F.S. Blog

This week we have been talking about our families. We have been discussing who’s in our family and who lives in our house. We made our own ’who lives in my house’ pictures and have been drawing our families.

In Maths we have been looking at things that are the same, matching and looking at pairs of objects.

We have also been singing nursery rhymes, listening to music and moving our bodies to the rhythm and playing games to recognise our names.

FS2’s began RWI, Read, Write, Inc. is the phonics programme we are using across the school. See RWI section on the school website for more information.

It’s been a shorter but just as busy and fun week.

We started our ’Come and Play’ sessions on Tuesday afternoon. It was lovely watching the children show their grown ups around our classroom and exploring the areas.

It’s been another great week in Foundation Stage. We have still been getting to know our classroom and enjoyed exploring all the areas of learning.

We had much excitement when our new painting and mark making station arrived and have thoroughly enjoyed using it.

Making patterns and moving in different ways outside…

We all want to say a great big thank you to Mr Musgrave for our amazing new fence and gate! We love it and it is already making a huge difference to us.

Wow! What a wonderful week we have had! The children have settled so well into their new classroom and routines and we are so proud of them. We have had lots of fun exploring all the areas and getting to know each other.

Well that was a rather hot last week 🥵 We have enjoyed lots of ice investigations to keep cool. FS2’s enjoyed their sports day on Thursday morning. It’s been a great end to the school year.

Foundation Stage, what an amazing year we have all had. You have all been so fantastic. A huge well done for everything you have achieved, you should be so proud. We couldn’t be any prouder of you all. Thank you for giving us a wonderful year filled with the best memories.

Parents and carers, thank you for your continued support throughout the year and for all of the kind and thoughtful gifts and messages at the end. We can honestly say it has been a real honour, privilege and pleasure to work with your children. They are definitely ready for FS2 and Year 1.

We hope you all have a fantastic summer, have fun, stay safe and we will see you all in September.

From The FS Team x

This week we have been learning about healthy eating. We have been using our fine motor skills to cut out foods to make a healthy packed lunch. We have been sorting foods that are healthy and unhealthy and looking at different food groups. We even tried different types of infused water and tasted Elsie’s homemade jam.
We had a fantastic morning on Tuesday for FS1 sports morning. Thank you to everyone that came to watch, the children thoroughly enjoyed it.

This week we have spent time in Class 1 with Mr Mallison and we have talked lots about moving on, what we are good at and what we want to get better at!

We have also been exploring 2D and 3D shapes, been on shape hunts and sorted shapes!
It has been lots of fun.

This week we have been exploring the seaside. We have talked about what you might need to go to the seaside, what you might do there and how to stay safe while you are there.

Here a some examples of the activities the children have been completing:

This week we have been looking at different countries around the world. We have been ’packing’ our suitcases and talking about where we have been and where we would like to travel to. We have also been looking at different cultures around the world, including how to say ’hello’ in different languages.

This week we have been learning all about where we live and where we are in the wider world!
We read the story ’Me on a map’ and created our own maps of our bedrooms. We enjoyed our walk around the village looking at what we could see and even showing some of our houses. When we got back we mapped out our walk using Google Earth. We looked at where we are in the world and we made our own ’me on a map’ and also our own Brandesburton village.

We also harvested our first strawberries and made strawberry milkshakes, we had great fun making and tasting them.

Finally, the sports day practise has begun…

This week our focus has been families. We have been doing our own family trees, writing about our families and talking about who lives in our house. We have had lots of fun outdoors too!

On Wednesday it was world ocean day. We watched some live videos of rock pooling, learnt why we should keep our ocean clean and ways to help and made our own ocean scenes.

We did subtraction in Maths using the compare bears

In our Jigsaw PSHE session we looked at the human body. We thought about all the different body parts we knew and we labelled them. We used mirrors to draw self portraits and had a go at labelling our own pictures.

The children have also loved some gardening this week and helping to tidy up our outdoor area.