Springfield Academy
Together we can enjoy, believe, achieve
Reception - F2 Autumn 1
CONGRATULATIONS to our SPECIAL MENTION winners for this half term!
On Thursday 7th October we celebrated
NATIONAL POETRY DAY.
We listened to James Berry's poem called Childhood Tracks and
were inspired to use our senses to create our own poem.
We walked around our school grounds
looking, listening and smelling
what was around us and shared our ideas.
We then put these ideas into a poem called
Our Springfield
and we drew illustrations for it too!
We really enjoyed learning about poetry and had lots of fun listening to
different types of poems read by the poets themselves
which we found on the Children's Poetry Archive website.
24.9.21 Our class read's author this half term is TOM FLETCHER! We found out he is also a member of the band McFly and is in Strictly Come Dancing this year! We are all so excited to follow his progress and see how he gets on.
16.9.21 We celebrated WORLD AFRO HAIR DAY with Mrs Shelley's help and she introduced us to the song 'I Love My Hair'!
A theme that will be running through everything we do this year is
WELLBEING.
We know that these last few months have seen families go through a mixture of experiences and these will result in a variety of emotions. To help all of our children understand and begin to share these feelings we are introducing the story The Colour Monster and using this character to represent the different feelings we can have.
There is an electronic copy of the book below and more information about the
Wellbeing activities we will be doing.
8.9.21 We have been making our own Colour Monsters using a variety of materials.
6.9.21 Our inspirational person - Emily Campbell. Over the summer many of us were inspired by the athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We have chosen a local hero, Emily Campbell, who was the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in weightlifting. To make it even more inspiring, she is from here - Bulwell!
6.9.21 RAINBOW DAY! We had great fun exploring our class name. The children played games with multicoloured balloons, listened to a rainbow story, learnt how to sign "I can see a rainbow" with Mr Tumble and completed lots of rainbow crafts.
Here are our BOW FAMILY and they will be our LEARNING LEADERS this year in Team Rainbow.
We helped make them feel at home by decorating their houses!
1-3.9.21 We had a very busy first three days back at school!
