What a super start to school our Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have had over the past few weeks! We have been so impressed with how brilliantly they have settled into the school routine, utilising their new environments and forming new friendships with their peers and all of the teachers. 

The children have been exploring the different areas in their own classroom and investigating our outdoor areas also. They have been learning and applying new skills, such as putting their pictures and belongings in their drawers and learning how to be independent at school by doing up their own coats. The children are embracing the responsibility of hanging up their coat, putting away their bags and looking after their water bottles too! As the Autumn weather begins to make an apperence, please keep practicing those self-help skills. For example, encouraging your child to put on their own coat and doing it up.

We have been incredibly impressed with all of the 'Me and My Family' posters that you took your time to do over the summer holidays. These posters have gone up on the wall in the children's 'special space' and they have felt comforted and excited to share them with their new friends and teachers. We have loved spending time looking at the posters, learning more about the children and their families. It has given us all a chance to bond over things that are important so that they feel valued, safe and happy in our classrooms. 

We have loved seeing our Ready Teddies out and about practising for school over the summer holidays! It has been wonderful to see so many children learning, exploring and enjoying new experiences alongside their Ready Teddies as they prepared for their exciting next step. The children have been so excited to tell us all about what they have been getting up to with their Ready Teddies and we have loved hearing about and looking at their adventures. We have also enjoyed discovering some of the fantastic new names the children have given their Ready Teddies, such as Robbie! A big well done to all our children for taking part and helping their Ready Teddies get ready for school, it really has supported their super transition to school! 

Our Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have shown great enthusiasm towards learning at school and they were extremely excited to take home their first ever phonics reading book this week! The children have impressed us with their 'fast eyes' in maths when subitising and they have been creating counting wands to order and tag numbers. Some children have had a go at exploring natural patterns in the woodlands using objects such as conkers, stones, sticks and leaves! 

Last week we were reading The Colour Monster and using our schools  'Zones of Regulation' to support the children to understand their emotions and how we look, feel and act when we experience these different feelings. The children loved designing their own Colour Monster as well as acting out the different expressions represented by the colours! We have displayed a picture of the children acting out these emotions in our classrooms so that the children can show us how they are feeling each day! We have also been learning about what our amazing bodies can do and we have been reading project books, such as 'Your Body is Awesome!' This has inspired the children to challenge themselves to use their bodies in different ways such as balancing, hopping and risk taking!

During project, the children have been using mirrors to notice their own features in their reflections. After creating a giant self-portrait as a class and discussing the different facial features we have, the children were eager to get busy with designing and creating their own self-portrait using a mirror to help them along the way. 

We are so incredibly proud of how our wonderful Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have settled into school. It is SO great to see them all exploring, designing, creating and investigating in their new environments with big smiles on their faces! Well done Reception! 

What an incredible year it has been for our Eco Representatives! A huge thank you to the Eco team for their hard work and  enthusiasm to making FPIS a greener, more eco-friendly place. We wish them all the very best in their next adventures and know they’ll keep bringing fantastic, green ideas wherever they go!

Sunflower Growing Competition:

Don't forget to keep caring for your sunflowers over the Summer break! We can't wait to see how tall they've grown, so please remember to send in your photos and measurement updates after the Summer holidays.

Many congratulations to our green house team, Draco, for being awarded the most house points this term - an awesome 884! A great effort from everyone. Well done!