Friday 27th February

Wowzers! What a fun learning week we have had back at school!

We started the week back to school with a celebrating Chinese New Year Day. We explored what the Spring Festival means to the Chinese communities. The children completed lots of activities that were all about the celebration and they loved learning about the Zodiac story. In the afternoon were privileged to have Eva , our Chinese community visitor, come into school and talk to all the children about the festival, show them how to make Chinese Lanterns and brought all the children spring rolls, from her restaurant, to try!  What an amazing day of learning!

On Tuesday the children prepared themselves for their sponsored pancake race. The children had been gaining sponsors for their outdoor learning area for a few weeks and on Tuesday they certainly earned all the money that had been raised by seeing how many times they could complete an obstacle course, whilst balancing a pancake. The children were amazing and the MASSIVE total of their sponsors was: £484.75p. This is a phenomenal amount of money, and the children have brained stormed what they want in their outdoor area, and lots has already been ordered!

Our new Big Question this half term is: Is There Anything Above the Clouds?

The children have been building astronauts with Lego, colouring space pictures by number, making space scenes, flying to space in the role play area, drawing and labelling what they would take to the moon and so much more!

This is only a small part of what exciting learning we have had this week and we are so excited with what we will explore leading up to Easter!

We are looking forward to our last full week in Foundation!

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 12th February - half term! 

We have reached the end of yet another amazing busy half term.

The children continue to impress us every day; their progression is wonderful to see on a daily basis.

We end of big question of What would it be like if the world were frozen? The children have worked so hard and had so much fun thinking about this question. They have explored so much amazing learning and especially enjoyed exploring lots of ice!

Our big question next half term is: Is there anything above the clouds?

We hope you all have a wonderful half term and look forward to seeing all the children back at school on Monday 22^nd February.

The Foundation Team 

Friday 6th February

This week  in phonics, we have learnt trigraph /igh/ and digraph /ee/ . Please look out for you weekly email so you can support your children's phonics at home.

In maths Miss Wilson explored the composition of 6, 7 and 8 with the children and then they began to explore 'one less'.

In English the children have started a new text The Emperors Egg. The children have loved exploring this book and learning all about penguins. We have explored a story map, drawn and labelled a penguin, thought of questions that we want to ask a penguin. Then on Friday we had a visit from a penguin and the children got to ask their questions and have them answered!!  We enjoyed making penguin huddles and doing a penguin dance!

In foundation we have started to complete handwriting lessons each afternoon to help with letter formation and begin to get ready for year1. On the first day all the children found it quite tricky to follow the handwriting lines BUT today Mrs Phillips nearly ran out of stickers because the handwriting was sooooo good!

The children have also made polar scenes, penguin scenes, started to make a penguin plate, explored books, had another library visit, built, made snipped and so much more!

We are nearly at the end of spring 1 already and next week school finishes at 3:15 on Thursday. Friday is an INSET day.

We wish you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 30th January

We have had a great week of learning in class.

In phonics we have continued to explore level 3. This week we have learnt /ai/ and /ee/ . The children have amazed Janet with their reading and writing this week.

In maths Miss Wilson explored the numbers 6, 7 and 8 with the children and then they began to explore 'one more'. We have great mathematicians in class that use wonderful mathematical vocabulary.  

In PE we used BIG parts of our body and small parts of our body to balance. The children were absolutely amazing at this!

In English the children have written key words and captions to match pictures from Snow White and have also explored what an adjective is and used adjectives to describe characters.

The children have also painted their tree snowflakes, discussed what it would be like if the world were frozen and decorated icy pictures, they have collaged polar animals , enjoyed playing with ice and using wonderful vocab to discuss what is happening to the ice as they were holding, and sooooo much more!

We wish you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 16th January

Another amazing learning filled week in Foundation!

This week, in English,  we have continued our story of Snow White and we have used our oracy and sequencing skills to sequence the story. We then separated into groups and with an adult we practiced acting a part of the story. We then performed our acting to the rest of the class! The children were amazing.

