We created a beautiful piece of artwork to remember and honour all those who have served and sacrificed for our country. We used our fine motor skills to carefully cut out the shapes of our hands and then painted our beautiful red poppies.
We had lots of fun getting creative while developing our cutting and painting skills and learning about the importance of Remembrance Day.
This week has been a busy one in RTG! We have been learning all about Diwali, discovering how and why it is celebrated.
In Maths, we have been working super hard on numbers 1, 2 and 3, exploring different ways of making and breaking these numbers (number composition). We have been practising lots and developing our number skills!
We also had a very special moment this week as we held our first assembly with parents joining us! It was wonderful to welcome families and share this experience together.
From now on, we will be having our class assembly every Wednesday. We hope to see lots of our grown-ups joining us throughout the school year!
Thank you to everyone who came along and made our first assembly so special
In RTG, we have absolutely loved learning the story of Little Rabbit Foo Foo as part of our Talk for Writing journey! We have enjoyed becoming familiar with the characters, retelling the story and using actions to help us remember the sequence of events.
Once we felt confident with the original story, we had great fun innovating it and using our imagination to create our very own version: Little Flamingo Foo Foo!
In RTG, we have been enjoying one of our favourite 5 books: The Animals Would Not Go to Sleep! We explored the story and discovered how Marco tried to organise all his animals so that they could settle down and go to sleep.
After sharing the story together, the children had the opportunity to retell it in their own books, recalling key events. It was wonderful to see the children engaging so enthusiastically with the story and using their books to express their understanding and bring the narrative to life!
We have been exploring lots of mark-making activities while lying on our tummies! These experiences help to strengthen our core and shoulder stability, developing the physical foundations needed for effective pencil grip and early writing skills.
Inspired by the setting of our Talk for Writing (T4W) text, Little Rabbit Foo Foo, we created our own beautiful forest artwork. We had so much fun bringing our forest to life! This activity also encouraged the children to observe and think about the natural world, introducing ideas linked to the changing seasons and helping us begin to explore the colours, textures and features of autumn.
This morning, we were very lucky to take part in our Box Exhibition! Many adults joined us to share this special moment, and we were so excited to welcome them into school.
We spent time in the Hall with our Year 6 buddies and our grown-ups, sharing the boxes we had created. We confidently explained what we had chosen to put inside our boxes and talked about why those items are important to us. It was wonderful to listen to everyone’s ideas and learn more about each other.
RTG thoroughly enjoyed the experience. We especially loved seeing our adults and Year 6 buddies together. Thank you to everyone who came along!
We have started visiting the school library, and it has quickly become one of our favourite times of the week! The children are incredibly excited to explore this special space filled with books, stories and adventures.
We love listening to stories together, sharing our thoughts about the characters and events, and browsing through lots of wonderful books.
Visiting the library helps us develop a love of reading and encourages our curiosity and imagination. We are already looking forward to many more library visits throughout the year and all the amazing stories we will discover along the way!
Happy reading!
We have begun our RWI lessons, starting to explore and learn our first sounds and letters. The children have been developing their phonics knowledge, beginning to recognise letters and make connections between sounds and their written forms.
We have also been practising forming letters on large sheets of paper on the floor. These large-scale movements give the children opportunities to develop their gross motor control, coordination and shoulder stability, building the foundations needed for more precise movements when writing on smaller surfaces.
What a fantastic start to our journey in RTG! We have loved finding our ACE Teddy Bears waiting to welcome us and have settled beautifully into our new classroom routines. We have also had so much fun exploring our EYFS playground, discovering new spaces to play. We are so proud of how well everyone has settled in, and we are looking forward to a wonderful year full of learning, laughter and new adventures!
