Autumn 2025
We have worked on the sounds 'ch', 'qu' and 'x'. These digraphs are really starting to catch us out so any extra practise to keep playing games to spot the difference and say each of them would be a great help.
In maths it is all about shapes - circles and triangles. So we have been doing shape dances, shape making, sorting and picture creating whilst we discuss, identify and think about their features. We then looked at positional language and had to say if the Teddy was beside, above or below the table.
We also had a visit for a special 'Open the Book' assembly from Ignite, got our Reading Buddies back for the term and had a visit to the Book Fair!
We have really got into our learning about 'People Who Help Us' which has been a nice link from Remembrance Day and Children in Need.
We have very excitedly began reading our 'Ditties' and working with our Inky partner to do so. These will be coming coming home at the end of the week so we can 'wow' you with reading them. We have also been doing lots of super number work with 'more' and 'less'.
As always we have loved taking our learning into the forest too. This week there were number hunts. making feeders by threading 5 oranges and lots of opportunities to develop our learning and collaborative play.
We finished off the week with lots of thinking about people who help us, working on fine motor skills plus singing and practicing for our play.
It has been lovely to return the new half term and hear about everyone's half terms and what an exciting week we have had...
A new topic to begin = 'Superheroes - People Who Help Us' and a new Post Office role play, Fireworks fun in so many ways, forest firework fun, learning new sounds 'w', 'th' and 'x', working on our more than and less than numbers, Science experimenting with changing materials including ice and gloop and finishing the week with our first Beach School Day!
We read the story ‘Stick Man’ and found our own stick and used natural materials to make our own stick man. We used these to retell the story.
Using the part of the story when Stick man ends up in a nest, we talked about nests and the different types of nests birds might use. We then made our own nests.
Throughout the day we talked about seasons and the natural world around us and worked together as a team.
We enjoyed our lunch in the Hindmarsh hall and then went back to the beach to build a special place for Stick man in the sand. On the way back to school we enjoyed some time in the park.
All the children have been brilliant and we have all thoroughly enjoyed our day!
Thanks again to our parent helpers.