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The blog for Ash, Beech & Birch
Mrs Kirby, Miss Free and Miss Weston

FIRE AND ICE 🔥 🧊

By Reception, in Reception - Friday, 14 July 2023

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!

By Early Years, in Reception - Friday, 14 July 2023

FAIRLANDS FESTIVAL!

By Early Years , in Reception - Friday, 14 July 2023

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

By Beech Class , in Reception - Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Little City

By Beech Class , in Reception - Wednesday, 29 March 2023

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! 

Police Visit

By Beech Class, in Reception - Monday, 13 March 2023

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! 

World Book Day

By Beech Class , in Reception - Friday, 3 March 2023

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 

There was a horse at school!

By Beech Class , in Reception - Tuesday, 21 February 2023

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 

Snowboards !

By Beech Class , in Reception - Tuesday, 21 February 2023

This week is passion week at Fairlands. 
Today a very long bag turned up in our class. We had a guess at what was inside. We guessed Miss Free's cat, a huge pancake, even Mrs Kirby. 
Miss Free told us that she is very passionate about something and gave us clues that were in her bag. 
The clues were an airport sticker tag, a helmet, some goggles and some big boots. 

We tried to guess again what was in the bag. We came up with; motorbike, skateboard, bicycle and lots more! 

Miss Free revealed her snowboard! She told us about how she learnt during lockdown and she has been going ever since and even taking it on holiday with her. 
We wanted a try! So we had to stretch our legs a bit and put our feet in the big boots. 
We tried on the helmet and the goggles and some of us even tried to move the snowboard! 

We watched some videos of snowboarding and some of us even want to try this when we are older! 

Team Assemble!

By Beech Class, in Reception - Wednesday, 1 February 2023

What a team we are! Wow! 
A team of boys in Reception asked if I had any jobs for them to do. So we looked around our outside area and found a Bug Area that needed a bit of work. The team got their wellies on, collected their tools and began the work. We picked up leaves, raked the wood clippings, rolled lots of logs, covered our bird watch hideout and transformed our bug hotel. 

We cleaned out the bug hotel and stocked it up with new logs, hay and some brand new bricks especially for bugs and bees. 

The team came across a problem... we needed to move lots of heavy logs but it was too tricky. Not too tricky for the dream team. They decided to use a scooter to push the log onto and then transported the log to the bug area. Such a creative idea! 

We have such an amazing Reception team!