tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9720967756005388792024-03-13T14:38:18.534+00:00Alderwood Infant SchoolBelle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-15682921912756321312022-10-11T11:17:00.004+01:002022-10-11T11:17:34.385+01:00Off to a good start!Year R have settled in and are nearing the end of their first half term already! We have been very busy learning all of the routines of school life and making new friends.Everybody has completed their own self portrait - we will do these again at the very end of the year to see how our painting and observation skills have developed whilst in Year R.Lots of developing our gross motor skills to Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-61303097300154170122022-07-13T10:54:00.000+01:002022-07-13T10:54:00.834+01:00End of the year! Here are a few highlights from an amazing year with our Early Years children - have a look at all of our blogs from throughout the rest of the year. We are sad to see them move up to year 1 but they are definitely ready and we wish them the best of luck!Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-62158223792824647212022-03-17T10:05:00.000+00:002022-03-17T10:05:23.381+00:00Longer days are nearly here... As always, we have been super busy in Early Years! This term our topic is Land, Sea & Sky and we have been looking at different animals and the world around us. We have read a lot of different stories including Handa's Suprise, Baby Goes to Market, Rainbow Fish & Sharing a Shell. These books have helped us to see similarities and differences between places and people as well as Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-66235316197235101952022-01-13T11:23:00.004+00:002022-01-13T11:23:46.340+00:00Spring Term It has been lovely to see so many keen faces coming back this term after our Christmas break. We have started our new topic 'Land, Sea, Sky' where we are learning about the world around us. We started with reading 'Handa's Surprise' which has been great for talking about another country and looking at similarities and differences between places as well as talking about different fruits and Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-45862516179789343942021-10-14T14:14:00.004+01:002021-10-14T14:14:53.466+01:00Settled in! Everybody is so pleased at how well Early Years have settled in now they have nearly completed their first half term at school. We have been learning our first sounds in phonics - by the end of the half term we will have introduced 's, a, t, p, i, n'. We have been reading different fairytales and practising retelling them by acting them out and using story maps.We have been practising our Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-46131680284281323772021-09-15T13:56:00.006+01:002021-09-15T13:56:55.138+01:00Welcome to Early Years! Welcome to all our new year R children and their families! Last week we had family meetings so the children could visit their new classroom and this week we have had a lovely stay and play session too. The children have been really good at coming in without their adults and settling in to their classes. They have been making friends with some new children and some have found friends they Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-91083257910781351212021-05-18T14:23:00.005+01:002021-05-18T14:23:39.356+01:00Down on the farmWe are all enjoying our 'down on the farm' topic this half term and have been reading lots of different books about farms, animals and vegetables. This week we have listened to the story 'Supertato' and were inspired to create our own superhero vegetables. We talked about how to attach different parts to our vegetables and the children talked about the special powers they each had. We are very Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-4904029294412226392021-04-29T10:46:00.004+01:002021-04-29T10:46:33.511+01:00Spring has sprung! In Early Years, we had a very exciting egg delivery! The children made predictions about what they thought would hatch from the eggs. We had all sorts of ideas: ducks, crocodiles, snakes, chickens and even dinosaurs! Once they hatched we watched them get stronger and more confident. We have noticed that their wing feathers have started to change. All of the children had the opportunity to Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-89271851516537871472021-03-25T10:02:00.005+00:002021-03-25T10:02:53.070+00:00Lots of learning! As always, our children have been working their socks off now they're back into the swing of things in school again. We have been practising making words in different ways, using magnets, cutting out letters, using sand and glitter as well as by writing onto paper. Some of the children are writing sentences about our 'around the world' topic talking about different places and animals.&Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-17067732405648712012021-03-11T09:45:00.001+00:002021-03-11T09:45:33.571+00:00Settling back in We are so pleased that all of the children have come back to join us in Early Years! They have taken the time away from the building in their stride and area pleased to be back in their classrooms with their friends and teachers again. We have spent the week settling back in and remembering the routines that are in place in school and applying some of those skills we have been practising Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-2226022522966922702021-03-01T08:48:00.003+00:002021-03-01T08:48:17.260+00:00Home Learning We are all so impressed with the effort that our families have been putting in with their home learning over the last few weeks. We thought we would share with you some of the fantastic work that has been going on.This is just a small selection of the things we are being sent every day but as you can tell, there is a lot going on! We are very excited to see all the children back next week Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-72913145536709616772021-01-27T11:05:00.003+00:002021-01-27T11:05:25.775+00:00Our impressive children! A very huge well done to all of our children and families for their amazing efforts at home from the Early Years team. The children in key-worker provision are also working incredibly hard. So far there have been so many exciting activities including some science experiments, PE lessons, music, stories, making pirate things... We are really pleased to see some of the fantastic outcomes and Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-37656624184012132802020-11-26T14:10:00.004+00:002020-11-26T14:10:20.790+00:00Getting creative!The children in Early Years have settled in amazingly well, especially as lots of them hadn't been able to go to nursery before coming to school this year. We have spent time learning different sounds in phonics and are starting to read simple words using these sounds. We have mostly been practising careful counting and writing numbers in maths activities.The children have enjoyed getting Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-6867430738985461762020-10-09T12:07:00.004+01:002020-10-12T15:06:18.231+01:00Year 1 ToysAll the children have been enjoying the new and exciting
