Summer 2025
VE Day - Thursday 8th May
What a special day we had celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day.
We came together as a whole EYFS to discuss what VE Day is, we heard the announcement of Winston Churchill, we looked at pictures and clips and discussed what it must have felt like. We then went outside to sing some old fashioned songs and were then collected by a buddy from Bamburgh Castle Class to go for our own 'Street Party'.
After our 'Street Party' we went to join the rest of the school for community traditional games on the field. It was such a wonderful day and it felt very special coming together as a school community.
Our wonderful sunshine weeks are continuing and this week we have loved continuing our Hungry Caterpillar story and embraced VE celebrations too!
We have had some great writing adventures about our caterpillars, worked on our higher numbers and enjoyed playing 'Bingo' with our 'teen' numbers too. We have been learning about how to plant seeds using the story 'Jasper's Beanstalk' as our inspiration ready to do some planting next week and worm hunting. We have made some lovely symmetrical butterflies and then of course had so much fun learning about VE day and celebrating it at as a whole school community. A special historic memory to make - well done. Alnwick Castle Class.
Week beginning Monday 28th April
What a glorious week back for the start of the Summer term and our new topic 'The Great Outdoors'.
We began the week with our 'core' story of the moment 'The Hungry Caterpillar'. There are so many things to discuss but we also choose some words to act out such as 'ravenous', 'cocooned' and 'flamboyant so perhaps you might like to use these at home too when the opportunity arises. We have used this story as the theme for our 'Drawing Club' writing (our writing part of our English lessons) and done a wonderful job writing about the character the caterpillar and the setting of the garden. Now that we have covered all Set 1 and 2 sounds we are recapping them each day and have begun reading the RWInc Green Books daily in class. We loved having our reading buddies from Year 5 back too.
In maths we have been working on our 10-20 'teen' numbers, playing lots of new games with them and looking how we can make them on a tens frame with a ten and the ones so for example we can see that 13 is made up of 10 + 3. Any opportunity to practice reconising and making 10-20 numbers at home would be a great help.
We have also enjoyed getting outdoors, going on a nature spring hunt, being in the forest and celebrating World Earth Day and looking at plants in particular. We used the story 'Titch' to get us thinking about how things can grow from the smallest seed and sometime small things can be just as important as the bigger things in life. We loved learning how to construct paper into a spring and made our own spring caterpillar. We even made our caterpillars a home! At the end of the week we began thinking about special places as part of our RE and in music we loved working on our pitch and beats with Mr Moloney.
We have restarted our 'Rainbow Challenges' this term - this is where we get seven different tasks that we have to complete in our own 'play to learn' time. Since we have a short week next week we will continue these ones but already some people have reaches a gold star by completing them all!
What a busy start to our learning adventures for this half term....we can't wait to return after the Bank Holiday as we will be ready to start some planting!