Happy New Year Robins - welcome to 2026!

This half term we will be focusing on our school value of Community. 

To help us to answer the question of Who helps us in our community ? we will be looking at lots of different jobs that people can do and looking for inspiration for our future careers! We will be looking at lots of non-fiction texts surrounding these jobs but also some fiction books to fit with each community member. We are hoping that lots of members of the community will be able to come in and support us with our learning and teach us more about their jobs. 

Keep checking back here for pictures of all our learning!

Week 1 - New Year.... Dreams and Goals!

Robins came back to school refreshed after the Christmas break and ready to learn. We introduced our PSHE topic for this half term all about dreams and goals. This linked in nicely thinking about people who help us in the community as we were able to think about what job we want to do when we get older! We have been exploring our classroom and its new layout, discussing which parts are working well for our play and which bits we can improve. We even have a new art area where we can paint whenever we want to! Take a look at pictures of our learning below:

Week 2 - Little Miss Helpful

We started topic thinking about people who help us in our school community. We enjoyed a visit from Mr Stratford who spoke to us all about his role as a caretaker and answered lots of our questions. We're thankful that Mr Stratford is not like Little Miss Helpful, the main character from our text this week, who likes to help people but actually ends up causing more problems! We thought about situations at school where we might need help, who we would ask, and what we would say. We wrote these down on speech bubbles to remind us should we need them!

Outside, we were helpful ourselves in making bird feeders. We melted coconut oil and mixed it with bird seed before spreading it on pine cones to hang in our learning garden. The children noticed on a frosty day that the ground was very hard, and that the birds might struggle to find food such as worms. A great discussion ensued after one child suggested that this was a good thing, as the worms are good for the soil! Great critical thinking, Robins!

Week 3 - Paddington Goes To Hospital

The children thoroughly enjoyed this text and have been role playing hospitals and doctors with enthusiasm all week! It has been fantastic to see children writing patient notes independently as part of their play, and the teamwork involved in bandaging up different soft toy patients has been wonderful. We are grateful for Mr Horton, a paramedic, who came into visit us at the end of the week to speak to us about about his job and answer our questions. He even let us have a look inside his ambulance! What a treat!

In maths we have been looking at number sequencing from 1 to 5, and noticing that there is a jump of one between each. The children identified that when you build these quantities with blocks and put them in the correct order, you end up with something that looks like a staircase - great spot! We enjoyed playing 'what's missing?' by hiding one of the towers from the sequence .