Infants

Welcome to our Infant class.

Meet the team

In the Infant class, we have Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. We work on a two year rolling curriculum for Year 1 and Year 2 and have a separate curriculum for Reception 

Our PE day is Monday and Wednesday.

Phonics and Reading

In Infants, we follow the Pearson Bug Club phonics and reading scheme. They begin with wordless books before we begin Phase 2, which introduces the different phonemes.

In Year 1, we continue with the Bug Club phonics scheme, working through Phase 5 and Phase 6 phonemes looking at alternate pronunciation and spelling of words.

In Year 2, we revisit Phase 5 and 6 to further consolidate our phonetic knowledge.

Children will be allocated a book to read at home based on their phonics knowledge and will progress through the levels as their knowledge increases.

Spring Term 2

Week beginning 24th March

What an amazingly, extraordinary March we have had in the Infant class this month! 

We have finished the month off in true style with our fairytale morning. Where the children dressed up as their favourite characters, made potions, story maps, read stories and created their own, went on a scavenger hunt for the lost characters and finally finished with decorating a gingerbread cookie for snack time! 

Week beginning 17th March 

This week in the Infants we have been busy writing our own twisted versions of Little Red Riding Hood, and instead of meeting a wolf in the deep, dark forest they have created stories with a new fairy tale baddie.

On Tuesday we went to the church to search for signs of Spring and talk about the Easter story.

In maths we have been sequencing the days of the week in Reception and have learnt a new song to help us remember the order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tx0rvuXIRg

In year 1 we have been adding and subtracting 10 within 60. Year 2 have been looking at multiplication and the inverse division we have also enjoyed learning a song to help learn the 5 times table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMX8O0aGB0Q

 

 

Week beginning 10th March

This week we have been looking at signs of Spring in the outdoor area and we have welcomed our new visitors to the class, the frogspawn we are going to keep a close eye on how they change over the next few weeks. We have put some inside and in outdoor area, we are going to observe which changes first.

We have also investigated the capacity of different containers and used ml and litres to measure how much liquid each container could hold.

 

Week beginning 3rd March

This week in the Infants we have been extremely busy this week! At the beginning  of the week we found out about Shrove Tuesday and why we celebrate with pancakes. We all enjoyed tasting the pancakes and then we thought about things we might both give up and ways to help others through Lent.

 

On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day and enjoyed exploring different stories in our learning. Some of us designed potions to give te wolf to make him be kind to Little Red Riding Hood and her grandma!

 

Week beginning 24th February 

Wow, what an absolutely, amazing, astounding start to our new term. We have been investigating our new text this term, 'Little Red' and reading other traditional stories in our book corner. We have working together to create a moving picture to help us retell the story. 

We have enjoyed exploring our own class quarry and have uncovered gems just like Mary Anning did about 200 years ago! We are looking forward to finding out about how she was so important.

We have been aspirational this week finding out about different careers and thinking about what we would like to be when we are older. 

 

Spring Term 1

This term we will diving into amazing adventures which will take us Bb on a journey through map making and exploring the surrounding area around Newchurch. We’ll get to know fascinating book characters and follow their journeys. Alongside this we will delve into the natural world and how it looks different in the Winter through hands on investigations, experiences and observations, sparking our creativity and curiosity.

week beginnings 13th January

Well after a week of snow and ice last week the children have been having a very busy week. The children have really been extraordinary detectives, investigating the crime scene in our library to discover the mischievous story character that had stolen food from the school kitchen! They discovered the culprit was the Highway Rat and have been making wanted posters to ensure that he is caught! We have also been looking at different objects around the class and finding out what they are made from and thinking about our big question:

Do we live in a material world?

 

Week beginning the 20th January

 

Well this week like the storm the children in Infants have blown me with their excellent attitude to their learning. This week we have been looking at the structure of 'The Highway Rat' and the children have enjoyed sequencing the events of the story, including making their own maps of the story.

In maths we have looking at the rules for adding and taking away ten and using this knowledge to solve problems.

We have enjoyed looking at the monoprints of Matisse and have created our own snowflake prints using stencilling.

Week beginning 27th January

We have had another very busy busy week being authors, creating our own versions of the Highway Rat. 

We have also enjoyed taking our learning outside into the provision area, where we have been planting bulbs and making extraordinary recipes in the mud kitchen and potion area.

We have also enjoyed finding out about Chinese New Year and we all created our own spiral snakes for the year of the snake.

Week beginning the 10th February

 

This week in the Infants we have been learning about, rats and discovering that they are really like mini superheroes! We have been writing factual sentences about the amazing powers these small creatures have.

Did you know that they are able to detect disease?

In art we have enjoyed getting mucky with charcoal and have created some amazing winter trees.

 

 

 

Week beginning the 10th February

This week in the Infants we have been exploring the emotions of love and kindness in preparation for Valentine's Day. We have enjoyed looking for ways to fill up our bucket of kindness by celebrating the kindness shared by our friends. We have enjoyed taking this learning into the outdoor and indoor provision where we have made love potions and recipes using our doubling facts and sending valentine cards in our creative area.