School Blog

Birch class have been trying very hard to be brave when coming to school so far this week. We have enjoyed investigating our new environment, finding the resources we like the most and making some new friends within the whole of reception. In our phonics lessons, we have started to learn some new phonemes, matching objects to initial sounds and writing our graphemes. We have also had fun playing a new game called wonky donkey, where we have to listen very carefully so we can find out who pulls our tail to wake us up! Next week we have asked Mrs Kirby if we can do some more modelling in our creative area so watch this space to see some of our marvellous creations. 

WOW Ash Class! Your first week in Reception is over and you have been amazing. 

All of the adults are so impressed at how well you are coming into class & even when we might get a little upset, we soon wipe the tears and enjoy the day. 

We have had a great week meeting the new teachers, exploring our classrooms and investigating our outside area. 

This week we found that our planting area had overgrown and we found lots of vegetables. We took them inside, chopped them up and some of us even tried them for the first time too ! 

Well done for a great first week. We can't wait for next week, well done Ash Class! 

Fire and Ice 🔥 🧊 have returned for one more performance and what a performance it was. 
The bands manager (Miss Free) pulled the band along on their very own tour bus.

The whole of Nursery and Reception cheered them on while they sang us some songs. 

Well done Fire 🔥 and Ice 🧊 

Fairlands Festival 2023!

WOW! What a fantastic morning we have had already. The children lined up, went through security whilst having their tickets stamped and then recieved their 'Fairlands Festival 2023' wristband. 

The rain has held off all morning ! 

We have done so much already at our first Fairlands Festival. Glitter tattoos, making streamers, friendship bracelets, chill out tents, fruity drinks, slush puppies, ice-cream, popcorn, raving in the hall, dancing outside in the rain and so much more! 

We have had the best day (so far) and we continue this afternoon! 

Little City came to Fairlands! 

To end our amazing topic of 'People Who Help us' we invited an amazing company called 'Little City' to our school. 

When we got to school, our hall was transformed. Miss Free told us we were going to work!

We had the opportunity to work as hairdressers, mechanics, vets, shop keepers, builders, postal workers and so much more! 
We loved exploring the different areas and there were so many resources for us to use to act out so many different roles that we have learnt about. 

We have had an amazing day! 

Last week, we had a surprise visit from three police officers! 

This half-term our topic is 'People Who Help Us' and we have been on the look-out for people to come and talk to us about their jobs. 

We were so excited when three police officers came to talk to us about their job. They told us about all of the equipment they have to wear, what they do in the community and even gave us time to ask any questions we had.

Just when we thought the visit was over... they took us out to their police vehicle. They showed us everything they have in their car and we loved looking at the blue lights and hearing the really loud siren. 

Thank you to the police officers who came to visit Reception, we loved it! 

We had a fantastic World Book Day! 
we started the day with an assembly where our teachers shared their favourite books and then we had a cat-walk to show off our amazing costumes. 

One of the activities we really enjoyed was learning how to make bendy-back books. 
We made our own and then filled the books with stories and pictures. 

We now know how to make them in our independent time 

As it is passion week at Fairlands, we heard that Miss Ferguson had brought her horse to school.

At first we wondered;

- Was it a real horse? 
- Did she ride it to school?

- Did she buy it with her own money?

- Does it live in her house? 

Miss Ferguson kindly let us visit her horse; Archie, in the upper field! 
We learnt some rules about horses and we couldn't wait to give him a stroke on his furry and soft nose. 

Archie was so kind and we loved seeing him! Thank you Miss Ferguson