Welcome to EYFS - Mrs Ladkin's Class
Autumn 2017
We use technology to support our learning. Here we are using the interactive whiteboard to reinforce careful counting and number recognition.
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We have been designing and making windmills, as part of our learning about The Little Red Hen.
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Look at our vegetables. We have been weeding and watering. The peas are nearly ready to eat and we can see the orange carrots just below the surface of the ground. The broad beans and lettuce need longer to grow.
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We have been learning about symmetrical patterns and using a mirror to find the line of symmetry.
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We have been looking at the life cycle of a butterfly and watching the changes that are taking place. We now have to wait for the final stage.
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Preparing the planters ready for planting seeds, and plants. We took the time to talk about how the planters had changed during each season and what we will need to do to make sure our plants grow in the coming months.
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The children worked together to build Noah's Ark. They then used the safari animals to count in 2's
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We were very lucky to have a visit from the one week old chicks, which we had seen hatch the previous week. Look at how much they have grown!
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Spring Time
We have enjoyed being outside in the sunshine for a change. The children have loved exploring the grassed area and planting plants and bulbs. Science week was great fun looking for changes. The children also explored ways to make water travel along a series of tubes and guttering.
We have been learning about adding two groups of objects together to find a total. We have used objects, drawn pictures, talked about our learning and learnt how to write a calculation using + and =
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During the second half of the Autumn term we have been learning about many celebrations. We have completed phase two phonics and worked hard to secure our understanding of numbers to ten and beginning numbers to twenty. We are developing our outdoor grassed area to include a mud kitchen. This will aid the development of vocabulary and personal and social development as we work and learn together.
Please click here to view our Autumn Term Newsletter
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Please see the Faith at Townlands tab, Assemblies, for more images from our class assembly on 20th May 2016.
To Infinity and the......trees!
All the children were really excited to send their letter off to space today. We wrote the letter as a class and included a QR code for the aliens to read in case they didn't understand our English. Miss Bridge fetched the balloons at lunchtime and we tied the letter to the balloons. Lewis and Amileigh were chosen to be the 'balloon releasers' and after we counted down from the 10 the letter was released. Unfortunately the balloons did initially get stuck in the trees but I am sure the aliens will be able to untangle them and retrieve the letter. We are hoping that they will come back to our playground and take our box of writing to Bob, the Man on the Moon and share the fantastic stories, posters and speech bubbles the children have written with Bob. Thank you to the parents for coming and joining in with our letter release.
Our mission to the Moon.
As part of our space topic we decided we would like to blast off in a rocket to the Moon. After a very shaky start we were racing through space and landed with a bump on the Moon. We investigated the Moon's different sized craters and brought some moon sand back to help with our ongoing investigations. Watch this space for more tales from our exciting adventure to the Moon!
Chinese New Year 2016
The children from both Foundation classes had a fantastic time learning all about Chinese New Year. We learnt about how Chinese people celebrate the new year- making lucky dumplings, setting off fireworks and lanterns and having special Chinese dragon and lion dances. As part of our learning we were able to make Moon Cakes, a cake that Chinese people make and give to their friends, which were very yummy, we made a Foundation class dragon, wrote some super sentence which we have made into a book, independently cut out the shapes to assembly a monkey as it is the Year of the Monkey and have a go at writing Chinese numbers. We have had so much fun learning about Chinese New Year!
Our Class Assembly was all about SPIDERS!
We made moving models to accompany our Incy Wincy Spider song and yummy spider biscuits! Follow this link to see a counting in twos video. It has really helped us to remember the pattern of numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwydguSKOU
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Easter
We have been learning about stained glass windows. Our Easter service told the Easter story through stained glass window images. Our image represents the circle of life of a plant.
We have been learning about stained glass windows. Our Easter service told the Easter story through stained glass window images. Our image represents the circle of life of a plant.
Foundation
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Dear Parents/Carers,
We hope you and your child have had a happy and enjoyable start to your time at Townlands Primary School. Our theme for this term is, ‘All about Ourselves’ and ‘Festivals & Celebrations’. All areas of the Foundation Stage Curriculum will be taught through these themes and will incorporate the children’s interests. Personal Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development
Other reminders – Please make sure your child has their P.E. kit in school and everything is clearly named. Earrings must be removed for health and safety reasons and long hair must be tied back for PE lessons, our PE days are Thursday and Friday. Water bottles will be sent home on Fridays for a good wash and then please return them on Monday morning. Me, My Family, My World books can also be brought in on Mondays and once we have shared the information with the group they will be returned home for you to keep until your next entry. Finally, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us; the best time is at the end of the school day, as we will have more time to give to you. Yours sincerely, Mrs Ladkin Miss Hunt |
Thursday 2nd October 2014 PE - balancing skills
Finding 2D shapes in our playground.Funky Fingers, our finger exercises and cooperative small group activities, takes place three times a week to the music of 'Happy', by Pharrell Williams |
Summer Term 2014
Dear Parents/Carers,
Welcome back the final term in this school year. Where has the time gone?!
