This week in F2…

By Mrs L READ12th April 2024

  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.

 

 

This week in F2 …

By Mrs L READ15th March 2024

This week in F2, we have started our story, Oliver’s Vegetables.

 It’s all about a boy who doesn’t like vegetables, only chips!

In literacy we have been retelling the story using our signifiers, sequencing the story, recalling the days of the week, writing sentences about what we can see in the garden (I can see mud/a bush/a pond) and finding out all about the vegetables in the story.

 In maths, first we recapped our learning of 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle). We can say how we know what shape it is by counting its sides and corners.  Then we learnt all about 3D shapes and their properties – cube, cuboid, cylinder and sphere.

In PE we practised for our Easter Bonnet Parade – we can’t wait for you to hear our amazing singing and see our fabulous dance moves!

On Thursday we spent time in our school library. We all enjoyed looking at all the fabulous books and sharing stories with our friends.

Friday was Red Nose Day. We all dressed in red and enjoyed lots of fun activities.  We also found out about why we raise money. how it is used to help people and why it is important that we support charities like these.

As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…we have been looking for signs of Spring, weeding and watering the plants that have started to grow, gaining confidence when using the climbing wall and pole, singing our days of the week song, chalking shapes and much, much more!

 

F1’s Gruffalo drawings

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD13th March 2024

Today, F1 have been thinking about how the Gruffalo looks.  They had to look at the pictures and listen to the description, then choose what colours they needed for their pictures.

They were brilliant artists!  Well done everyone.

F2 Builder Day!

By Jodie Buss21st January 2024

A few snaps from our builder ‘WOW’ day! The children had great fun learning all about the roles involved in house development, from designing houses to building them! We became architects and thought about what our house would have and the materials we could use. We got to work building as a team and made a fabulous house with windows, walls, a roof, chimney and a garden! Unfortunately whilst we were out having our lunch over dinner someone came into the classroom and blew our house down!!! The children were quite puzzled by who could have done this!? This led to an investigation… and we soon found the culprit! The BIG BAD WOLF! The children decided they wanted to question the wolf and find out why he had blown down our house… The wolf was taken in for hot-seating and the children thought of some fantastic questions! The children came to the conclusion themselves that really the wolf wasn’t all that bad and in actual fact was just quite lonely and needed a friend. The children helped the wolf make his own house as he promised to not blow anymore houses down! The children all looked fabulous in their builder costumes!

Talk for Writing – Smaug

By Olivia Mead4th December 2023

Year 5 have started their first Talk for Writing unit in English. Our fiction text is called Smaug – a young boy who sets about his mission to defeat Smaug, the infamous dragon. The children have really enjoyed learning the story off by heart using signifiers. Below are some photographs of the children acting the ‘beating the monster’ story.

You must bring a hat!

By Jodie Buss23rd November 2023

This week Foundation Stage have started their new text, ‘You must bring a hat!’ by Simon Phillip and we have loved reading this text!

The children have been exploring hats, hats and more hats! And have loved looking into hats from all around the world and the many different purposes and occasions for a hat!

We have looked at describing some of the hats we have at home and how they are special to us, using our phonic knowledge to begin to write some cvc words to describe them!

We had the most fun this afternoon when we got to show off our hats on our HAT-WALK and strut our stuff modelling our very own favourite hat!

Keep your eyes posted for our upcoming ‘mad-hatters’ tea party! Invitations and lists to be written…

Goldilocks and The Three Bears!

By Jodie Buss24th October 2023

Following on from introducing our story last week, ‘Goldilocks and The Three Bears’ , this week we have been learning more signifiers in our Talk for Writing sessions and worked together to create our own story maps!

We talked about the main events and characters and sequenced what happened in order together. We loved creating these story maps as groups, discussing the story and helping each other along the way. We showed good pencil control and did some fabulous annotations of Goldilocks and her curly hair!

This week we will be using these story maps to retell and perform the story to the class and begin to write some initial sounds of words!

Crime Investigation!

By Jodie Buss17th October 2023

There has been a crime!

Someone has been into our classroom this morning and made such a mess! We arrived at school to find porridge everywhere and a BROKEN CHAIR! We had to put on our investigation caps and get to the bottom of who had made the mess!

After lots of discussions and partner talk we decided that it must be GOLIDLOCKS! This made lots of sense seeing as though we have been reading the story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears!”.

We decided to create WANTED posters to find the culprit! We searched high and low to see if we could spot her and set traps outside to find her! We loved trying on our golden wigs to see if it was anyone we knew!

Lots of us enjoyed making our own perfect porridge recipe, that tasted “just right!”

How to Catch a Martian

By Miss P STATHERS13th October 2023

Last week Year 2 found some mysterious footprints around school! They went outside to investigate.

They predicted that they could be Martian’s footprints so they set a trap over the weekend.

On Monday they found a family of Martians in their trap! They orally learned some instructions for How to Catch a Martian and then wrote their instructions.

Then they looked at the features of instructions and wrote command sentences to help the Martians adapt to school life !