Y1- 10.10.16- Amazing home learning and Forest School today

Wow! Today we all got a chance to look at the children’s home learning. It was fantastic to see the range of different learning that the children chose to do from stories, to descriptions and labelling of the pictures. I was impressed with the handwriting standard also. This is definitely a focus at the moment. So with this in mind home learning that is brought in really needs to be a focussed task where your child spends time forming letters, trying to spell phonetically and using their imagination. Instead of the children just bringing in their favourite toy, can they write a story about it? 

In Forest School today the Autumn and Winter group learnt how to safely light and extinguish a fire. Every child had a go at making a spark using a fire steel. We spoke about what we need to make a fire, safety around a fire and what happens to wood when it burns. The children ate some delicious popcorn and then had the important job of putting out the fire.