Your Firecrest team are:

Mrs Berry (Teacher) - Thur & Fri

Ms Mitchell (Teacher) - Mon, Tue, Wed

Liane Garcia (Teaching Assistant) - Wednesday, Thur & Fri

Kayleigh Darker - (Teaching Assistant) - Mon & Tues

Naomi Carr (Teaching Assistant & Learning Support Assistant ) - Tuesday -Thursday 

Please check back to this page regularly to check out what your child has been up to. 

Home Learning 2024/25

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Activities in Firecrest class 2024/25

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Happy Australia Day!

This week we have lots of fun learning about Australia and learning about many of the different cultural experiences.

• We have looked at the art from the Aborigines and made up stories using the dots and lines.
• We made boomerangs and had a go on a didgeridoo.
• We cooked and tasted many Australian favourites – ANZAC cookies, lamingtons, Pavlova and vegemite sandwiches. YUM!
• We read lots of Australian stories and listened to the story ‘Possum Magic’. We made our own Fairy Bread and wrote how to make it.
• We met two Australian animals - a Kookaburra and a lizard and got to even stroke the lizard.
• We looked at the map of Australia and how big it is.
• We pretended to go to Australia on the plane.
• We had lots of fun!

Our first few days in Firecrest

Settling in….. We are playing lots of name games, using children’s names at every opportunity and modelling names to the children when they are playing together. Lots to learn including new friends in Goldcrest too!

The children are starting to get into the routines of the day. We are working on listening to instructions and tidying up together! Please remember to bring book bags every day.

This week we were invited to see year 6 test their electric vehicles. We went down to the astro and watched their race! Afterwards we played together on the field, it’s BIG! We also explored the school grounds – walking r i g h t to the end of the field!

Activities in Firecrest class 2023/24

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Happy Lunar New Year

We have been learning about the celebrations of Lunar New Year this week. We acted out and wrote about the story of the Great Race. We've made drums and chopped up yummy vegetables for our stir fry.

Gung Hay Fat Choi! 

Volcano Fun!

We have loved learning all about volcanoes this week. We talked about how volcanoes can be active, dormant or extinct and what this means. We used maps to look at some of the many volcanoes around the world and the children could choose to make their own volcano with plaster of paris moulds and paint them. They also could have a go at an 'exploding' volcano experiment. We had lots of fun! 

Happy New Year!

We have been using the book ‘Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs’ by Ian Beck for our learning this week. We learnt the rules for using powder paint to make the background, wrote our own adventure ideas for what we could see on the island and even did some fossil hunting. Watch out for the volcano!

We are learning to:

• Understand that some places are special to members of our community.
• Recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways.

Thank you for all the beautiful snowflakes for the Christmas tree.

We hope that you all enjoyed the long weekend. This week we ‘read’ the Snowman – a book with no words! We made snow people with PVA and shaving foam and wrote descriptive sentences to describe our melty snow people.  Inspired by the children we have been exploring ‘melting’ and discovering what makes things melt quicker or slower. The chilly weather at the end of the week really supported our experiments in the meadow! The children were also very keen to do some ‘baking’ too, so we made our own mathematical mince pies! We used our developing phonics skills to read the start of the instructions peel, mix, unroll, cut, put, spoon, top and cook. We shared our baking with the children in Goldcrest class. Our role play area is evolving into a cafe and the children have been taking orders and role playing being the customers. We have added a Christmas tree for them to decorate next week too. This week we have also played with numbers - we have played games, counted on, counted back and matched quantities to numerals and explored different ways of representing numbers.  A busy week. Singing. rehearsing, performing. Well done Firecrest children!

Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

This week we have been enjoying the story of Pumpkin soup. We  made our own pumpkin soup books and used our sounds to write the three animals - a cat, duck and squirrel. We learnt how to mix colours to make orange and green for our pumpkins - "it's magic" the children said. Finally, we all helped to cook our own pumpkin soup by peeling, washing, cutting, mixing and finally eating. Great job Firecrest for the yummy soup! 

NO DINNER! by Jessica Souhami

Working with a partner we have drawn story maps of our focus book NO DINNER! This was our independent task and we used HUGE sheets of paper on the floor! We thought about the characters in the story and the sequence of events........

Autumn Walk with our book 'Tidy' by Emily Gravett

We have been enjoying the book 'Tidy' by Emily Gravett this week and used our beautiful grounds to go and explore the many trees we have. We used a tree identification sheet and did our best to find as many as we could. We also could make leaf wands and Autumn tree painting. 

Tree House Visit

We keep looking out of the window in Firecrest and seeing the beautiful new treehouse. So we took our learning over there, using our story this week, 'Dear Zoo' by Rod Campbell, to discover more about animals and play some games. We had great fun! 

Firecrest WB 5.9.23 Hello and welcome to a new term at Bridgewater School. Our first week in Reception is a transition week and the children are coming into school in smaller groups and exploring our learning spaces. A lovely 'softer' start to the new school year. It's been hot! We are learning new names, new routines and new friends. We've even had a birthday with gifted fruit to share and a new class book. Thank you

Welcome to a new school year 23/24