Welcome to Red Class September 2024 - July 2025
May 2025
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20.05.25
Red Class Animal Day |
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19.05.25
Today we spent the day learning about bees. Mrs Lesley keeps bees and she came to share her knowledge and showed us some bee suits as well as giving us some honey to taste. We have done lots of bee activities and learnt a bee song and dance. |
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08.05.25
VE Day Celebrations |
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06.05.25
For PE today we did running and skipping. We had to learn about ‘resilience’ when skipping using a rope! |
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05.05.25 We have been learning the sound ‘ow’. Mrs Nathan showed us her wedding gown. We could try it on if we wanted! |
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April 2025
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30.04.25
Year 5 children came to visit us in Red Class to perform the Easter Story. Their actions helped us to remember the story. Thank you Indigo Class. |
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29.04.25
Today we learnt about about the letter sound ‘oa’. We then used cotton buds to paint a boat. |
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28.04.25 Today we introduced our Animal Safari topic by going on an animal hunt with the animal teddies that we chose to bring in from home. We had great fun looking for them and talking about the animals that we had chosen. |
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04.04.25 All the parents came into school so that we could share the work that we have been doing. |
March 2025
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31.03.25
We really enjoyed inviting all our mummies into school to celebrate Mother’s Day. We sang songs, shared our artwork and videos as well as treating the mummies to breakfast - and of course lots of cuddles! |
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13.03.25 - Science Week Science week – we have been planting cress. We will be watching closely the changes that happen. |
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06.03.25 - World Book Day
This afternoon in assembly we watched some fantastic rapping of familiar books by KS2 for World Book Day 2025 |
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06.03.25 - World Book Day Today we did a teacher swap where we were read a story. It was great fun! |
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04.03.25 For pancake day we had a go at tossing a pancake! |
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04.03.25 Today we made our own pancakes and enjoyed eating them. |
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04.03.25 In Maths this week we have been talking about 2D shapes |
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03.03.25 This week we have been talking about the digraph ‘ai’ - here are some of our table top jobs linked to our phonics. |
February 2025
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28.02.25
We had the most wonderful time listening to Sharon Jacksties. It was a very magical time where we were all so engaged. We were lucky enough to have two stories and both included amazing musical instruments from countries around the world. What an inspiring afternoon! |
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25.02.25
We have been talking about combining numbers. We played a dice game to help us combine to numbers/amounts. |
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24.02.25
Here are some table top jobs linked to our phonics ‘ng’. |
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14.02.25
Today we talked about the stories of St. Valentine. We talked about people who mean a lot to us. We made a special heart for someone we care about. |
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12.02.25
Today we played a game using a tens frame. We had to throw counters into a circle and work out how many we got in without counting the amounts. The tens frame helped us to see the amounts. |
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12.02.25 PE this week |
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11.02.25 We enjoyed playing the musical instruments during music this week. We explored a range of instruments to create loud and soft sounds. |
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10.02.25 Today we made our own snap cards. We took it in turns to turn a card over and got ready to say ‘SNAP’ if the numbers matched! |
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07.02.25 Today we played a maths game where we had to roll a dice and add counters to our tens frames. The person who fills up their tens frame first is the winner! |
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06.02.25 Here are some of the activities we completed for Mental Health Week |
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January 2025
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28.01.25
We were so intrigued by the weather yesterday. |
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27.01.25
Although we had our coats on and it was a dull day we still had lots of fun enjoying the ice lollies we had made. |
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24.01.25
Here are some of the table top activities we have been doing this week. |
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23.01.25 Today we talked about the double ‘ll’ sound in words. Although it wasn’t really the weather we decided it would be fun to make a lolly each. We talked about what happens to liquid when it is put in the freezer. |
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22.01.25
Today we used our new drawing boards. We worked on writing sight words as well as having fun exploring the marks that we made. |
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21.01.25
This week we had an assembly about road safety. |
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15.01.25 This week we have learnt the letter sounds ‘v’ and ‘j’. We made vultures and jellyfish to help us remember the sounds. |
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December 2024
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08.12.24
Today we used the toaster. We made toast and ate it together. |
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05.12.24
Here are some activities we have been doing. |
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04.12.24
Elf antics! |
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03.12.24 Today we had a very exciting visit. We had a visit from Father Christmas at school and he arrived in a helicopter. This linked with our phonics as we were learning ‘h’. Father Christmas also came to see us in the classroom! |
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03.12.24 The Elf delivering our class Elf! |
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02.12.24 PE - ball skills and equipment. |
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November 2024
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28.11.24
We have been talking about colour. Here are some of our colour wheels. |
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27.11.24 Today we learnt the ‘r’ sound and here are some of the table top activities linked to our phonics. |
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26.11.24 In Art we have been talking about colours. We looked at some colour wheels and them painted our own colour wheel. |
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21.11.24
We had fun in the snow. We enjoyed throwing snow at Mrs Nathan – she enjoyed throwing it at us! |
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18.11.24
Table top activities this week! |
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15.11.24
Pudsey day! |
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12.11.24 Here are some table top jobs that we have been doing this week.
