Badgers
Welcome back!
I hope you have had a wonderful summer break. We have all experienced a very enjoyable and productive first day back at school. We shared the highlights from our holidays in a circle time session at the start of the day before doing a class quiz. We also used practical apparatus and whiteboards to explore place value in maths and wrote recounts of our holidays.
We were excited to have a special assembly on the school field where the new outdoor cabin was revealed. Who will we find behind the door? Bilbo Baggins? Hansel and Gretel? Little Red Riding Hood? We cannot wait to find out!
In the afternoon we discussed ideas for our new topic'Come Dine With Me' and learned a song which we performed to Mrs Shepperson and Mrs Bird and which we hope to share in assembly next week.
A letter will follow this Friday about Forest Schools - we cannot wait to get started! Homework will be set from next Thursday. (Homework is always collected on Tuesdays). PE is on Mondays and Thursdays.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
It has been an absolute pleasure to teach Badger Class this year. Thank you so much for your kind support. Have a wonderful summer holiday!
Tuesday 24th July: making s'mores with Max's marshmallows, crackers and Hershey bars
We had a wonderful visit to Lackford Lakes
Friday 13th July: Forest School fun and delicious cakes from Mrs Deverell
Wednesday 18th July: we had great fun planning and carrying out our win scientific investigations with magnets
Tuesday 10th July: using the Geoboard app on the iPads to describe the properties of 2d shapes
Happy New Year!
I hope you had a lovely Christmas. We have enjoyed our first two days back at school. The children have written about their holiday highlights, have read and answered comprehension questions, have discussed the questions they would like to research during our new topic and have done lots of work on telling the time using digital and analogue clocks. Next week we are looking forward to an epiphany church service where the children can wear their homemade crowns and are looking forward to Forest School on Friday.
Learning at Home
Friday 5th July: Badger Grass!
Friday 5th July: coil beehive pots
Friday July 5th: pond dipping and minibeast hunting in our wildlife area
Are you watching Gareth Southgate? Football skills with the amazing freestyler Ash Randall
We loved 'Countryside Week!'
13th June: we carried out out a bio-blitz in the school grounds
15th May: amazing acrostic poems inspired by 'The Lost Words'
12th May: incredible paintings inspired by the watercolours in the 'Lost Words' project
Wednesday 2nd May: using drama to learn the traditional Indian story of 'The Rabbit in the Moon'
Friday 27th April : exciting science experiments
DIsplay of of our excellent volcano posters during the 'Whole World in Our Hands' topic
Eggcellent Easter craft with Ethan's mum and dad
Monday 26th March: thank you Brenda - we loved the South African braai and the ice-creams and we are glad you liked our posters!
We really enjoyed learning how the water-mill enabled 8 bags of flour to be milled each day from the 11th century onwards and how bio-gas production on the Euston Estate brings gas to 3,500 homes.
World Book Day!
Home Learning: February
Thursday 22nd February| we have received some replies to our letters to the major supermarkets in which we raised our concerns about the amount of plastic packaging they use and sadly ends up in our oceans.
Wednesday 21st February: wonderful watercolour volcanoes!
Friday 9th February: delicious quesiladas!
Friday 2nd February: we worked in groups to make our own tally charts and bar charts.
Thursday 1st February: using Carroll diagrams to classify rocks
Tuesday 30th January: viscous volcanoes!
Our new topic is titled 'We've Got the Whole World in our Hands' and our theme this half-term is 'friendship.' We are looking forward to displaying some wonderful work soon!
Home Learning 2018
Friday 26th January: apple slices with raisins and brown sugar cooked over an open fire -delicious!
Wednesday 24th January: we are delighted with our volcanoes and cannot wait to watch them erupt next week!
Friday 19th January: we investigated horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular lines in the playground. We found lots had lots of examples!
Friday 19th January: Sarah brought in some volcanic rocks to show the class. We have been learning about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks in our science lessons.
Friday 12th January: Badgers love chickens! 🐔
Friday 12th January: first Forest School session of 2018!
Friday 12th January: well done Badger Class for reading out lines from your poems so clearly in sharing assembly - everyone's poem is now on display. parents are welcome to come and see the work!
Thursday 11th January: we used metaphors to create some incredible poems about friendship
Wednesday 10th January: investigating angles with angle-munchers!
Happy Christmas Badger Class! Thank you for your lovely cards and gifts. Have a wonderful holiday.
Tuesday 19th December: tremendous table decorations
Monday 18th December: Christmas cards ♥️
Friday 15th December: Hot chocolate with marshmallows and squirty cream!
Wednesday 13th December: We loved our karate session with Billy Wappett. Who needs Kung Fu Panda when you've got Karate Badgers!
Wednesday 6th December: we are very pleased with our silhouette Christmas scenes.
Wednesday 30th November: We learned about endo-skeletons and exoskeletons and used drinking straws to make these incredible animal skeletons with Miss Anderson. Can you identify any of the animals from their skeletons?
Tuesday 28th November: incredible gingerbread houses as part of our work on Hansel and Gretel
Thursday 23rd November: surprisingly good nettles soup at the Barnham street market
Tuesday 21st November: spell-binding drama with a visit to the witch's cottage to deepen our understanding of the story of Hansel and Gretel. Oscars for Miss Anderson (director) and Mrs Pointer (wicked witch!)
Friday 17th November: Oh what a perfect day . . .I'm glad I spent it with Badgers!
Friday 10th November: poppy paintings for Remebrance Day.
Our theme this half-term is 'Reverence.'
Thursday 9th November: welcome to The Badger Pizzeria! We made mouth-watering dough-balls with delicious garlic butter and cooked wonderful 'inside out' pizzas over the fire in the cabin. Toppings included: cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, sweetcorn, peppers, tuna and pineapple. Who needs Pizza Express?
Friday 3rd November: Forest School! Amazing weather, stories and songs, enjoying the wildlife and cooking and eating the potatoes we harvested from the allotment - they tasted delicious!
Tuesday 31st October: working with Muddy Jo at the allotment - harvesting potatoes, collecting sticks for our insect hotel and digging up oak sapplings to replant
Thursday 19th October: preparing, cooking and eating a vegan feast with tinned tomatoes, potatoes, chick-peas, kidney beans, chard, red onions and wholewheat pasta
Thursday 12th October: 🍿 popcorn!
Thursday 12th October: helping 'Muddy Jo' to fill the bottom of our new raised beds with compost.
6th October: learning the story of 'The Magic Porridge Pot' through drama
Wednesday 3rd October: Badgers on scooters!
Friday 29th September: Forest School - cooking bananas wrapped in tin foil and toasting marshmallows.
18th September: perfect porridge cooked in the cabin!
Friday15th September: fantastic Forest School fun!
Friday 9th September: exploring the place value of numbers up to and beyond 1000
Wednesday 6th September: unveiling our amazing new cabin!
