Ash EYFS

Spring 2

People Who Help Us - Nurse

Today, we had another visitor from someone who helps us. This time we had a nurse. This theatre nurse specialises in c-sections and so we learnt how she helps the baby out of the mummy's tummy. We looked at lots of special tools that are needed to help and looked at some photos inside a theatre. She borrowed some items from different areas in the hospital for us to look at too which included a children's gown, metal plates to heal broken bones and a stethoscope so we could all have a go at listening to a heartbeat or a rumbling tummy.

People Who Help Us -Police

This half term we are learning all about people who help us. To start off this new unit we had a visit from the police. We learnt about the way they travel around and even got to sit in a police car. We learnt what number to ring in an emergency as well as looking at examples of what an emergency is.

Spring 1

Tractor Visit

In summer, we are going to be learning all about farming. However, due to the busy time of year in summer, they could only visit us now! He explained that in summer they will be working 7 days a week. We all had to think of some questions to ask the farmer and then we learnt lots of interesting new facts. This farm has 10 different crops on rotation. After learning about the tractor and the farm, we looked at some of the crops they have recently harvested.

Chinese New Year

Learning About Chinese New Year

We have learnt about the Chinese New Year. We had a look at the zodiac calendar and looked in what animal we were born in the year of. We learnt that this year it is the year of the Snake. We decided to do a snake dance and a “snake parade” around school to help us learn about this celebration. We needed very good teamwork for our parade! The children thoroughly enjoyed going past all the classes in their costume.

A visit from Homelander the Snake

We have had a visit from Homelander the snake who is only 9 months old. We thought it would be a lovely idea to have a snake visit because this year it is the year of the snake (in the Chinese new year). We were exposed to some new vocabulary such as venomous, fangs, scales cold blooded and reptile.

Magic Paintbrush Shortbread

Our current book is ‘The Magic Paintbrush’. You can use the magic paint brush to make things come to life. We used our paint brushes and said “with this magic paintbrush, I will paint shortbread’. We then carefully followed some instructions to make shortbread. We used some scales to help us weigh out the ingredients.

Baking - Maths Week

This week we are learning about maths in the world of work. We decided to work with Year 2 to become “bakers” for the morning. We had to carefully count and weigh out the correct ingredients using scales and follow the method on the instructions carefully.

Roxanne Gymnastics

At the moment we are looking at gymnastics in PE. Roxanne was practicing her gymnastics positions, whilst counting all at the same time.

Super Me Drawing Competition

Ash class entered a drawing competition and were successfully selected to have their work published. We had a group photo with our certificates to celebrate this achievement.

Archaeology detectives

Today Ash class has had the archaeology detectives morning. During this the children learnt new terminology about artefacts and ecofacts. They also learnt about different archaeological techniques .We then looked at many artefacts and ecofacts. We discussed the different feelings sizes, and shapes. The children have enjoyed using the tools to try and excavate all the artefacts out of the dirt. This experience linked into our life long ago unit.

Reading with Willow

This afternoon, Ash class has enjoyed having help from Willow Class to read their books.

Religious Education

In RE this afternoon we listened to a story called 'The Huge Bag of Worries. We talked about the worries Jenny had, what could be done to help her and who helped her get rid of the worries.

We split into groups. Group 1 acted out how they could be helpful to each other.

Group 2 worked together to write a 'Thank You prayer' We were also introduced to the Rev Freddie Fisher.

Art and design sculptures

Today we explored clay! We took it in turns to manipulate the clay and had a think about how it feels whilst we were playing. We tried pinching, squashing, pushing and rolling.

Autumn 2

Parents Phonics lesson

Today the parents of Ash class came and observed a phonics lesson.

Christmas through the keyhole

Today was Ash classes' first Coach trip. We went to Christmas through the keyhole at St John's Church in Woodbridge. The children re-lived the story of the birth of Jesus through various activities. They visited Mary's house, Joseph's house, the Wisemen's house, the Shephards fields, and the stable where Jesus was born. They also had fun crafting angels and stain glass window keyholes.

