Thursday 12th February - half term! 

We have reached the end of yet another amazing busy half term.

The children continue to impress us every day; their progression is wonderful to see on a daily basis.

We end of big question of What would it be like if the world were frozen? The children have worked so hard and had so much fun thinking about this question. They have explored so much amazing learning and especially enjoyed exploring lots of ice!

Our big question next half term is: Is there anything above the clouds?

We hope you all have a wonderful half term and look forward to seeing all the children back at school on Monday 22^nd February.

The Foundation Team 

Friday 6th February

This week  in phonics, we have learnt trigraph /igh/ and digraph /ee/ . Please look out for you weekly email so you can support your children's phonics at home.

In maths Miss Wilson explored the composition of 6, 7 and 8 with the children and then they began to explore 'one less'.

In English the children have started a new text The Emperors Egg. The children have loved exploring this book and learning all about penguins. We have explored a story map, drawn and labelled a penguin, thought of questions that we want to ask a penguin. Then on Friday we had a visit from a penguin and the children got to ask their questions and have them answered!!  We enjoyed making penguin huddles and doing a penguin dance!

In foundation we have started to complete handwriting lessons each afternoon to help with letter formation and begin to get ready for year1. On the first day all the children found it quite tricky to follow the handwriting lines BUT today Mrs Phillips nearly ran out of stickers because the handwriting was sooooo good!

The children have also made polar scenes, penguin scenes, started to make a penguin plate, explored books, had another library visit, built, made snipped and so much more!

We are nearly at the end of spring 1 already and next week school finishes at 3:15 on Thursday. Friday is an INSET day.

We wish you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 30th January

We have had a great week of learning in class.

In phonics we have continued to explore level 3. This week we have learnt /ai/ and /ee/ . The children have amazed Janet with their reading and writing this week.

In maths Miss Wilson explored the numbers 6, 7 and 8 with the children and then they began to explore 'one more'. We have great mathematicians in class that use wonderful mathematical vocabulary.  

In PE we used BIG parts of our body and small parts of our body to balance. The children were absolutely amazing at this!

In English the children have written key words and captions to match pictures from Snow White and have also explored what an adjective is and used adjectives to describe characters.

The children have also painted their tree snowflakes, discussed what it would be like if the world were frozen and decorated icy pictures, they have collaged polar animals , enjoyed playing with ice and using wonderful vocab to discuss what is happening to the ice as they were holding, and sooooo much more!

We wish you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Snow White writing and drawing shapes!

We've had a brilliant couple of weeks in Year 1 / Year 2. We have been finishing off our learning around traditional tales and finished writing our stories. We adapted the Snow White story to choose our own characters. We then wrote our stories up in neat to be displayed in the library. We have used adjectives, suffixes, capital letters and full stops in our writing. We have also done art work linked to Snow White and drew characters from the story in the magic mirror. 

On Tuesday there was Art club after school. We used colouring pens to decorate snakes and then used our cutting skills to make them move. The children were brilliant at taking their time to create their patterns and we were so happy with the finished result! 

Next week, we are moving onto writing about Mary Anning. We have been researching her in History and we're now going to write our own information texts about Mary Anning. 

We've had a great start to the half term. 

Year 1 / Year 2 Team 

Our first two weeks back! 

What a first few weeks we have had back! With some crazy weather and a pantomime, it has been quite the first two weeks back!

In our first week we were very lucky to have a theatre production of Snow White come to school. We absolutely loved the pantomime and joining in with all the songs. It was a great way to start our English unit all about Snow White and traditional tales. We will be using the pantomime as inspiration for writing our own stories.

We have also started our new big question in the wider curriculum: Who was Mary Anning? We have started learning some facts about Mary Anning and fossils. In Science we are exploring living things and their habitats. This week we were looking at things that are alive, dead, or never been alive. We explored our outside area and found plants, leaves, trees and other objects that we were sorting and classifying.

We have lots to look forward to this half term.

Just a gentle reminder:

Our PE days are Tuesday and Friday.

Please order your child's lunches on Thursday for the following week.

Reading records and books need to be in on a Friday to be changed.

Thank you!

Miss Bolger and the Year 1 / Year 2 Team

Friday 16th January

Another amazing learning filled week in Foundation!

This week, in English,  we have continued our story of Snow White and we have used our oracy and sequencing skills to sequence the story. We then separated into groups and with an adult we practiced acting a part of the story. We then performed our acting to the rest of the class! The children were amazing.

In maths we have been concentrating on subitising 0-5. Miss Wilson has been helping the children learn how to subitise in fun ways and the children have completed some lovely activities after each lesson to show how much they have learnt.

In outdoor learning this week we braved the wind and rain and went stick collecting. Ince we had the right size sticks we made snowflakes but winding string around the sticks to hod them together. They are currently hanging in class drying, ready for us to paint next week.

In PE we started gymnastics. This week we have explored holding our bodies in a stretch pose or a curled pose!

