Friday 19th June 

Some of this week's learning

The children have amazed the adults this week by using pictures from The Rainbow Fish story and writing dictated or independent captions about the picture, using an adjective!!! We can tell they are nearly Year 1 children! WoW!

In maths this week we have been exploring sharing and grouping. We have sung songs, played games and used plates and counting teddies to share equally!

This week we completed our Bridge school games, the weather was a bit yucky, so we did ours in class, which worked out well as we used our class carpet as our guide, we cheered and took part in all the activities, and we scored lots of points!

This week we also made beautiful Rainbow Fish pictures, and we explored and talked about water safety at the beach. The children have coloured beach flags, dressed boys and girls appropriately for the sunny weather by cutting out different clothes and accessories. The children have also designed sun hats and so much more!  

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 12th June

Some of this week's learning

The children have been continuing to explore The Rainbow Fish. To support our understanding of the book we have mixed colours and used pipettes to make a Rainbow Fish, we have used different mediums to paint and decorate fish also. The children's creativity has been amazing to see, and some lovely artwork has been produced.

In maths this week we have been decomposing shapes, and we used shapes to make different shapes. For instance, we cut a large rectangle diagonally and then rotated it to make a large triangle!! Mrs Lyden was set the challenge to see if she could do it! She needed the children's help!

We have completed lots of other activities too!

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 4th June

Some of this week's learning

We have had a lovely first week back, beginning the last half term of this academic year!

I English this week we have started to explore a new story The Rainbow Fish! The children have really enjoyed learning this story using role play, a story map and by using their oracy skills to sequence the story. We have also made our own rainbow fish using lots of creativity.

In maths this week we have been concentrating on shape! We have continued to sing our 2d and 3d shape songs, which we LOVE in Foundation. The children have been learning to use shapes for purpose and exploring how to rotate shapes!   

Our BIG question this half term is: Where would I bury my treasure?

So, this week the children have been designing flags to go on a ship, making underwater pirate pictures, selling ice cream in our role play area, and exploding shells. In PSHE the children have started their 'changing units of work and this week we drew around one of the children and labelled parts of our bodies!

We have completed lots of other activities too!

We wish you a wonderful INSET day tomorrow and weekend

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 21st May- Happy half term 

What an amazing, but quick, half term we have had! 
The children have been progressing so well, and all the adults are extremely proud of them! 

They are definitely ready for a break, and we look forward to welcoming them all back ready for their final half term in Foundation and getting - YEAR 1 READY! WHOOP! 

Friday 15th May

Some of this weeks learning

In English this week the children have been drawing pictures from our story and then writing small captions underneath to match their picture. Then the children have been writing lists of their favourite fruits ready to finish our unit of work next week by making Hungry Caterpillar fruit kebabs. The adults were so impressed with the children's phoneme to grapheme correspondence, and we have had some amazing writing.  

In maths this week we have concentrated on adding more. We have done this in many ways using lots of different resources. The children have worked hard at using full mathematical sentences when answering questions and using mats I the provision.  

The children have continued to embrace the minibeast life and have been real scientists looking at and exploring, classifying and describing. They have also made painted butterflies and have drawn bees and bee hives after our special community visitor Liam came to show us his bee keeping equipment and tell us all about bees and how honey is made. We even got the chance to taste honey and try on a bee keeping suit!

We continue to be amazed with how well the children are progressing

We wish you  a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 1st May

In English this week the children started by using adjectives to describe food items from our story. They thought of the most amazing adjectives, we were all very impressed. Next the children wrote lists of what the hungry caterpillar ate. The children used their phonics and wrote some amazing words.

In maths this week we have been exploring missing numbers to 20 and ordering numbers to 20. The adults gave some children, and Miss Ginn some teen numbers but missed some numbers out and we had to figure out what numbers were missing!

The children have been collaging food items from our story this week, classifying minibeasts and finding lots of minibeasts in our outside area using magnifying glasses. They have loved looking through the magnifying glasses and seeing the minibeast close up.

We have also made potions in the water tray, sandcastles and mazes in the sandbox, coloured caterpillar sheets, made minibeasts from Lego, and so much more!

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 24th April

What an amazing first week back at school, for summer term!

The children seemed to have grown so much over the two weeks break!

They have come back raring to explore and learn and boy , have we explored this week!

Our new big question is: Are minibeast like me?

In English this week we have started our new text: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The children have used role play, and a story map to learn the story. We came into class on Tuesday and The Very Hungry Caterpillar was clearly still hungry as he had eaten our raisins and bread sticks!! The children have loved reading this story and recalling all the yummy foods the caterpillar are. Today we had a story table and then children tried the first three foods of the story, an apple, a pear and an orange!

In maths we have been exploring teen numbers 11-19, we have explored how teen numbers have one ten and some more! We have used base ten, blocks, counting teddies and lots of manipulatives to learn our teen numbers!

We have also this week used so much of our outside area, the children have been so happy to get back outside. Brain and AJ our trust caretakers, worked so hard in the holidays to make our new sandpit! The children can now utilise all the new things that the fund-raising money brought us, including a new writing/colouring table, a mud kitchen, new water tray resources, a dumper truck area, garden decorations, new sand play toys, binoculars and water fountain and so much more. The Foundation team cannot thank you enough for the fundraising; listening to the vocabulary, conversations, excitement and role play that has been taken place this week has been nothing short of wonderful!

The children have explored so much this first week back and the sun has helped with an exciting engaging week!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 2nd April- Happy Easter! 

Wow, we have reached the end of Spring term!  

What an amazing spring term it has been. The children have progressed so well.

Here are some pictures of some amazing things we have done in the last couple of weeks.

We wish you all a wonderful Easter break and look forward to seeing you all and the children back at school on Monday 2oth April.

Happy Holidays!

The Foundation Team 

Friday 20th March

Some of this weeks learning:

In Enlgish this week the children have been ordering instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. They then went in groups to the local bakery and shops to buy ingredients.  The children also practiced their clear and precise oracy skills to give 'a robot' ( Mrs Phillips has a robot button you know!). At first the children were not very clear and the robot got very confused and emptied the bread all over the table. Then when the children said - spread the butter, the robot scooped butter with their hand and spread it on the bread eewwww! However, with a little bit of practicing and prompting the children gave brilliant instructions to allow the robot to finish a yummy sandwich. The children then gave each other instructions to make sandwiches and then we ATE THEM!

In maths the children have been exploring the number ten and making ten with three parts! The children then explored doubles to ten in detail! Wow they are all progressing so well.  

The children have been helping Mrs Phillips make the outside area look soooooo much better. We have swept, scooped, cleaned and built! Our new activity picnic table is amazing, and the mud kitchen will be in its new home soon. The track area looks great and Mrs Waring has kindly brought us more stones as we ran out! It is beginning to look so much better. We cannot wait for our new sandpit and surrounding fences!

Enjoy the sun this weekend

The Foundation Team