Fun in the snow

Today straight after assembly, we went onto our playground to play in the snow. Whilst outside, we wrote letters, our names and even had a snowball fight. The children compared the size of their snow balls using ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’. A few children noticed there was half a moon showing in the sky. We discussed what half means. We then went to the sunny patch on the playground and I asked what had happened to the snow here. The children said it had melted in the sun and made a puddle. The children said that playing in the snow made them feel happy.

Maths

Today in maths we looked at how 5 and 5 make 10 altogether. Each child had a die frame and 10 counters. They placed 5 counters on one, then 5 on the next. We looked at how both the die frames equaled 10. "5 and 5 make 10 altogether."

Bronze Award Certificates

All of Ash Class have received enough stickers (reward for outstanding work and effort, attitude, and improvement) to fill their bronze chart. They received their certificates today in assembly.

Autumn 1

Village Walk

Today, Ash and Cedar have gone on a short walk around the village. This links with Ash's "Understanding Of The World Around Them." We also had a fun stop at Eyke playpark.

Rangoli Painting

Today in Ash Class, we watched a short film about Diwali. The children then took turns in Painting our own Rangoli, they used there fine motor skills to ensure that they didn't go over the lines and keep it nice and neat.

Young Minds Non-Uniform Day

Today at eyke primary, it was mental health awareness day. All the children came dressed in yellow to help fundraise for young minds

Africa

Today we discussed the seven continents because our new book in English is set in Ghana, Africa. Ethan was born in South Africa and explained to the class what animals you might see. He also introduced the class to the word 'equator' and we discussed what this means.

TTRockstars Dress Down Day

Today, Ash class came in dressed as rock stars. We have had a wonderful day full of rock star spirit!

Helpers

Thank you to all the lovely helpers, who helped to come and move the rubber to our Construction Area.

PE with our Year 6 buddies

Today we did PE with our Year 6 buddies. We played lots of games such as Wizard and Witches, Catch, Grandma's Footsteps, and Duck Duck Goose. These games help with fine and gross motor. They also wrote the letter 's' which was their letter of the day.

Our first day!

The first day has been full of excitement and smiles. Today the children have had a fun day meeting and making new friends and becoming used to the school environment. They have enjoyed playing with toys, creating with the crafting area, and having a go on the playground equipment.

Ash Class with their superstar crowns!

Enjoying lunch with their Year 6 buddies

Summer 2024

In PSHE we have been learning about friendship and working together. This inlcuded looking after a puppet who felt sad and lonely because he was new to Eyke Primary!

Reception have been busy learning 3D shapes.

We had fun in team building exercises. The children worked together to move a ball on the giant parachute.

In geography, the children have been learning about castles. The children made a caslte in their construction area and out of cardboard. They discussed what the key features of a castle are and the purpose of them.

Spring

Reception enjoyed listening to 'One Man Went to Mow a Meadow' and building their cube towers to match the number shown.

Ash class have loved their music lessons with Mrs Wakeman!

In RE we have been exploring the idea of welcoming being a Mitzvah! We went to the front door of our school and pointed to signs of being 'welcome'.

Ash class have been very engaged in our English lessons this half term! Our current book is 'The Odd Egg'. In this lesson we needed to freeze frame in the position of the characters from the story. We then had act out how that character might be feeling and what they might say. After the idea was modelled, we all had a go!

Autumn 2023

Geography- using an Atlas

Summer learning 2022 in Ash

Ash Class Assembly - Jesus entering Jerusalem

Jungle Day

In Ash Class we are still enjoying getting to know our new friends. We have been having a circle time in which we have Jigsaw PSHE. Today we talked about what makes us the same and what makes us different. We then used Jenie our class jigsaw to pass around the circle to talk about ourselves. We have learnt a lot of new things about our friends in Ash Class.