The classroom crime scene…
Child-led inspiration; a classroom crime scene.
This week, we’ve seen lots of role play involving “police”, “bad guys” and “jail”. The children have been using the construction hi-vis jackets and any space they can find to act out their scenarios.
Those police might just come in handy tomorrow because someone has left chaos in our home corner!
We’ve added police tabards, hats, magnifying glasses and evidence clipboards to ensure we have the right kit for the job. Watch this space to see where our investigations take us.
Welcome to Foundation!
We’ve had a wonderful morning getting to know our new F2 children and welcoming back the children moving up from F1. We’ve been busy painting, exploring outside, making food in the role play area, drawing and using our fiddly fingers to make dough cakes. We’ve seen lots of great numbers and letter sounds being used already too!
We’re really looking forward to seeing our nursery children this afternoon.
Home-Link Challenges
Today we have sent home our ‘All About Me’ bags for you to fill with your favourite things from home or photos if you wish.
We would also like you to bring in a copy of a family photo in your home for the role play area or you can email a photo to us at:
stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org
Reminders
Please leave a pair of wellies at school for our muddy outdoor play.
Please bring a named water bottle to school every day. The bottle must contain water only- no juice please.
Please ensure all uniform, bags, shoes and personal items are named.
Please remember we will now be opening the gate at 3.15 and asking you to collect your child/ren from the classroom door.
If you are collecting from F1 at 11.30, we will continue to bring the children to you at the gate.
Thank you.
Craft Club 11.07.19- Slime!
We had a super- gooey, squishy time at our final craft club of the year on Thursday.
We made slime 🙂 Sorry grown-ups!
We had to be really careful when adding our activator to make sure we had the perfect consistency. We selected our colours and added sequins for a sparkly textured finish 🙂
Transition, pirates and picnics!
For F2 children, this week saw the first opportunity to spend time in their new classroom and with some old (now new) classmates. F1 have had their final stay and play with children joining us in September too. We have spent time talking about what we think might be different in September and discussing all the new experiences that we are excited for.
We used drama in Literacy to act out the thoughts of our main character in our story. In The Night Pirates, we met a group of “Rough, tough, little girl pirates” who manage to steal away treasure from the “grown-up” pirates! We made a ‘subconscious alley’ (or “thinking alley” for Foundation) where we said out-loud the thoughts of our character when he met the pirates. F2 then used these skills to write down some thoughts and speech of different characters from the story.
Junk modelling has been a returning favourite this week- we are always amazed at the imaginative, thoughtful models made in our creative areas!
We enjoyed our picnic outside Wednesday lunchtime:
Next week, our ‘Learn with me’ table top challenge is going to be to write your favourite memories from this year in Foundation Class. Please do visit the activity with your child to help them focus on the ‘reflection’ element of next week’s Living and Learning statement.
I know how to reflect and look ahead.
Notices for the final days next week:
-We will be sending PE kits home on Thursday after our final gymnastics session.
-Please return all reading books to school by next Thursday. We will be taking all of the books back in over the summer.
-Please bring in a large plastic carrier bag by next Friday to keep in your child’s drawer so that we can send home their things on the final day.
-On Friday afternoon, we will be having a ‘Writing Warriors’ linked end of year class party! No need to bring anything as we will be wearing school uniform 🙂
Wonderful Windchimes
Today in craft club we started making Windchimes. We used lollipop sticks and we threaded string with beads. The wooden beads will make a calming sound as they bump into each other in the wind. Take a look at our creations.
Tropical World
We had a fabulous day at Roundhay Park and Tropical World.
The children were so excited and enthusiastic. They behaved brilliantly throughout a long day and we are very proud of how they represented the school and themselves. Well done Foundation.
Thanks again to our parent volunteers Mrs Kwallah and Mrs Greenough who were a huge help today.
Take a look at photos from our special class trip:
Penpals
Today in craft club, we made pencil top characters. We used pipe cleaners and googley eyes to bring our characters to life. Take a look at our creations!
Our exciting day
Two special things happened in Foundation today!
F2 and F1 children going up to F2 in September have enjoyed their first session with North Leeds Gymnastics. We have learnt some new floor positions…
and we demonstrated some great travelling movements, inspired by animals:
We can’t wait to try even more next Thursday!
Our second piece of exciting news, is that our competition entries in the book ‘My First Riddle’, have finally been published. Any orders for books have arrived and we will proudly have a copy of the book on display in the classroom too.
Craft Club- Our Superheroes!
*W A R N I N G* any super Dads or Grandads reading this, should look away now!…
In honour of Father’s Day this Sunday, today we decorated some sweet treats for our very own superheroes- our Dads and Grandads. We hope they enjoy their creations and special messages.
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.