Welcome to Snowdrop Class

Snowdrop Class is made up of EYFS children. Mr Shipway (Mon - Wednes) and Mrs Gillon (Thurs - Fri AM) are the class teachers. Mrs Elliot our HLTA teaches Snowdrop Class on a Friday afternoon.

Learning

EYFS Children will follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework curriculum. The EYFS framework outlines seven areas of learning and development and educational programmes. There are three prime areas of learning, which are particularly important for your child’s development and future learning. There are four specific areas of learning, through which the prime areas are strengthened and applied. There are 17 ELGs your child is expected to achieve by the end of the EYFS.

Easter

We have been busy learning all about the special time of year for Christians, Easter. The children learnt about the special week leading up to Easter Sunday called Holy Week and the special days that are included in this week. The children created eggs using marbles and paints to show in our Easter service, we used sticks outside to create our own crosses, as well as looking for eggs in our garden. Snowdrop children also learnt about what an Easter garden is.

Trip to Longleat - Safari

What a FANTASTIC day we had at Longleat, we very much enjoyed driving through the safari and looking at all the African animals. After we had gone through the safari we spent time on the boat looking at and feeding the sea lions - thank you Miss Howlett. We rode the train and spent time looking at the koala bears and wombats - best day EVER the children said.

Safari WOW Day!

What a fantastic day we had! There were some amazing animals as well as people dressed ready for safari. During our WOW day we made some special African biscuits, learnt some African song and dances, as well as making some necklaces. The children really enjoyed this day and are looking forward to our safari trip very very soon!

Handa's Surprise

We have been busy learning and reading the story of Handa's Surprise this term. We have sequence the story, wrote about our favourite part and used adjective to describe the fruit in the story. We also really enjoyed tasting the different fruits from the story.

What can we see?

This term we have been creating pieces of art in different ways, using a range of different media, ranging from pastels, to paints, water colours to felt tip pens! Over the last few weeks we have been focussing on observational drawings of shells. 

The Three Little Pigs

We have really been enjoying our recent learning on The Three Little Pigs. The children have been learning the story through the T4W process where we act out the story using simple actions and words. The children have also had the opportunity during their own learning to retell the story using mask and figures. We have also been sequencing the story and writing our favourite part. Over the next few weeks we will then start to create our own story based around 'The Three Little Pigs'.

Animals, Animals and Animals

We have started our new topic 'Sensational Safari & Animals'. This morning the children showed FANTASTIC TOPAZ POWER when working together to create our new role play area - they cannot wait to be imaginative in it over the next few weeks and months.

Snow and Ice Fun...

Well what a fun start we had to the Spring Term, the snow fell and we enjoyed our time inside and outside with the snow. We painted with the ice and made snowflakes.

Christmas has arrived in Snowdrop Class...

The children were very busy little elves this week, helping transform our classroom to make it very Christmassy. The children decided last week and came up with some fantastic ideas as to how we can create a Christmas corner, so at the beginning of this week the children showed amazing TOPAZ POWER when we all worked together to create our Christmas house. The children have already enjoyed time in there 'writing' cards, being imaginative with the presents and gifts and spent time exploring the books.

Rhyme Time...

We have been very busy in Snowdrop Class this term learning all about rhymes. We read the book 'Mad About Minibeasts', went on a minibeast hunt and wrote sentences about the way they move. After this we learnt more about rhymes and how we can recognise words that rhyme...they sound the same at the end! Snowdrop Class have written rhyming sentences about minibeasts, matched rhyming words and pictures.

DIWALI

Snowdrop Class have been learning all about 'Special Times' in RE. We have talked about Birthdays and what happens and recently we learnt about Diwali. We found out that Diwali is an important festival and is celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs all over the world. The children made 'diya' and decorated them. We found out the festival is often called the 'festival of lights' as there are many many lights and bright fireworks happen on the last day. 

Remembrance Day

Today we learnt about  another interesting day in History. Snowdrop Class became aware of the of the importance of poppies and why we wear them.

We also observed two minutes silence at 11 o'clock at the of break time to remember all the soldiers and animals that have died during the wars around the world.

During our morning activities the children made our own stained glass window poppies, art work of poppies and made poppies out of pegs and peg boards to show our respects.

BONFIRE / FIREWORK NIGHT

Snowdrop Class have learnt about a very special part of history. They became aware of why we have bonfire night and when it is. After learning about why and when we have Bonfire Night we then made our own sparkly firework artwork.

Rosie's Walk

We have been busy learning the story of Rosie's Walk, we have acted the story out, produced our own story map and next week we will creating our own story based around what Rosie did on her walk. I hope you like our own story maps so far - can you work out the story?

Learning about Autumn

We have been busy learning all about Autumn and Harvest. Snowdrop Class have learnt that we can harvest food in different ways and food can be found above and below the ground. Using apples that had been donated to our class we made apple crumble and used the left over apples to create some fantastic art work which we will show at our Harvest Festival. We have also talked about the colours we might see on the trees as well as the objects and animals we represent with Autumn. We produced some fantastic artwork based around this.

Autumnal Walk

What a fantastic day we had for our first walk of the year as Snowdrop Class. We went walking around Mells looking for signs of Autumn. We found some fantastic coloured leaves at the park, counted conkers we found, described the shells that protected the conkers as well as having a fantastic time at the park, which I think was the favourite part of the walk!

Improving our Garden

A huge thank you goes out to Alwyn’s mum for helping in Snowdrop garden to clear the garden and to plant new colourful perennials. The children really enjoyed helping, and splashing in muddy puddles at the same time! A massive thank you goes to Barters Farm Nurseries for plant donations

Who Are We and Where Do We Belong?

So far this term in our RE learning we have been busy learning about 'Who Are We?' In our last lesson we talked about 'Where we live' and 'What is a Church?'. We talked about why people might go a Church and what happens in one. The class then drew a picture showing me what people might do in a Church and then in their own learning time they spent time building Churches

Exploring the Forest School Area

Due to the bad weather expected today instead of going on a welly walk the children enjoyed some time in our forest school area on the field. They enjoyed hammering and creating with nails and CDs, climbing trees and swinging on the swing as well as being imaginative on the 'boat' and 'plane'. As well as making a 'camp fire' with 'hot chocolate and marshmallows'.

Enjoying our learning in the garden

We have really enjoyed our learning in the garden and our FANTASTIC learning space we have. The children have busy creating buildings with the 'loose parts' creating drawings with the paints and chalks, exploring the area on the bikes, trikes and scooters as well as exploring all the resources outside in our shed. The children have also completed learning activities outside too!

Settling into School

The children have settled into school life so well. Fantastic relationships have made and  its so lovely to watch all the children interact with each other and of course the adults in the class too! If I am hungry they often bring me something to eat from the 'home corner!'

First Day of School...

Snowdrop Class have settled so well at school and very much enjoyed having their picture taken to show when they started school!