Our first week at school!

The children have now completed their first few weeks at school, they are becoming more familiar with the daily routines and are making new friends. The staff are very pleased at how the children have been settling into their new classes. This week we have been reading a story about starting school, we have started learning sounds in phonics and have been using Numicon everyday in maths. 

Today, we went for a walk around the school grounds to see what we could find. We visited creature corner, had a look at the elephant sculpture at the bottom of the field and found a huge pirate ship on the large playground. 

What a fantastic start to school!

This morning Mrs McGarry and Mrs Spreadsbury got the fright of their lives when they found this in the garden area by the digging pit!

All the children went out to investigate what it could be. Both Oak and Willow classes said it must be a dinosaur footprint! The children even noticed that the dinosaur had cracked the ground where it had been walking! We thought of lots of ideas about why the dinosaur might be at our school. Some thought he was hungry and was looking for children to eat, others thought he might be looking for some toys to play with.

We thought about trapping the dinosaur so we could ask him why he visited our school and with our talk partners discussed the different ways we could trap the dinosaur.

Jack and the Beanstalk- 

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. We planted some magic beans during our Friday assembly. To our utter shock and amazement two huge beanstalks grew in Oak and Willow class over the weekend!

During the week Jack left special notes on our beanstalks to show us how to plant our very own bean seeds. Unfortunately our beans weren't magic but we are now very excited as they have germinated and are starting to grow.

The children have loved our learning on Supertato.

Last week, we got to meet the vegetables that needed rescuing from Evil Pea. We designed traps and then used the resources around us to create the traps to stop the Evil Pea from causing more trouble.

We looked at a storyboard and created our own stories remembering to include who was there, where they were and what were they doing.

This week, Supertato is training the vegetables ready for their sports day...just like us!

We can't wait to see how Supertato is going to help us with our science week.

But remember, some vegetables are frozen for a very good reason, so keep an eye out for the Evil Pea in case he is causing trouble....BIG trouble.

To learn about safety when using the computer and internet, Reception covered lots of activities,

They used the beebot to practice simple programming and made 3D bees to remind us to Bee Safe when using the internet.

During guided reading, we read a book called Penguinpig, It was about a little girl who found an amazing creature on the internet and wanted to meet it even though the messages where from someone that she didn't know. We learnt that sometimes people try to trick us on the internet so to always talk to an adult if you are unsure or concerned about something you see.

We went into the computer suite and tried to design our own new animal by combining different animal using our mouse skills.

We asked the children what they would like to learn about and following the excitement of Christmas, they asked to learn more about toys.

So toy shops were created in the classrooms to enhance role play and lots of investigation started place.

This half term we will be covering what they already know about toys, designing our own toys, learning about how toys are made, looking at technology within toys, making our own toys and finally analysing different toys to see if we can make them better,

Look out for these in class!