Welcome to Fox Class 

Class Teacher: Miss Grant

PE day: (After Christmas)  Monday - Gymnastics, Tuesday - Hockey 

Forest School day: Thursday mornings

Library day: Friday

In Spring Term 1, the children will have their weekly P.E lessons on a Monday and Tuesday.  On Monday, they will have indoor gymnastics and ALL children require shorts for health and safety.   On Tuesday, we will have qualified hockey coach delivering enrichment lessons.  

On these days, please ensure children come to school with long hair tied back and earrings either removed or taped over.  Please ensure P.E kits are kept in school at all times and returned after a club.  P.E days are subject to change with timetabling issues and weather.

Meet the Teacher

Orienteering

During Autumn Term, we have been exploring our map skills through our orienteering lessons.  We looked closely at the key and symbols to recreate patterns and shapes.  After, we looked at symbols used on maps of our school and how these help us to navigate quickly.  We used our maps to find control markers around school and retrieve information from the boards.  Our lessons linked to our English, Maths, Geography, History and P.E lessons.

Dips and Dippers

As part of our Design and Technology lessons we tried a range of dips and dippers.  We decided if we liked the smell, taste and texture.  We used words to describe these, such as, fresh, crunchy, wheaty, sour, sweet. We then designed and made our own dips using chopping and mashing skills.

English

This week we met the smallest Billy Goat Gruff and asked him questions to find out more information on the revolting troll who has gone missing.  We then used these adjectives to write a wanted poster to help find the troll and conducted an appeal around school.  I'm sure we will help to track down the smelly troll.  Please let us know if you catch a glimpse of him!

Number Pairs

We have been using tens frames to practice our pairs of numbers within ten.  We have been using part, part, whole frames (or cherry models) to practice our subtraction facts within ten.  We found these really helpful so we could see the ways the numbers linked together.  

You Choose

After reading the book 'You Choose' by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart we enjoyed looking at all the amazing illustrations and talking about the different choices we would make. We then drew our own pictures and wrote what we would choose.

Sketching

We have been learning about toys from the past as part of our History unit.  We enjoyed playing with them and then looking closely to sketch them.  We thought about the shapes, texture and details.