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We love learning in our Foundation class at Woodford Infants School. We will be sharing what we have been learning with you on this blog. Please feel free to leave comments.

Foundation World Cup Football Day

The Wrens and Owls had a great day at Oak Villa Football Ground playing against 19 other schools. The children won their section and ended up in the quarter finals where they finally came 4th - losing out on penalties. Who does that sound like! They also had the opportunity to visit the fire station and let off the hoses - soaking everyone. Pilgrim Pete led Wake up and Shake up and Jungle Jim performed with his puppets. The children also enjoyed Circus Berzercus and tried walking the tightrope and hooola hoops.

Pennywell Farm

Owls class had a great day out at Pennywell Farm a few weeks ago and learned a lot about caring for different animals. They were able to hold and stroke the animals and even though some of the children were frightened by the pigs squealing, they learned that if you tickle their tummies they eventually stop! Must try that with some of the children!!!! Many thanks to all the adults who came along to help. We hope you enjoyed it and were impressed by the good behaviour of the children.

Chinese New Year

Owls class had great fun learning about Chinese New Year. They dressed in Chinese clothes, they tried Chinese writing and listened to Chinese music. They loved watching the Chinese acrobats and we wished we could do some of the tricks.

Hector and E-Safety

This week the children have met a new friend. His name is Hector and he is a dolphin. He swims on our computer desktops at school. He is there so that when we use the computers and internet if we see something that makes us feel confused or scared we can click on Hector. A big picture of hector swimming in the sea and some calm water music plays and covers the screen completely while you ask an adult for help.


While our internet filter blocks inappropriate material from the children we do use search engines which can show them pictures of things they don’t like or that scare them like spiders or snakes. Hector has been introduced as a way for children to cope with this.

If you are interested in finding out more or downloading Hector for a home computer you can find out more here

Xmas

Owls and Wrens class put on a brilliant performance of the Grumpy Sheep at Christmas. I think you will agree how great they all look in their costumes. Thankyou to parents who provided the children and the outfits. We wish you all a Happy New Year and hope the children return to school healthy and ready to learn!

Owls and Wrens class have been learning about Australia as part of our whole school International Week. Mrs Sprague talked to both classes about her trip to Australia and showed the children lots of Artefacts. Thankyou also to Mrs Ivey who explained how she had climbed the bridge in Sydney harbour. The children had great fun making Anzac biscuits, painting on canvases in the style of the Aborigines, face painting, collaging an Australian flag and colouring pictures as well as learning about Aboriginal music and dance.

Owls and Wrens Baby Clinic

Today the Wrens and the Owls had a joint baby clinic. We met the baby brother of one of the children in our class, then they did lots of activities about babies. We made picture books about toys, built a cot and read stories about babies. We also learnt how to weigh babies or how to measure them then we measured ourselves.

Have a look at all the things we did:

Owls class love doing P.E outside when the weather is nice. They have been exploring small games equipment and learning ball skills as well as learning how to co-operate and share.



Can you see anyone who is co-operating well? Post a comment on our blog with your observations!