Dragonfly

Welcome to Dragonfly Class 2024-2025

Class Teachers

Mrs H. Hutchison (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)

Mrs A. Andrews (Thursday, Friday)

Learning Support Assistants

Mrs D. Abbott (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)

Mrs R. Perry (Thursday, Friday)

Our PE day is Tuesdays. Please ensure long hair is tied back and earrings are covered or removed.

Our Library day is Tuesday. Children are able to choose a book to bring home. Please return by the following Tuesday.

Spring Term Second Half

Online Safety

This week Paul Hay visited our school to teach us all about how to stay safe online. He visited our class and told us a story about Smartie the Penguin. It was Smartie's birthday and he was given a tablet. We helped him make some good choices when he was worried about something he saw online and when someone upset his friend when he was playing a game online. We talked about who we should tell if something is worrying us and learnt a little song about what to do.

Spring Term First Half

Walking to the Post Box

We made postcards to send to our families telling why we love them. We decorated them with a heart on the front and our message on the back of our postcards. We walked to the post box near our school to post them. We all posted our postcards, some of us needed a little help to reach the post box! We were very lucky as the post man arrived just as we were posting our postcards. We watched him open the post box and empty the post inside into his bag. Then we watched him drive away taking our postcards to the local sorting office so they can be sorted and delivered. Our post cards will be a lovely surprise for our families when they arrive at our homes!

Chinese New Year Workshop

We were very lucky to experience an amazing workshop about Chinese New Year! The Emperor told us lots of interesting information about Chinese lions and dragons and about Chinese New Year celebrations. We all played instruments, some of us played drums, some of us played cymbals and some of us played gongs. The Emperor played a huge drum and we were fantastic at copying the rhythm he played. We made a lot of noise to wake the lion up!

We practised moving and dancing like a Chinese lion. Some of us dressed up in the lion costume too. The Emperor told us that the Chinese dragon is made of six different animals. It has the head of a camel, the horns of a stag, the scaly body of a fish, the jaws of a crocodile, the eyes of a rabbit and the ears of a cow. Many of us carried the two dragons around our school hall and paraded following the pearls. We had a lot of fun during this exciting afternoon!

Food Tasting

As part of our learning about Chinese New Year celebrations we were able to taste some Chinese foods and ingredients, including rice noodles, soy sauce, spring onions, beansprouts, prawn crackers and egg fried rice. Lots of us tried new things and we spoke about what we enjoyed and what we weren't so keen on. Some of us enjoyed everything we tasted!

Forest School

This half term we have Forest School on Monday afternoons. We are thoroughly enjoying learning about the outdoors and the animals and plants that live in our school environment. We have enjoyed making nests, listening to bird calls, using microscopes and Ms Weinmann telling us a story about Red Kites. Here are some photos of us in action!

Autumn Term Second Half

Little City Visit

Lucy from Little City visited us with her amazing role play settings. We had so much fun and loved being police officers, doctors, nurses, vets, firefighters, shop assistants, construction workers, hairdressers, eating in the cafe, serving food, going shopping and lots more!

Doctors and Nurses

We have been learning about how doctors and nurses help us as part of our 'People Who Help Us' topic. We have loved role play being nurses and doctors treating patients!

Having Fun on the TrimTrail!

We have enjoyed using the Trim Trail and have had lots of fun developing our climbing and balancing skills. We have shown resilience when moving across some of the trickier pieces of equipment and are proud of our achievements.

Visit from Rushmoor Firefighters

We really enjoyed some of the firefighters from Rushmoor Fire Station coming to visit us with one of their shiny red fire engines. Firefighter Sam told us all about the fire engine and showed us some of the special equipment onboard that firefighters use to put out fires and to rescue people. We even got to sit in the cab too! We loved hearing the siren and seeing the flashing lights that are used to warn people that emergency vehicles are travelling to an emergency.