Investors In Pupils

All classes at Fieldhead Carr have an 'Investors in Pupils' target. Older children in school set their own targets to achieve personal success in a specific area of the curriculum. In FS1, we agree on a whole class target for all of the children to aim for. All the children who achieve this target are rewarded with stickers and certificates. Our first target was to 'Tidy away our toys' which many children are now achieving. Our new target is 'To put our own coats on'

Here is one of our children demonstrating how it can be done.



It's easier if you've got a hood. You can put it on your head while you get your arms in.
Once you've got one arm in, hold on to your coat while you get your other arm in.

Once both arms are in your sleeves, you can then have a try at doing up your zip or buttons.



Hey Presto!! Expertly done. "I did it all by myself"

A special certificate to take home to show my family.

FS1's 'Investors In Pupils' display. When you've achieved your target, you get to put your busy bee in the honey pot!
Look how many children are in there already after just one day!

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Target achieved. Well done!!

 



Keep practising over half term. Let's see how many busy bees can jump into the honey pot when we come back.

Practising Our Writing Skills

FS1 have been busy practising their writing skills. Mark-making is available in all our areas of provision around the nursery to allow the children the opportunity to role-play (writing telephone notes in the home corner) plan designs in the model-making and construction, or just simply to assign their name to a painting or drawing.

Here's our future authors, journalists or maybe even teachers hard at work.

Concentrating hard and using a firm tripod grip.

Using chunky chalks outside to make marks.

Dry-wipe pens are colourful and fun!

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Practise makes perfect!

Assigning meaning to the marks.

Look What We've Been Up to!!!!

Firstly, thank you to all parents for your patience and co-operation during the disruption to drop off and collection arrangements of children. We hope to resume normality shortly.

Last week, our focus was reading. We have been teaching children to appreciate the value of books. Reading helps enhance the development of language for communication and of course we all enjoy sharing a good story.

Have a look at what we've been doing.


Using toys to accompany the story.



Relaxing with a book in the sunshine.

Happy, quiet time!

Pointing out the features of a book to a friend.

Sharing with adults.

Welcome to all our new families

All our children have had a lovely start to the year. Not a tear in sight, all happy faces! There have been lots of exciting things happening to our school over the school holidays and we've had a fantastic new playground.

Thank you so much for putting your children in the new uniform, they look wonderful. The whole school looks a much brighter place because of it.

Lets see what your children have been up to during their first week back.

Enjoying our new reading corner

Having fun with the cars

These jigsaws are a puzzle!

Using the new equipment in the dough area

Gluing and sticking

Making friends

Our Jubilee Toddle

On May 30th all our children, and lots of parents and grandparents, came to school to take part in our Jubilee Toddle. All the children dressed up in red, white and blue, to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and to have lots of fun !

When all the parents arrived we went on to the school playing fields to start our Toddle around the red white and blue markers. It looked a long way, but the sun shone and everyone put their best foot forward.

Year 6 came to help everyone count how many laps they had toddled. Everyone had a flag that was marked each time they went past.

Then we went back to our playground and had the best street party ever. We had fantastic party food that all the parents had brought, with Vera Lynn and Doris Day singing in the background.

We had 'old fashioned' games like hopscotch,  quoits,  snakes and ladders. And everyone had flags !

And this is exactly what Mrs Critchley, Mrs Winstanley, Miss Jones and Mrs Sinker look like at the end of every day !

WHAT A GRAND DAY OUT !!!

This term's theme is 'Changes'

During this term we give the children the opportunity to talk about growing and how we, and other living things, change over time as we grow. To further the children's understanding we give them first hand experience of the life cycle of the frog, the chicken and the butterfly. Our tadpoles are developing very well this year. They went for a holiday back to the school pond over Easter, and then we collected them up again so the children could continue to watch the changes in them. They have started from frog spawn, and I spotted one today with 4 legs! They'll soon be hopping all over the place, to the delight of Mrs Winstanley!

Our chicks have been successful this year too. Out of 12 eggs we have 10 healthy chicks. Nearly all the children managed to see a hatching and some of the chicks have wing feathers already.

It's all excitement as the chicks start to peck their way out

Hello World! That was hard work.

We're soon dry and fluffy.

Our brooder has a glass side so the children can watch whenever they like.

This afternoon they were strong enough to come out for a play. If the weather warms up we will be able to take them out onto the grass outside.

LOOK OUT FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR JUBILEE TODDLE AND STREET PARTY !

Mrs Moo's Ice Cream Parlour

We have a student teacher, Miss Eleanor Stokes, teaching in our classroom at the moment. As part of her teaching practice she has set up this fabulous ice cream parlour in the role play area. There is so much to do in there the children absolutely love it! They can buy and serve ice creams, use and talk about money, write orders and 'customer feedback' and have a great time whilst they learn. She is also organising other learning activities for the classroom, doing what every good early years teacher does well. That is giving the children lots of exciting experiences and the opportunity to talk about what they are doing to interested adults.

These are some of the other activities that Ms Stokes has been organising.

Discussing what happens to bubbles in the wind

Making Glitter shakers

That's a glittery one!