Friday, 9 September 2011

Welcome back!!!

Hi all,

It's lovely to be back at school after being off having my baby.  Glad you haven't forgotten me!

It's been a busy week so far settling into the new class.  I hope you all received the topic web and information to parents letter so you know what we are up to this term.  We would be grateful for anything for our role play and also junk for modelling.

Don't forget PE kits on Thursday and try and get dress yourself each morning as practice!

Enjoy your weekend

Mrs Street

Monday, 25 July 2011

Just a quick note to say a big thank you for all the lovely cards and gifts we recieved last week. It was very kind of you all.

I can't believe we are already saying goodbye to our Reception class. They've been a lovely class and we are going to miss them very much.

Have a fantastic summer and we look forward to seeing you around school in September.

Love,
Mrs Morris, Miss Williams and Mrs Ryan x

Friday, 17 June 2011

Hello,

As usual we've been very busy in class 11. At the moment we are practising for our sports day inbetween all the rain! We've got our fingers crossed for lots of sunshine next Thursday.

We had a fantastic day last Tuesday at Noah's Ark. The children loved it and did some super work about their favourite things. Top of the list was the giraffe who kicked the zebra and then stuck his tongue out! They also enjoyed the very bumpy tractor ride (despite getting soaked) and watching the tiger at feeding time.

Thank you to everyone who was out bird watching over the half term. The children have painted some lovely pictures of the birds they spotted using watercolours.

Another thank you to those who have sent in plants. We have planted them and are now watching them grow. The children picked our lettuce a couple of weeks ago and made litttle salad bowls for their snack. We are still waiting for the carrots to get bigger so we can pull them up.

I look forward to seeing you all at the school fete tomorrow.

Mrs Morris

Monday, 16 May 2011

Hello,
The children have settled back into school well after the Easter holidays. I enjoyed listening to all the exciting news they had to tell!
We started the new term with a change. Instead of the children coming into class and sitting down for the register they now come in and self register and then, with a couple of friends, choose a game from the 'wellbeing box'. The games all involve sharing and taking turns and the children seem to love playing them.
We have started our new topic 'In my little garden' by reading the book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. The children have painted some wonderful fruit for our display. We've been finding 1 more/1 less and adding sets of fruits together. We've been learning the days of the week and talking about what we do on different days.
The children are enjoying playing in our campsite outside. They've been sleeping in tents, cooking sausages on the BBQ and buying goodies from the campsite shop!
Unfortunatly, due to the weather, we didn't manage to get to the garden centre on Friday. Hopefully the weather will brighten up soon and we'll take a walk down to the Woodland Walk garden centre to look at the plants.
Look out for your information sheets this week which will tell you about what we're doing in Reception this term.
Mrs Morris

Friday, 8 April 2011

Hi,

We had a wonderful time on our trip to Bryngarw Country Park on Wednesday. Weren't we lucky with the weather? The park rangers commented on how well behaved the children were - well done! During the morning the rangers took us on a walk through the fields and woods looking for minibeasts. We were tired after our long walk so were glad to sit down for a picnic before the children had a great time in the park (with a very big slide!)
'I liked looking at the ducks in the pond.' Sophie
'We went to the park. I liked the tyre swings the best.' Isabelle
'I went on the big slide.' Amelia
'We had to pick up pine cones like the squirrels.' Lewis
'The squirrels ate them. They ate them like an apple and left the middle.' Logan
'We had to go across the bridges quietly so we didn't wake the trolls.' Seren G
'The man caught a toad to show us.' Iwan

 I've enjoyed looking at all the lovely Easter bonnets that have come in today. The children have obviously enjoyed making them and are very proud of their bonnets. Remember if you haven't made one yet our Grandparents Easter Celebration is on Tuesday so they need to be in Monday.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine.
See you Monday,
Mrs Morris

Friday, 25 March 2011

Hi,
Just a couple of notices.
The Easter fayre is being held on Wednesday 30th March straight after school. The children can come in non school uniform but can they please bring a mothers day gift as a forfeit.
We've had a couple of items of clothing getting muddled up on PE days recently and jumpers going missing. Can you please make sure your child's name is on all their clothes to make it easier for us to ensure that they bring their own things home.
It was great to see everyone last week at the parent/teacher meetings.
I hope you all enjoy the long weekend. See you Tuesday.
Mrs Morris

Friday, 18 March 2011

Class 11 have had a lovely couple of weeks and we've been making the most of this nice weather we've been having. The children have enjoyed working and playing outside, especially in the pirate ship!
The children have worked hard to prepare our planting beds. They had to pull out all the weeds and turn the soil ready to plant our seeds. We're hoping to have some delicious carrots and lettuce by the summer!
Sophie's mum kindly bought us in some frogspawn which the children have been watching very carefully. We now have lots of tadpoles and if you look through a magnifying glass you can see their legs are growing. We can't wait for them to turn into frogs!
The childen learnt a lot about christenings last week during our school RE week and particularly enjoyed the trip to church to take part in our own chrstening. Rev. Parkinson taught us lots about christenings and Tia and Charlie made excellent Godparents to Ava Ruby! The children also wrote invitations, made christening cards and stained glass windows.
Enjoy your weekend and I look forward to seeing you all next week for teacher/parents meetings.
Mrs Morris