It’s Summer 2!
Welcome to Summer 2
Welcome back to our very final half term of the school year!
Our fluffy chick friends have gone to their home on the farm but word has spread about how good Foundation are at looking after creatures and helping them grow! When we came in on Monday we noticed that we have 
some new visitors – our very own caterpillars! We look forward to observing how they grow and change over the next three weeks.
We will be looking at more weird and wonderful minibeasts over the next few weeks as F2 build up to our exciting trip to Tropical World.
To introduce the children to the life cycle of butterflies, our focus story is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We have been writing lists of foods, recording the life cycle of a butterfly and creating food diaries linked to our new story.
In maths, F2 have continued working on teen numbers; representing them on tens frames, making our own number lines, ordering and saying one more and one less.
Outside, we have taken inspiration from the children’s interests and have some pirate themed activities- buried treasure, sorting word coins, map making and more!
Home-Link Challenge
Can you find a minibeast fact to share with the class?
Use a search engine on a computer, tablet or ipad or use a non-fiction book to find your information. You can pick any minibeast you like!
Parent Reminders
We are having a lot of issues with lost items in class again- particularly cardigans. This is a frequent reminder- we cannot stress enough how important it is to name all school uniform. It is a very difficult task to locate lost items with no name. Thank you to those who have named their uniform.
Letters have gone out this week for our school trip on 26th June. Please return forms and payments as soon as possible and by 14th June at the latest.
If your child is in F1 and will be moving into F2 (Reception year) in September, there is a parents meeting in The Hub next Wednesday 12th June at 3.00pm.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Phonics Fun
As you will be aware, year 1 pupils will be taking the Phonics Screening Check. Here is a website that can be used to help practise for the check.
Please click here.
Living and Learning: I know honesty is important.
We have been thinking about our Christian value of honesty. After discussing what we think honesty means we talked about whether it always makes people happy. We talked about why it is important to be honest and about what happens if we are not. We then made an acrostic poem about honesty. 
Living and Learning:I can make choices about my money.
This week we have been discussing all of the things we could do with our money. As a school we have decided to bring all of our 1p and 2p coins from home so that we can create a penny trail. We will donate all of the money that we collected to the Dogs Trust charity. We also made a tubes to represent the collection of our class. We have chosen to give our money to an organisation for a good cause. Take a look!
Craft Club- Jewellery
This week in Craft Club, we looked at jewellery artists and their work before creating our own gold and silver threaded masterpieces!
We created necklaces, bracelets and even a fancy modern ring. Some of us even found time to create a jewellery box at the end.
We are pleased to announce that Craft Club will return next half term. Watch this space for more creations!
Money Matters
As part of Money Matters week, Year 5 have been getting creative and making piggy banks using paper mache. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product!
Volcano!
Last week, we were set a piece of creative homework that followed up on our work in class or recognising the features of volcanoes and how they erupt.
All the class produced stunning pieces of work at home with your support. We had: posters, poems, quizzes, rock displays and of course model volcanoes.
Of course, it wouldn’t be an accurate model if it didn’t erupt. Thanks to some extensive research, some children had found out which substances to mix to make the models erupt.
But don’t worry. No children or classrooms were harmed in the making!
Living and Learning: I recognise the importance of money.
This week, the class explored what it would have been like before money when trades people traded their goods with each other. They became a trades people and used their bargaining and persuasion skills to make trades with each other. We discussed how some things – such as a cow – were worth more than others. For instance, a bag of wheat. The children identified problems with this method and recognised how having money makes buying what you need both simpler and fairer.
Art that POPS!
In craft club this week, we have been looking at Pop art. Our favourite art was by Roy Litchtenstein who used dots to create a cartoon look. Take look at our superb creations.
Living and Learning:I know money is important.
We have been thinking about what we may need money for. Wediscussed why we use money and we talked about ways that people can earn or save their money. Take a look at some of our ideas.
