Friday 27th June 

Some of this weeks learning:

This week Mrs Phillips has been assessing the children in reading and maths. The children have been amazing and have tried their best. Mrs Phillips and the other adults have been amazed at how much the children have learnt this year and how well they have retained skills and knowledge. Foundation you are simply amazing!

This week the children have also been exploring patterns and repeated patterns in maths and they have been amazing at making their own patterns.

They have also been observing different types of seashell and drawing them, using their cutting skills to cut and make flying seagulls, creating their own ocean picture then writing about it and so much more.

The children are continuing to progress and achieve so much, and we are looking forward to the last three weeks of their foundation year!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Friday 20th June

We have had another lovely week in Foundation with lots of wonderful exploring and learning.

Some of this weeks learning:

This week the children have been continuing to write dictated or independent sentences about pictures from Julia Donaldson books. This has really helped Mrs Phillips to see how far they have come with their phonics and writing. The children are progressing so well and the adults in class have been astounded by some of the writing.

In maths this week we have been exploring sharing and grouping. As we have been learning to chant and sing our times tables for some time now , this really helped with this unit of learning. Janet was blown away with how well the children were grouping items in two’s yesterday!

In outdoor learning this week we completed a summer treasure hunt, we found, red flowers, big sticks, bugs, blades of grass, but no frogs!!!

We have also been making jelly fish, completing beach phonics activities, sharing carrots and frogs in a maths activity, writing tricky words outside, making playdough beach pictures and so much more!

Today was sports day and what a lovely day it was…wow was it hot! The children had a great first sports day and really enjoyed taking part in all the activities.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Thursday 5th June

What a great first week back to school. The children have returned to school raring to go for their last half term in Foundation! This half term will all be about getting ‘Year 1 ready’

Some of this week’s learning:

Our big question this half term is:

What do we know about our local area?

This week we have started to read stories by Julia Donaldson, specifically The Snail and the Whale. For a WOW moment we watched the video as well as read the book. The children then used their oracy skills to retell the story. We then moved on to exploring rhyming words. We discovered there are lots of rhyming words in the story we read this week.

In maths we have been exploring shape. We have named and recognized lots of shapes and also explored rotating and manipulating shapes. Today we used positional words to describe where shapes were.

We have explored maps and fitting in environmental features, thinking about whats in our local area and drawing and labeling them, exploring our new RNLI and beach role play area and so much more!

Its been an amazing week of learning.

Gentle reminder that tomorrow ( 6^th June) is an INSET day.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Thursday 22nd May- End of half term

End of yet another half term! Wow! One more half term to go!

Its amazing to see the children progress and learn so much. We continue to be so proud of them!

This week’s blog is about the trip!

The children were an absolute credit to the school and their adults at home. It was the foundation children’s first trip out at school, and they were just amazing!

We had a great day exploring so many different animals, learning so many fun facts and feeding the farm animals was very giggly! The children were so brave, holding their hands the correct way to feed the animals!

We had lunch in the jungle barn and the chickens kept coming in to try and steal the sandwiches!

What an amazing day we had!

We wish you all a wonderful half-term break and look forward to seeing everyone on Monday 2^nd June

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 16th May

Some of this week’s learning:

In English this week, the children imitated the story of Mr Gumpy’s Outing. They decided to change it to Miss Hughes’ Adventure. They changed the characters in the story to a wolf, crab and turtle and came up with some amazing verbs. The children then used the story map with Miss Hughes to write a dictated sentence using their phonic knowledge.

In math’s this week we have explored adding different numbers together in a variety if way and thinking about ‘How many more’ have been added to a number!

In phonics children have been reading and writing polysyllabic words containing adjacent consonants and have been working so hard to word some tricky words!

In PE this week the children have continued to explore balls skills, throwing and catching. They have worked with partners to control the ball and ensure their partner is ready before rolling the ball and then progressing to throwing and catching.

The children have also been exploring the life cycle of a butterfly, using their funky fingers to make parts of a flower, making mini beast jars and so much more!

Gentle reminder that next week is the last week before the half term and Friday is an INSET.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Friday 9th May

Some of this week’s learning:

In English this week, the children have been writing dictated sentences. We have continued to explore Mr Gumpy’s Outing and the children have worked really hard to remember a sentence, think about their phonics and write their sentence. The adults are so impressed.   

In maths this week we have been exploring numbers within 20 but have also been exploring taking away within 20. The children have been using mathematical sentences and are amazing!  