In maths we have been concentrating on subitising 0-5. Miss Wilson has been helping the children learn how to subitise in fun ways and the children have completed some lovely activities after each lesson to show how much they have learnt.

In outdoor learning this week we braved the wind and rain and went stick collecting. Ince we had the right size sticks we made snowflakes but winding string around the sticks to hod them together. They are currently hanging in class drying, ready for us to paint next week.

In PE we started gymnastics. This week we have explored holding our bodies in a stretch pose or a curled pose!

The children have also collaged snowflakes, which currently hang I our class and are beautiful. They have made polar scenes, had library time exploring books and sooooooo much more!

The Foundation Team 

Friday 9th January- Happy New Year

We have had a wonderful start back to school this week. The children must have had Christmas magic sprinkled on them as they have grown over the holidays and have come back so determined to explore and learn! 
Our big question for this half term is: What would it be like if the world were frozen?

THis week the children have explored polar regions and made pictures, they have made icicles from small parts, used pencil control to follow lines and make a snowy picture, painted lasagna sheets in frosty colours ready to make a polar collage next week and so much more! 

In phonics we have started to learn level 3 phonemes and write the graphemes and the children have been trying so hard to write CVC words that include our sounds of the day! 

In maths we have been exploring zero. We have completed activities including zero or not zero. The children are really beginning to use mathematical thinking and full mathematical sentences when answering questions! we have a class of mathematicians! 

In outdoor learning this week we went on an ice hunt! It had all melted by the time we got there but we found some wonderful things in our forest area. 

On Thursday we were so lucky to have M and M productions visit us and put on a wonderful pantomime- Snow White! We had so much fun and it has really got us excited to start our English learning journey on Snow White! Wonderful wow work coming soon! 

Friday 19th December-End Of Term!

WoW!!! Here we are at the end of a fantastic term in Foundation!

The children have grown and progressed so well already! It always amazes us just how well the children progress in the first term!

 Soo, we just want to say that we wish you all a wonderfully happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing all the children back to school on the 6^th January 2026

The Foundation Team 

Friday 12th December

This week has been jammed packed of festive exploring and performing our Nativity!

The children have been practicing their Nativity for the last month, and we are amazed at how their confidence and oracy skills have progressed in that time! I think we have some stars on our hands!

The Nativity is always a precious experience for staff and parents, and it did not fail this year! We are beyond proud of the children and their resilience to perform in front of over fifty people for each show! Well done Nursery and Foundation!

The children have also been busy this week following instructions to make their own Christmas decorations, we hope you have liked the angels and handprint father Christmas'

Today was our Christmas fair and the children have helped to make wonderful things that we sold! Thank you to all that visited Foundation's stall.

We enter the final week of this term on Monday (wow! A whole term already!). It's been an amazing term, we have lots more festive exploration to do next week!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 5th December

Some of this week's wonderful exploration has included:

On Monday we were shocked to discover the Christmas Elves had indeed visited us and they had decorated our whole room beautifully. They had left us a lovely note and a book advent calendar (and maybe a chocolate one too!) They have been leaving lots of mess for Mrs Phillips to clean up this week. They have eaten our fruit, had a snowball fight with the adult's cotton balls and then splash disappeared last night and we found her in Mrs Waring's pocket in assembly!!!

In English this week the children explored the Christmas Story. They then sequenced the story into their books using some amazing oracy skills! The children's vocabulary is really progressing well.

In maths we have been learning how to represent numbers to five in different ways, for instance 3+1= 4 but 2+ 2 = 4 too!

This week the children have also made Nativity scenes, designed and decorated their own Christmas tree and Christmas jumper, made a manager and stable from building blocks and Lego and so much more!

It was Christmas Crafternoon on Tuesday, and the children loved completing Christmas craft with you all.

The Christmas magic has definitely arrived in class and we are using lots of Christmas activities to progress our learning, knowledge and skills!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team