Category : About Us

Welcome to the Summer term!  

This week in F2, we have started our story, Handa’s Surprise. 

This is a story about a Kenyan girl called Handa who visits her friend, Akeyo, with a basket full of seven different fruits as gifts. Along the way, Handa thinks which fruit Akeyo will like the best, however, each time Handa thinks about a certain fruit an animal pops along and takes that fruit.  

In literacy we told the story using our signifiers, picture sequenced it, and drew our story maps and added sentences to it too.   

During our topic lesson, we thought about the fruits from the story and then about all the other fruits we know, including our favourites.  Then we designed, drew and labeled our own fruit cocktail, which we’ll be making next week, we can’t wait! 

Thank you for your 50p contribution each week, which enables us to carry out these fun learning activities.  

In maths we have continued and extended our learning of sharing and grouping.  

On Wednesday we all put on our smartest and most sparkly clothes and enjoy our very own disco!  

We danced and sang along to all our favourite songs, and even enjoyed a bag of sweets and juice at the end… we were tied out from all our fabulous dance moves. 

We have also been looking at and naming farm animals this week, in preparation for our school trip on Wednesday 12th June. Please remember to dress your child suitably for the weather and to bring a packed lunch.  

This week in F2, we have started our story, The Enormous Turnip. In literacy we have been acting out the story using our signifiers, drawing our story maps and adding sentences to it too. We think of a sentence together, hold it in our head, count on our fingers how many words are in it and then use our Fred Fingers to help spell the words.  We remember that a sentence must always have a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.  

 In maths, we have had a closer look at shapes. We looked at similarities and differences between shapes, we learnt that even if we rotate a shape, it remains the same shape and then we manipulated shapes to make patterns and pictures.  

On Tuesday we had our Big Build Stay and Play where we had great fun building bridges… we used Lego, rolled up newspaper, junk modelling, wooden and foam bricks… it was lovely to see our children working together with their grown-up and some amazing constructions were made. A big thank you to those that were able to join us.  

As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…the weather has been so sunny, we have loved being able to go out without our coats on. Please remember to send your child with a sun hat, water bottle and apply sunscreen at home. 

We’ve splashed in the water, while creating waterways to fill buckets, built the best sandcastles decorated with sparkly jewels and made delicious picnic feasts and soups in our mud kitchen. 

  This week in F2, we have enjoyed sharing all our Easter news, exploring Spring and celebrating the festival of Holi. 

We went on a walk around the school grounds looking for signs of Spring… we spotted blossom on the trees, saw beautiful green leaves and even heard some birds singing. Then, in literacy we wrote “I can see…” sentences, thinking about all the beautiful things we saw.   

On Wednesday we all dressed in our brightest colours to celebrate Holi … which is a festival celebrated by Hindus. It marks the start of spring and is sometimes known as the  Festival of Colour. It’s all about getting together and having fun,  no matter who you are. Everyone chases each other with dry powder paint and coloured water.  

We embraced Holi, by singing, dancing and exploring lots of ways to use colour…we painted, we chalked and used dry powder paint on sheets and the pavement…though some of us did get it on ourselves!  We all had such a happy time.  

In maths we recapped our learning of doubles, odd and even numbers and we have been practising our number bonds to 10. 

In PSHE the children shared their bedtime routines.  First, we chatted about what they do before bed, what they wear,  what time they go to bed, if they have a story, a special toy to  cuddle and if any of them say their prayers … it was lovely for  us all to hear and share our different routines. Then, we learnt about how important sleep is, as that’s the time when our bodies grow and repair.