Wolves
The teachers in
Foundation Stage are Mrs Augustin and Miss Taylor. The children are also support by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
In the Foundation Stage we
focus on making the children feel ‘at home’ by providing familiar games and
activities with their friends.
We experience the festivals of Diwali, Chinese New Year, Bonfire Night and
Christmas, through making and tasting traditional foods, dressing up and role
play. The children also develop their creative skills using a range of media
producing: cards; lanterns; dragon masks; and paintings to music.
We enjoy exploring the local area and we have visited the church, post- box
and woods to support our learning.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record
• Appropriate clothing for the weather (as we play outside every day whatever
the weather!)
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Autumn Terms in Wolves
In Wolves, our first topic was Let’s Explore, where we had fun discovering all of the different areas we have access to at school. Our favourite places to visit are the library and Forest School area. Wolves used their senses to explore the school grounds and had fun throwing the autumn leaves in the air, being quiet whilst looking for birds in the bird hide and discovering what was living under the logs. We have been doing lots of activities to help us to settle into school life and have been learning how to develop our listening skills.
We have enjoyed listening to lots of stories, one of our favourite stories was Mr Gumpy’s Outing. We especially enjoyed pretending to be the characters from the story in Mr Gumpy’s boat. The children had fun making obstacle courses outside and drawing maps after listening to the story, We Are Going on a Bear Hunt. We put on our chef hats and followed recipes to make tasty jam sandwiches for our celebratory, end of half term picnic!
We have been busy in Maths, exploring and continuing repeating patterns and learning about shape. Through singing songs and using counting objects we have solved one more and one less number problems.
Our second topic was Marvellous Machines, we have enjoyed learning how things work and had fun investigating how to turn a light bulb on and off and finding out which objects are magnetic.
We are getting really good at remembering all of the sounds we have learnt in phonics and are beginning to use what we have learnt to help us to read and write simple words.
The last few weeks have been very busy with the run up to Christmas including our first whole school trip to see Peter Pan at the Pantomime, our Christmas Play to all of our grown-ups and our walk to St Andrews church for the Christingles service.
Pandas
Pandas
The teacher in Year 1 – Pandas is Miss Bowers. The children are also supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Pandas have had a fantastic autumn term.
Books are an integral part of our classroom and learning, and they bring us so much joy! We love big books, small books, old books, new books, topic books, pop-up books, and all else in-between. Here are a few of the many pictures Miss Bowers has taken of us enjoying our ‘book rich’ classroom.
In Maths, we have had fun using equipment to help us with our learning. Here we are practising number bonds to 10, using our hands as the two parts of a part-whole model. Hiding one of the parts in our closed hand helps our learning partner recall the number bond from their long-term memory.
In Science, we have been learning about different materials. We have explored the properties of different materials and undertaken experiments to find out which materials are best for certain objects. Here we are sorting a variety of objects into material categories.
In Art, we have been working on mixing primary and secondary colours. We loved experimenting with how much of the primary colours to add together, and how that changed the hue.
In PE, we have become passionate dancers. In this picture here we were moving as if we were ice-skaters. Our dance routine had to include a form of travel, a balance and a jump.
In PSHE, we have discussed the different communities that we belong to. We talked about how we all belong to Thringstone School, The United Kingdom and the world but we liked hearing about the different groups that all our friends belong to.
There simply isn’t enough time or space to tell you about all of the amazing things that we have been doing. Just know, we are working hard, have a great time, and believing and achieving together!
Tigers
The teacher in Year 2 – Tigers is Miss Concannon and children are also supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Tigers have been having so much fun!
Our topic this term has been ‘Movers and Shakers’. It has been exciting to learn lots of new facts and information about significant artists, monarchs, activists, explorers and scientists from the past.
In PE we have enjoyed improving our attacking and defending skills in invasion games such as football and netball. We have also created our own motifs in Dance. For maths, we have enjoyed using equipment to help us with our learning. We started with a focus on place value, then began using formal methods such as number lines and the column method to support us in our addition and subtraction calculations. We have also been sorting 2D and 3D shapes by their properties.
