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Happy Friday! It was great to see so many parents this week at parents evening and talk about your children and how they have settled into school. This week, we looked at the story 'The Little Red Hen' and did actions for the words: baking concocting rising unhelpful stuffing collaborating The children enjoyed retelling the story using language from the story 'I will' and 'not I'. We talked about the characters and how the lazy dog, sleepy cat and noisy duck weren't very help

Happy Friday! The children are really enjoying doing actions to our words in our Drawing Club sessions. This week we have looked at 'The Three Little Pigs' and our words were: construct sturdy flimsy obliterate scraper exhale The children have been retelling the story, making masks, designing and making houses and enjoyed thinking of a disguise for the wolf to try and trick the pigs. Here are some patterns the children made in Maths: In phonics, the children have learnt 'ck',

Happy Friday! The children have really enjoyed looking at the story 'Goldilocks and The Three Bears'. They have been making meals in out home corner, using porridge in our tuff trays, creating a scene and retelling the stories using story stones, masks and figures. We created actions for the words: demolish guzzle perfect slumber uneven cramped In Maths, we have been continuing to compare and order objects. This week we have been looking at sizes and ordered bears and objects

Happy Friday! Thank you so much for all the baby photos that were sent in, the children really enjoyed trying to guess who was who. We read the story 'Once there were giants' and talked about how they have changed. The children have also created a self portrait of themselves to go in our home corner and decorated a photo frame which they have brought home today. Our certificate winner this week is Norah. She has settled well into school and been courageous with her learning,

Thank you to the parents, carers, and grandparents who joined the phonics sessions on Thursday. It was wonderful to see you and to share our approach to teaching phonics and reading in Reception and Key Stage 1. If you couldn't attend, here's the link to the Little Wandle phonics website's parent section. You'll find short videos to assist with phoneme pronunciation and plenty of information on how we teach reading. Additionally, there are numerous videos with nursery rhymes

Happy Friday! We have been looking at the book 'The Colour Monster' and talking about different emotions. The children have enjoyed saying and doing actions for our words of the week. The words have been: shimmering, sobbing, enraged, time, timid and tranquillity. If you ask your child they should be able to show you them at home. The children have been drawing their own monster, feeding monsters with poms poms, making monsters using playdough and practising their cutting ski

Happy Friday! The children have done their first full week at school! We are so proud of how they have all settled in and are getting used to the rules and routines. Our certificate winner this week is Oliver, for being courageous and settling so well into school. Well done! We have looked at the story 'Super Duper You' and the children liked talking about what was super about them. We have created our class charter and talked about how we can try to make sure everyone feels

What a fantastic start to the year in Beech Class! The children have settled well into school life. They have enjoyed exploring our indoor and outdoor environment and are getting used to the routines. Please can you make sure all you child's belongings are named, so if any get misplaced they can be quickly returned. Thank you. PE will be on Friday. Please remember that P.E. kit is a plain white t-shirt with navy joggers or shorts and their SCHOOL cardigan or jumper. Hoodies a

Happy Friday and happy summer holidays! We have been looking at the story ‘Oliver’s Fruit Salad’ and the children enjoyed tasting lots of fruit in their own fruit salad. We also read ‘Handa’s surprise' and talked about words to describe food such as crunchy and creamy. In maths, we used fruit to help solve addition and subtraction problems and we have been sorting food into healthy and unhealthy. We had a very special drawing club this week where Greg Bottrill shared ‘Trip

Happy Friday! It has been another hot week this week! A reminder to please put your child's name in their belongings. There has been a few hats that have been misplaced and if they have names in, they can quickly be returned. Thank you. We started our week with move up morning and football fun! We have been looking at the story 'Snail Trail' and the childen have been trying to use position language and directions. They have also been looking at where insects live, hunting for

Happy Friday! It has been a hot one this week! We have been looking at the story 'You can't take an elephant on holiday'. We have talked about seasons, holidays and things we think about during different times of the year. In drawing club, the children wrote about other places they wouldn't take their pet and their ideas included Tesco, to a disco, the swimming pool and to the beach. The children have been using ice creams to make patterns, look at ways to make 10 and have de

Happy Friday! What a busy week we have had! We have had class photos, our school trip and 'Little Lives' workshop. The children have loved looking at 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' story. They have been retelling the story, building bridges and sharing goats between fields. In Maths, we have looked at subitising, number bonds to 5 and subtraction facts. Yesterday, we had a fantastic day at Home Farm at Attingham. The children enjoyed seeing and feeding animals and learning mor

Happy Friday! We can't believe we are now in the last half term! Where has the time gone! It was great to see so many adults at our 'Inspire Afternoon' yesterday. The children enjoyed showing their indoor and outdoor classroom and sharing what it is they do and where they get to explore whilst at school. Today, they have brought home the sunflowers they planted. This week we have been looking at the story ' Sharing a shell'. In our drawing club, we have been drawing the chara