Welcome to Wren Class!

We are a class of children aged 4-5 years old. Attached to our classroom, we have eight Little Wrens who are 3-4 years old.

Our classroom is colourful, energetic and full of creative Wrens!

Class Teacher: Mrs Kent

 

Recommended Reads

News

Summer Term 1 - News

Our topic this term was 'Small Beginnings, Big Adventures'. The story we focussed on was 'Tad' by Benji Davies. The children loved this story, and we read it many, many times! Tad is the smallest tadpole in her pond, and she isn't happy because she isn't growing as fast as all her tadpole brothers and sisters. Tad learns that growing can be different for everyone, and just because you are small it doesn't mean that you are not strong or resourceful. As we are the youngest class in school, we could see many parallels between ourselves and Tad.

One of the highlights of the term was our History Day, where we researched 'Uffington Castle'–a stone-age iron fort. We then had a go at building our own stone-age iron forts with our construction materials and basically anything else we could find around the classroom and playground. Many of the children had been to White Horse Hill but hadn't realised that they had also been a fort on top of the hill. We thought about how the land looked at the top of the hill and realised that in some parts it was similar to Badbury Clump, which had also been a stone-age iron fort. Many children came into school on Monday morning, excited to tell me that they had been up White Horse Hill at the weekend looking at the site of Uffington Castle. It was delightful to see the children so enthused about history.

As you can see, our stone-age iron forts/castles were very varied in design :)

When I look back on the term, we did many, many things, but this term our photos feature our Maths work. Our Maths is often not written work but interactive activities. We hope you enjoy looking at some of the activities we have participated in.

Homework

Summer Term 2

Weekly phonics  - QR Codes

Continue to encourage your child to write simple sentences.  

Learn your number bonds to 10
(2 numbers that make 10)

Consolidate your number bonds to 5.

Create a map of your journey to school (simple representations of things that you pass along the way. Eg. The post box, the horse field, a roundabout, a windmill etc).

Curriculum

Summer Term 1

Spelling and Handwriting

Please learn to read and spell your tricky word bookmarks that were sent home in your book bags.

Continue to work on correctly forming your letters (formation assessments sent home in book bags at the end of term).

Spring Term 2 - News

What an incredibly busy term this term has been. We have done a lot of craft this term and dressing up. We started with our Mother's Day bouquets, which was a very sticky job, but they all looked amazing when they were finished. Mother's Day cards, Easter cards and of course our Easter gardens were also made this term. We also celebrated 'World Book Day' this term. As you can see, we all had lots of fun!

This term we had the chance to become forensic scientists and solve a crime using forensic science. 'Who stole the cake?' although I was on the list of suspects, I was proven not to be the culprit. My class were quite relieved to hear this as one child told me 'I didn't want you to get into trouble Mrs Kent.' 

This was a great way to end Science Week. We had also done our own experiment earlier in the week - testing the strength of pegs. So if you are looking to buy some new pegs soon, ask your child's advice for the strongest pegs! 
At the end of the term we had an Easter Bonnet parade, I think you will agree the bonnets looked amazing. We also went down to the church and took part in the Easter Service. We sang 'Spring Chicken'. Everyone loved it!

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter!

Spring Term 1 - News
Our topic this term was 'Be Kind, Be Safe, Be You'. We started the term by looking at a book called 'Bear Shaped', which is based on a true story. It is all about a little boy who has autism. The book looks at the way he sees and experiences the world through his bear. The children were mesmerised by this story. The little boy loses his bear and looks for it everywhere. The children were expecting him to find his bear at the end of the story, but he doesn't and never does. The loss of his bear goes global and people from all over the world start sending him bears. Although he is sent many bears there are not 'his' bear. The acts of kindness start to help the pain of losing his bear ease at little and the little boy realises he is lucky to have had a bear of his own for such a long time. So he decides to give all the bears that he has been sent away to children who do not have a bear of their own.

Such a beautiful story that prompted lots of discussion, including, did the story have a happy ending? We made our own textured bears to try and decide what texture we would like best on our bears. We made posters to help the little boy find his bear. The children thoroughly enjoyed this unit of work as you can see when looking through their books and the various pieces of artwork they brought home.

We also looked at the book 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes', a completely different story and although he gives his neighbours, who include: Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs and Chicken Licken, various opportunities to be kind and help him make pancakes they don't. So he eats his neighbours as well as the pancakes at the end of the story – well, he is a wolf after all!

We enjoyed having a go at making our own pancakes (no neighbours were harmed).

Another highlight of the term was celebrating World RE Day. Each class took a different religion to research and we all produced a power point presentation at the end of the day. So that each class could see what we had all been doing. In Wren Class we looked at Sikhism. As you can see we learnt a lot and had lots of fun doing it.

Of course, we couldn't finish the term without showing you a photo of our amazing outfits on NSPCC Number Day.

 

Extra Resources

Alphablocks - Play along with the Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet.

Numberblocks - Learn your numbers with these colourful characters.

 

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