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Newsletter – 13th May 2022
We have had a very busy few weeks in EYFS! The children loved completing their sponsored circui ts with the visiting athlete, Stuart Robinson. A big thank you for all of the sponsor money that you managed to raise. We were lucky to be able to enhance our learning about the changing seasons with some lambs visiting us from Mrs Richardson’s family farm. We would have loved to have kept them! Last week was Deaf Awareness Week so we have been sharing our BSL skills with the rest of the school. We have watched a story, signed by Rose Ayling-Ellis on CBeebies and discussed what it must be like for the bear in the story that struggled to understand the world around him. A big ‘well done’ to Amiee, who helped Mrs Catterall in the Star of the Week assembly, by signing good afternoon to everyone, including our families that were invited. We enjoyed a lovely morning out at The Plant Place garden centre thi s week, learning all about the wide variety of different plants there are, completing a quiz and making our own wildflower ‘bee bombs’ to bring home or plant in school. We even helped The Plant Place to plant their new wild flower meadow! You may want to return later in the summer to see how it has grown and changed! The children’s behaviour was exemplary. A big thank you to all of the volunteers that came with us.
STARS OF THE WEEK Jake, Ruby K and Vinnie from Yellow Ducklings Rodney and Jenson from Brown Ducklings Our Learning We are all now so confident at re-telling and acting out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and love using the different phases from the story. We have been reading a story called The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle and talking about the different conditions that a seed needs to grow successfully. We have learn ed about the life cycle of a bean and now have some new vocabulary such as root, shoot, sprout and germinate. Our own beans have been planted in different conditions and we will be watching carefully over the next few weeks for any signs of growth and change. Ask the children to tell you about our growing beans investigation! This week we have been finding out more about the creatures that might live in our garden through our class story, ’If only…’ by Neil Griffiths. Ask the children to tell you all about i t.
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Finding objects and listening to words that begin with the letters u and v. Ordering objects such as flowers by their size/height and identifying 2D shapes, using them to make minibeasts. Creating and drawing flowers, labelling the different parts. Mark making by printing and dabbing to create butterflies.
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Writing our own tiny seed stories and a recount of our trip to the garden centre. In phonics, we have been finding out reading and writing words beginning with 2 consonants such as twin and crab.
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In mathema tics, we have been exploring selecting, rotating and manipulating shapes to make other shapes and develop our spatial awareness. We have also been using counting on and adding to solve problems.
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Selecting our own tools and materials to build and create flowers and minibeasts. Programming our Beebot robot to move around a garden.
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