Class 1

It has been lovely welcoming our preschool children this week. They have done so well and it has been lovely to see our reception children helping them to settle in. The children have been talking about themselves, where they live and about their interests and favourite things. Please send in…

We have had another lovely week spent finishing our ocean models and drawing faces in the style of Pablo Picasso!

The children have enjoyed playing in our new quite area and have had a fantastic time building a car garage in the outside construction area.

We are excited about the preschool…

Welcome back!

The EYFS team hope that you have had a wonderful summer holiday.

It has been lovely to welcome your children into Class 1 and hear all about what they got up to during the holidays.

We have enjoyed playing with the children and seeing them play with old and new…

It’s hard to believe that the academic year has almost come to an end. It has been a privilege to teach your children. The year has been jam packed with so many lovely activities and we have really enjoyed sharing these with your children and watching them flourish. We would like to wish you all a…

What a fantastic week we have had. The highlight of the week was harvesting our potatoes which created great excitement. The children enjoyed eating these yesterday for their snack! 
The children have enjoyed some of Mrs Compton’s lovely tuff tray activities.

In RE the children had a go at…

This week we have explored shape, manipulating and rotating shapes to make new shapes. The children have really enjoyed the challenges and problem solving. We will continue with this next week.

In RE we talked about why everyone is special and unique and read the parable about the lost…

This week reception have been practising adding numbers together using 10s frames and counters. We will continue to do lots of practise at adding and taking away now in preparation for Year 1.

Everyday we practise counting beyond 20, doubling numbers and recognising odd and even…

This week reception have been practising the tricky words… what, when and were.

In Monster Phonics the reception children have moved on to CVCC words whilst the preschool children have been introduced to the phoneme ‘s’.

Our new topic is about the seaside. The children have done some…

This week the children have enjoyed exploring pattern. They have moved on from simple patterns and have been able to create more complex patterns using a variety of different media which you will see in the gallery.

The children have really enjoyed our ‘pets’ topic. Mrs Gethin visited our class…

This week the children have been learning about pets and what pets need to flourish. Today the reception children wrote all about their pet. We have really focused on remembering capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

The children have enjoyed making and painting dogs and cats.…

It has been a very exciting week this week! The children have loved meeting the Rodbaston animals. We were delighted to have two ferrets running freely around the classroom and we all got to hold the python. The children held a Giant African Snail and met some rather large stick insects!

Today…

It was lovely to welcome the children back on Monday! They have enjoyed the lovely weather and have been keen to play outside this week. We were all excited to see that the potatoes and sunflowers have grown. Our gardening monitors have been busy watering the plants everyday.

In monster phonics…