Well done to all the children for surviving their first full half term in school. They have learnt lots of new things and are progressing well.

We are getting ready for the visit to the Wildlife Park on Tuesday 5th November. School uniform needs to be worn under waterproofs and wellies. Each child needs a bag that they can put on their backs to carry their lunch in.

We have created a waterfall in our small world area with lots of animals. We will be learning animal names, where they live and what they do.

Please remember to return library forms if you haven’t already done so.

Have a lovely half term

Mrs Price and Mrs Shuka

We had a busy creative day today. We explored the different sounds rice, pasta and beans would make inside a rain shaker. We then decided how we wanted to make our rain shakers and what we wanted inside them.

Here are some pictures of our day.

Some of us chose to draw patterns and stick different things on our rain shakers.

Some of us chose to paint and then stick.

This week F2 have shared the book A is for Africa. We have talked about the things that we could see that were the same and different. We have also learnt that life in the city might be diffferent to life in a village.

The children dressed up in African clothes and some of them tried to carry a doll on their backs pretending it was a baby. We looked at different African fabrics comparing them to our clothes. We loved the colours and patterns.

We made African jewellery which we have enjoyed wearing all week.

On Friday, Mrs Axelby came to talk to us about her work with Compassion and her visit to Africa. We learnt about food, toys, clothes, school and toilets. The children were very interested in finding out about the toys and the toilets!

Next week we will be learning more about life in Africa and exploring African music. It is the drumming workshop on Tuesday and open session on Wednesday.

Finding out about where we live – shops and other buildings. We made models and painted pictures too.

Learning about going on a journey