Autumn Album and information
w/c 17th December
The children will perform their Christmas play to the rest of the school on Monday.
On Tuesday we look forward to welcoming you to our Christmas crafts morning. Crafts begin at 8.40am with the children performing their Christmas play after refreshments. We expect the festivities to end at 10am.
Friday is our Christmas jumper day and we will have party food and play some games. There might even be a special visitor!
We hope you have a fantastic Christmas and a very happy New Year!
Mrs Wright and Mrs Lester
Christmas party!
w/c 10th December
This week the children will be listening to the story about the first Christmas.
They will be experimenting with mixing colours and finding out the different colours they can make.
The children will be practicing copying letters of their name and writing about the first Christmas.
The children will also be playing a number game and placing the correct number of baubles on the christmas tree.
Monday is our parent's Christmas dinner.
Remember to keep practicing the Christmas songs!
Christmas counting
w/c 3rd December
Our Weekly focus
We will only be focusing on number 9 this week.
We will be practicing our Christmas songs and the Christmas performance.
The children will be making something to sell at the Christmas fair and you will have chance to buy what your child has made on Friday.
The children will also be practicing writing their names.
Friday is our Christmas fair. The fair starts at 2pm till 4pm.
We hope to see you there!
Please help your children learn the following songs
w/c 26th November
Our Weekly focus
Our number of the week is 8.
Our colour of the week is back.
Our shape of the week is a oval.
Our sound of the week is a.
We will be practicing our Christmas songs.
On Friday we will be celebrating 'Linda the puppets' birthday. We will be making invitations and wrapping presents.
The children will also be practicing writing numbers.
Friday will be party day and non-uniform.
Party time!
Preparing for the party.
Wrapping presents for Linda
w/c 19th November
Our Weekly focus
Our number of the week is 7.
Our colour of the week is pink.
Our shape of the week is a pentagon.
Our sound of the week is s.
Our song of the week is Making new friends.
The children will also be learning all about Birthdays and why we have a birthday.
The children will be creating birthday cards and making cakes out of playdough.
We look forward to seeing you on our second parent's evening on Monday.
Playdough cakes
w/c 12th November
Our Weekly focus
Our number of the week is 6.
Our colour of the week is purple.
Our shape of the week is a diamond.
Our sound of the week is n.
Our song of the week is Humpty Dumpty.
The children will also be learning all about Bonfire night and why we have fireworks.
This week is Anti-Bullying week. There are bands for sale at 50p and Monday is odd socks day!
The children will be creating fireworks pictures.
Thursday is schools remembrance day and the children will be making some poppies.
We look forward to seeing you on our first parent's evening on Monday.
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Making poppies
Children in need
Firework painting
w/c 5th November
Our Weekly focus
Our number of the week is 5.
Our colour of the week is orange.
Our shape of the week is a star.
Our sound of the week is i.
Our song of the week is It's Diwali.
The children will also be learning all about Diwali and why Hindus celebrate the festival.
They will hear the story of Rama and Sita.
The children will also make their own Diva lamp.
Diva Lamps to celebrate Diwali
Enjoying our new resources and areas outside
The theme for Autumn Term 2 is Hip, Hip Hooray!
The children will be learning all about different festivals and celebrations.
We will makes lots of different crafts and celebrate Linda the puppets birthday.
We will continue to introduce a new number, sound, shape, colour and song each week.
Parents are invited to our annual Christmas crafts morning on Tuesday 18th December.
w/c Monday 22nd October:
Our weekly focus.
We will not have our weekly number, colour, shape or sound focus.
This week our focus is our senses.
Each day the children will learn about one of their senses and will take part in focused activities.
On Monday the children will be learning about their sight and playing 'I Spy!'
On Tuesday the children will be learning about their hearing and using our lovely new telephones to play 'Who's talking?'
On Wednesday the children will be learning about their sense of smell and using their noses to work out 'what is that smell?'
On Thursday the children will be doing some baking and tasting different flavoured scones.
On Friday the children will be finding out what is in the bag only using their sense of touch.
On Friday the children will also be taking part in a basketball shoot out.
What a busy week we have ahead!
Our Five Senses
Basketball shoot out
w/c 15th October
Weekly focus
Our number of the week is 4
Our shape of the week is a rectangle
Our colour of the week is green
Our sound of the week is p
Our song of the week is This is the way we out on our clothes.
We will share the story 'How do I put it on?'
The children will order how to get dressed and continue to practice their pencil control.
Getting dressed
w/c 8th October
Weekly focus
Our number of the week is 3
Our shape of the week is a circle
Our colour of the week is blue
Our sound of the week is t
Our song of the week is If you're happy and you know it.
We will share the story 'Funnybones.'
The children will paint pictures of their skeleton. We will look at different sized skeletons and put them in order.
Painting skeletons
Size order
w/c 1st October
Weekly focus
Our number of the week is 2
Our shape of the week is a triangle
Our colour of the week is yellow
Our sound of the week is a
Our song of the week is One finger, one thumb keep moving.
We will share the story 'Ten little fingers and ten little toes.'
The children will continue to name and label their body parts. We will be painting pictures to put on the display to show our first piece of work.
Body labels
w/c 24th September
Weekly focus
We will be introducing our weekly focus. Children are welcome to bring something from home that relates to our focus for the week.
Our number of the week is 1
Our shape of the week is a square
Our colour of the week is red
Our sound of the week is s
Our song of the week is Head, shoulders, knees and toes.
We will share the story 'What do I look like?'
The focus will be on emotions. We will encourage the children to use facial expressions to show different emotions and see if they can identify how others are feeling.
We will be working on number recognition from 1 to 5 and encourage the children to match cars to the right numeral.
Our emotions
w/c 3rd, 10th & 17th September
The first few weeks are our settling in period. We will work with the children to help them form relationships with their peers and the staff in Foundation 1.
The children will start to understand the rules and routines of the school.
We look forward to getting to know all the children.
Settling in
Our theme for Autumn Term 1 is 'Busy Bodies!'
The children will be learning all about their new surroundings and getting to know their peers and the adults. We will share different stories with the children and encourage their love for books.
The children will also learn about their emotions and body parts.
We will work with the children to improve pencil control and help them to start making marks that represent different things.
We will be looking at maths and consolidating the children's number recognition up to 5. We will also look at shapes and sizes.