Robins Class - Year R/1

Thank you to those who came to our Phonics Workshop. Please find attached below the PowerPoint from the session. 

Phonics Workshop 

Reception Learning Diary

Term 5:

Welcome back.  We hope you had a lovely Easter break!  This Term is all about 'A Life on the Ocean Wave!'.  We are looking forward to exploring the depths of the oceans and finding out about some of the life that lives under water.  The Parent Booklets will provide you with lots of information on what we will be learning this term and give you lots of help and ideas on how you can support your child in learning at home.  

Please continue to read at least 5 times a week for your child as this will help with independent reading and writing skills.  If you would like to come in and read a story to the class this term, please come and let us know.  We would love to have you!

Term 4:

What a lovely end to our Easter term. We not only enjoyed our Easter Worship but we have also made a chocolate tomb as part of the EasterStory. We have turn taken through lots of fun games and completed an Easter egg art craft picture. Whatever you are planning over Easter, stay safe and have fun. We look forward to seeing you for Term 5!

Our Wow day has seen us exploring spotty doubles, researching and writing non fiction facts about Tigers, singing and having a tea party. We tried fruity tea and ate lots of new fruits. We talked about the importance of healthy eating and what is meant by a balanced diet with our Healthy Eating theme in PSHW. We also talked about the importance of trying new things so food becomes even more interesting. A huge thank you to the adults in class for taking so much of their time and own resources to provide such a wonderful experience for our Robins children.

How lucky are we!? Another wonderful story…this time from Hugo’s mum. The ‘Smartest Giant in Town’. We enjoyed discussing why we love reading. Thank you for coming in and sharing the joy of books.

We are super proud of our Robins class today who presented their class Worship around care. So many wonderful examples were shown. Our poem was spoken with great confidence and clarity. Thank you to all who were able to attend.

How lucky are we!? Ollie’s Grandma came in to visit us this afternoon to share another exciting story! We read ‘The Diddle that Dummed’. We enjoyed lots of book talk as we read the story and shared our thoughts and ideas about the story. What a wonderful way to end our Thursday!!!

Today we were extremely luck to have James come in from perform drama. We all went for an underwater experience. We swam like tiny Minos and large whales. We laughed like a clown fish and zapped other creatures like an electric eel. Our mission was to recuse the underwater magic pearl. To do this we put on our goggles, water suits and flippers to find it however there was a deep sea creature, we had to freeze like start fish to avoid getting caught.
Luckily we found the magic pearl and it was magic and granted us one wish.
What an amazing adventure Robins had this morning.

Happy Shrove Tuesday! After discussing lent and how people celebrate across different countries in the UK, we looked into what ingredients we needed to make pancakes. We wrote a list of ingredients and then mixed them together to create our batter. We then cooked then on a crepe cooker and let them cool down. We then explored doubles in maths and drew some fruity doubles on pancake templates. We used these ideas to decorate our own pancakes with fruit doubles. We did a blind test of trying shop bought pancakes with our home made pancakes. Guess which was most popular!? Have a look at the graph we made together and see! We talked about healthy eating and how fresh produce tastes better and is healthier for us. Thank you to our EYFS staff and incredible team for their hard work in making today possible!

Term 3:

We have been conducting a science experiment to see what would happen to fruit if we left it for two weeks. We regularly talked about the changes. We noticed: the fruit is getting smaller. The fruit is getting harder. The fruit is getting drier. The colours are changing to browns and black. The carrot was the first to go bad. The apple has lasted the longest. Ask your child about why food goes bad over time. Why is it important to only buy what we need from shops? Why would we not want to waste food?

Today we celebrated Chinese New Year! We learned and ordered the animals from the story of the zodiac, used percussion and dance to perform a parade, drew a step by step dragon, learned and recalled facts about CNY and even wrote numerals in Mandarin. All in all; quite the ambitious day!!

Today we began at the moon and travelled towards Earth. The children controlled the space rocket as we zoomed in. As we journeyed we discussed our planet and noticed the differences between land and the sea. We continued onward and discovered the UK and other countries around us. France is just across the water! We went into England and eventually found Weston-super-Mare. We found the two piers, Sand Bay and then Worlebury. We compared Weston Woods and the golf course with Worlebury village. Finally, we ended up returning to Worlebury school. Have a look at the picture; what do you recognise?

What’s fabulous wow day! We all trained to become astronauts and passed our exams. We then got given tickets to board the Worlebury Apollo mission. We entered our space ship and dressed in our space suits. When Mission Control was happy we blasted into space and went on a visual tour of each planet, our moon and our sun.

