Welcome to the Foundation Stage
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A Very Warm Welcome to Foundation
Welcome back to the second half of the Summer term 2024
and we are more than ready to begin our new topic:
Up, Up and Away- ‘How do we get from here to there?’
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This half term the children will be learning all about Transport and the varied ways in which we travel.
We will also investigate different modes of transport via land, sea and air paying particular attention to the history of travel and transport.
Our topic will help the children to observe more about how we get from place to place and how vehicles move. The children will have the opportunity to design and construct as well and draw and paint.
Our focus texts will be: Mr Gumpy’s Motor Car, Who Sank the Boat#1 It’s a Marmalade Jam! We will also be reading many other fiction and non-fiction texts related to our topic.
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Over the half term, we will also be learning:
- PSED- Changes- preparing children for transition to new classes eg. Circle time, friendship groups
- CLL - group discussions focused on modes of transport, asking questions about how vehicles move. Children becoming confident to speak in a larger group clearly using new and developed vocabulary.
- PD- Moving with confidence and showing an awareness of space around. Balance, control, co-ordination, following instructions
- Fine motor: using the correct grip for writing tools and forming numbers and letters correctly, safe scissor control
- READING - group reading, using non-fiction books to find answers to questions
- LITERACY - non- fiction writing, labels, captions, poetry, alliteration, story writing.
- UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD- Past and present types of transport, occupations related to transport, transport around the world, comparing and contrasting environments, forces eg- pushing and pulling
- EXPRESSIVE ART DESIGN -
- BEING IMAGINATIVE- Designing and adapting models created, re telling focus stories using role play, songs. Role-playing in the Travel Agent.
MUSIC- Exploring instruments and learning about beat and rhythm of songs – using a range musical instruments eg, shakers, triangle, xylophone, tambourine etc
Nursery F1 Maths
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Reception F2 Maths
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BRUSHING BUDDIES
The children take part in the the Brushing Buddies programme at school. This is an important initiative which helps to protect your child's teeth and teach them the importance of good oral health. Thank you for your support with this programme
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PE
In the Summer 1 Term, PE takes place on Tuesday afternoons with Josh. Please ensure that’s your child has a named PE KIT which should be kept in school for the half term. (shorts or jogging bottoms, PLAIN white t-shirt, and trainers). Please NAME ALL PE CLOTHES.
PE : - Forget Me Nots - 1pm - 2pm
Cornflowers and Primroses - 2pm - 3pm
Reading Morning
Reading morning will be on Friday mornings. Please come and join your child from 8:40 am to 9:00 am to enjoy reading with your child in their classroom.
Homework in Foundation
Reading in F2
Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week (As per your signed school agreement.) This could be any adult or an older sibling or friend. Every little bit of reading really does help children on the learning journey. Please write in your children’s communication dairy when you read with your child each day.
Please bring your child’s book bag to school every day. This will help when we change their books. Please read this story book several times with your child – Talk about the cover, ask them to tell you what is happening when you read it again and talk about the characters. At the end of the week, encourage your child to tell you the story, using the pictures to guide them.
Sweet Peas Reading
Please bring your child’s book bag to school every Friday so that they can change their book. Read this story book several times with your child – Talk about the cover, ask them to tell you what is happening when you read it again and talk about the characters. At the end of the week, encourage your child to tell you the story, using the pictures to guide them
Please see Phonics page to view videos to support pronunciation
Check out the blogs below to see what we've been doing in our classes!
The Wildflower Garden
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What's in the Garden? Come Outside
Spring 2 - Minibeasts Everywhere!
In Spring 2, we explored outside with more focus. Our new topic was 'Minibeasts' We went outside on a minibeasts hunt and the children loved looking under logs and stones to see if they could spot a woodlouse, milipede or worms. They also spotted lots of webs with flies and spiders in them.
We also spotted the JC hens and ducks.
We can create patterns and can find them all around us.
We found twigs outside and made them look like letters from our names.
We can join in with songs and rhymes and copy the actions. We enjoyed singing 5 Garden Snails.
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Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs! Spring 1
During Spring 1, the children enjoyed learning all about dinosaurs. They enjoyed listening to lots of stories and looking at non-fiction books about dinosaurs, learning about what they ate and their special names.
