Happy Halloween

23rd October 2020Sharon Dodd

We had a wonderful time celebrating Halloween. In the morning we came into a spooky classroom all decorated with lit up pumpkins, ghosts projecting onto the walls and spiders and bats hanging from the doors and ceiling. After we had an explore we decorated pumpkins with orange and black tissue paper,  made some cakes and gingerbread men using white icing to make them look like cobwebs and skeletons. In the afternoon we had fun at our party playing games and eating lots of delicious food.

We hope you all have a great half term and we’ll see you after the holidays.

 

Weekly News

9th October 2020Scott Marshall

Dear Parents/Carers

The children have once again shown how resilient they are with strange week we have all had. We got right back in the swing of things yesterday and took part in some more outdoor learning where we were looking for conkers. The children enjoyed throwing things into the trees to try and knock them down This morning we enjoyed a zoom assembly as well as our first group session of music therapy with Tom. This afternoon for mental health awareness we have enjoyed relaxation in the classroom with bean bags and relaxing music in preparation for the weekend.

Thank you

Scott, Abbie, Andy, Ann, Jen

Our School Yurt!

8th October 2020Jess Burns

Hi everyone,

I thought I would share some of the great pictures from the yurt. This was out first experience as class so we decided to spend half a day there. While half visited the mud kitchen, half of the children had singing in the yurt! We then had a lovely snack and explored the outside areas surrounding the yurt.

We have also been focusing on building relationships with . We have such a vibrant and exciting bunch of children.

Hope you all have a lovely day,

Jess, Michele, Lindsay and Corrie

 

Welcome to our 2020 – 2021 Blog!

2nd October 2020John Mosley

Hello and welcome to John’s Blog for the 2020-2021 school year! We plan to update this blog on a weekly basis so be sure to check in regularly to see what we have been up to.

Firstly, a warm welcome back to all those who were in our class last year and a special hello to Jack, Nicole and Zakariya who have all joined us from Coralie’s Class.

We have all had a wonderful week in school, building relationships with new friends and engaging well with our sensory and therapeutic curriculum. Some highlights from this week include a fantastic day based in our amazing new yurt! Everyone had such fun relaxing next to the wood-burning stove whilst participating in stories, music and enjoying hot-chocolate. Another highlight has been the enthusiasm shown by all during our sensory story ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.   I hope you enjoy looking at the photos!

John & Team

We’re Back!!!!!

2nd October 2020Tracy Gooderick

Hi everyone

After two long weeks of home learning we are back in school! We returned on Wednesday with a lovely first day back in our school Yurt. In the Yurt the children had a fantastic day doing music activities, Pirate themed cutting and sticking and they had hot chocolate around our Yurt fire.

Yesterday the children did some Pirate themed Dance in PE. They learned moves for the Dance cards and then put three together to make their Pirate themed dance. They danced to pirate sea shanties.

In the afternoon they followed instructions in English to make Apple and Cheese Pirate Ships in the Cookery room. The children used their reading skills to match symbols to find the utensils needed and ingredients. They then used their fine motor skills to practice chopping skills and building the ships. Then of course they ate them back in class!

Today the children have had a very funday Friday and spent time in the mud kitchen and home corner as well as working on their inset puzzles in the classroom.

We have all had a great first week back with lots of outdoor learning!

Have a lovely weekend.

Our Day in the Yurt

25th September 2020June Ball

What a wonderful day we’ve had today (all of our days are wonderful actually!) but today was our turn to spend the day in the yurt. What’s the yurt we hear you say? Well the meaning of yurt is a round tent covered by material and used as a home for people in different countries and we are so lucky as we have our own yurt in the garden to use.

We talked together about how we could make the space warm and then we lit the wood burner. Very soon it was lovely and warm. We went outside and saw the smoke coming out of the chimney! We had toast and hot chocolate around the fire. After our snack we worked together with the lycra. We listened to different instructions and worked together to move the lycra in different ways.

After lunch we came back and continued our music and movement exploration based around the song “The Animal Boogie” We are learning about the different animals in the song and thinking about how they move. In our next session we will match musical instruments to the way the different animals move.

We also listened to favourite stories and sang together. We dressed up and used special scarves and danced to some wonderful Arabic music. What a fantastic day. We’re looking forward to our next whole day in the yurt next month.

We hope you have a good weekend.

 

Blogcast Season 2: The 5/6a Edition

25th September 2020Rachael Budden

We’ve had a great week here in 5/6a! We are extremely excited to present the second season of our class Blogcast. A very big well done to our presenter Bailey who will take you through some of the things we’ve been up to during our first three weeks back at school. Take it away, Bailey!

We’ve worked extremely hard with our 1:1 correspondence, numeral recognition and adding up this week…

…and we’ve made great progress in our Phonics and Communication sessions!

Well done everyone!

Have a great weekend,

Marc and 5/6a team

 

Back to School

6th September 2020Tracy Gooderick

Hi Everyone,

For those of you I directed to the Blog for news of coming back this week I have a few things to share. We are really looking forward to a new school year in class and we have some new friends starting with us. It’s been a LONG summer holiday this year! It has been such uncertain times and I’m sure all of you and the children are anxious about what school will be like now but we will be doing our best to make sure it is as safe and as normal as possible for the children. As always we are here if you have any worries, just send a message or call school to chat to me or one of the team. Children start back school on Tuesday 8th September.

Now more than ever it is important to keep things coming in and out of school to a minimum so we will again not have home/school paper diaries but we will be working on the ClassDojo system of communication. It was a big success last year and over lockdown it became a lifesaver for keeping us all connected. Some of you will be familiar with it and will just need to join this year’s class using your personal code on the sheet I will provide on Tuesday. If you are not familiar with the App please read below.

Class Dojo is a messaging service and it works LIKE a facebook page or Blog in which you can see photos and posts I will make about the day the children have had. However only parents of children in the class can see these posts and photographs as well as me and class staff.

You can message me directly and you can also share photographs of the children at home, which they love to look at in circle time.

This is an App which you need to download on your phone. (or if you would rather you can just google search on the computer – it’s just easier on your phone)

How it works:

Download the App ClassDojo

Follow the instruction sheet with you own personal code

Send me a message on the messages tab to let me know you have joined

Hopefully we can get everyone connected! The children will love using it at home as well to look at photographs from the school day.

In class I also use it to give the children virtual points linked to a monster they have created and they are always very motivated by these points!! At the end of the week the child with the most points will get a dip in the special box as a reward. So you can see how many points they are getting daily.

I will pick up messages on school computer between 8am and 5pm but feel free to message at night as long as you are aware they won’t be read until school time. Any absences must still be reported to the school office via telephone.

If your child requires emergency medication / inhaler please make sure it is sent into school on Tuesday.

Please make sure that you put your child’s name on ALL items of clothing that are sent into school as always.The class team for this year is me, Tracy, plus Yvonne, Vicki and Adam. We are really looking forward to working with your children and getting back to normal(ish). Please be assured that all guidelines will be followed and we will be keeping your children and ourselves very safe. Any queries feel free to call. Or message!

See you all on Tuesday!

Tracy

Bubble 5 / Week 5

13th July 2020Scott Marshall

Unfortunately, due to our recycled plants not thriving, we have had to make some changes to our tepee flora. Our newly gained gardening skills have been put into action again and we have planted yet more Clematis to cover the structure.

In Science we looked at changes and had a go at making our own butter. We also observed what happened to eggs when they were heated up.

In art, some of our Bubble created wood pieces to hang and others created protective coverings to keep out the rain.

Take a look!