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Forest School Activity
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Teddy Bears
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We have had a fun teddy bear themed this week as you have enjoyed dancing and singing with Mrs Allen on the patio to “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear”. You also enjoyed exploring the picnic equipment as you set up picnics all over the outdoor area. The highlight...
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We've Returned...Safe, Happy And Very, VERY Tired!
Good evening everyone,
Well done Blue Class for a wonderful time on our residential. From trekking up the Worcestershire Beacon, to zooming down the zip slide and venturing into the 'Tunnel of Doom', we had an amazing time that we're sure we'll all remember for a very long time.
All of the...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 05.07.24
05.07.24
Hello Red Class Families,
This week, we started our new topic, ‘Food and Farming’ and we’re lucky enough to have two projects. Our first project is our class assembly and the second is to prepare for the whole school tea party.
In Maths, we continued our work on patterns and solved word...
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5th July 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Farms
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As we joined Forest School, we all enjoyed a sing song at the fire circle with Old McDonald. Mrs Allen then enjoyed creating a farm with you in the tuft tray on the patio – it was a very popular play choice this week. Towards the end of...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 28.06.24
28.06.24
Hello Red Class Families,
What an exciting week! From learning about the Victorian times at Blists Hill to taking part in lots of sporting activities at the Ryland Centre. Not only did the children behave beautifully, but they tried hard in all events throughout both days. During assembly, Miss Townsend even...
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28th June 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Throwing and Catching
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We enjoyed a whole class ball game of throwing and catching. You remembered the skills needed to make a good thrower and the hands you need to be a good catcher. During your own Play and Explore time, the sand in the hot sun was very...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 21.06.24
Hello Red Class Families,
Today, the children enjoyed playing some of the games and activities they’ve been learning about in History. From marbles, to hoop rolling and hopscotch with skipping and a cup and ball too. Earlier in the week, we wrote labels for toys and sequenced them in time and...
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21st June 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Clean Up
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Mrs Allen has taken you to a different part of Forest School this week and you have worked hard at sprucing up the outdoor area! The mud has been washed from the pots and pans, the sand toys have been swept down and the patio has had...
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14th June 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Sailing Boats
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Mrs Allen has enjoyed teaching you all about knots this week as you have been tying string around sticks of the same size to create a raft for the fairies. Developing these fine motor movements outdoors will improve your handwriting indoors next year.
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Rhyme Time
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Jack and Jill
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A final...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 14.06.24
14.06.24
Hello Red Class Families,
We’re nearly ready to start week 3, where is the time going? Over the last few weeks, there’s a final push to make sure we’re ready for Year 1. We’ve started talking about ‘change’ in our PSHE lessons and how this can be a really good thing....
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 24.05.24
24.05.24
Hello Red Class Families,
First of all, ‘get well soon’ to any poorly Red Class friends. We hope you can rest and recover over the holidays so you’re ready for Sport’s Day on the first Friday back after half term.
This week, in Phonics, we recapped tricky words (like, have,...
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Happy Half Term Blue Class
Hello Everyone,
Very well done Blue Class for working so hard this half term during our 'Take a Trip' and 'Sport Around the World' topics. It has been fascinating learning where you've further developed your understanding of the wider world and its diversity and investigated aspirational people from near and far....
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24th May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Balancing quoits and throwing beanbags
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We propose some new Olympic events this year. A race down the track with a quoit balanced on your head. If we can manage this as we travel up, across and over logs, I am sure professional athletes could manage it too. Forget the...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 17.05.24
17.05.24
Hello Red Class Families,
First of all, thank you for your fantastic contributions to ‘Flag Day’. There were black stars on tops, cycling shorts and faces with many children representing Ghana. There were lots of other flags too. As promised, I wore the colours of Switzerland (Eurovision winners). In assembly, the...
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17th May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Faces
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The mirrors made a return outdoors as you used them to look at your own face and have a go at creating these with salt dough. You took it in turns to prepare with Mrs Allen and then manipulated to create some wonderful shapes.
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Rhyme Time
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One Two Buckle my...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 10.05.24
10.05.24
Hello Red Class Families,
In Maths, it was all things capacity. We used water and sand to find ‘full’, ‘nearly full’, ‘half full’, ‘nearly empty’ and ‘empty’. We opened a new area on the balcony for the children to explore capacity in their Play and Explore time, in addition to the...
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10th May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Frogs
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It was good to see a return of our speckled frog song as you joined from Forest School. You have also enjoyed creating your own lifecycle with Miss Veillet. However the highlight of the week has to be the warmer weather and keeping those waterproofs in the boot...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 03.05.24
03.05.24
Hello Red Class Families,
It was all about subtraction in Maths. Again, we’re trying hard to apply our mental maths strategies to support our subtraction work. We finished the week creating simple number problems by looking at the information on a subtraction bar model. We’re working hard on our number bonds...
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3rd May 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Butterflies
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Our caterpillars have arrived! Mrs Allen has been sharing how to care for them in the first week as we watch them eat and eat and eat every day whilst getting fatter and fatter and fatter. Outdoors you have enjoyed being a caterpillar at the Ugly Bug Ball...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 26.04.24
26.04.24
Hello Red Class Families,
Another busy week in Red Class with lots of super learning. However, before I talk about school learning, can I just celebrate the standard of home learning. The level of detail, research and creativity has been amazing! It was an incredibly tough decision for ‘Homework of the...
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26th April 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Hammers
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You have been revisiting an old song from our early nursery days – “Johnny Hammers” with Mrs Allen. She enjoyed teaching you how to use the tool the hammer as you have been hammering nails into a block of wood. It is always lovely to see you take...
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Red Class Friday Fanfare 19.04.24
19.04.24
Hello Red Class Families,
The children have made a great start to the term and have been finding out lots about Africa and our focus country of Ghana. We’ve been working hard on doubles and halves, singing ‘Chip the Chopper’ every day. Use one hand as the log and one hand...
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19th April 2024
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Forest School Activity
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Spring
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We all enjoyed our Spring walk around the school grounds as we spotted the signs of Spring. We returned to the Forest School and have been enjoying making flowers with our natural materials. This week we have enjoyed printing flowers with forks and weaving flowers with wool.
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Rhyme Time
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Down...
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Easter Fanfare 22.03.24
22.03.24
Hello Red Class Families,
This week was all about Easter. We shared the Easter story and discovered why this is such a special festival for Christians. We made Easter gardens and Easter cards too.
It was time for fire-lighting and toasting at Forest School. There were lots of happy faces and the...
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