Welcome to Wren Class

Term 5 Week 2

• This week we have continued learning about Spring. We have looked at flowers and the different animals that have their young in springtime. We have begun growing cress. We sprinkled the seeds onto cottonwool and sprayed them with water. Later in the week we have made careful observations of how the seeds have changed and made careful drawings of what we saw.

• Our drawing club book was Rosie's walk. We drew the fox and how Rosie could hide from the fox. 

• We have continued learning phase 4 phonics and have been learning more adjacent consonants and the suffix 'ed'.

• In Maths we have been having a big push on all the number bonds to 10.

• In PE we continued playing sports games. This week we pretended to be aeroplanes and travelled from airport to airport, we also tried to get planes (beanbags) to land safely in an airport (hoop).

• Don't forget to scroll down and see this week's selfie station photos!

Term 5 Week 1

• This week we have been learning about Spring, now that it seems to have finally sprung into action! We went on a signs of Spring nature walk, where we used a checklist to find different Spring things, including blossom and seedlings. We have been filling pots with compost ready for planting and digging holes in the sand pit big enough for some big pots. We have been using our fine motor skills to cut out the parts of flowers and build our own arrangements for our role play florists. 

• Our drawing club traditional tale was Jack and the Beanstalk. We drew the giant, his castle and how the police might catch Jack after he stole all of the Giant's things. 

• We have continued learning phase 4 phonics and have been learning more adjacent consonants.

• In Maths we have been learning about the different ways to make 9 and 10.

• In PE we have begun playing sports games. This week we pretended to drive cars and changed our action when Mrs Blackmore called different words.

• We now have a Selfie Station!! Scroll down below our weekly slideshow to see our selfie station photos

Term 4 Week 6

• This week we have been learning about Easter. We listened to the Easter story to find out why and how Christians celebrate the festival. We have made Easter biscuits and chocolate nests, designed our own Easter eggs and painted spring daffodils. 

• Our drawing club traditional tale was Little Red Riding Hood.We invented a new cake for Grandma and a new disguise for the Big Bad Wolf. 

• We have continued learning phase 4 phonics. We have been learning more adjacent consonants. We also wrote labels for a picture an Easter basket.

• In Maths we have been learning about the different ways to make 9 and 10.

• We enjoyed a bowling game in the hall for PE this week

• We have finished sewing our bookmarks and they have been laminated and sent home

Have a lovely break and we will see you after the holidays.

Term 4 Week 4 and 5

• The last two weeks we have continued learning about people who help us. We have focused on fire fighters. Our fire station role play has been very popular.

• We loved STEM week. We set the rest of the school the challenge to build the tallest tower in one minute at the STEM fayre.

• Our drawing club animation last week was Bananaman, we really loved watching it and creating our own invention for the villain! 

• We have continued learning phase 4 phonics. We have been learning more adjacent consonants. We also wrote labels for a picture of a fireman.

• In Maths we have been learning about time and also understanding the composition of 9 and 10. We made our own class book of how 9 and 10 can be represented.

• Our physical friday this week included, write dance and then we explored with tweezers, play dough and foam as well as testing our strength on the bridge.

• We have been carefully sewing bookmarks that we will finish next week.

• This week we also planted some pansies in our outside area.

Term 4 Week 3

• This week we have continued learning about people who help us. We have learned about people that work in hospitals. We have been busy bandaging each other up.

• Our drawing club book has continued to be Zog and the Flying Doctors. We retold the story through story maps.

• We have begun learning phase 4 phonics this week. We have been learning the adjacent consonants  ft, lf, ld, lk, lp and lt. We also wrote labels for a picture of Sir Gadabout from our story.

• In Maths we have been learning length and height. we have been measuring with cubes and comparing objects to see which are longer and which are shorter.

• We began sewing this week using binka and wool. 

Term 4 Week 2

• This week we have continued learning about people who help us. We have learned about people that work in hospitals. We have enjoyed playing in our hospital role play. We have tried to make hospitals out of lego.

• Our drawing club book has been Zog and the Flying Doctors. We have drawn Princess Pearl and her Uncle's castle.

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are ure and er. We have been using our spelling skills to Label the Zog and to write a sentence about what happened to him.

• In Maths we have been learning about doubles and, combining two groups and subitising larger amounts by looking for groups.

• We continued our weaving journey this week using weaving boards and weaving under and over. 

