It has been great having the children back in school this week: they seem well rested and ready for the summer term!

We kicked things off with our new ‘wild things’ topic which you will see from our home learning pyramid. This means we have been using our imaginations to create our own wild things and have used this as a context for our writing. Do you have any wild stories at home that you could read at bed time?

We are looking forward to our trip to Staunton on Monday. Please ensure that children are dressed appropriately and have a coat and their wellies (if not already in school).

Thanks to all our fabulous volunteers which have enabled the trip to go ahead.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Moncreaff, Mrs White, Mrs Stray and Mrs O’Carolan

Bloom’s HL – wild things

We love our chicks cuddles down in Reception. Miss Moncreaff has made sure that the chicks were still tame after a weekend away from the classroom by giving them lots of cuddles at home. Can you see how much they have grown already?

I’m sure you will all know by now that we have chicks in reception! Please ask your children all about them as they will be able to tell you lots. We have been writing to the chicks, about the chicks, and weighing them as well as their eggs.

Please continue to check the blog and tapestry for more updates!

Bloom’s HL – growing up

We LOVED our visit from the fire service on Thursday. It was wonderful that every child got to have a turn using the hose and getting inside the fire engine. We certainly learned lots!

Tomorrow we will be having visitors of the fluffy kind… Watch this space!

We hope you have had a lovely half term filled with lots of time for relaxation!

Just to keep you in the loop: we are having a visit from the fire service this week so have been getting ready! What do you think of our fire station and fire engine?

Home Learning w/b 8/2/16

We have been learning all about ‘people who help us’. Who do you know that does a job which helps people?

Sounds this week:

‘oa’ ‘oo’ (as in boot) ‘oo’ (as in book)

Tricky words: ‘was’ and ‘my’

Please look at a book a day on Bugclub over the holidays!

We have thoroughly enjoyed our ‘people who help us’ topic so far- the highlight of which is certain to be the visit from two police officer Daddies (Officer Burridge and Officer Lipscomb) and our local PCSO, Carl Boxall.

Oliver even asked to arrest me!

Our birthday children got to set off the lights and the siren (which was very loud), and we all learned which number to call if we had an emergency. We also talked about police officers being there to help– not someone to be scared of!

Here are some photos of our fun day of learning!

We hope your children have been telling you all about ‘People Who Help Us’: our new topic! We have been busy thinking of what we want to learn about and making new role play areas, including a vets surgery!

We will be visited tomorrow by a police officer, a PCSO and a police car in order to make the topic come alive. If any parents would like to volunteer to share their profession with us then please do!

Below is this week’s home learning, including the link to the new pyramid (a copy of which is also stuck into your child’s home learning adventure book).

Home Learning w/b 1/2/16

We have been learning all about ‘people who help us’. Who helps you? Could you interview them? Draw them? Write about them?

Tricky words this week:

‘the’ ‘to’ ‘we’ ‘me’  ‘be’ ‘he’ ‘she’ ‘no’ ‘go’

Can you do some police maths? E.g. 3 robbers, 2 go to jail, how many are left?

Bloom’s HL People Who Help Us