During outdoor learning this week, we went on a hunt for lots of sticks in our field, we then used twine and worked as a team to make garden stick men! The children were amazing at helping each other to wrap the twine around the sticks. They then made them even better by using leaves to decorate their stick men.

The children have also been using water colours to paint butterflies, making bean plant life cycles , decorating flowers and so much more!

On Thursday we explored what VE day was and what it means to so many people. We went outside at 12:00 to hold a 2-minute silence to remember and then Mr Whittaker played The Last Post on his trumpet. Today all of our resources were based on VE day ready for our VE Day picnic!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 2nd May

Some of this week’s learning:

In English this week, we have continued to explore the story Mr Gumpy’s Outing. The children have sequenced the story with Miss Hughes and then individually wrote key words to match pictures from the story. The children are really progressing with using their phonics to write words.

In maths this week we have been exploring numbers beyond 10 to 20. The children have been building numbers and recognising number patterns. The children have been amazing at knowing that 12 is 10 and 2 more.

In phonics this week the children have continued to learn how to read words with adjacent consonants. They are reading and writing so well and we have seen such progress.

During outdoor learning this week, we learnt all about shadows. We took lots of toys and paper outside and completed some great shadow drawings. We made lots of different shadows, drew around Janets shadow and played chase the shadow!

The children have also been making twirly gardens, designing flowerpots and making their own gardens.

Always a fun filled learning adventure in Foundation!

Wishing you a wonderful bank holiday weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 25th April

What a wonderful first week back at school.

The children have come back so enthusiastic and ready to explore and learn!

This week in English we have started to read a story called Mr Gumpy’s Outing. As a fun way to introduce this story, we went on an outing around the school. We crept through the KS2 corridor and spied on all the children on our outing, it was so much fun!  We learnt the story using actions and a story map.

In maths this week we have been building numbers greater than 10. We used egg boxes and pom-poms to help us understand that numbers greater than ten and less than twenty have a ten and some more. For instance: 15 is 10 and 5 more.

In phonics this week the children have started level 4. We have been exploring adjacent consonants ( when two consonants make a sound /lk/st/). The children have been reading so well.

The RNLI came into school this week and told us all about staying safe near water. 

On Wednesday we celebrated and explored St Georges Day. The children were fascinated about the story of St George and the Dragon and it sparked a very good discussion about whether it was a real story or not! We completed lots of wonderful activities all about St George.

Today was our Easter Crafternoon, and it was great. It is wonderful when parents come into class and can share some of the fun we have.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 4th April 

I cannot believe that we are here at the end of spring term! What an amazing term we have had! So much amazing fun exploration and learning.

This week we have explored lots of Easter craft and learning. The Easter Bunny also left us a letter and some magic beans with instructions that we had to plant them in sand, twinkle our fingers and wait! When we came into school this morning, Easter lollies had grown! We were amazed.

We also celebrated Janets birthday early as her birthday will be during the first week of the holidays!

This term has been amazing, and it has been a joy to teach the children and watch them learn and grow!

We are all looking forward to the summer term and getting the children year 1 ready!

We wish you all a wonderful Easter break and look forward to seeing the children on Tuesday 22^nd April.

The Foundation Team 

Friday 21st March

Some of this week’s learning adventures!

In English this week the children have been showing Miss Hughes their hand strength, pencil grip and letter formation by drawing pictures of their favourite parts of Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have then been writing small sentences to go with the picture they have drawn using their phonic knowledge.

In maths this week we have exploring doubles to ten and also odd and even numbers within ten! The children have been working so hard with their maths knowledge.

In outdoor learning we wanted to make our own footprints! We tried to set the activity up outside and oh my goodness the wind!!! So our outdoor learning became squelchy, squidgy indoor fun instead! We all took our shoes and socks off and stood in a tray of paint! We then walked down a long piece of paper to make our class footprints! This was so much fun and the vocabulary the children used to describe the feeling of the paint on their feet was spectacular!

In phonics this week we have finished learning all the level 3 phonemes. This week they were /ure/ and /er/ . The children have been progressing so well with their reading skills. For the next two weeks we review all of level 3 sounds before we assess the children’s knowledge and understanding. After Easter we begin level 4, where we explore adjacent consonants and polysyllabic words containing all of the level 2 and level 3 phonemes!

Another amazing week in Foundation class!

Have a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team