North Frodingham Primary School

Tigers Trust PE sessions

This half term, we have fantastic PE sessions each week with Tigers Trust in which we practice a new skill each week. Recently, we have been working on our throwing, catching and general ball control skills. We have practiced with different sized balls and some of us have mastered catching even the smallest of balls, which is very tricky! We have to use our very best concentrating and listening skills in PE to keep ourselves safe. We look forward to our Tigers Trust sessions every week!

Easter Craft Morning

What a lovely morning we had with our families doing lots of Easter crafts. We made wreaths, Easter baskets, chocolate Easter nests and more! We really enjoy inviting people from home into our classroom to do activities with us, it's a super way to show them how well we follow routines at school and enjoy some time together doing fun activities. We were very proud of our creations!

Chinese New Year

We have been SO busy celebrating Chinese New Year, with lots of opportunities to extend our learning in our provision. We started by listening to the Chinese New Year story and have done lots of Chinese crafts, listened to traditional Chinese music and even eaten some delicious Chinese food! In our tuff tray we have practiced careful pouring with some herbal tea and used chopsticks to transport noodles. We have also made a kite each ready to fly them when the weather is not rainy! Each of us found out which Chinese year we were born in, most of us were dogs, pigs or rats, then we had a go at using our super writing skills to label a zodiac wheel in our writing books. We really enjoyed making our red envelopes too, and wrote our own wish for inside to accompany our gold coin - we hope they come true!

It was very interesting to learn that in Vietnam, they celebrate their new year at the same time as Chinese New Year. We were lucky enough to borrow some beautiful Vietnamese clothing from one of our families and both the children and adults enjoyed learning about Vietnamese New Year traditions, as well as Chinese! 

Creating our own maps

In our geography sessions we have been looking at maps. We started by finding our school on the interactive board, and figured out which part of the school was which by looking at it from a 'birds eye' view. We then had a look at each of our houses and had a little walk through the village, seeing what we could spot along the way! After that, we each tried to make our own map of the village using different materials, trying to remember what we saw in the village when we looked on the board. In another geography session, we worked together to make a huge village map on the carpet! We had shops, a school, houses, roads, farms, car parks, a train station and more. We have loved learning about maps and know that maps can be used for lots of reasons, our favourite kind of maps are definitely treasure maps!

Fizzing moon rocks experiment!

We love a science experiment in the FSU! We carefully followed instructions to create our moon rocks, using baking soda, coloured water and glitter. We had to keep adding the ingredients until they were the right texture, it took some perseverance skills. Once we had rolled some rock shaped balls, we had to put our moon rocks in the fridge to set. We waited for half an hour, and then popped them in our tuff tray ready to test whether they would fizz! We each filled a pipette with white vinegar and squirted our moon rocks. We were amazed to see them fizz all over the tuff tray! How exciting!

Space themed art

As a part of our space topic, we have been using different materials to create solar system art work. We painted some moons on our easel and used bottle tops to create craters, and also enjoyed using balloons and crumpets to print some colourful planets onto black paper. During our free-flow time, we have had access to a variety of materials to decorate some rockets and have been painting some yellow stars using cotton buds. Our art work has been proudly displayed around our classroom!

When we grow up...

In the FSU we always have plenty of opportunities to think about career options, as we take on different roles every day! Some days we are construction workers building walls outside, other days we are chefs in the playdoh and the next we take a trip to space as astronauts in our rocket ship roleplay corner. We regularly transform our roleplay corner to suit our topic, and as a part of this we think about appropriate careers to suit the theme, using our dress up costumes to help our imagination. This week, we thought of as many different jobs as we could and had a go at dressing up as each of them. We loved becoming hairdressers, doctors, fire fighters, postal workers, sports people, teachers and much more! We took some fabulous pictures and have created a display to showcase all of the things that we could be when we grow up.

It's been snowing!

We were so excited to see that it had been snowing outside - our outdoor area was covered in sparkly white snow! We wrapped up cosy and used various tools including shovels, rakes, cups, buckets and wheelbarrows to scoop and move the snow. Throughout the week we have conducted a number of experiments to see whether things will freeze or melt overnight dependent on where we left them, and have used different methods to break the huge shards of ice we found in our play area, our mini homemade wildlife pond was completely frozen! We have had to use our own risk assessment skills to decide where it is safe to play due to the floor being so slippery, but have decided that snow is SO fun and offers so many new opportunities for our outside play. 

Outdoor Learning

In outdoor learning this week we have been practicing our knotting, once we had perfected our knots we created some bird feeders using pinecones, lard and bird seed, and tied them up with string to create a handle. We hung them up in our outdoor area and have enjoyed keeping an eye on the birds that have been coming to eat them! After this, we went down to our greenhouse and garden area to keep a beady eye out for different types of birds. We had to be very quiet so that we didn't scare them away, and when we spotted them we ticked them off on our 'birdwatch' sheet. It was very cold so we had to get all wrapped up,  but we really enjoyed having a look at the snow and noticing how things had frozen whilst we looked out for the birds.

Renovating our pond area!