• On Physical Friday this week we enjoyed a pen disco, using our hand and finger strength to manipulate playdough and we used hammers and tacs to make pictures with shapes

Term 4 Week 1

• This week we have been learning about people who help us. This week we have thought about postal workers, we have enjoyed playing in our role play post office, where we have been wrapping parcels, selling stamps and sorting mail in the sorting office. We have enjoyed listening to the Jolly Postman. We went on a delivery journey around the school and delivered the letters from the story to the fairy tale characters. We also made houses to go on a map of the story and drew our own maps of how we get to school. We learned about the journey of a letter, wrote a letter to Mr Snell and posted it in the postbox.

• Our drawing club book has been the Tiger who Came to Tea. We have drawn the tiger and the cafe, thought about what the tiger would eat in the cafe and drew him a picture of what the Tiger Bus might look like to help him get home.

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are ow, oi, ear and air. We have been using our spelling skills to Label the Jolly Postman and write who he might visit next.

• In Maths we have been learning about pairs to make odd and even and how a double is 2 lots of something..

• We began experimenting with weaving this week.

• In PE we have focused on ball control, we tried passing a ball to a friend and rolling it through their legs

• On Physical Friday this week we scrimbled in shaving foam as part of our Write Dance session. Some of us went out to a multi-sports session and some of us did some painting and cleaning outside.

Term 3 Week 6

• This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year and the year of the dragon. We have enjoyed making and tasting stir fry and fortune cookies. We played in our Chinese restaurant role play area and made dragons from recycled materials. 

• Our drawing club tale has been The Great Race. We have learned about the story of how the years were named after animals. We drew the dragon and thought of ways to win the race.

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are or, ur, ow and oi.

• In Maths we have continued learning about learning about 6,7 and 8.

• We used mirrors and pencils to carefully draw self portraits.

Have a wonderful half term break and we will see you on the 19th February

Term 3 Week 5

• This week we have been looking at ocean habitats, we have been drawing sea creatures, playing pairs games, fishing with magnets and making jelly fish for our aquarium!

• Our drawing club story has been Tiddler. We drew Tiddler, his school and how to rescue Tiddler from a net.

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are igh, oo, oa and ar 

• In Maths we have continued learning about capacity and have been learning about 6,7 and 8.

• We made careful pencil drawings of flowers and fruit in art this week.

Term 3 Week 4

• Our drawing club Animation has been Mr Benn. We drew Mr Benn and the zoo.

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are th, ng, ai and ee. 

• In Maths we have been learning about heavy and light, using scales to check and to try and make a balance. We have also learned about capacity, trying to fill different containers.

• We made magical marks in art using chalks, we made different patterns and shapes. 

• We danced as if we were different polar animals, we enjoyed walking in a long line of penguins playing follow my leader.

• As part of eco week, we built boats out of recycled materials and then tested them to see if they would float and how many toy animals it would take to sink them! We also helped to clean up some rubbish and sort it into paper and plastic for recycling.

Term 3 Week 3

• Our drawing club Story has been Penguin by Polly Dunbar. We drew the lion, what we could feed the lion and where we could hide from the lion.

• The children have loved role playing in our explorer centre, using binoculars and magnifying glasses and recording information on the computer. They have also enjoyed playing with our huge box and understanding how to sign up for a waiting list to use it!

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are zz, qu, ch and sh. 

• In Maths we have been understanding the composition of 5, using two sided counters and part, whole models.

• We made magical marks in art using felt tips, we made different patterns and shapes. We also enjoyed guided drawing to draw a penguin with chalk.

• For Physical Friday, this week we enjoyed trying Write Dance where we moved our bodies to a song and then made marks on huge sheets of paper, next we tried tearing masking tape and screwing nuts and bolts

Term 3 Week 2

• Our drawing club tale has continued to be the Three Little Pigs. This week we drew the wolf in disguise and decided how the wolf would eventually catch the pigs

• The children have loved role playing in our explorer centre, using binoculars and magnifying glasses and recording information on the computer.

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are w, x, y and z. 

• In Maths we have been practising  0-5 and also thinking about 1 more. we played one more beat on drums and built towers one more cube high when a new character appeared in our story Billy's Beetle.

• Our PE lessons this term focus on ball control. This week we used large balls and pretended to be bees pushing nectar home to our hives. We also tried stopping the balls with our hands and then our feet.

• We made magical marks in art by rubbing wax crayons onto paper over different surfaces.

