Infants

Welcome to our Infant class.

Meet the team

Mrs T. Finch

EYFS/KS1 Teaching Assistant

Mrs C. Bell

EYFS/KS1 Class Teacher

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.

All children are enabled to become curious, inspired and independent. They have access to an irresistible environment where they think critically, are responsible for their learning and strengthen their resilience. All children will flourish and develop a life-long passion for learning.

Every day our children get the chance to be a designer, an artist, a writer, a scientist, a musician, a mathematician, a storyteller, an athlete, geographer or historian.

We have a play based curriculum that encourages independence alongside investigative and cooperative learning. We have well resourced indoor and outdoor classroom provision where children are encouraged to take ownership and responsibility for their own learning through quality enhanced provision.

Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday.

Phonics and Reading

In Infants, we follow the Pearson Bug Club phonics and reading scheme. The children 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.

Week beginning 19th May

What a busy last week we have had in the Infant Class this week, we have been finding out about the lambs that live in the farms around our school. We have been learning new skills with the Lancashire cricket coach. Finally at the end of the week putting on our own mini Chelsea Flower Show!

Week beginning 12th May

This week has been another busy week, the Year 2's have been doing their SATS tests. We have been investigating 3-d shapes in the environment and the properties of different shapes using mathematical vocabulary: edges, faces, vertices. On Thursday we discovered a mysterious object in the outdoor area and we all wrote about it in our English.

Week beginning 5th May

What a busy week we have had celebrating and finding out about VE Day! We started the week by looking at photographs from the first VE Day 80 years ago and the children talked about the feelings that some people had:

'relieved, anxious, happy, sadness,' and how and why we should continue to celebrate this historical event.

We made bunting and flags to celebrate and played games that the children would have played 80 years ago.

Week beginning 28th April

What a beautiful week of learning at St. Mary's we have had we have enjoyed taking our learning outside. In science we have investigated the question: What type of plants would Little Red Riding Hood find in our school garden? The children were amazed by all the different plants they found.

We also thought about keeping ourselves healthy by eating the colours of the rainbow and finished by making healthy 'rainbow' fruit snacks.

We have continued exploring the story, 'Wind in the Willows' and this week we have been describing the riverbank setting.

The children are starting to think about and get excited about their new homework project this term to make a mini garden to enter our own Royal Chelsea Show!

Welcome back week beginning 21st April

I hope that you have all had a lovely break the children enjoyed sharing the exciting things that they got upto over the Easter break. This half term has started with our class shared text, The Wind in the Willows. We have enjoyed planting different types of seeds and are looking forward to seeing what type of plants they will grow into!

Spring Term Highlights.

Wow what a busy term we have in the Infant Class. Our learning journey has taken us into a land of fairytales, following Alice into a Wonderland. Finally finishing with Easter fun.

Spring Term 2

Week beginning 31st March

Well what a busy end of term we have had.

This week we have been designing stage sets with the Royal Ballet for Alice in Wonderland and performing our own dance sequence with dancers from the company through zoom lessons.

Then we have worked with partners to perform the poem Try by Joseph Coelho.

Then we finished up the week with an Easter Hunt and working with our friends from Roughlee Primary.

I wonder where our learning journey will take us next term?

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?

Spring 1 week 1

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.

Spring 1 week 3

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.