Welcome to Robins Class!

Every day in Robins class is a new, exciting adventure! Our children learn that they are part of a new, wonderful team, not only as a member of Robins class but also as a part of our whole school and the wider community. By learning through play, we help our Robins to become independent, confident learners. They have some structured, adult-directed sessions, but we also let the children decide how they want to learn, with access to a wide range of resources and an emphasis on 'having a go.'

We are are so lucky that our school is in such a wonderful rural environment and we like to have the flexibility to get out and about and make the most of this. So that we are able to do this, please could the children have a pair of named wellies that we can keep in school so that we are ready to take our learning outside.

Our Robins class team are Mrs. Rhoades (Monday, Wednesday and Friday), Mrs. Stacey (Wednesday and Thursday), Mrs. Waters (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs. Christmas (Thursday and Friday).

Term 2- Who can help me? I need a hero!

 Our key texts this term are Supertato, Superworm and The Jolly Christmas Postman.

Week one of the term and already the Evil Pea has been wreaking havoc in the classroom! He has tied up poor Foxy, Put the Supertatos in a box and taped up our fruit for snack time! The children have been busy writing WANTED! posters to try and stop him getting up to his naughty tricks.

As we look at real life superheroes, our role play area has been set up as a doctor's surgery and is very busy with patients.

As the Evil Pea continued to be a menace in the classroom, the children designed and made traps to help put him safely back in the freezer where he belongs! They had lots of fun cutting, gluing and taping things together and explaining in great detail how their traps worked!

We have been looking closely at the numbers 4 and 5 and working out what other numbers they can have hidden inside them. The children have used a range of resources to investigate this from number rhymes to Numberblocks, Numicon tiles to counters and five frames. This allows them to develop a really deep understanding.

We have finished learning the single letter sounds in phonics and moved on to two letter sounds (digraphs) such as 'sh', 'th' and 'ch'. We will now be focusing on embedding the children's confidence with all sounds learnt so far in both their reading and writing.

On our welly walks we have learnt about where the doctor's surgery is in our village and seen how the trees in the Plantation have changed. We had lots of fun balancing on logs, following the path made by the weekend's heavy rain run off and casting spells with stick wands.

We have also been learning about how to keep healthy, including having a healthy mind. We talked about how we can stay balanced and relaxed and did some mindfulness activities together.

 We have been busy in Robins thinking about autumn and the changes it brings to the weather and plants and animals. We have been back to the Plantation to collect leaves and took a walk round to Barry's field looking for patterns in the environment.

The children have been making repeating patterns in lots of different ways both outside and indoors and we are just starting to look at the numbers 1, 2 and 3 in our maths work.

Our story map of We're Going on a Bear Hunt has helped us to learn the story and we have even made up different versions such as 'we're going on a tree hunt' and 'we're going on a leaf hunt' with accompanying sound effects! One afternoon we also investigated different musical instruments and decided which ones best matched the sounds in the original story. We then re-told it with musical accompaniment.

As artists the children have made some crazy Picasso style faces, they thought it was very funny the way that he painted them with ears and eyes etc in very odd places!

We have had visits from Swallow class as the children get to know each other before Buddies are confirmed. Robins were so excited about the visits.

We have also set up our very own Pumpkin Cafe and have been busy taking orders, writing menus and making tea, coffee and hot chocolate for the customers!

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