We have been making the most of the Spring weather and enjoying the outdoor areas around school. Our class love the mud kitchen, it is a chance to explore the mud using lots of different tools and utensils whilst getting messy and having fun. It provides a whole variety of different learning opportunities including sensory, imaginative, creative and exploratory play. The water wall is also a big hit whilst encouraging children to problem solve, increase their fine and gross motor skills also hand-eye coordination through actions like pouring, squirting, scrubbing, stirring and squeezing.

We will be working outdoors lots during the nice weather so if you have wellies or waterproofs could you send them in please.

Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe.

Big welcome to Mandy who has joined our class this week.

We began introducing our ‘War’ topic this week.

We have explored artefacts in the yurt on Monday, we looked at a gas mask, old photos from the war time of children all being evacuated, the damage left after our cities were bombed.  The children have been very interested and have been asking some very good questions such as  “why are the children going on the train without their mummy’s and daddy’s”.

We have also been learning Makaton signs relating to our topic we have been practicing old, new, airplane, train, children and broken.

We spent the afternoon in the yurt making some treats for the birds, we added seeds, peanuts and mealworms we stirred in some melted lard to make it stick together then put it into cups and added string to hang them from the trees. We hung them all around the school grounds on Tuesday and we keep checking to see if they have been eaten.

We had great fun den building in class and are going to be using our skills outdoors next week.

Our class air raid shelter is finished now and proving a bit hit with the children.

Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe.

Children’s Mental Health Week is this week 1-7 February 2021.

This year’s theme is Express Yourself.

Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. It is about finding a way to show who you are, and how you see the world, that can help you feel good about yourself.

As parents and carers, you play an important role in your child’s mental health. You will find some nice ideas and activities all free on the link below.

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/parents-and-carers/

We have celebrated this with doing lots of mindful activities, learning how too do breathing exercises,  relaxing spa day, then dress to express yourself day on Friday!

Our spa day was a definite favorite and the children have voted to make this a regular treat!

We had a competition with our friends at home to find different colour objects and it was a race back to the screen to see who was the fastest.  When our zoom was finished we carried on with the colour matching of the objects we found and created this beautiful rainbow.

We all really love our morning catch up with our friends who are home schooling at the minute and cannot wait to be all together again.

We came dressed in all our bright printed clothing on Friday and had a day of games and dancing, smiles and laughter all day.

Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe.

Hope you have all managed to get out and have fun in the snow.

We have made the most of the snow in school, we made snowmen, had a snowball throwing competition and we did some painting in the snow!

We have shared some ideas for you to try at home on Class Dojo.

We have been working hard on a our numeracy skills in class this week. This is something you can all do at home too, just write the number then find the same amount of objects which could be pretty much anything spoons, potatoes or your favorite toys.

We are missing our friends who are at home but looking forward to doing some zoom activities this week.

Well done to Mahnoor getting the class certificate this week!

She has really impressed us with her consistent use of her vocabulary board and signing to say ‘more and stop’. She has also worked so hard on her exercise regime bouncing independently every morning.

Great work Mahnoor!

Have a wonderful weekend and stay safe.

What a week of festive fun we have had.

It began with Christmas tree theme Monday! We did lots of arts and crafts, singing and even dressed up as Christmas trees which was great fun.

Sorry no pictures just yet as they are all stored for our secret project we are working on.

Then we did a reindeer day which was a favorite, we made special reindeer food, we competed in a reindeer style assault course in PE so we now understand how hard Santa and his reindeers work on Christmas eve delivering gifts to every home all over the world jumping and balancing on the roof, pulling and pushing all those parcels.

Wednesday it was all about snow, we had a amazing sensory snow experience in the music studio and even had a snowball fight. We made snowmen biscuits, and a few other secret gifts.

We all had Christmas lunch together in the classroom which was fabulous. We then headed outside for a socially distanced whole school carol singing afternoon, the atmosphere was amazing and we all got snuggled with a blanket and drank hot chocolate.

The fun is set to continue into next week with our party Monday.

Have a wonderful weekend look forward to seeing you next week.