Welcome Ash Class!

In our classroom we have four adults, Miss Jones (Class Teacher), Miss Evans (LSA), Mrs Bennett (LSA) and Miss Barkley (Apprentice LSA).

Miss Jones and Miss Evans work everyday in Ash Class. Mrs Bennett works Monday morning, Tuesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon and Friday. 

Useful information:

* Homework is checked every Wednesday

* PE is on a Friday

* Library books to be returned every Monday

*Remarkable Readers is counted on a Friday

35 reads- certificate and a message

70 reads- certificate, message and prize

105 reads- certificate, message and prize

140 reads- certificate, message and prize

175 reads- certificate, message from Mrs Clifford and a book prize

210 reads- certificate, message from Mrs Clifford and a Reading Ambassadors afternoon tea

Summer Term

Our topic for the summer term is 'I wonder... how I stay healthy'. We are going to investigate the children's ideas about how they stay healthy and look at other ways to stay physically and mentally healthy.

African Arts Week

This week we have been looking closely at the traditional art, music and dance of Africa. We had a visit from Godfrey, Sarah and Bob who introduced African music and dance to us. We enjoyed learning to sing in Zulu and dance to the music using body percussion.

In class we've been looking at the story 'We all went on Safari'. We've looked at the African animals in the story and practised our drawing skills. We've then used water colours to paint a sunrise or sunset to go behind our animals. In Creative curriculum we have used pastels to create lions. 

VE Day

To celebrate VE day in Ash class children came dressed in red, white and blue or 1940's outfits. We spoke about why we were celebrating this day and why we wore red, white and blue. We looked at the planes flying over London from earlier in the week and created our own Red Arrows, flying them over the field. We baked a war recipe, the children enjoyed baking and tasting the cake. We took part in two street parties, at dinner and in the afternoon with Beech class. The children have really enjoyed celebrating and have had the best time today.

Hatching Chicks

We have been looking at the life cycle of hens this half term. We incubated some eggs in class and been eagerly awaiting their hatching. On Tuesday (6.5.25) we came to school and a chick has started to break a small hole in the egg. During the afternoon we were lucky enough to capture a video and see it in real life. The children were so excited and have come into class everyday excited to see our chick. The children have named it chicken nugget and are hopefully waiting for more chicks to hatch. 

Spring Term

Our spring term topic is 'I wonder... how the world is filled with colour'. We will follow the children's interest and explore the children's ideas about colour and how they see it in the world around them.

Little City Visit

Our exciting trip this term has been an experience that visited school. Little City came with lots of role play themes for us to act out. Here are some photos of the children in Ash class acting and playing. 

Trip to Forest School

On a sunny day this week we took a walk up to forest school to look for signs of spring and have some outdoor fun. We built dens, read stories, played in the mud kitchen, and went for a look in the pond. In the pond we saw frog spawn. We spoke about the life cycle of frogs where children were able to say that the frog spawn was laid by the frogs.

Science Week

Across school we have been focusing on science this week. Our science experiments we based around colour to link with our topic 'I wonder... how the world is filled with colour'. We completed three colour based experiments; colour changing flowers, skittles experiment and growing a rainbow. The children made predictions before the experiments and shared their ideas after the experiments about the results.

Colour Parade

The children loved showing the parents their hard work from our Spring topic 'I wonder... how the world is filled with colours. We took our colour mixing work, our Kandinsky art work and our DT projects tie dye t-shirts to the parade to show parents. 

World Book Day

Children have really enjoyed dressing up as their favourite characters for World Book Day. During the day children enjoyed engaging in provision based play about different stories that we love reading in class. The children have had great fun acting out the stories using small world toys.

Autumn Term

Our topic this term is 'I wonder... how we look after our world?'. We will follow the children's interest and explore the children's ideas about how we look after the planet and the people and animals that live on it.

Christmas Crime Scene

The children came into school to find the sand area closed due to a huge mess! The children quickly started to speculate who it could be. The children looked closely at the evidence and what they could see. We went on a hunt around school for more evidence and to question the adults. We came back to class and wrote down all the evidence and who we thought it was and why. Our class elf left a note saying he had caught a video of what had happened. We watched the video and made wanted posters of the intruder. The children have had a great day investigating the classroom crime!

Christmas in Finland

As part of our whole school topic Christmas traditions in other countries we focused on Finland. We looked at gingerbread houses and how people in Finland bake, decorate and have a gingerbread house competition. We designed gingerbread houses, made gingerbread houses as part of a DT project and have even had fun decorating them in our table groups.

Snow! ❄️

The children have loved playing in the snow this afternoon. They’ve explored the texture of the snow and what happens when they hold on to it for too long.