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!!!

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!

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! 

 

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…

Mud Pizza!

By Jodie Buss9th October 2024

A lovely (wet!) afternoon getting our fingers messy and muddy!

The children had great fun in the mud kitchen this afternoon and enjoyed making “pizza bases!” They sculpted the perfect circle shapes with their hands and added different toppings! Some of the children have even started mentioning the big C word, and were very busy mixing and baking a delightful Christmas cake!!!

A wonderful example of fabulous imaginative play and teamwork!

Dirty hands!

By Jodie Buss23rd September 2024

This afternoon children from F2 got busy digging and planting in our F2 flower beds! As part of Forest School we had a ‘wellness Wednesday’ out in the garden, weeding and planting some lovely flowers we were kindly donated! We had great fun using our hands to pull out the weeds and dig up and turn over the soil ready for planting. This activity made for a great opportunity to talk about plants, looking at the roots, stem and leaves, and also chat about all the things plants need to grow- soil, sun and water. We were very gentle with the plants and used our kind and caring hands to carefully plant them and nurture them into the soil!

Our F2 garden is very precious to us and we love to be out in our big outdoor space, but the maintenance of it needs a little upkeep! We make sure every week we pick up any litter that has been left from the school drop offs and pick ups, tidy leaves that have gathered and weed and water all our plant beds! I think you’ll agree that the after photo below looks marvelous and the children had a great afternoon keeping those fingers and hands busy and dirty!!!!

Busy fingers in Nature Club!

By Jodie Buss15th July 2024

The last Nature Club of the year tonight and the children were busy practicing their fine motor skills! Tying knots is a BIG skill in forest school…and one that takes a significant amount of practice! Tonight we decided to hone in on our knot tying skills and keep those fingers busy by making and creating our very own magical forest school wands! We did so well tying, wrapping, threading and pulling and were all very meticulous in our care and concentration!

As usual this was a lovely session with lots of discussions and ‘chit chat’ in the great outdoors, with nature all around! A very calming way to end the year! And WOW look at some of those magical wands! Lots of spells were thought out after their creations and the children loved using their imaginations for what their wands were called and what powers they had!

Until next term, thank you!

Special Visitor!

By Jodie Buss2nd July 2024

A special visitor joined us in F2 today and for our afterschool Nature Club!

We were very excited to meet Dave the Horsfield tortoise and had great fun learning lots of tortoise facts!

We had lots of chats and discussions about reptiles, different types of reptiles and where they live around the world. We spoke about a tortoise diet, which lead to a fab dandelion hunt around school, and how important it is to care for their shell!

We loved comparing Dave to ourselves, pointing out his claws, beak instead of mouth, scaly skin and no eye-lashes or eyebrows!

The children were very caring and gentle with Dave and the session was very calming! The children have begged for Dave to come visit again soon and next time they’ll have strawberries waiting for him!

P.s the highlight of the session was giving Dave a toothbrush massage!!!!