Diary dates - coming up soon!

Here is a look at what's going to be happening in school during the next few weeks...

Monday 13th May - Early Years journey to Windsor

Tuesday 14th May - Poetry Parade with Simon Mole

Monday 20th - Friday 24th May - Walk to School Week

Monday 20th May - Road Safety Magic Shows (all year groups)

Tuesday 21st May - Rabbi Zvi Solomons visiting Year 1 

Friday 24th May - Term ends

Monday 27th May - Friday 31st May - Half term holiday

Monday 3rd June - Term begins

Monday 10th June - Early Years Busy Learning Morning: 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Tuesday 11th June - Class Photographs 

Friday 14th June - FPSA Tombola cups - non-uniform day

Friday 14th June - Early Years Exhibition: 2:30 pm

Tuesday 18th June - Parent/Carer SEND Coffee morning with GEMS: 9;30 am - 10:30 am

Saturday 22nd June - FPSA Summer Fair: 11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Friday 28th June - Sports Day: 1:30 pm

Tuesday 2nd July - Family Boat Building Fun - Year 2: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Thursday 4th July - Teacher Treasure Trail - Year 1: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Friday 5th July - Sports Day (reserve date): 1:30 pm

Friday 5th July - End of Year Reports to parents

Wednesday 10th July - Early Years and Year 1 Parent Meetings: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Thursday 11th July - Year 2 Parent Meetings: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Friday 12th July - 'Road2Paris' Olympic Workshops - KS1 

Tuesday 16th July - Year 1 Excellent Ending: 9:15 am - 10:15 am

Wednesday 17th July - Transition Day - children meet their new class teacher(s)

Thursday 18th July - Year 2 End of Year Performance 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Thursday 18th July - Year 2 End of Year Performance 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Friday 19th July - Year 2 End of Year Performance 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Friday 19th July - FPSA Year 2 Leavers Disco: 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Tuesday 23rd July - Early Years Graduation: 9:15 am

Wednesday 24th July - Term ends SCHOOL FINISHES @ 1:30 pm

Thursday 25th July - INSET Day (school closed)

Friday 26th July - Summer Holidays

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Our Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have been super busy since returning from their Easter holidays! We launched our new project on Journeys and the children were excited to share all the journeys that they had been on during the Easter break! Our Early Years explored a range of maps and discovered why they might be helpful. Following this the children also walked around our school grounds using maps of the school to help them on their journey. Once the children had returned back to their classroom they 'had a go' at designing their own map. They drew parts of the school that they had noticed such as the log park, pond, woodlands and more! We used directional language and our senses as we travelled around. Many of the children were inspired by the different map's in our classroom and chose to create another one during busy learning. 

Our Bumblebee's, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have been making good use of our planting area outdoors. The children have prepared the growing beds and planted a variety of vegetable seeds in pots. Our Early Years have been caring for them in Bumblebee classroom and when they are ready the children will re-plant the vegetables in our growing area where they can continue to grow until they are ready to eat!

In maths with have been using our subitising and composition knowledge to make '5 and a bit'. The children have been making links and using different representations to explore the composition of numbers to 10. For Marvellous Maths they have enjoyed exploring money through role play shops in their classrooms. Last week we explored positional language and following a route around the classroom. 

Our Early Years team created car washes with the children to engage and motivate them to use their fine motor skills when washing small world cars and other vehicles. They produced a lot of bubbles!

This week we began retelling the Gingerbread Man traditional tale through actions and words. Linking to our work on Journeys and maps the children created their own story maps to help them retell the story in sequence. We will keep rehearsing our story telling before sharing we you all on Seesaw. Next week we are going to revisit our mathematical learning on weight and will be creating our own delicious gingerbread biscuits for the children to bring home.

Year 1

What a way to begin our new project, We’re Going on an Adventure! by learning so much from our friends about the different places, towns, cities or countries that they had visited or were special to them!  We learnt about a huge variety of places and even listened to some different languages!  It was wonderful to see and hear the children speak so passionately about their chosen place.  Thank you to everyone who spent time preparing the outfits, objects, presentations and also for discussing your children’s ideas with them!

Last week we travelled around the world to visit South Africa, Brazil, New Zealand, Pakistan, Canada and France.  We made our own passports and boarded planes to reach our destinations.  We investigated some of the main physical features, languages, weather and animals found in each of the countries.  We then added some of these to our passports.  We have also been learning about the continents of the world and looking at their similarities and differences.

Our Sticky Knowledge for music has been to play tuned instruments; we have had a lot of fun learning how to play God Save the King on glockenspiels.

During our maths sessions we have continued to look at the place value of numbers to 50.  Our drip feed has been to recognise the UK coins and notes.  We have also been working on the beginnings of multiplication and division by counting in steps of 2s, 5s and 10s, grouping objects into equal groups and drawing arrays.  These concepts fit in with the big idea of unitising: counting in steps of equal sizes and treating a group of, say, five objects as one unit of five.

We have had an exciting start to our project 'Wonderful Water!' which we launched with our Brilliant Beginning. We called this our Water Creative Day and enjoyed two creative activities. We explored Hokusai and recreated our versions of his artwork The Great Wave and also created our own class collages of the ocean, thinking about the different marine animals who use the ocean as their habitat.

Continuing with the artistic theme we have also been exploring the work of J.M.W Turner and paying particular attention to his use of watercolour paints. We have been experimenting different techniques we can use to help us in creating our own piece of artwork. 

We have also been busy learning about the five different oceans and the different layers of the ocean, creating our own information sheets with illustrations to show what we have found out.

Plastic Pollution has also been a theme we are beginning to investigate, thinking about the impact of this on our oceans, humans, and animals. We have been taking part in our own rescue missions using tweezers and a water tray in our classrooms!

Finally, as mathematicians we have been busy exploring fractions and learning that fractions can be fun! :-)

Awesome achievements!

We love finding out about and celebrating our children's achievements outside of school!

If your child has an achievement that they are very proud of and would like to share with us all, they will get the opportunity to do so during our Celebration Assembly on a Friday. 

Every Friday, during our whole school Celebration Assembly, Head of School awards are given out to a child or children in each class. The certificates are presented by Mrs Indge to those children who have consistently demonstrated excellent behaviours for learning.

Miss Dexter pops on her Superhero cape each week during Celebration Assembly to present our SuperPoWeR awards. The awards are given to children who have been demonstrating excellent behaviour through our school values of Passion, Well being and Respect. 

Every week, during our Head of School Assembly, a bingo ball is selected from our special red bag. The bingo balls are numbered 1 - 30. Each child in Year 1 and 2 with the corresponding register number to the ball chosen will have the opportunity to bring their Maths book and Project scrapbook to share with Miss Dexter, Miss Edmondson and Mrs Indge later that week. During the Book Bingo session, the children spend time looking through the books together with the adults, whilst discussing and explaining what they have been busy learning about.