• Every Friday afternoon will be Physical Friday, when we will have lots of fine motor and gross motor activities and challenges. This week we enjoyed trying Write Dance where we moved our bodies to a song and then made marks on huge sheets of paper.

Term 3 Week 1

What a great two days back at school.

• Our drawing club tale is the Three Little Pigs and we have drawn the wolf and one of the pigs houses so far.

• This term we will be exploring different animal habitats. We have started by thinking about the animals we might find in our local area and in woodlands. The children have loved using our explorer centre.

• The phonemes we have revisited this week are j and v. 

• In Maths we have learned about zero and created our own pictures to make an "All About Zero" class book.

• Our PE lesson focused on ball control, we had to move small balls around a cone and around the room before having a game of cone bowling.

• Every Friday afternoon will be Physical Friday, when we will have lots of fine motor and gross motor activities and challenges. This week we unscrewed nuts and bolts, swept up our outside area after all the rain and made shapes in rice.

How have we only been back for two days?!

Term 2 Week 7

We have had a festive week at school. Shows, visits and Christmas dinner!

• Our drawing club book has continued to be The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson.

• We have been decorating Christmas decorations.

• We were amazing in our performance of Hey Ewe!

• We went to the library and were really lucky because a Christmas Elf called Jingles came too and read us a story! On the way back we spent 50p at the bakery to buy a special Christmas Tree biscuit.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are air, ure and er. 

• We have been using our fine motor skills to sew Christmas stockings!

Term 2 Week 6

We have continued our topic about light and dark this week.

• Our drawing club book has been The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson.

• We have made salt dough this week to create a special surprise for you.

• We continued learning about the Christmas story and practising for our Christmas show. 

• We have been focusing on our core strength and enjoying some daily yoga.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are ow, oi and ear. We added 'are' and 'my' to our common exception words.

• Our roleplay area has become a Christmas Card Factory and we have been very creative all week.

Term 2 Week 5

We have continued our topic about light and dark this week.

• Our drawing club traditional tale has been The Gingerbread Man, we thought about what other character the little old woman might bake.

• We have carefully drawn owls by following a draw with Rob tutorial.

• We continued learning about the Christmas story and begun staging our show. 

• We have been learning about the composition of numbers 1-5 and found different ways to represent each number.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are oo, ar, or and ur We added 'they' and 'all' to our common exception words.

• We were lucky to try out VX in PE. It was great fun!

Term 2 Week 4

We have continued our topic about light and dark with the story of The Owl Babies.

• Our drawing club book has been The Colour Monster, drew maps to help the monster find a stolen jar.

• We have explored in the dark with torches to find and read hidden words.

• We used leaves to create owl feather pictures.

• We began learning about the story of the Nativity. 

• We had a great time junk modelling, working in small groups to create inventions.

• We have been learning about one more and one less, we have sung lots of songs and used cubes and five frames.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are ai, ee, ight, and oa. We added 'was' and 'you' to our common exception words.

• This week was Road Awareness Week, we watched a video about how important it is to hold hands, then we all went and carefully crossed the road outside school, using the pelican crossing.

Term 2 Week 3

We have continued our topic about light and dark with the story of Oliver's Wood. We have learned all about nocturnal and diurnal animals.

• Our drawing club animation has been Wacky Races, we designed a new vehicle for the race and decided what the winners would get.

• We have explored in the dark with torches to find the different animals hidden in Oliver's Wood.

• We used construction materials to make hedgehog houses.

• In PE we started working on our ball skills, rolling, bouncing and catching.

• We have been learning about 4 and 5, counting objects, and looking at what makes up 4 and 5 through pictures and objects (and using our fingers).

• The phonemes we have learned this week are ch, sh, th and ng. We added 'he' and 'she' to our common exception words.

• As it was maths week we learned how to do colour by number and then created our own

Term 2 Week 2

We have continued our topic about light and dark by learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali this week.

• Our drawing club tale has been Chicken Licken, we loved acting out the story and all of the silly character names made us laugh.

• We have learned about Diwali and how Hundus celebrate. We made our own rangoli pattern with colourful rice.

• We have been learning about circles and triangle and we went on a shape hunt around the school and took photos of the shapes that we saw

• The phonemes we have learned this week are y, z, zz and qu. We added 'be' to our common exception words.

• We also learned about remembrance day and made poppy art work, and biscuits.

Term 2 Week 1

We started this week as we mean to go on, busy, singing, dancing and laughing a lot. Our class has been full of joy.