Our overall theme this term is, ‘Diplodocus to Dormouse’. This theme will run across all areas of learning.
Our immediate learning will be about dinosaurs, looking at plant eaters and meat eaters, dinosaurs on land, in the sky and in water, how did they live, how do we know about them, and why did they become extinct? If anyone has any resources we could borrow to add to our dinosaur world (especially fossils) we would be very grateful.
Running alongside and then following on from our dinosaur theme there will be opportunities to investigate the living things in our school grounds, both plant and animal. We will focus on life cycles and how all living things grow and change. We will be preparing our planting beds and will need some warm weather so that we can plant them up with seeds!
We will revise Phase 3 phonics, all digraphs and trigraphs learnt so far. We will use our phonic knowledge to help us to read and spell two syllable words and then move quickly into Phase 4. The main challenge in this phase is to help children to blend and sound talk words with adjacent consonants e.g. truck, help. These adjacent consonant phonemes can both be heard when you say the word, which makes them different from words where there are two letters that make just one sound, sh, ch, ee, or, etc.
Please continue to practise sound talking words orally for your child to blend sounds together. E. g. s-t-a-n-d u-p stand up, c-l-a-p y-our h-a-n-d-s. etc. There will be more ‘tricky’ words to learn to read and spell off by heart. These will be put into your child’s phoneme book.
Please continue to practice all the phonemes learnt so far (including the actions for each phoneme). I cannot stress enough how important this is and what an effect being confident about using the skills of blending and sound talking phonemes has upon the children’s progress. Our homework will shift in emphasis to more dictation of sentences.
In our maths lessons we will continue to order numbers, add and subtract, begin to count in groups of 2’s and 10’s, double, halve and share. We will continue to learn to recognise coins and begin to pay and work out how much change we need when shopping in our garden centre and cafe. Our garden centre will also be the setting to support our learning about weight and capacity.
Tuesday will be Library book day and PE will be on Tuesday and Friday, therefore please send your child with their PE kit on Monday and leave it in school all week. Earrings must be removed for Health and Safety reasons and long hair must be tied back. Long hair should always be tied back to avoid possible head lice issues.
Hopefully the weather will be kind to us this term and we will be able to use our outside space to maximise our learning. If the sun is shining please make sure your child has a sun hat in school and that you apply sun cream before they come to school. The children really need their water bottles, please ensure you send them back into school on a Monday. If you need to purchase a new one they are available from the school office
We really value the Me, My Family and My World books that so many of you take the time to complete. The children share these books with the class, they love talking about their experiences. This encourages the children to speak clearly, listen carefully, ask questions of each other and discuss the similarities and differences we all have in our lives. The books also help the staff to build up a complete picture of your child’s experiences outside school which in turn helps us to make a final judgement about your child’s attainment at the end of the Foundation Stage.
You will receive a written report at the end of the year which will tell you how your child has achieved against national expectations. You will also have information about your child’s characteristics of learning, how they engage with their learning, about their motivation to learn and how they create and think critically.
Finally, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us; the best time is after school, as we will have more time to give to you.
Welcome to Foundation Autumn 2013
We hope you and your child have had a happy and enjoyable start to your time at Townlands Primary School.
Our theme for this term is, ‘All about Ourselves’ and ‘Festivals & Celebrations’. All areas of the Foundation Stage Curriculum will be taught through these
themes and will incorporate the children’s interests.
Personal Social and Emotional Development
Have a positive approach to activities and events and adapt their behaviour to different situations.
Physical Development
Engage in activities requiring hand-eye coordination.
Negotiate space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children.
Communication & Language
Listen carefully to stories with increasing attention and be able to talk about what happened in the story.
Literacy
Hear and say the initial sounds in words and know which letter represents those sounds.
Recognise words that rhyme.
Mathematics
Recognise numbers, count objects carefully, then begin to say the number that is one more than a given number.
Use mathematical names for ’flat’ 2D shapes and begin to use mathematical terms to describe shapes.
Understanding of the World
Show an interest in the world in which they live and begin to gain an awareness of the cultures and beliefs of others.
Complete a simple program on a computer.
Show curiosity and interest in the features of objects and living things.
Expressive Arts & Design
Explore what happens when they mix colours and choose particular colours to us for a purpose.
Begin to explore rhythm and movement in response to music and songs through ‘Kimbles’ lessons.
Engage in imaginative play.
Other reminders –
Please send your child to school with their P.E. kit on Monday and take it home on Friday once we begin to get changed for PE. Earrings must be removed for health and safety reasons and long hair must be tied back for PE lessons.
Water bottles will be sent home on Fridays for a good wash then please return them on Monday.
Me, My Family, My World books can also be brought in on Mondays and once we have shared the information with the group they will be returned home for you to keep until your next entry.
Finally, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us; the best time is at the end of the school day, as we will have more time to give to
you.
