Reception -Aqua Class and Midnight Class

In PE we often warm up with The Bean Game. Can you think of any different beans we could use in our game?

Thursday was Harvest Festival and we brought in lots of tins and packets of food for Stroud Food Bank. Thank you for your generous donations.

Yesterday we learnt more about Harvest and talked about Autumn, the season of fruits, nuts and berries. We then went on a fruit hunt around the school grounds and found blackberries, pears, apples, crab apples and medlars. We also saw runner beans and  sweetcorn growing in the vegetable beds.

Thank you everyone who came along to our Phonics Meeting this afternoon. Here is the powerpoint we used, the leaflet that we sent home in the reading folders and links to useful sites to help.

Phonics will begin next Monday and we will be starting with the letters s, a, t and p.

Phonics Presentation

Phonics_-_Hamilton_Parents_Leaflet

Hamilton at Home

Oxford Owl

Today we had a great first day of full time. In the morning Midnight class did PE in the hall whilst Aqua class put on their wellies and played outside in the rain! Lunch was yummy and all of us ate most of our food. Ben said “the mashed potato is delicious”. The apple sponge and custard was a particular hit.

Well done everyone and see you all tomorrow.

What a super start we have had at school! Mrs Saeed and Mrs Bugg are so pleased with how well the children are settling down in their new classrooms.  They have all been finding their feet and feeling their way around the school.

We have particularly loved playing outdoors in our outdoor classroom.  Thanks to the PTA and other sponsors we now have a superb stage, sandpit and two den building structures.  Today we spent playtime out on the big playground for the first time and we also popped in to have a chat with Mr Moss in his office

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Today we had a fabulous time on our end of year trip to The Wild Place Project. We played in the Fun Fort, tiptoed and whispered in the woods and bird hide, watched the lemurs being fed and bravely walked the Barefoot Trail.  We also learnt about and saw some real wolves. It was a super duper day. Thank you to all the parent helpers who helped us. We couldn’t have done it without you!

The Wild Place Project on PhotoPeach

Today, as part of our RE topic, we have been learning about Islam and Holy month of Ramadan when Muslims fast for 30 days. We acted out a typical day for a Muslim during Ramadan and thought about how it would feel to go without food and drink all day. Everyone thought it would be very difficult to do.
We also learnt about how important the moon is to Muslims. Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar and the months are determined by the sighting of the moon.  We looked at the different phases of the moon and what they are called.