things that keep arriving in our Toy Box. Most recently we have found a teddy
bear and a book ‘The Everywhere Bear’. We loved hearing all about the other
books by Julia Donaldson that you liked and other stories about bears that you
know. In class, the children have been making ‘lost posters’ to help the
childrenBelle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-6391521697177215732020-09-17T15:27:00.002+01:002020-09-17T15:27:40.244+01:00Welcome to Year 2All the children have had a great start to Year 2 and have really impressed their teachers. We have had a busy start and got straight back into learning lots of new and exciting things. In the first week we discovered that there were pictures all over the playground. We soon investigated them and found that they all belonged in a fairy tale. We had a lovely discussion about about the Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-44008631019769538122020-09-17T15:14:00.002+01:002020-09-17T15:14:37.435+01:00Year One Well done!All the children have made a fantastic start to Year 1 and are already enjoying this half term's topic which is 'A Toy Story' . In our classrooms a toy box has arrived and we have been finding different things inside including a robot and the story 'Rusty The Squeaky Robot'. We loved hearing the versions of the story you made at home using your own sound Belle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-17767483388542832312020-08-26T14:43:00.001+01:002020-08-26T14:43:07.866+01:00We can't wait to meet you! The Early Years team have been busy getting the classrooms ready for the new children to start in September and things are starting to take shape. We are very excited to welcome the children into Ash, Cherry & Maple Class ready to have lots of fun and learn lots of new things!There are lots of resources ready for you to use.We will think about how we can 'Be The Best'.We will learn lotsBelle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-82493926893545129612020-07-13T09:32:00.000+01:002020-07-13T09:32:17.450+01:00Week 7 - PSHEBelle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-59836429878823774942020-07-13T08:12:00.003+01:002020-07-13T08:12:42.472+01:00Year 2 - Week 6 - WOW Wall!We can't believe this is the last week before the summer holidays. We had such a busy week last week and we are looking forward to what this week will hold. Last week we finished our autobiographies and we really enjoyed writing them. Mrs Slater has received some from the children who will be in her class in September and she has really enjoyed reading them.
We have loved MathsNewport Junior Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664489882538188519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-92202780157760143922020-07-06T07:50:00.001+01:002020-07-06T07:50:36.779+01:00
Year 1
Week 5
Hello everyone! We hope you're having fun at home and enjoying what is left of the sunshine!
Year One have been working very hard at home and at school over the last few weeks and we've been very impressed with all the lovely work we've seen.
In school, we've read lots of great stories including The Gruffalo and Tip Tap went the Crab.
We all really enjoyedBelle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-23065522607595978712020-07-03T14:00:00.001+01:002020-07-03T14:00:36.014+01:00Year 2 - Week 5 - WOW Wall!We can't believe it's Friday already again! FIVE weeks we've been at the Junior School and we are really enjoying ourselves! We can't believe there's only two weeks left until the end of term! We've had a busy week this week and we've worked really hard in both Maths and English. In English we have really enjoyed writing our autobiographies (Mrs Slater is going to show ourNewport Junior Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664489882538188519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-90470887621486410842020-06-26T13:46:00.000+01:002020-06-26T13:46:33.258+01:00Year 2 - REBelle Vue Infant Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11067041854763046962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-72449630743301534282020-06-26T13:15:00.000+01:002020-06-26T13:19:32.762+01:00Year 2 - Week 4 - WOW WallWhat a busy week we have had this week! In English we created our very own missing posters for the animals in Shumba's Big Adventure. We then planned and wrote our very own sequel to the story, which we really enjoyed. Today we published our sequels and we got to use the publishing pens again! We're so ready for Year 3!!
We've learnt so much in Maths this week, we now Newport Junior Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664489882538188519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-4633274550372061042020-06-19T13:56:00.002+01:002020-06-19T13:56:36.559+01:00Year 2 - WOW Wall!We have had another great week at school with Mrs Slater! We have loved learning about tally charts and pictograms in Maths and have enjoyed making our own. In English, we wrote our very own newspaper report and today we published it! We even used a handwriting pen which was fantastic!
We've been very busy with our topic. We have drawn our own mini-beasts and Newport Junior Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664489882538188519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972096775600538879.post-20854525197138570372020-06-13T14:25:00.000+01:002020-06-13T14:25:38.509+01:00Year 2 Wow Wall
We've had another super week at the Juniors. We're really starting to feel at home! We have had a busy week this week. In English we've been thinking about the 5Ws for our newspaper report for the monkeys that escaped at Marwell Zoo. We've also been adding inverted commas to speech between the animals from Shumba's Big Adventure. In Maths we've been Newport Junior Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664489882538188519noreply@blogger.com0