Foundation | St Andrew's Church of England Primary School

Welcome to Foundation!

We are looking forward to another exciting year of fun and adventure with all of our new Foundation children! Please keep checking our class page to see some of our learning!

Police visit!

Releasing our butterflies!

Making a cocoon!

Watch the caterpillar in the middle of the cup as it spins a cocoon!

Our caterpillar and tadpoles have grown so much we now have cocoons and frogs!

Tadpoles, caterpillars and now locusts in Foundation!

Our first Jo Jingles session was lots of fun!

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A super visit from an intensive care nurse who is also a dad from our class!

A visit from Olympic high jumper Robert Mitchell

We were put through our paces today with a circuit of exercises. We did spotty dogs, climbed the mountain, push ups and star jumps!

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The day it snowed! ❄️⛄️

Our 100th day of school!

Our reading and writing this term..

Our maths this term..

This term we are learning about polar animals!

First day back at school and we experienced a snow storm!

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The elves decorated our school!

Maths Open Morning

We had a great internet safety day and all dressed up as our new digi pet, Technology Turtle!

We have been learning all about turtles as we have a new pet, Technology Turtle!

We made popcorn!

We have been so busy adding photos to our new Tapestry Learning Journeys that we have forgotten to put any on our website! Here are a few photos of our first few weeks at school..

Be safe, be seen day!

Practising our letter formation

Digging for vegetables!

We love to paint and stick!

Here are some photos of our classroom, all ready for the year ahead!

Our visit from Ali and The Shark Trust

A trip to West Hoe Park!

Our virtual holiday to Spain!

Bike and scooter obstacle day!

A pirate and mermaid adventure to rescue Charlie Chimp!

Our independent sentence writing is improving every day!

We have been learning about coins by paying for our snack!

A very wet welly walk to look at houses in our local area..

Searching for minibeasts!

We are mini caretakers, helping to look after our school!

We are learning how to use the chrome book computers!

Today's nature walk involved lots of flowers, a dead rodent, a sticky plant and a hole in the ground!

Look at some of our artwork!

Baby caterpillars and tadpoles!

Our first welly walk (minus the wellies!)

Today we witnessed the wedding of Mr and Mrs Bunny! Here are some photos of our special day...

We have gone wedding mad! The children are busy planning a wedding for our class on Friday!

Our adventures with Supertato and Evil Pea!

Pancake day! We have had lots of fun pretending to make and flip pancakes!

Today was our 100th day at school!

Superheroes!

This week it is the Valentine's disco! We are all very excited so we decided to set up our own beauty salon!

Frozen madness!

Chinese New Year

Sammy is missing!

A very special delivery!

We made our own binoculars and went on a polar animal hunt!

After listening to Vivaldi's Winter we have loved making our own music!

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Dr Freeze left us hot chocolate powder and marshmallows!

Dr Freeze!

Our first few days back at school have been very exciting. We found a secret door in our classroom! We wondered who might be behind the door and wrote them a letter to find out. We soon got a letter back from someone called Dr Freeze! He had frozen our toys in ice! We talked about how to melt the ice and came up with four different ideas. We then voted on the idea we thought was the best by placing a brick on the matching picture. All afternoon we worked together to melt the ice and free our toys. We were a little bit cross with Dr Freeze but then decided that perhaps he didn't know our classroom rules or that he didn't have any friends and was just a bit sad. So, we wrote him another letter explaining how we behave at school and asking him to be our friend. Hopefully he will write back to us soon!

We sang our Nativity songs to the residents of Wesley Court 😊

Elves in our classroom!

Today there was a bit of Strictly Come Dancing in our classroom!

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We had a visit from Sandra who is a dog groomer!

A big thank you for the donation of all this lovely sports equipment!

Our first class assembly and school trip!

A triceratops in our playground!

A triceratops was spotted in our playground. We think she was looking for her baby dinosaurs. We decided to leave them outside this evening with a candle to show her where to find them in the dark.

More dinosaur clues!

Our dinosaur eggs hatched!

Today we found some dinosaur eggs!

Today we had a postcard from a palaeontologist called Dr Frank. He told us that he had been watching a dinosaur nest when suddenly a volcano started to erupt nearby! He rescued the eggs but needed our help to look after them so had hidden them in our playground! We went outside to search for the eggs and found them hidden in plant pots, tyres, grass and soil! The eggs smelt very funny and we had to handle them very carefully. We brought them inside and decided to make nests to keep the eggs safe. Each group chose their own materials and talked about why they would be good for our nest. We then chose names for our dinosaur eggs and made name labels for them. Our eggs are called Eggy, Derek, Layla and Lacey-Cute! We placed the nests and eggs in different places around the classroom and asked Mr Jago the caretaker to keep his eye on them overnight. We hope they hatch soon!

This week's phonics: g o c k

Foundation's Got Talent!

Chopping vegetables and cooking our own pizzas!

Hammers and nails- risk taking!

This week's phonics: i, n, m, d

**Thank you to everyone who came to watch us in the Harvest Assembly! We were all extremely brave at singing and dancing in front of the whole school! We hope you enjoyed 'going bananas' with us! There is a link at the bottom of the page to our Harvest powerpoint with the photos we shared in assembly.**

We have been exploring fruit and vegetables for Harvest!

A big thank you to everyone who attended our phonics workshops, the children loved having their families in the classroom. In case you missed it, there is a link at the bottom of the page to the handout from the workshop.