Wallaby Class Blog (YR)
Welcome to our new blog for 2024-25! We hope to share all the wonderful things we are learning about in Reception.
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Our Class teachers are Mrs S. Bayley (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs R. Atwill (Alternate Wednesdays, Thursday and Friday). Our teaching assistants are Ms A. Adlam/Miss L. Grieve.
YR Curriculum Overview 2024-25 YR Writing Curriculum 2024-25
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Saturday 25 January 2025 Chinese New Year
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Friday 17 January 2025 Friday 17th January 2025 ‘Run run as fast you can, you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!!!’ Well… Wallabies certainly realised how quick the gingerbread men were this Friday where they came back after lunch to find the gingerbread men they had prepared that morning had made a run for it! They witnessed this footage on screen and could not believe their eyes…. They were escaping from the oven in our role play area! Those cheeky gingerbread men! The children got to work quickly to come up with a plan on how they were going to trap they gingerbread men. Some of the traps constructed were amazing. After searching tirelessly for the escapees, they continued their search around the school grounds. Upon their return, the children were totally shocked to find all 14 gingerbread men trapped in the class trap. It is safe to say that the Wallabies quickly scoffed their gingerbread men before they made another run for it.
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Saturday 11 January 2025 January 10th 2025 Happy New Year. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas. It’s been lovely to see the Wallabies back in school excited to see each other and to continue with their wonderful learning.
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Friday 13 December 2024 December 13th Wallaby Class has been feeling very Christmassy this week. The children have loved playing in our Christmas role play, wrapping presents and playing with the Post Office, writing their own secret messages. In message Centre this week, we listened to the story The Jolly Christmas Postman and the children loved writing their own messages and symbols to the post man.
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Saturday 30 November 2024 November 29th The Gruffalo's Birthday This week we have had great fun with The Gruffalo! We had great excitement in the classroom when the children discovered it was the Gruffalo’s Birthday! The children loved writing messages to The Gruffalo in the Message Centre.
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Friday 15 November 2024 15th November This week has been a very busy week in Wallaby Class. The children have been learning about Remembrance Day. We talked about why we celebrate it and the importance of remembering all those soldiers who had served in wars. We also observed a minute silence in the classroom. The children enjoyed making Poppies and proudly wore them in the classroom.
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Friday 8 November 2024 Welcome back Wallabies 08/11/24 Welcome back Wallabies, what a superb start to term 2 it’s been! We have kick started our new topic ‘sparkles, seasons and celebrations’ with lots of lovely work around fireworks and bonfire night. Children thought about traditions around bonfire night and their own experiences watching fireworks. Throughout the week children have created a range of firework pictures including using a paint brush to flick paint and sprinkling glitter on top, they look fab! They even made firework toast where they painted firework patterns onto bread using food colouring.
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Friday 18 October 2024 Friday 18th
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Friday 11 October 2024 People Who Help Us What a wonderful week it has been in Wallabies. We have been continuing to learn lots of new sounds and writing them in our books. The children have been air writing the letters first and then writing them down. Please do check out the RWI blog on the school website with your child. https://www.westbury-inf.wilts.sch.uk/RWI-Blog/ There are also some Fred Talk videos you can practice as well. The children have to listen to the sounds and see if they can put them together and say the word.
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Friday 4 October 2024 4th October 2024 Welcome back to another busy and successful week in Wallaby class. The children are working really hard in phonics, learning new sounds and writing them in their books. They are practising writing their names and enjoying a range of fine motor activities including using cotton buds to dot paint. In maths this week Wallaby class have focused on size, mass and capacity. Children have been comparing sizes of different objects around the room and sorting them, using the language heavier and lighter to compare different objects, using a ‘wool worm’ to compare the length of an object against their worm using language such as shorter and longer and building cube towers to compare amounts.
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Friday 27 September 2024 Our 5 Senses We have had another fantastic week in Wallaby Class. This week, we have been learning all about our 5 Senses. The children have enjoyed different smell pots and have been amazing at working out the different smells. We had coffee, lavender, curry powder and cumin seeds hidden inside pots. We have also had different objects hidden in a tray for the children to guess. This was great fun and again Wallaby class were experts!
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Friday 20 September 2024 What a great week! 20/09/24 Another wonderful week for the wonderful Wallabies! They continue to blow us away with their superb behaviour, amazing listening and their growing independence! The children are coming in and finding their own pegs as well as selecting their lunches. They are fully embracing the rules and routines and are showing great willingness towards their learning. It has been another great week in phonics with the children beginning to practice their letter formation. This week children have been writing m, a, s, d and t in their new writing books. They have done brilliantly! And in maths this week children have been matching and sorting objects. Children particularly enjoyed taking their learning into the sensory garden where they found and sorted natural objects. They also went on a colour hunt using a colour chart to see what they could find in their natural environment.
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Friday 6 September 2024 Friday 6th
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Friday 19 July 2024 Friday 19th July 2024 How nice that summer decided to visit us again this week! And how lovely to have all the children back this week, let’s hope the bugs have disappeared in time for the holidays!
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Friday 12 July 2024 Friday 12th July
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Friday 5 July 2024 Friday 5th July 2024 What a busy week for the Wallabies! This week in English the children have enjoyed listening to the story ‘The lighthouse keepers lunch’ and writing instructions on how to make a sandwich. They have designed and made their own sandwiches in the role play sandwich shop, ordered a set of instructions before writing them, creating a picnic for the lighthouse keeper, building cages in the construction area to trap the pesky seagull’s, drawing boats and lighthouses on the ipads and making their own lighthouses. Children even had the chance to make their own sandwiches following their instructions!
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Friday 28 June 2024 Friday 28th June 2024 Phew!! What a scorcher this week has been. The children coped well with the heat, consuming lots of water and enjoying water play outside. We visited the sensory garden where the children enjoyed reading books and colouring pictures in the shade of the trees.
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Friday 21 June 2024 Friday 21st June
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Friday 14 June 2024 Friday 14th June 2024 Oh, my goodness! Wallaby class had an email from the police! They needed our help. They had heard how good they are at designing wanted posters, and need the children to help catch Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh. They have been causing so much mischief in the ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ stories, that they just had to be caught!
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Friday 7 June 2024 Friday 7th June A super start to term 6 where we kicked off the week with a new theme – Fun at the seaside! In English we have been reading the text ‘What the ladybird heard at the seaside’ and children worked together to come up with different things they might take to the seaside/beach. They looked closely at the illustrations in the book and then wrote down the different things they could see at the seaside. Children have had opportunities to enjoy themed activities including creating sea creatures out of play-doh, drawing their own seaside pictures, cutting put different beach themed pictures to create a picture, and using pasta shapes to create shell pictures.
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Friday 24 May 2024 24/05/24
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Friday 17 May 2024 Friday 17th May
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Friday 10 May 2024 Friday 10th May It’s been a lovely sunny week and the children have enjoyed using the outdoor resources.
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Friday 26 April 2024 Friday 26th
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Friday 19 April 2024 Friday 19th April
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Thursday 28 March 2024 28.03.24 Happy Easter Wallaby class! We made it! Well done on another successful busy week which was kicked off with a wonderful trip to Bath City Farm. The children had a fantastic time meeting lots of adorable animals, learning about them and getting the chance to feed them. There are lots of wonderful photos so we hope you enjoy looking through them and seeing what the children got up to. They made us very proud, and set a great example.
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