Badger Class

Welcome to Badger Class!

Badger Class is our Reception class, where Mrs Smith and Mrs Hedges are the class teachers and Mrs Dyer is our teaching assistant.

This term our topic for Term 4 is 'On the Farm'.  We are really looking forward to learning all about Farms and the animals that live on them.  In Literacy, we will be learning to tell the story 'The Giant Turnip' and reading lots of other stories based on farms.  We will also be applying the phonics we have learned to write sentences linked to farms, label pictures and write instructions for planting seeds.  We will be looking at what plants need to grow and planting seeds ourselves and watching them grow.  We will learn the rest of the phase 3 sounds in phonics and yet more high frequency words to read by sight.  In maths, we will concentrate on a new number each week until we reach 10.  We are also looking at doing lots of fun activities linked to the Census in March.

PE will be on a Tuesday, so please wear PE kit to school every Tuesday.  Please ensure that trainers have velcro so they can be easily taken on and off throughout the day.

Reminders

Please do not

• bring any additional items into school.  This includes hats and scarves (as per headteacher request at the start of term).  
• put water bottles into book bags - any leaks ruin the books.

Thank you for your continued support.

World Book Day

We had lots of fun dressing up as book characters and learning about the characters from James and the Giant Peach.  We watched videos of real bugs, then made ladybirds using paper plates, spiders by printing using tubes and drawing grasshoppers using step by step instructions.  We caught bugs from our own magic similar to the magic left by the Old Man in the story James and the Giant Peach.  We also had the opportunity to look at books!

Christmas

We have had a lovely couple of weeks in Badger Class getting ready to celebrate Christmas, with our nativity, Christmas lunch wearing our festive jumpers, a visit from Father Christmas and then enjoying the wonderful playground gifts he bought.

Term 2 

This term, we have enjoyed lots of firework activities on Thursday 5th November, celebrated Remembrance Day and have had fun playing estate agents linked to our topic on Homes.  We have also made houses using shapes and wooden bricks.  We have been learning about different materials through the story of The Three Little Pigs.  We have attempted to make houses using straws, sticks and bricks, with differing levels of success.  We have also enjoyed painting fingerprint leaves on our tree.  We have enjoyed lots of Christmas activities, sorting wrapped numicon pieces to unwrapped pieces, creating Christmas trees using numicon pieces and creating baubles on a Christmas tree by dropping coloured vinegar onto Christmas trees created from bicarbonate of soda. 

Phonics Training

Thank you to those parents that were able to join us for our phonics training.  Please find a PDF of the powerpoint used in the training - if you have any questions, please ask.

Badger Class Learning

Have a look at the learning we will be doing this year by following the link below.

Reading

The children in Badger Class will now be bringing reading books home.  To begin with books have no words and are used to encourage children to talk about what is happening in the pictures.  We will listen to your child read at least once a week, but in order for your child to make progress in their reading, we need you to support them and listen to them read at least 5 times a week.

Making Friends

The children have settled really well at school and have enjoyed exploring all the different areas of the classroom, both indoors and outdoors.  They have all been learning to make friends and cooperate with each other, taking turns and sharing.  We are very proud of the way they have adapted to school life at St Nicholas CE (VA) Primary School. 

Help

As our topic is All About Me, we would really like to give the children the opportunity to share something they enjoy doing with the class.  If you have one or two photos of your child taking part in a hobby or something that they would like to share with their friends, please email office@stnicholas.wilts.sch.uk and head it Badger Photo. You may like to add a little information to enable us to help your child share their photo with their class.

Thank you.

Class Reward

We have already earned our first class reward and went for a walk in our school woods.