It is Anti-bullying week and to launch this national event we enjoyed Odd Sock Monday! Our message to the children is; it is ok to be different. The children have enjoyed designing their own odd socks. Winners of this competition will be announced Friday! We also met our new Year 3 buddy partners who [...]
Through their work with School and Well being Council, Lily and Millie have been selected to represent Abbey road at Pupil Parliament. The girls had their first meeting at County Hall today. Here they were able to introduce themselves to other school members from across Rushcliffe and take part in some lively debate! We [...]
Teddy bears are everywhere in foundation this week! The children thoroughly enjoyed our Teddy Bear's picnic and all the activities leading upto this fun event. There has been lots of cutting, sticking and painting. Our art Gallery is beginning to look fabulous. Everyone got involved baking delicious oatmeal biscuits and we enjoyed sharing them [...]
A huge thank you to all our Rainbow parents for your kind words and lovely gifts. Our special delivery to school was a wonderful and dare we say much needed surprise! We have been spoilt and touched by your generosity. Enjoy a fun filled summer and good luck in Year 1 Rainbows. We will [...]
As part of the 'Our World' topic this week we read 'The tale of a toothbrush'- G Leonard. We followed the journey of a discarded toothbrush from the bin to the ocean. The children have been saving our world by using nets to clear out plastic from the water tray, they have used tweezers [...]
It has been another bugtastic week in Foundation! We have been using 'The very hungry caterpillar'- Eric Carle to inspire our learning. We have been nurturing our very own hungry caterpillars. In finger gym we have been cutting and colouring caterpillars, adding rays to sunshines, practising our letter formation and name writing(including surnames) and [...]
We did something funny for money! Thank you for all your contributions and amazing efforts for Red Nose Day. We raised £1038.18. Next year we will order even more Red Noses!
We are loving learning through our People Who Help us topic. This week we have been finding out about Doctors and Nurses. The Doctors surgery has been very busy with children writing out prescriptions and caring for each other. Phoebe's dad who is a GP came in to talk to us and show us [...]
Thank you to School Council for all your great ideas for Red Nose Day. Our after school sale of Red Noses was so popular we completely sold out! We very quickly organised a cake sale the next day to boost donations. Thank you to all the School Councillors who were able to help out [...]
In the final week of our 'Traditional Tales' topic we have enjoyed lots of activities relating to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff''. The children have loved making goat headbands to wear whilst acting out the story. We have been really impressed with the children's independent writing attempts, some children even had a go at [...]
