Welcome to Foundation Class!

Mr Thrift - Class Teacher                                     

It has been another fantastic week in Foundation, and the children have worked incredibly hard!

This week in phonics, we learnt the new sounds r, j and v. The children have done an amazing job learning and remembering these sounds, especially the tricky j sound! We have also continued our blending practice with Fred the Frog, and it is wonderful to see the children's confidence and reading skills improving each week. Thank you for all the reading you are doing at home with your children. Please keep up the fantastic support!

In writing, we have started our ‘All About My Family’ books. The children have been practising listening carefully for sounds in words, thinking about the beginning sounds in words such as mum and then identifying the sounds that come next. They are all trying very hard and making great progress.

In reading, we have been exploring the story The Invisible String, which teaches us that we are always connected to the people we love. This linked beautifully with our PSHE learning this week, where we focused on the emotion of feeling worried through the story The Worrysaurus. The children showed a good understanding of their emotions and discussed how thinking about happy memories and favourite things can help when we are feeling worried. Next week, we will continue exploring a range of different emotions as part of our topic work.

In maths, we have been learning about one more and one less. This can be a tricky concept, but through stories, songs, practical activities, and using our fingers, the children have been developing their understanding of one more and one less for numbers 1 to 3 (some to 5!). You could support this learning at home by asking simple questions such as, “If you had one more fish finger, how many would you have?”

As part of our topic work, we have been learning about hibernation. We explored what hibernation is, which animals hibernate, and why they do it. The children learnt that animals such as hedgehogs, bats and dormice hibernate during the winter because food becomes harder to find. Before hibernating, they eat lots of food to help them prepare.

Well done, Foundation! We are very proud of all your hard work this week.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mr Thrift

Notices: 

• Please may children come to school with spare clothes where possible, just in case. (Including spare shoes or wellies). 
• Please may you bring in any recycling we can use for our junk modeling creations.