Many genres have been explored in English, from writing setting descriptions, biographies about the Gruffalo characters and a newspaper report of Baby Bears trip to the moon. In Religious Education we have reflected on the ‘Creation Story,’ explored Islam and created Rangoli patterns for Diwali. Whilst in science we had lots of enjoyment experimenting with forces and learning about living things and their habitats.
Cheetahs
The teachers in Year 3/4 – Cheetahs are Mrs Kemp and Mr Oldham. The children are also supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• Change
of shoes for inside school – eg plimsolls
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Cheetahs have been busy this Autumn Term,
With lots of new facts and information to learn.
We’re striking the right chord in our ukulele lessons,
And have been lucky to hone our hockey skills in our PE sessions.
Describing one another in French has been fun,
And creating pizzas using ingredients grown at school was definitely yum!
We’ve selected effective materials for our soundproof investigations in Sound,
And through studying the Anglo Saxons and Vikings, many facts were found.
For Diwali we created lanterns of light with care,
Which lit up our classroom with a sparkly flare.
In forest schools, we found lots of baby toads,
And used logs and sticks to create a perfect abode
Snow Leopards
The teacher in Year 5 – Snow Leopards is Mrs Hammersley and the children are supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• Change
of shoes for inside school – eg plimsolls
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Snow Leopards have made a great start to the new school year. During the first term we are going back in time for our history based ‘Dynamic Dynasties’ topic. In this topic, children learn about periods of ancient Chinese History. They explore a timeline of the first five Chinese dynasties and learn about legends surrounding the beginning of Chinese civilisation. We have studies oracle bones, learnt about religious beliefs and explored bronze artefacts that set the Shang Dynasty apart from other civilisations. We have studies hierarchy and discovered who was powerful and who was powerless. In English, we have written narrative poems and biographies. During Year 5 we will study many different genres of writing including journalistic, persuasive, informative, poetry, as well as fiction and non-fiction writing. In Science we have been learning about the forces of gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction, with children exploring their effects. We are really looking forward to our next Science topic on Space. We have really enjoyed our Music lessons so far this year. We love Wednesdays when we have the opportunity to learn and play the Djembe drums. In our PE lessons we work with Year 6 and have lots of opportunities to learn new skills and play new games too. We can take part in competitions outside of school. We go swimming every week and enjoy learning all sorts of strokes and skills. Forest School lessons are exciting, using our school grounds to create and nurture. We are really enjoying the outdoor adventure activities this half term, where we are able to build our teamwork skills. We are looking forward to our other topics that we will cover this year. Looking at how vegetables grow and harvesting our own form the school garden, is amazing, in the topic ‘Sow Grow Farm.’ Cooking each week allows us to use these to create fabulous foods from recipes. We also study the Greeks and we look at the wonderful history and geography of the area that we live in.
Dolphins
The teacher in Year 6– Dolphins is Mrs Hallam. The children are also supported by Miss Jones.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• Change
of shoes for inside school – eg plimsolls
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
We have had an incredibly busy term so far in our Dolphins class, expanding our knowledge, and drawing on our prior learning to support us. Each Wednesday we continue to build on our Djembe skills, learning various rhythms and songs as well as learning to play the Dundun drums. We have enjoyed experimenting with tones, tints and shades to create beautiful African landscape paintings which are displayed proudly in our classroom.
Our Science topics this term have allowed us to explore the areas of electricity and light. We even investigated whether fruit and vegetables can act as batteries! On the recent sunny days, we had fun observing the size and shape of our shadows in the playground at various points in the day. We enjoy reading in Dolphins, both at home and at school and have had the pleasure of Rufus the Reading Bear joining us for several weeks. In our Computing lessons we have learnt how to create and use sound effects to enhance a script. Our Design and Technology sessions are currently seeing us designing and creating models of playground structures for our ideal children’s playground.
