Your Firecrest team are:

Mrs Berry (Teacher) - Thur & Fri

Ms Mitchell (Teacher) - Mon, Tue, Wed

Naomi Carr (Teaching Assistant) - Mon-Fri 

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

Kayleigh Darker - Mon & Tues

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

Home Learning 2023/24

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Activities in Firecrest class 2023/24

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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

Fire Fighters Visit

We were so lucky to have a visit from the firefighters who showed us all the amazing things they use to keep themselves safe and help rescue people and animals. We loved it! 

Our beautiful butterflies

We all went out to release and watch our beautiful butterflies fly away into the meadow.

Walk to School Fun

We went on a nature hunt on Walk to School Day and used our senses to explore the beautiful area we live in. We named trees, plants and minibeasts, guessed the age of some of the trees, searched for bees, smelled the flowers, touched the grass, gazed up in the sky and had a lot of fun along the way! 

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!