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.

Summer Term Second Half

Year R Art Sale

We made clay tiles to sell at our Art Sale to raise money for resources. We loved working with clay and learning how to handle it. We rolled it out using a rolling pin and then carefully cut around a shape. Next we used a tool to draw a sea creature on our clay. We chose lots of different creatures such as jellyfish, fish, starfish, and some of us chose to draw shells. When our clay was dry we painted our tiles carefully and varnished them to make them shine. Our grown ups thought they were fantastic!

Practising for Our First School Sports Day!

In our PE lessons we have been practising for our first sports day at Fleet Infants. We have learnt what we need to do for each race and have had a lot of fun! Here we are developing our hockey dribbling skills and football dribbling skills. We have used our resilience to keep trying and persevered even though it can be quite tricky to control the balls.

Summer Term First Half

Our Visit to the Church

To support our learning in RE Year R visited St Philip and St James church near our school. Mrs Hurst told us about the features of the church. We saw the altar, the font, candles, pews, the organ and looked for crosses around the church. Miss Brown told us some stories from the bible and Mrs Hutchison talked to us about why Christians pray. After our visit we enjoyed walking back to school in the sunshine.

Orienteering Day

Kelly and Will from Cross Curricular Orienteering visited our school and worked with each class. We enjoyed practising our map skills through playing games to find real objects in our school grounds. We went looking for hidden clues and used a map of our school grounds to locate features such as buildings and the trees using the symbols on the key. We really enjoyed developing our skills and having fun!

SCARF Workshop

Sarah from Life Education visited us at Fleet Infants and delivered SCARF workshops to each class about how we can keep our bodies healthy and safe. Dragonfly class loved meeting Harold the healthy giraffe. We helped him make some good choices and also helped him feel happy when he was feeling sad. We found out about the 'fitness five' that we need - food, water, oxygen, sleep and exercise and about some of our body parts inside our bodies. We had a super workshop and Sarah was impressed by what we knew about staying safe and keeping healthy!

Our First School Trip to Hogmoor Inclosure

We had a fantastic day at Hogmoor Inclosure. We are learning about playgrounds and our day supported our learning in school. In the morning we sketched some of the play equipment and made rubbings of different textures we found in the environment. We also did a scavenger hunt and used our observational skills and collaborated with our classmates to find things on our checklist.

We were very lucky with the weather, it was a beautiful warm, sunny day. We enjoyed our picnic lunch in a shady spot under the trees!

After our lunch we had lots of fun on different parts of the playground. We loved climbing, swinging, balancing, hanging upside down and bouncing! We were very supportive of one another and worked together to support each other with new experiences. What an amazing day!

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.