of Autumn…

By Jodie Buss2nd November 2024

These last few weeks in topic the children have been exploring the changing in the weather and the change in the seasons…

As the months have creeped from September to October the children have noticed the weather begin to change and the trees around them begin to adapt, preparing for the colder months!

The children in F2 have been curious about the leaves changing colour and falling to the ground, this has led to lots of leaf hunts and explorations and investigations of the colours we can see!

This week we have made some fantastic Autumn tree pictures using our fingers to paint! Outside we created our very own ‘BIG ART ATTACK‘ using sticks and fallen leaves!

We also got very creative mixing our own colours using powder paints and exploring what happens when we mix yellow with red!

Lots of fun keeping these little fingers busy and minds curious about the world all around them…

A ‘spooktacular’ time!

By Jodie Buss2nd November 2024

A few snaps from our Halloween games and disco!

Thank you for all the costumes, the children looked fabulous and had the best time dancing, signing and using their amazing imaginations to get into character! We had a blast playing lots of party games at the disco and topped the day off with a delicious hot chocolate treat!

Happy Halloween!!!!