• Our drawing club book has been What's in the Witch's Kitchen, it really made us giggle. We drew things that we would eat in the kitchen and how we would escape

• We have learned about bonfire night "Remember Remember th 5th of November". We used our fine motor skills to create beautiful firework posters using chalks and black paper.

• We have been applying our understanding of number to 3. We played a firework rocket game where we had to roll the dice and move our counter 1,2 or 3 spaces.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are j, v, w and x. We added 'me' to our common exception words.

Term 1 Week 7

Wow! we have come to the end of term 1 and what a fantastic term it has been. The children in Wren Class have made so much progress, they know all of our routines and rules and have shown how grown up and fun they are.

Enjoy having a look at the last photos from Term 1

Term 1 Week 6

This week we have been learning about the seasonal changes that happen in Autumn. 

• Our drawing club tale has been The Magic Porridge Pot, a big thank you for all parents who were able to attend our open session on Monday. On Friday we drew and talked about who the Wizard might invite to a party and what might happen at the party.

• Because we had listened to The Magic Porridge Pot, we also made and tasted porridge, which was mostly a hit!

• We used collage on Monday in our art lesson, we also made transient art, where the objects used could be moved.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are h, b, f and ff. We added 'no' and 'I' to our common exception words.

• In maths we have been learning about repeating patterns and making our own using actions, instruments and equipment in our classroom.

• This week in PE we were superheroes being controlled by the villain Mr Freeze. When ever he said "Freeze" we had to freeze on the spot.

• We also had a go at some Pen Discos! Have a look at the link below our photos if you would like a pen disco at home. It is a great way to strengthen the children's pencil grip and fine motor skills.

Term 1 Week 5

This week we have been learning about the seasonal changes that happen in Autumn. 

• Our drawing club book has been Dear Zoo. On Friday we drew and talked about what we could feed a hungry crocodile.

• We listened to the story of Stone Soup and made our own soup, carefully cutting the different vegetables. Most of the children enjoyed eating the soup too! 

• We decorated ceramic leaves to hang on our class tree and make it look autumnal. We talked about the different colours that we see in autumn.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are ck, e, u and r. We now also know three common exception words (the, to and into).

• In maths we have been learning about measure, thinking about more and less, longer and shorter, bigger and smaller, and heavier and lighter.

• We also have enjoyed having a pumpkin patch outside and our pumpkin patch cafe inside. The children helpped to set the cafe up and to create the menu.

Term 1 Week 4

This week we have continued learning about Harvest. 

• Our drawing club adventure of the past was the Magic Roundabout. We drew Zebedee on Monday!

• We have been conker hunting, trying hard to find the biggest and the best! we then drew the conkers and looked up close with magnifying glasses. 

• We painted to music in art and thought about how the different songs made us feel as we painted.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are g, o, c and k. we have begun writing some words using all the phase 2 graphemes that we now know.

• In maths we learnt about sorting rules. The class had to guess what rule Mrs Blackmore was using to sort some shapes.

• In PE we moved like mythical creatures, and transported faries through throwing and catching.

Term 1 Week 3

This week we have begun learning about Harvest. Our drawing club tale was The Little Red Hen, which we acted out.

• Unlike the characters in the Little Red Hen, we worked together to make bread (hope you got to try some).

• We made our own natural paintbrushes in art.

• The phonemes we have learned this week are i, n, m and d. we have begun writing some words using all the phase 2 graphemes that we now know.

• In maths we thought about sharing and how to make things fair. We listened to the story Seaweed Soup and then shared out food into lunch boxes, so that everyone had the same.

• In PE we acted like pirates, moving around the room in different ways and jumping over our treasure.

• We know its REALLY early but we have designed our Christmas cards, so that you have time to order them to give out to all of your friends and family.

Term 1 Week 2

This week we really got into the swing of reception.

• We have been doing daily phonics lessons learning the phonemes s,a,t and p. We have begun learning how the different phonemes blend together to make words.

• We began drawing club, an exciting and joyful approach to literacy, where we learn how words affect a story.

• Music box and song bag have been great fun.

• We have used our fingers and hands to express our artistic sides.

• In PSHE we have discussed how we are all different and all special.

• In PE we moved around the room carefully and followed 2 step and 3 step instructions.

Term 1 Week 1

We have had a lovely start to the year in Wren Class and the children have settled in well. Have a look through our photo gallery below to see some of the pictures of us working hard and exploring the environment.