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Welcome to Robin Class blog. We hope you enjoy our regular posts which will help keep you informed of what the children are doing.

25.04.24 – Doodle Maths

Thank you for all your support at home. Everyone is doing so well with their doodle maths and 96% of the class were in the green zone today ☺

25.04.24 – Tooth Brushing in school

Today was our first day of brushing our teeth in school. The children were amazing and enjoyed doing it. You can see the all the brushes are named and are kept in a clean and safe way. We also spent time talking about the importance of still brushing at home as this is just an extra clean and they still need to brush every morning and night at home.

16.4.24 – New story choosing station

Each day the children will be able to choose a story for the afternoon. This will offer lots of learning opportunities:

finding name on their choosing disk
making a decision
thinking about why they chose the book they did
leaning about different stories and further developing their love of reading
understanding that others might have a different view to them and that is ok

15.4.24 Our new topic is ‘Ticket to Ride’

Welcome back, we hope you had a lovely Easter holiday. Our new topic this term is called ‘Ticket to Ride’. The children will be learning about different types of transport. See our topic web below for more details:

Astro Girl

Astro girl is our focused text for the term. Please click on the link to listen to the story with your child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWQgk3SMWKY

21.3.24 – Gardening journey continues …

Today we planted our first plant in the main garden we are developing. A rhubarb plant – we are hoping for some yummy crumbles very soon. Ezra made a plant sign for us – look at his amazing phonics!

21.3.24 – Doodle Maths – we are top of the school for doodle maths in the green Zone!

Thank you for everyone’s hard work and support – keep ‘doodling’ everyday!

15.3.24 – We love reading in Robin Class.

We love to share books and enjoy stories as a whole class. We also love to spend time in the ‘Book Nook’ – today we had a little refresh of the area and the children have been enjoying using it. What are your favourite books? We would love to know if you want to share them. What did you buy with your world book day voucher?

15.3.24 – Chicks have gone to their new home.

We have loved having the chicks in Robin class; watching them hatch and grow. They have now gone to their new home on a farm. We hope you enjoyed sharing the experience with us through the TEAMS link.

14.03.24 – Welly Walk

We had another lovely Welly Walk on Thursday. This week we were looking for worms to put in are ‘wormery’. If you ever want to join us please come to the office for 10am on a Thursday – you will be very welcome.

12.3.24 – Zoo Lab

We had a great time when the Zoo Lab came to visit on Tuesday. We learnt lots about the animals that came to visit us: a corn snake, giant snail, tree frog, scorpion and a giant centipede.

World Book Day 2024 – Thursday 7th March

On World Book Day, Robin Class will be sharing and enjoying poetry by Michael Rosen. You might want to have a look on his website and watch some of the his videos. Maybe you could look at some of his poetry at home. https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/

4.3.24 – Doodle Maths Champions

Robin class are Doodle maths champions this week with the highest % of KS1 children in the ‘green zone’. Please try to Doodle every day and stay in the green zone. Thank you for all your support.

4.3.24 – The Chicken Eggs have arrived!

We have ‘Living Eggs’ in Robin Class for the next two weeks. Our eggs were delivered today and we are expecting them to hatch on Wednesday or Thursday. The children are enjoying learning about the eggs and how we have to look after them. We are also very excited to have fluffy chicks in class very soon.

1.3.24 – Welly Walk

We had so much fun our our 1st Welly Walk. Lots of mud, splashing in puddles and fun with friends. Thank you to the parents and carers who came and helped – we are looking forward to next weeks.

1.3.24 – Planting seeds and plants

We have been enjoying lots of planting and sowing of seeds. Our seeds are starting to grow and we are just waiting for the weather to warm up a little so we can start to use our new green house. Thank you to all the kind donations from parents and from Sainsbury’s Odd Down.

Spring 2 – Topic Web

Here is the topic web for next term. We will be doing lots of growing, looking at mini-beasts and so much more. Our focus text for the term will be ‘Super Worm’ – maybe you might like to read it over the half term.

9.2.24 – Lunar New Year

We have been very busy celebrating and learning about Lunar New Year. We have:

made a dragon and preformed a dragon dance to music.
learned about what happens and the different foods eaten.
tried dragon fruit
used chop sticks to eat noodles.

7.2.24 – Baby Billy visits Robin Class

Evie’s mum came to visit Robin Class today with her baby brother ‘Billy’. Billy is 7 weeks old and seemed to enjoy his visit. The children spent some time before thinking of questions to ask about Billy – they even remembered that you need a question mark at the end of a question. Here are the questions they wanted to ask:

How long does he sleep?
What does Billy do?
How much milk does he drink?
What colour is his milk bottle?
How much has he grown?
How do you hold Billy?
How big is his cot?

Henri Rousseau

We have been learning about Henri Rousseau this term and how he liked tigers. We created our own Tiger pictures. Take a look…

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

Today we had a special visitor in class – A TIGER. The children wrote invitations and made bunting. They also made jam sandwiches and set up a tea party.

Andy Seed visit

The children really enjoyed meeting Andy Seed. He taught them some poetry and read from some of his books. The children loved meeting a real author.

P.E- Exploring the apparatus

The children just love exploring the apparatus in P.E and we thought you’d like to see what we do.

Andy Seed-Visiting Author – Wednesday 17th January

Andy Seed is spending the day at St Philip’s on Wednesday 17th January. As well as taking part in a workshop with him, the children will have the opportunity to buy a signed book.

He will also be doing a parent and child session after school in the hall, where everyone is welcome. This will be a really exciting opportunity for you and your child to meet the author himself. A parent mail with more details will be sent to you on Friday 12th January.

