Hello to all F2 children and families

I hope you are having a good week together.

I have been away for a few days painting and decorating a flat. (that was my job before I became a teacher  -  I still love it though, very theraputic.)

The children settled well into F2 last term and we enjoyed  many topics.

Just thought I'd share a few photos and highlights - hope you enjoy them....

We follow the children's interest in Early Years, and Aeroplanes became a hot topic. Captain Elisha took his turn flying for  Newbold Airways. 

This topic introduced  many new ideas and vocabulary. 

It also encouraged excellent team work and negotiation in the children's self initiated play.

 They were able to explore mathematical concepts such as distance and speed.  

All the children became engaged  - making and serving play food and drinks

to the passengers and creating stories around the aircraft e.g needing to fix it as it had broken down.

                                          Newbold Airways cabin crew delivering  a high standard of service - Well                                            done.

We talked about parts of an aircraft and some of the children labelled their own aeroplane.

This topic was very motivating and great fun.

During Harvest Festival week we read  Farmer Duck. This motivated a lot of physical digging in the outside area and I would hear the children calling to each other 'How goes the work?' which is a repeated refrain throughout the story by the lazy farmer who leaves all the work to the poor overworked duck. Don't worry, the animals chase him off the  farm and he is never seen again.

 Another brilliant story where we could explore what is fair and not fair. We looked a bit more closely at where milk and corn came from too. (Amazing fact- Kelloggs cornflakes was invented by a Seventh Day Adventist - John Kellogg in the 19th Century.)

We also reads The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. This motivated the children to design and make some lovely models of the Gruffalo out of playdough and various materials-

 we also made a Gruffalo Pie!
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The children like cooking and it is a brilliant vehicle for measuring and strengthening fingers plus many more learning opportunities.
(Elisha, I haven't forgotten that you want to cook Supernoodles!)


Look forward to seeing you all next week and ready to start a very busy and exciting christmas term.

Please let me know if you have any problems receiving Tapestry.

Until then
God bless
 from Mrs.Dye