We loved playing with our mini-me figures
"My dinosaurs is a long neck." Fossil pasta "My dinosaur is a plant eater."
We learnt about extinction and had to free the endangered animals by cutting the string to free them.
We read 'Dinosaurs Love Underpants'...
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Lunar New Year Celebrations
Celebrations! Happy New Year!
This week we have been learning about Lunar New Year. We talked about how this festival is celebrated around the world. Last week, we enjoyed taking part in some fun activities, as some of our parents from Hong Kong came to school to talk to us about how Chinese New Year is celebrated. This week in our classrooms, we enjoyed many activities focussing on Lunar New year.
The children had to tidy the furniture in the small world house – can you sort the furniture so that it is the correct room? We also enjoyed making tea in the water tuff spot. They loved exploring the...
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Weekending 25th November & 2nd December 2022
Who does that job? Our personal histories - celebrating our brithdays
This week we have been focussing on our personal histories and we have been learning all about birthdays. We have made playdough cakes and added beads and candles to them. The children had a go at counting the candles they had added to their cake.
We planned a birthday party for Dex, our Classroom dinosaur. We shared ideas about what we needed for the party and had a go at drawing pictures to show what we wanted for the party. The children were encouraged to talk about their drawings and describe their marks.
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Weekending 18th November 2022
Poppies, Remembrance and Children in Need
Thank you to everyone who supported our ‘Children in Need’ activitie today. It was great to see the children coming to school dressed up.
Thank you also for those who brought money in for toast for the appeal today- we had buttered toast and jam and butter on toast and for those who didn’t like toast, we made jam sandwiches.
We also attended our first whole school assembly where Mrs Mitchell weighed the giant pumpkins which had grown in the Outdoor Learning garden. I was incredibly proud of how the children sat and listened really well.
We have been...
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Weekending 11th November 2022
Festival of lights
This week the children have enjoyed watching videos of families celebrating Diwali. They loved the song 'Diwali' and they made Diya lamps from salt dough where we mixed water, flour and salt and talked about them being dry, wet and then changing to being sticky when they mixed together. They were intrigued to see how they went from being soft to being very hard so that they could paint them and add decorations to them. We also looked at different Rangoli patterns and had a go at creating patterns in the tuff spot which was filled with coloured rice. The children are...
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Weekending 4th November 2022
Bonfire Night, Sparklers and Whatever Next!
This week we have focussed on Bonfire Night, and who Guy Fawkes was. The children loved watching videos of firework displays and noticed the circular shapes in the fireworks and also heard some of the noises they made, such as, bang, pop, sizzle etc.
They got very creative and made firework paintings, using cardboard tubes, twisting the tubes to make a swirling circular shape. Using the sensory blocks, the children created models of rockets by either building them upwards or lying them flat on the ground and joining them together to make a rocket...
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Weekending 14th October 2022
Move to the Beat! Zoom to the moon! Yum! Yum! Faster! Faster!
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Weekending 7th October 2022
This week we have focussed on activities around ‘Black History Month’. The children loved going to the Junior Hall to meet the Hibbert family who brought in lots of artefacts related to their Jamaican heritage. They particularly enjoyed playing the steel drums and were fascinated by the sugar cane and how it was turned into sugar. They showed us the Jamaican football shirts which inspired some of the children to talk to them about football and Forest. I was very proud of how confident they were to speak with our visitors. We also listened to the story, ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin and...
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Adventures around school
Weekending 30th September 2022
We had a busy week talking about our school and some of the people that are important to us at school. We looked at the school website and some of the people in the office, Tracey in the kitchen, as well as other teachers we see each day. We also had a walk around the school and visited the office. The children were excited to see photos of themselves on the website and they talked about who they saw and what they were doing. They were amazed to find tomatoes growing as well as a huge pumpkin. They also picked grass to feed the guinea pigs.
We also talked about...
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Weekending 23rd September 2022
Our Five Senses
Next week we will learn the song, Miss Polly Had a Dolly. Please practise this at home with your child.
Thank you.
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Weekending 16th September 2022
Getting to know you
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Weekending 9th September 2022
Settling in to the Bluebell Class
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