Sports Week

This week has been wonderful! The children have enjoyed a variety of physically fun activities and Sports Day is still to come 

Early Years and KS1 children enjoyed a wonderful day of exploration and excitement at Aldenham Country Park. It was heart warming to see them run, climb and search in the woods. Of course, if you ask the children, as I did, the best part of the day was the coach journey and lunch!

The classroom and garden have new role play areas where the children have been acting out their holiday experiences on the beach and in the beach shop/cafe.

We have had lots of fun this week learning with and about shapes. The children have been sorting shapes, identifying their names and properties and applying their shape knowledge to calculate. What a super bunch they are!

There is the tiniest hole at the bottom of one of our playhouses. Yesterday two of our wonderfully imaginative children created a mouse run for the mouse they believe lives there. Guess what? This morning there were mouse footprints! 

We have continued to enjoy learning about trains this week. The children have created their own train carriage, so they can transport some of our toys from one place to another.

There has been some fantastic role play taking place in the early years garden this week. The children have been to the seaside, explored the mountains and enjoyed picnics wherever they have been.

The children have been looking at different ways to partition a whole number into smaller parts. They are becoming really good at using a speaking frame to articulate his understanding.

I haven't added any photographs of the children exploring the mud with the animal characters, I'm not sure you'd forgive me! So here are the finger puppets the children created to support their retelling of the story.

Odd Socks Day 2020

This was a great way to celebrate what makes us all unique in Anti-Bullying Week!

Diva Candles

This week the children have created their very own Diva lamps. Firstly the clay had to be moulded into shape. They were left to dry over night, before the children carefully decorated them with paint and sequins. The end result is amazing!

Children In Need 2020

We would like to thank you for you kind donations towards this wonderful cause! Today the children found out how this money will help children all around the UK. The children joined Joe Wicks, as he completed his 24 hours exercise challenge and they decorated cakes with spots, just like the spots on Pudsey's patch.

Diwali

This week the children have been learning about the Hindu festival Diwali. Diwali is called the Festival of Lights, Special lamps are lit in homes and people watch fireworks . Hindu's think about stories where good beats evil. The children have made Diwali fireworks and are making Diwali candle holders.

This week the children have learnt the history behind bonfire night. They found out that a man called Guy Fawkes failed to blow up the Houses of Parliament and therefore Kind James 1 decreed that 5th November should be the day that people always celebrate that the Gunpowder Plot did not happen.

We watched a selection of firework displays, created our own firework paintings and of course made chocolate sprinkle fireworks.

Funny Bones

We have had lots of fun reading Funny Bones this week. The children have enjoyed learning to sing and dance along to the 'The Skeleton Song' (see the link below) and have created and labelled themselves.

It's been a Super September!

It is very strange not to have parents coming into the environment in the mornings, however I would like you to know how amazing the children are at independently organising their belongings and washing their hands before settling down to an activity. 

There is always a buzz in the classroom, with so much going on. I hope you enjoy looking at some of the moments we have captured so far 

Hello all 

I just want you to know how thrilled I am at how well the children have settled in over the last two weeks and with their first full week imminent, I thought I would take the opportunity to give you an overview of what we will be focusing on throughout the first half term. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me via our teacher email address should you need to, it is teacher@hertfordstandrew.herts.sch and feel free to send any photographs or learning taking place at home, I would love to share this with the rest of the class and to add it to your child's learning journal.

Good luck next week, I sense some tiredness will be evident! 

Kind regards,

Mrs Sampson