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Miss Firth, Mrs Leiper and the children of Class 1 welcome you to our class page.
We are proud to show you our learning journey which showcases the ways in which we learn, through carefully planned play opportunities based on a range of themes and also the ongoing interests of the children. Come and take a look!
Class Timetables 2024-2025
What we are learning this half term...
Our EYFS Curriculum
Knowledge Organisers
Forest School & Swimming 2024-2025
Phonics Information
EYFS 2024-2025
Letters to Santa
The children wrote letters to Santa this week and posted them in the local post box!
Christmas 2024
Light and Dark: Space week
The children had a lovely week finding out about Space. We investigated why it might be dark in space and the children decided it was because Space is so big! The children enjoyed dressing up as astronauts, space subitising and painting planets.
Light and Dark: Owl Babies and Nocturnal Animals
This week we read the story of 'Owl babies' and re-told the story using Pie Corbett's 'Talk for Writing'. We learnt that owls are 'nocturnal' and we researched other creatures that also like the dark. We painted pictures of them and made silhouette puppets for our light box along with using clay to make hedgehogs!
Finally we had a special visitor from Becky at 'Animal Encounters' who kindly showed us Hattie the hedgehog and some other nocturnal friends of hers.
Children in Need 2024: Superhero PE- Under and over, balancing and climbing
Light and Dark: Diwali the Festival of Light
This week the children learnt that fireworks are used in many festivals and celebrations around the world such as Diwali. We read the text 'Depal's Diwali' and talked about how the Hindu and Sikh faith along with others prepare for their festival and why they celebrate. We observed artefacts, made Diya lamp suncatchers and clay models. In our maths, creative and loose parts areas the children enjoyed making their own beautiful Rangoli patterns. Later we made special Indian Diwali sweets called Coconut Ladoo. We then studied India in more detail and located it on a map. We found many similarities and differences between our cultures such as the weather and the clothes that we wear. Our role play area was transformed into an Indian Market which we had great fun playing in.
Reception Remember
Light and Dark: Bonfire Night
We started our new topic 'Light and Dark' with a BANG! We have been finding out about Bonfire Night and the historical story of Guy Fawkes. The children enjoyed making firework paintings, and counting marsh mallows into hot chocolate cups and even writing cvc words in hot chocolate powder. There was lots of discussion around our curiosity cube table as the children observed sparklers, toffee apples and photographs. The children made a 'guy' for the fire at forest school and lit sparklers remembering our bonfire night safety rules discussed in class. Some of the children created fantastic models of The Houses of Parliament in our indoor and outdoor building areas and used some loose parts in their block play.
Maths- It's Me 1,2,3
Writers in the making
The children love mark making and practicing the formation of known sounds from phonics. They choose to do this at the writing table, outside and even lying on their tummies on the classroom floor. We often have crafts that link to our new sounds too to help to embed the learning.
Sparking curiosity with our 'Curiosity Cube'
The children were excited to see the arrival of our new curiosity cube today! Inside were some items linked to Autumn which the children we encouraged to discuss with one another incorporating any new vocabulary learnt in our Autumn topic. They then drew pictures of what they could see and used some initial sounds to begin to write!
All things Autumn!