After role playing in our mars planet small world and outdoor rocket ship, we then watched the first moon landing and leaned the name of NeilArmstrong as the first astronaut to walk on the surface of the moon.

Ask what your child enjoyed most about today!!

Happy New Year and welcome back!  Our learning theme this term is ‘Out of this World!’.  We are looking forward to exploring the world beyond the clouds and discovering what we know about space.

When possible, please ensure your child brings in their PE kit as PE is on a Thursday afternoon.  Children should also have a coat with them every day (rain or shine) as a good deal of our learning is outside and the temperature is cold – we want to prevent colds and flu!!

The Term 3 and 4 Parent Information booklets contain all that you need to know about our learning.  The ‘show and tell’ page lists the activities to complete at home and exhibit in class each Friday.  This is week 1.  There are also parent guides to support maths and literacy at home.  Please continue to read 5 times a week with your child at home.  The phonics books are specific to the phonics being taught in class and will help your child to become more confident with sounds for reading and writing.  Reading records are audited on a Friday; for each entry recorded, your child will continue to be awarded house points.  This will be added on each Friday by Mrs Dunstone.

If you have some spare time in the week and feel you would like to come in and volunteer reading with children for an hour a week, please let me know.  We are always grateful to our parent body for the help and support that you give!

Wishing you a wonderful start to 2025 and the adventures ahead!

Mr Gill and Mrs Dunstone.

Terms 1 and 2

Why a wonderful CHRISTMAS experience; we have all come together to remember the true meaning of Christmas. We made our Christingles and lit them with songs and a prayer to remember that our inner light is connected to the light of the world. It was lovely to have Mrs Bamford tending our special Robins service!

It’s all Christmas in Robins class! We have enjoyed playing games, doing art and crafts, party dancing, Christmas lunch and watching the Polar Express. We even got to meet Father Christmas and his Elf! It has been a wonderful and memorable day. Tomorrow we will be doing our class Christingle and watching the KS2 concert in the afternoon.

What an incredible performance by our exceptional Robins class. We are so proud of their hard work and wonderful story telling. Well done all! You learned your lines and spoke confidently. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Well, that worked out nicely - snow fell down the very day we explored snowmen and made our own craft. Thank you to all of the adults who came into school for our open morning. We had great fun and we hope our learning gave you some helpful ideas for supporting at home. Have a lovely and snowy evening…

As part of our learning about remembrance, we watched a video of a child, who went into a plane with a World War II, veteran, and flew in the sky like real pilots. We then looked at pictures of Flanders’s Field and discussed what the poppy flower represents. Using iPads and our art skills, we created our own poppy drawings and representations and made a giant class poppy. We all agreed that living in peace and harmony makes for a kinder and more compassionate world. We talked about how kind hands and feet, and the way we show and express our feelings to others, is important for keeping friendships and building communities based on respect and justice.

We have had quite the start to our week. We have learned all about Guy Fawkes and fireworks safety, celebrated Diwali and learned the story of Rama and Sita, introduced our new learning theme ‘Let it Snow’ and started role playing our class text ‘The Snowman’.
We have enjoyed reading books using our skills and investigated numbers to 5 in forest school as well as using leaves for Diwali art.
On Monday we are looking forward to doing some work on Remembrance!

Today was very exciting as it was our first buddy lunch. Having lunch with the year 6 children. They all helped the younger children with their lunch and showed them where things need to go at the end of lunch. Lots of smiles all round.

What a fantastic morning we have had in our class. We began the day with a check-in. Following that we had our P.E session. We all managed to get change and learnt all about our bodies and what happens when we expertise noticing our hearts beating faster and our breathing getting quicker and harder. For phonics today we used cotton buds to trace/rub off the letter we could hear at the start of each word. Finally we had our PHSE lesson talking about love. Who do we love and why.

This afternoon our Year One children all came together and enjoyed some time playing together.

Welcome to our new class of 2024-25.  We have enjoyed getting to know the school and members of our community.  Our Year 1 children have acted as fantastic role models and have helped to explain and show expectations and the routines we follow in school.  We have a wonderful class of children who are enthusiastic about their learning!!

A warm welcome to our Robins Class of EYFS and Key Stage 1 learners.  We begin our exciting adventure of 'Heroes and Villains'.  Please enjoy looking through our Parent Information booklet which outlines our curriculum and learning.

Our Year 1 children have created maps of the classroom to present share with our new children.  They will explain our school values and golden rules which we will being discussing in our class contract this week!