Amazing Animals

The children have been learning all about animals. They have been sorting photos of zoo animals and pets. The children also looked at photos of tigers and made tigers. We have read ‘The Tiger who came to tea’. The tiger invited himself to our domestic role play area for tea and has been eating all our food.

2.1.24 Happy New Year

Welcome back. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. This term is all about ‘Amazing Animals’. Our main story of the term will be ‘The Tiger who came to tea’ by Judith Kerr. If you do not have the book at home please click on the link below to listen to the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKC8gXNUJw

Please see below our topic web, with all the information of what we will be covering in school over the term.

8th December: another busy week in Robin Class

Reading a bedtime story

Staff Recommended Reads. Have a look at the books we’ve recommended this Christmas… Click on the image to see what we’ve written.

Archives Have a look at some of our staff recommendations from the past… Click on each image to read the recommendations.

Reminder about our class celebration next Friday – hope you can join us.

Thank you for coming to see our EYFS nativity. I am sure you will agree that the children were amazing.

1st December: Exploring Ice

1st December: Christmas Tree Decorating

Big thank you to Bath Christmas Tree Farm https://www.bathchristmastreefarm.com/ for the very kind donation of a beautiful tree for our classroom. The children have loved decorating it.

Wriggly Nativity

Only 1 week to go to our performance of Wriggly Nativity. The children have been practising really hard and we even had a photo shoot this week. All the photos taken will be available on a disc for you to buy or order on the day for £5. The photos include lots of group shots and individual pictures and will be displayed on the day. The money raised will go towards buying resources for the EYFS classrooms.

Here is a picture of the whole group. They look amazing!

We are looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday 6th December 9.30am in the school hall. All family and friends welcome.

Doodle Maths. The Winter Calendar is coming soon!

We’re excited to announce the return of the Winter Calendar in DoodleMaths, a seasonal challenge where children can earn virtual rewards by Doodling daily! Designed to encourage a few minutes of daily Doodling, joining the fun is a great way to keep your child or pupils motivated and engaged over the holidays. Most excitingly, learners can earn exclusive virtual badges by opening all of the doors on one or both calendars!

How does it work?

The Winter Calendar can be found as a colourful icon on the My Robot page of DoodleMaths. Between the 1st of December and the 24th of December, children can unlock the doors on one or both calendars by completing at least one exercise a day and collecting their stars.

What rewards can be unlocked?

Unlocking the doors will reward learners with seasonal accessories and exclusive songs for their jukebox. In addition, those who open all of the doors on one or both calendars will receive an extra special surprise to celebrate their hard work — a virtual Winter Calendar badge! These badges can be viewed at any time by visiting the Learning Zone, selecting the arrow icon and pressing on Badges.

How do I get started?

All Doodlers can join the fun. Simply log in to DoodleMaths on the 1st of December and complete an exercise to get started. Don’t worry if your child misses a day on their calendar: they can use their stars to open any doors they’ve missed. The last day for unlocking any unopened doors is the 6th of January 2024, so make sure they’ve opened them all by this date to receive their Winter Calendar badge. We hope you enjoy the Winter Calendar!

17th November

A productive Friday afternoon. Painting, drawing, writing, model making, building, role play, snack … Everyone independently learning and helping each other. Robin class are amazing. Have a lovely weekend.

Ellie’s amazing plane.

Mud!

Creating ..

16th November – Just another busy day in Robin Class.

16th November – Write Dance

Write Dance helps the development of co-ordination of hands and fingers. With the aid of imaginative drawing, music, rhymes and rhythm the conditions for flowing and joined-up hands are created. Write Dance will help both gross and fine motor skills and support the process of writing and drawing. We had so much fun creating ‘volcanos’ in time with the music.

These 2 boys have work so hard to create an amazing marble run. _(10.11.23)

10th November – Diwali – making Divas

We have been learning about Diwali – the Hindu festival of light. We made Divas using salt dough.

10th November – BeeBots

We have been using BeeBots to learning about positional language.

9th November – Planting baby spider plants

We have been learning about plants and have been growing and planting baby spider plants from our big spider plant we have in class.

Remembrance Day

The children enjoyed finding out about Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies. They enjoyed making their own poppies.

Using blocks to create a hotel. The building with the cross on top is the hospital.

Making a bumpy train track.

Exploring 2D Shape

Autumn Fun

Term 2

Welcome back everyone, we hope you had a great half term. This term our topic is ‘Traditional tales’ and our main story will be ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’. Here is a copy of our topic web…

End of Term 1

Thank you for all your support this term. It has been a great first term and we are very proud of the progress everyone has made. Have a lovely half term and we will see you all in a week ready for more fun, learning and adventures. Mrs Coppens and Mrs Thompson

End of Term Smoothie Making

Building and Exploring Outside

Junk Modelling

What makes me a me?

This week we have been reading the story ‘What makes me a me?’ We have been focusing on different language used in the story. On Tuesday we explored the word ‘Volcano’. We found out what a volcano is but we also discovered that we can describe someone as feeling or acting like a volcano-all fiery, red and angry. We discussed this emotion and the children thought of some other adjectives to describe feeling like a volcano. They came up with some amazing vocabulary- distressed, angry, stressed, frustrated, sad, mad and cross. In the follow up activity the children drew themselves as ‘feeling like a volcano’ and used words to describe the emotion. Their work is amazing. Have a look…

Shape

This week we have been exploring shape inside and outside of the classroom. We have made some amazing models using small and large 3D shapes. We even used 3D shapes to print with. We have had so much fun.