The children have also collaged snowflakes, which currently hang I our class and are beautiful. They have made polar scenes, had library time exploring books and sooooooo much more!

The Foundation Team 

Friday 9th January- Happy New Year

We have had a wonderful start back to school this week. The children must have had Christmas magic sprinkled on them as they have grown over the holidays and have come back so determined to explore and learn! 
Our big question for this half term is: What would it be like if the world were frozen?

THis week the children have explored polar regions and made pictures, they have made icicles from small parts, used pencil control to follow lines and make a snowy picture, painted lasagna sheets in frosty colours ready to make a polar collage next week and so much more! 

In phonics we have started to learn level 3 phonemes and write the graphemes and the children have been trying so hard to write CVC words that include our sounds of the day! 

In maths we have been exploring zero. We have completed activities including zero or not zero. The children are really beginning to use mathematical thinking and full mathematical sentences when answering questions! we have a class of mathematicians! 

In outdoor learning this week we went on an ice hunt! It had all melted by the time we got there but we found some wonderful things in our forest area. 

On Thursday we were so lucky to have M and M productions visit us and put on a wonderful pantomime- Snow White! We had so much fun and it has really got us excited to start our English learning journey on Snow White! Wonderful wow work coming soon! 

The end to a great 2024!

Dear all!

Happy New Year!

We had a great finish to the Autumn Term last Year!  We finished our Egyptian topic by designing and making our own sarcophagus!

In geography, we made our own rivers to include the features associated with upper, middle and lower course rivers.  We used many different materials and they turned out well!

Not to mention all of the Christmas activities we did!  Our Gonks were something else! We hope that you enjoyed hanging them on your tree!

We have lots of exciting things to do this Spring!  We will keep you updated on all of the things we have done!

Friday 19th December-End Of Term!

WoW!!! Here we are at the end of a fantastic term in Foundation!

The children have grown and progressed so well already! It always amazes us just how well the children progress in the first term!

 Soo, we just want to say that we wish you all a wonderfully happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing all the children back to school on the 6^th January 2026

The Foundation Team 

Friday 12th December

This week has been jammed packed of festive exploring and performing our Nativity!

The children have been practicing their Nativity for the last month, and we are amazed at how their confidence and oracy skills have progressed in that time! I think we have some stars on our hands!

The Nativity is always a precious experience for staff and parents, and it did not fail this year! We are beyond proud of the children and their resilience to perform in front of over fifty people for each show! Well done Nursery and Foundation!

The children have also been busy this week following instructions to make their own Christmas decorations, we hope you have liked the angels and handprint father Christmas'

Today was our Christmas fair and the children have helped to make wonderful things that we sold! Thank you to all that visited Foundation's stall.

We enter the final week of this term on Monday (wow! A whole term already!). It's been an amazing term, we have lots more festive exploration to do next week!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 5th December

Some of this week's wonderful exploration has included:

On Monday we were shocked to discover the Christmas Elves had indeed visited us and they had decorated our whole room beautifully. They had left us a lovely note and a book advent calendar (and maybe a chocolate one too!) They have been leaving lots of mess for Mrs Phillips to clean up this week. They have eaten our fruit, had a snowball fight with the adult's cotton balls and then splash disappeared last night and we found her in Mrs Waring's pocket in assembly!!!

In English this week the children explored the Christmas Story. They then sequenced the story into their books using some amazing oracy skills! The children's vocabulary is really progressing well.

In maths we have been learning how to represent numbers to five in different ways, for instance 3+1= 4 but 2+ 2 = 4 too!

This week the children have also made Nativity scenes, designed and decorated their own Christmas tree and Christmas jumper, made a manager and stable from building blocks and Lego and so much more!

It was Christmas Crafternoon on Tuesday, and the children loved completing Christmas craft with you all.

The Christmas magic has definitely arrived in class and we are using lots of Christmas activities to progress our learning, knowledge and skills!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Thank you and Merry Quizmas!

Thank you to all who attended our Christmas Quiz afternoon in class. We had a great time and it was lovely to see so many of you there. 

All teams did really well with some tricky Christmas questions and the even trickier picture and anagrams round.

Well done to all!

Friday 28th November 

Some of this week's wonderful exploration has included:

We have nearly finished our Little Red Hen unit of work in English this week. We have been exploring what we would need to make bread. We have explored ingredients and how we would make the bread. The children have used their phonic knowledge to write a list and also sequenced a set of bread making instructions! Next week we walk down to town to buy some bread and then come back to school and eat it! We will also be baking our own bread too!

The children have been matching numerals to representations of numbers to 10 this week and they completed a lovely lesson with our student teacher Miss Wilson.

The children have loved exploring Little Red Riding Hood as their traditional tale this week. They have decorated pictures, practiced cutting skills by making story scenes, completing Little Red Riding Hood maths activities and so much more!

We are coming to the end of term now and have lots of exciting things planned so please look out for information on your emails.

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team