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11.11.24 We gathered together as a school and had 2 minutes silence to remember the soldiers who have lost their lives. |
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11.11.24 Today we read ‘Little Glow’. Our work today was based around using light for celebrations. We all made a lantern to take home. |
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11.11.24 Today in maths we have been counting out amounts. Mrs Nathan showed us a numeral and we had to count out the correct amounts. |
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08.11.24 One of our table top choices was puzzles! We really enjoyed this activity. |
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07.11.24 This week we have been designing fireworks using matchsticks. |
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06.11.24 These are some of the table top activities linked to fireworks and Bonfire Night |
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05.11.24 We made our own edible sparklers today. |
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05.11.24 We had our own fireworks display in the classroom. |
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05.11.24 To celebrate Nov 5th we talked about Guy Fawkes and also had a sparkler. We talked about how to handle a sparkler safely. For many of us it was our first time! |
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October 2024
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25.10.24 Decorating the school for the Halloween disco. |
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25.10.24 Here are some of the children who have received a name writing certificate in assembly. |
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24.10.24 Today we played with our ‘Mini Me’s’. This activity was to help us remember each other’s names |
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23.10.24 Today we logged in for the ‘Live Read’. The author Glenn Beavers read us a story about resilience called The Spider who was Afraid of Heights. |
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23.10.24 We made some putty from conditioner and cornflour. We used it to work our finger muscles as well as exploring it with all our senses. |
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22.10.24 We have been making face biscuits today. We talked about the feature of a face. |
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22.10.24 Drawing linked to phonics - today we had a focus on ‘g’. |
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22.10.24 We are all very excited about taking our pumpkin soup home to try. |
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21.10.24 This week we have been carving pumpkins ready for our school disco on Friday! |
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18.10.24 PE in Red Class. Moving our bodies in lots of different ways! |
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16.10.24 Imaginary play at playtime. Who would like an ice cream? |
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14.10.24 Using a drawing app on the iPads |
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11.10.24 Letter formation in sand |
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09.10.24 Here is a little look of what we have been doing this week… |
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04.10.24 Today we had our first PE lesson. We all worked hard to get ourselves changed independently and then went to the hall for the lesson. The lesson focused on listening to instructions and finding a space. |
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We presented a friendship bracelet to someone we thought showed the good features of a friend |
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03.10.24 We have been talking about friendship and made a friendship bracelet for someone special in the class that we thought was a good friend. We talked about features of a good friend. |
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02.10.24
This week we have been talking about friendship. The children worked together to colour a friendship poster for our classroom display. |
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01.10.24 Welcome to October in Red Class |
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September 2024
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30.09.24 We have been doing yoga every day after lunch. |
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24.09.24 We had a visit from the Life Bus and Harold the giraffe helped to teach us all about resilience. |
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23.09.24 This week we have begun our formal phonics lessons and the children really enjoyed learning about the letter ‘s’ and the sounds that is makes. All children in the class now know their initial sound for their name and we are all making good progress with writing our names. We have been exploring paints and painting a portrait of ourselves. |
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16.09.24 We went for a listening walk. We also explored the school and even went into the staffroom and saw Mrs Nathan’s lunch in the fridge! |
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16.09.24 Today we were all given a carpet space. Our job was to remember where we all sit! |
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16.09.24
We stayed for lunch today and Mrs Nathan said we are all AMAZING eaters! |
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09.09.24 This week we have been exploring the outdoor environment. |
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03.09.24 In Red class we have been talking about sharing and playing together. |
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