1 year ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

We learnt the phoneme t

We found a tent in our outdoor area and enjoyed reading the story of the Tiger who came to tea in it (while eating our snack). We put our phonic knowledge into action when helping the tiger decide what he could take for tea at Sophie’s house. The tiger could only take items that started with the /t/ sound.

We had a tea party, played with trucks in the gravel pit, practised sorting objects according to their initial sound and worked on recognising both the lower and upper case t. We had a go at forming the letter t too.

What a busy morning Class R!

1 year ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Our First Woodland Wednesday

We enjoyed our first Woodland Wednesday in the glorious September sunshine!

We have had the best morning helping Brown Bear who we found in our storytelling area this morning. Brown Bear came to our school to tell us a story but sadly all of the characters and their colours had gone missing in our woodland area.
Our mission (as worded by one of our Class R pupils) was to find the animals and their colours to put the story back together.

Brown Bear was very pleased to see us working so well with our partners to find the characters and their colours, and put the story back together. We enjoyed the story with Brown Bear. In the end, he was happy and so were we!

1 year ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

We learnt the phoneme a

We picked the apples from the garden orchard to help us remember our new phoneme. Some of us helped to cut up the apples so we could put them in the dehydrator and make apple crisps. We really enjoyed eating the apples!

1 year ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Learning the phoneme s

We learnt the phoneme s and did lots of exploring – we explored snails, sunflowers, sunflower seeds, sand, stones, slates, made snakes from playdough and lots more!

1 year ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Our first day at Hodnet School

We had a great first day at school and really enjoyed exploring our new classroom and the school community!

1 year ago
Posted on 06th Jul 2025 by Emma Noden

Bugingham Palace

The forest schools fairies left us the challenge of making a bug habitat for the creatures that live in the Forest Schools area. We talked about the kinds of materials that we would need to put inside the tins. Some children used the drills to drill holes in the sign. Some children cut bamboo to put in one of the rooms in Buginham Palace.

1 year ago
Posted on 03rd Jun 2025 by Emma Noden

The Enormous Turnip

When we were doing our morning run we spotted that an enormous turnip had grown where we had planted some turnip seeds before the half term holidays. We worked together as a team to try to pull the turnip out of the ground. We went back to class and read different versions of the traditional tale: “The enormous turnip” and compared the stories. We talked about the differences and the similarities. We talked about traditional tales and that there are lots of different versions of each tale and we played a guessing game. Some children re told their favourite traditional tales.

1 year ago
Posted on 30th May 2025 by Emma Noden

Creating a town

We had made our own wooden vehicle toys, this group of girls created a town with car parks etc. for their toy vehicles.

1 year ago
Posted on 29th May 2025 by Emma Noden

Victorian School experience

We spent an hour being Victorian School children! We dressed up, set our classroom up as a Victorian Classroom and used a slate to write on. We went through the rules of a Victorian School and Mrs Noden was very strict in her role as a Miss!

1 year ago
Posted on 29th May 2025 by Emma Noden

How does your garden grow?

We are having a great time in the garden on a Friday afternoon, reading, planting, watering and weeding. Last week we started a wellie garden, weeded the butterfly garden and saw some flowers that were starting to grow. We planted some lettuce seeds and some turnip seeds after we had read the story “The Enormous Turnip”.