What an end to the week we have had. It was such a great event and so nice to all be together after such a long time apart. I hope you enjoyed the afternoon and seeing your children singing so well.
I hope you all have a fantastic break and we look forward to seeing you all again on Tuesday 7th June.
This week we continue with our ' Around the Word' topic. Henry brought pictures from America where he could see crocodiles and an enormous Hulk made of lego. We learnt about Enzo's family and looked at the village where Enzo's Papi lives in Italy and the village where his nana is from in Cyprus. Mrs Sheehan has told the children the legend of Poland and has begun to teach them 'The Wheels on the bus' in Polish. It is great to see the children developing their knowledge and curiosity about the World and we look forward to seeing more photos and hearing interesting stories from all our children.
The children have been checking on our mini garden where we are growing plants and some vegetables. They are understanding the importance of looking after them and watering them daily. We will observe and monitor their growth and discuss the changes taking place.
Next week we are holding a Platinum Jubilee Celebration afternoon on Friday, 27th May for parents. The event will start at 2.00pm and will take place on the school grounds. All the classes will be performing a song from every decade that the queen has been on the throne. Children will be sat in class groupings but parents will be allowed to sit with their children as long as the class teachers know that you have your child. On the day the children should come to school dressed in red, white and blue, refreshments will be for sale during the afternoon. As the event is taking place outside it will be weather dependent. Fingers crossed though that it will be able to go ahead and help give us a rousing send off into the half-term break. If you would like to make a donation towards the refreshments, please send your donations in from Thursday 26th May. Please label any boxes you would like returned to you.
Another great week of learning in Foundation. We have continued playing board games with the children, introducing new ideas and mixing groups together. We have consolidated their ability to communicate and turn take which is working well. Hopefully this will work in other areas of learning and support their communication and language development along with their personal, social and emotional skills.
Hello everyone,
This week in Nursery we have been playing different games and discussed the importance of learning the rules while playing a game. The children especially enjoyed playing Double, Snakes and Ladders, Connect Four and Hopscotch. There are so many benefits of taking part in a game, amongst others, games teach children to follow instructions, build communication skills, help children learn to fail and encourage healthy competition.
From next week we will be looking at a map of the world and we will discuss different locations which are familiar to us. It might be a place where our relatives come from or which we have visited during a holiday. It would be great if the children could bring a photograph to school of the place they want to show and tell us a short story related to the picture. Next week Ms Ricky will tell us about Trinidad and Tobago.
Please make sure your child has sun cream and a sun hat on next week as it is going to be hot.
This week we have enjoyed the story of the enormous turnip. The children have joined in with songs that help tell the story and we have sequenced the story together. On Friday they acted out the story with lots of pulling and pulling they managed to get the turnip out.
The children enjoy investigating outside and this week they found an ants nest. This was a fantastic learning experience for them as we discussed ants and their habitats. We are going to be looking at minibeasts next week in more detail.
The children are enjoying the sand pit, especially with the nice weather, apologies if your child comes home with sand in their socks. This area had created another dimension to the children's learning including, sharing space and resources, communication, mathematical and science language, capacity, volume, weight, full, half full, empty, wet or dry. The list goes on as we try not to miss any learning opportunities for the children while they play.
Another Bank Holiday for us all again so we look forward to seeing you all next Tuesday.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Robinson:)
Welcome back. It seems like we have been away for a long time and it was lovely to see the children all happy to be back to school in their Summer uniforms. We have been looking at our plants that have been growing in the garden and how they have changed over the last 2 weeks. We discussed what the weather had been like over Easter and they realised that it was very important to water the garden as we did not have a lot of rain.
Next week we will be reading the story about the enormous turnip and looking at the sequence of the story.
Below is a reminder of our Summer uniform.
Optional for Summer* – Navy blue and white checked school dress and grey short trousers with white polo t-shirt.
Please speak to me if you have any concerns about this.
Mrs Robinson.
Hello everyone,
We have had a very exciting week enjoying Easter activities in school. We have discussed the Easter traditions and the children have created colourful Easter eggs and Easter cards for their friends and family. The children were thrilled taking part in the Easter egg hunt in our garden and enjoyed making chocolate nests. The smell of melted chocolate put us all in the festive mood.
