Your Firecrest team are:

Mrs Berry (Teacher) - Thur & Fri

Ms Mitchell (Teacher) - Mon, Tue, Wed

Naomi Carr (Teaching Assistant) - Mon-Fri (am)

Lianne Garcia (Teaching Assistant) - Thur & Fri

Dink Milton (Teaching Assistant) - Mon-Wed

Karen Marriott (LSA 1 to 1 support) - Mon & Tue

Kayleigh Salvage-Darker (LSA 1 to 1 support) - Wed-Fri

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

Home Learning 2022/23

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Activities in Firecrest class 2022/23

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Random Act of Kindness Week (RAK)

We have loved being part of RAK week and meeting different classes to share our kindness!

We read the story 'Kind' by Alison Green and shared ways that we are kind to our friends, families and teachers. We made yummy biscuits to share with Partridge Class (Year 5) and took along one our favourite books from home to share. We also made 'seed cakes' to put in the earth for Year 5 to take home with them.

Year 6 shared kindness with us by playing on the field with games that they had made up. There was endless rolling and running to wear everyone out.

Thank you to everyone for the fun! 

Pancake Day

We had lots of fun celebrating pancake day. Firstly we read Mr Wolf's Pancakes by Jan Fearnley before making our own batch of pancakes to eat. We went outside to try pancake flipping - we discovered it's hard! Finally, we found some giant pancakes to roll down the hill with the deer watching on. It was brilliant fun!  

Happy Australia Day!

We have had such a fun week learning about the many different animals that are found in Australia. Have you ever heard of an echidna or quorkka before? Well, we learnt all about them - plus the red back spider and many more! We wrote facts about an animal, made our own boomerangs with Aboriginal art patterns and created a feast for our Australia Day fun! 

Here are some pictures of our creations - lamingtons (deliciously made for us to enjoy), Anzac cookies, pavlova and don't forget the vegemite sandwiches. 

We came dressed up ready for our holiday to Australia, went through baggage control and took a plane ride all the way to Australia (stopping off at Singapore on the way!)

We're sure to have jet lag for the rest of the week.

Thank you for making it so fun Firecrest. 

Christmas Fun!

"It's beginning to look a like like Christmas!"

We've had a very Christmasssy week with the touring Pantomime show, Year 2's Nativity Play, Christmas Lunch, making yummy mince pies and don't forget the fun in the snow!

During our Forest School session we went for a walk in the winter sunshine along the edge of the school field. We shared ideas about why the snow had melted in some spaces, ideas included that the trees had stopped the snow falling and that the sun had melted it. To help the animals to find food we shared apples, carrots, bird seed and even mince pies along our walk. We hid them in the hedgerow. We counted seventeen deer!  

St Martin's Celebrations

A big thank you to Imi - Benji's Mum for coming in and sharing with us the German tradition of  St Martin's Day. The children heard and acted out the story of St Martin, learnt some new German words and made their own lanterns. We ended the day with a yummy German biscuit too. 

NO DINNER! 

This week we have enjoyed the story NO DINNER! One of our ‘tricky’ words is even on the cover..... We have talked about the characters in the story and enjoyed joining in with the repeated parts. Inspired by the children’s enthusiasm for junk modelling we made our own books using split pins, treasury tags and staplers to join materials. We have drawn the characters and had a good try at writing some initial sounds g for granny d for dog etc Some of us have written dog and pumpkin using our developing phonics skills. Working in the atelier we looked at pumpkins. Using red, yellow and white powder paints we created lots of different oranges 'dip dip tap tap mix'

In maths we have looked at repeating patterns. We have clapped and tapped, jumped and stamped whole body patterns and then drawn our ideas as a repeating pattern. We created our own stick for granny in the story, printing a repeating pattern. We made fruit kebabs and we have eaten our repeating patterns! 

Autumn is Here!

We have shared the story 'Fletcher and the Falling Leaves' by Julia Rawlinson for our maths this week. We have been measuring Autumn findings, comparing sizes and weighing harvest veggies.

We thought about the buildings around the world and made our own versions, talking about the height and width. 

We also went for a colour walk around the school grounds - wow, we were lucky! We found acorns, conkers and plenty of colourful leaves. 

Apple Crumble

We collected lots of apples from the playground and decided to work together to make apple crumble. We had to wash the apples, cut them up, cook them and then make the topping. 

It was delicious!