Acorn Notices & Class Archive
On this page you’ll find important and useful information about our class, including what we have been and what we will be doing. Please click ‘read more’ to find out about our weekly timetable.
On this page you’ll find important and useful information about our class, including what we have been and what we will be doing. Please click ‘read more’ to find out about our weekly timetable.
P.E This term, we have been focusing on ball skills during our P.E sessions with our sports coach Josh. We have been learning how to control the ball with our
Forest School The sun shined for us this week at Forest School- it was beautiful! We started our session wearing blind folds and listening to the sounds around us. We
Supertato We have been reading the story ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra in Acorn class. Last week we discovered some Evil Peas on the loose. This week, we decided to make
Forest Schools We had our first Forest Schools session this week – we were so excited. We met Holly our forest school leader and she introduced us our school’s special
Topic We started the summer term with a new topic ‘Isn’t it Amazing’. This week we have been looking at flowers and plants and how they grow. We have been
Maths This week, we have been learning about repeating patterns. We made action repeating patterns inspired by our favourite warm up dance “Banana Banana Meatball”. We made shape patterns using
Maths We have been learning all about 3D shapes this week- we have sorted, matched and built with the 3D shapes. We have learnt a rather catchy song to help
Literacy We made an exciting discovery this week- a letter from some pirates and a treasure map! We followed the clues to build a sentence which told us where the
Literacy We have been learning all about life under the sea this week and have been absolutely loving the story ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ by Giles Andreae. We played a
Literacy We have been learning the story ‘We’re Going on a Lion Hunt’ by David Axtell. We have learnt to tell it using actions. This week, we have been creating
Topic This week, we have been learning about places in the world that have hot climates. We found Africa on our class map and found out some information about the
Topic This week, we have been learning about astronauts. We talked about how the training you have to do to be an astronaut and what it is like to live
Maths This week, we have been learning about combining two sets of objects and counting them. We introduced the add and equals signs and talked about how to make a
Literacy In Literacy this week, we added a new item to our Super Writer Toolkit. We added finger spaces! We made our own finger spacers which we were really excited
P.E In P.E this week, we went to Space! We travelled around the room and ‘landed’ on our launch pads. We counted down and then took off into space. We
Music This week something exciting happened in our music lesson…..we were let loose on the glockenspiels! We first talked about how to hold the beater and then we spent some
Maths In Maths, we have been learning how to find number bonds to 5. We have been using the part-part-whole model to help us with our number bonds. We started
Winter Role Play We have a new role play area in Acorn class and we are so excited to play in it this week! We had been inspired by Oaken’s
Wriggly Nativity! We performed and filmed our Christmas Play called ‘Wriggly Nativity’ to send out to all our friends and family. We were most definitely ‘wriggly’ but we had so
Literacy We made a discovery on Monday morning- some snowy footprints led to a special letter from Father Christmas. He had asked us to write him a list of what
P.E We have been really enjoying climbing during our gymnastics sessions and this week we enjoyed the ropes too. We are becoming very brave and independent! We looked at different
Art Our focus artist this term is Wassily Kandinsky. We took some time to look at his art and discussed the shapes we could see. We were inspired to make
Topic This week we celebrated Diwali! We learnt all about who and how it is celebrated and listened to the story of Rama and Sita. We made coconut barfi sweets
Topic This week we have learnt about Remembrance Day. We talked about the meaning behind this day and why the poppy is significant. We learnt a little bit about what
Topic This week we have been celebrating Bonfire Night. We listened to the story of Guy Fawkes and then learnt about how we celebrate Bonfire Night today. We pretended to
Maths This week we have been focusing on composition of numbers 1,2,3 and using our subitizing skils to recognise different representations of numbers without counting. We sorted different representations of
Generosity Week This week at All Saints we have been celebrating generosity week. We have talked about what generosity means and challenged ourselves to think of ways to be kind
Topic This week we have been learning about where we live. First, we talked about our school and went on a tour of the school. We were especially excited to
P.E In P.E this week, we had a go at archery. We were very excited and listened carefully to the instructions. It was a little tricky to get the arrow
Co-operation We have been teaching the Acorns all about our school’s learning behaviours. They are 6 learning behaviours that we try to achieve through our time at All Saints’ to