All of the children in the school have worked hard to create and paint some fairy houses for our pond area, during outdoor learning sessions. Once they were all finished it was our job to take them down to our new fairy garden and find the perfect place for them. We created paths with stones and found places for some beautiful wildlife ornaments. We think that our new fairy garden looks magical and we can't wait to see the wildlife that comes to visit!

A Christmas craft morning

It was lovely to have some parents and younger siblings in our classroom for some of the morning to do some Christmas crafts. We really enjoyed our morning making with our families and each of us came away with a fantastic creation!

Our Christmas party

We had a fantastic Christmas party filled with party food, music and games. It was so exciting getting dressed up in our best party clothes and having a full day of fun! We were all very good sports even when we didn't win the games, we just enjoyed taking part and cheering for our friends.

Getting into the festive spirit!

We have been working together to make our classroom look super Christmassy! Each of us put some baubles or tinsel on our tree - we have done a fabulous job! In our Christmas grotto, we have been busy writing some Christmas lists and roleplaying our own Christmas day. We have done lots of Christmas themed maths and phonics. We have especially enjoyed our festive dress up costumes! 

Birthday Celebrations

As a part of our festivals and celebrations topic, we have been roleplaying birthday parties! We have really enjoyed setting up the home corner with delicious party food and decorations, and have been excellent hosts for our teddy friends. We each had a go at wrapping a present for our chosen teddy friend, we had to really concentrate to hold the paper down while we taped it. In our free-flow time, we have been enjoying making birthday cakes with various resources and writing birthday cards and present tags. We love a party in the FSU!

Diwali

We have been learning all about Diwali celebrations in our class. In the classroom we have taken part in various activities, including making our own rangoli patterns using different materials such as rice, wooden blocks and pens - we even tried to make them all symmetrical! We really enjoyed an afternoon with class 2 where we had a go at making some rangoli patterns with shapes and worked together to make some diwali paper chains. Each of us also had a go at making a firework picture on the class computer and all put together they have made a beautiful classroom display!

Our trip to Sideoven Bakery

The F2s had a fantastic day out at Sideoven Bakery! We were all very excited to sit next to our friends on the minibus. When we got there, we picked some apples from the orchard and had to use our muscles to squash them to make apple juice. Each of us made our own bread bun, and we worked together to make some yummy bread hedgehogs. Whilst we walked around the farm, we enjoyed seeing the different animals and collecting conkers. We went to have a look at the mill and had a go at grinding the grain to make flour. Each of us had a turn at sitting in a tractor, which was so exciting! It was such a fabulous day, and we enjoyed sharing the hedgehog bread with the F1s when we got back to school - it was delicious!

Dingle dangle scarecrow

After spending so much time practicing for our harvest festival performance and listening to other autumnal songs and stories, we have been particularly interested in scarecrows! During our most recent outdoor learning session we played some listening games, searched for leaves and did some leaf printing. We also made our very own scarecrow! 

Our PE sessions

We are so very lucky as recently we have been having lots of different types of PE sessions! We have been taking part in gymnastics and multi-skills sessions in the hall, bikeability sessions with Mrs Crooks and small group golf sessions. We really enjoy working on our gross motor skills, hand eye co-ordination and balancing. We are also becoming super listeners, it is really important to listen to instructions during PE and we are getting much better at this, we are so grown up!

We have been busy!
We are really enjoying exploring the different areas of the classroom. We have been using our imagination to become policemen, performers, construction workers and much more! We are working on improving our pencil grips, counting and number skills and have been putting on our science heads to examine some x-ray photos on the lightbox. As a part of our 'ourselves' topic, we borrowed a dentist kit from a local dentist. We have learnt about how to maintain good dental hygiene, including the best ways to brush our teeth and which types of food are good for our teeth and which we should only have as a treat. After all this practice we have become tooth experts and have practiced our skills using the dental dinosaur and big dinosaur toothbrush! We have been busy busy busy! But that is just how we like it!

Our first outdoor learning session

For our first outdoor learning session we played some games in the gazebo and practiced our good listening skills. We used our beady eyes to look out for seeds in our school garden, we found some interesting ones! We then sat and had a look at some wheat and carefully picked the seed out of it. Once we had done this we planted the seeds - we can't wait to see if it grows! When we stopped for our snack time we had a yummy biscuit as a treat, and also tried some of Mrs Butterworth's home grown tomatoes! Yum yum! For the rest of the morning we explored the garden using our magnifying glasses and found a variety of minibeasts and had a closer look at the different parts of plants and flowers! Some of us also very carefully used some sand paper to help sand down a very special project which will be revealed soon! 

Welcome back!

We were all excited to return to school after the summer holidays and catch up with our friends. For some of us it was our very first day at school, we were all super brave when we left our grown-ups and have been having lots of fun making new friends and exploring the resources in the classroom and our outdoor area. As a class we discussed our 'golden rules' and we are using the first couple of weeks to introduce our school routines. For this half term, our topic is 'ourselves', so we have started the term by talking about who lives at home with us, what our houses are like and how different things make us feel. It is a fantastic way to get to know each other better and we have been able to find similarities and differences between ourselves and our friends. We can't wait for a fun and exciting year ahead in the FSU!