Class information

• PE on a Thursday and Friday - please send your child in PE kit for the day. 
• Swimming will be in 2025- we will let you know details nearer the time.
• Forest school starts Wednesday 11th September - information will be sent out.
• Don't forget to send reading books and diaries in each day. 
• Homework will be set on a Friday. 
• Please message via SeeSaw with any queries. 

    The Grasshoppers Team 

2nd June - 6th June

The Grasshoppers have had a wonderful return back. We have continued with our topic linked to Australia and have been exploring the coral reefs where we made some beautiful pictures of creatures that live in the reef. We have enjoyed some food tasting in DT and thinking about what food grous theer are. We have started looking at a lovely new book in English called Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers and finding out about the lonely penguin.

W/c 19th -23rd May 2025

The Grasshoppers had a busy week this week, we looked at Australia a little mnore and enjoyed soem activities making images of the Sydney Opera House for our display , we also found out about some of the major landmarks. We finished our non-fiction book about Australia and made our postcards. In science we did a colour experiment on a piece of celery to see how water travels up the stalk and continued to water and care for our bean plant. To finish off the week we had a wonderful trip to Nottingham's Theatre Royal to see a 'Squash and a Squeeze! we thought the farm yard animal puppets were fantastic! 

Spring 2 

WC 12th May 

We have continued to learn about Australia and took part in an Australia day making Australian flags, didgeridoos , we decorated boomerangs using Aboriginal dots and explored Australian animals in the sensory sand. We have been looking at postcards in English and finding about more about Australia from non-fiction books. 

In Science we have been exploring plants and flowers and the parts, labelling them and what job they do. We have also started to grow a bean plant , putting one in the dark, one with no water and one with both water and sunshine to explore what happens. We have really enjoyed loking at different types of plants and seeds.

Summer 1

w/c  28th April

This week we have had a wonderful trip to Sherwood Pines , we had a lovely time playing on the new park and looking at collecting pine cones and exploring the woodland. We finished off by enjoying a picnic lunch! This week we have also started to look at our topic which is about Australia. We found out that Australia is a very long away away and is very large with lots of different states with different weather.

Spring 2 continued ...

We have continued to find out about Egypt and the River Nile and what we can find there. In Science we have been exploring seasons and been going o Spring walks looking at Spring nature around us on the school field.

Spring 2 

We have continued been looking at Mavis the magical cat in English , the children loved creating their own characters using ICT and exploring a story map. We have also been learning about the Ancient Egyptians and enjoyed making our own Egyptian snake crowns with jewels and paint and also exploring pyramids and what is inside them. 

27-31st January 2025

Over the last few weeks we have been learning all about Florence Nightingale and how she made hospitals clean and safe. We found out how she looked after the soldiers and gave them medicine to make them better.

The children have really enjoyed playing nurses and looking after the babies in our class and pretending to be nurses.

We have been looking at a non-fiction book all about Florence and recognising the difference between fiction and non-fiction books.

We have also had lots of fun in PE working at our balancing hoops and using beanbags,hoops and mats to transport beanbags and move in lots of different ways.

Week commencing 2nd December

Grasshoppers have had a busy few weeks during the Autumn term. We have had lots of fun at forest school building dens and toasting marshmallows!

In English we have been reading Elmer and learning about being special, we made and wrote simple sentences and key words about Elmer and how he was feeling. 

We have also been looking at the book Hurry Santa , getting us in the Christmas mood and also predicting what we think will happen next. The children loved the part where the sleigh gets stuck in the snow and found it so funny that Santa was late all the time.

The grasshoppers have been finding out about seasons in Science, in particular , Autumn and enjoyed taking Autumnal walks around school collecting autumn leaves and twigs to explore in the classroom.

Week commencing 23rd September 2024

We have had a super start to the Autumn term so far and have been very busy! The Grasshoppers have been enjoying our dinosaur topic 'Jump into the Jurassic'! . We have been learning about different types of dinosaurs, dinosaur sensory activities and finding fossils in topic. This week we will be making some salt dough fossils and then carrying out some fossil excavation so watch this space! 

In English our books so far have been 'The dinosaur that pooped a planet' and 'Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs, the dinosaurs managed to escape and hid around the classroom and even on the school playing field!

We have been very lucky to have Rachel the artist in every Tuesday afternoon for the next few weeks and the children have taken part in some wonderful art and sensory activities in the small hall, they have really enjoyed it!

The Grasshoppers have also loved getting outdoors in the fresh air for forest school and talking part in lots of amazing activities . We will keep updating with photos of these activities!