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Hello, welcome to the Robins class page.
We are the Early Years and Year 1 class and we are at our best when we are learning through play.
Read on to find out more about us…….
We are curious learners and therfore we learn through exploring, playing and doing, we enjoy cooking, woodwork, Pantomimus, junk modelling, Forest School, Write Dance, welly walks, daily challenges and so much more - every day is FULL of learning and adventure.
We also have Maths activities and Phonics learning every day. Phonics helps us to become readers. We learn letters and their sounds and how to blend these souns to make words that we can read. We love books, we have a special area in our classroom for reading with a really comfy sofa. We also borrow books from the school library. We read books to learn and we read books for pleasure and we listen to stories that we enjoy - Mrs Higgins makes us laugh by using diffrerent voices for different characters!. We are really lucky because on a Monday afternoon, Mystery Monday, we have a person who comes in at the end of the day to read us a story….we don’t know who it is until they arrive! We know that the people who come in to help us are safe because we trust that Mrs Stephenson and the governors keep us safe at school. If a visitor isn't wearing a badge we ask them who they are and tell a teacher.
We have a really big outside area where we learn and play. Some of us enjoy climbing so we have tyres, crates and planks and we design and make our own climbing and balancing routes. The main playground has a road track all around the edge and we often get the balancing bikes out to race around the track or use part of the running track just outside our classroom door, we also have two wheeled pedal bikes with no stabilisers, they are more tricky to get the hang of yet with determination and endurance we are learning how to cycle - as Derek the Duck says “Never Give Up” - Never give up is one of our learning powers and we use these powers throughout the year. We also enjoy going on weekly welly walks and have visited Great Shefford, Chaddleworth, Trindledown Animal Farm and Wantage Museum, all local areas. We have even helped build a ‘bug hotel’ as part of the local rewilding project.
Learning is fun here and we love it!
Click here to read more information - (mainly for grown ups) and also to see some videos of us in action!
Equipment List Reminder (updated 01.10.2022)
Reading Books, Reading Records and Blue books to be in school daily
Monday - PE kits and Trainers to be in school
Reading books and reading records t be in every day
Tuesday - Pantomimus Day - no equipment needed
Wednesday - Welly Walk Wednesday (wellies to be left in school)
Thursday - Show and Tell items / videos / Library books to be returned
Friday - P.E. kits to come home
At the end of each week we will post information and photos of some of the learning we have been enjoying throughout the week (click on link above). It would be fantastic if you could share these pages with your child, perhaps over the weekend. Previous feedback has told us that this is a great starting point when talking to your child about their day in school.
If you have any questions or feedback then please get in touch as we always appreciate and value suppport from home.
The Robins Team
Mrs Higgins (Wed, Thurs, Fri) Mrs Brown (Mon, Tues)
Miss Reynolds Mrs Langford