Kingshill Church School Barn Owl 2023 to 2024

Barn Owl Class

Teacher: Mrs Mackie

Adults in Class: Miss Redstone (Mon,Tues am, Wed) Miss Mathews (Tues pm, Thurs, Fri)

Welcome to Barn Owl Class. We are a Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 class and we love learning! Please keep visiting our class website page as we will update it regularly. Our most recent learning will be at the top of our page.

Please see the documents below for our yearly overview and our planning pathways.

Barn Owl Class Pathway Autumn Term 2024

Kingshill Church School Barn Owl Class Yearly Overview 2024 2025

 

Thankyou to all the parents who came to our showcase. The children really enjoyed sharing our class story of The Three Little pigs. It was great to see all the parents joining in with activities inspired by the story, building houses of bricks and sticks as well as some children in need inspired activities too.

Barn owls really enjoyed putting their gross motor skills to work in our sports work shop. We had the opportunity to try lots of different activities, like bowling, throwmington and kubbi.

What a great way to start term 2 in Barn owls. We have had a visit from the local PCSOs who told us all about what they do and how they help our local community. They bought their uniforms for us to try, We really enjoyed pretending to be police officers. They even bought the police van for us to explore. We heard the siren and got to see what it was like in the cell. We really enjoyed our visit and cant wait to use what we learnt in our role play and other learning about our community and who helps us.

We were very lucky to have Avon Fire service come to visit us in Barn Owls class. They told us all the ways to be safe and what they do for the community. We were very interested to hear they don’t just fight fires, they save animals and people from lots of different dangers. They bought lots of great activities for us to use and even let us try on their uniform. It was a bit big! We have really enjoyed using the information we have learnt from the Fire Service in our role play area. We have been fighting fires and racing to help people in danger!

This term we are discovering where we are in the world. This week we used google maps on the iPad and found our school and our local area. We really enjoyed finding our homes and comparing our journey  to school with each other. We supported each other in pairs to explore different areas of the world. We really enjoyed exploring big cities like London and New York.

As part of out topic ‘Where in the world are we’ we went on a listening walk through the local green. We noticed local landmarks that we could include in our map making in Geography. As Geographers we observed the different terrains and asked questions about why things grew in those areas. We did such good listening on our walk that we finished in the park. We really enjoyed climbing and balancing on the different equipment.

In our expressive arts area we have been making barn owls. We have used a variety of different materials and explored how we can change the shape and size of our barn owls. We are working to create a display in our classroom. We can’t wait to share it soon!

We had a great time seeing Loki the guide dog this week. We always enjoy Loki’s visits and this time was no different. We introduced Loki to our outside area and enjoyed involving him in our play. This is the first time our reception children have met Loki and he has quickly made friends with them all! Loki helps us to understand how to look after animals and show them respect as well as supporting us in our communication. We look forward to seeing Loki again soon!

In art we had a session of painting to music. We enjoyed listening to the composition of the four seasons and had a great discussion about what it made us think of in our head. We had lots of ideas, from flowers to a beautiful beach. We then let the music continue to play while we painted our master pieces.

Barn Owl class really enjoyed trying archery with Mr T. We had to practice how to hold the bow and where to put our feet. The trickiest part was loading the arrow onto the bow, however we soon got the hang of it and our arrows soared through the air! We really enjoyed this new experience and it was great to combine our gross motor skills and fine motor skills that we have been developing in our funky fingers sessions.

In music we have been exploring pulse and rhythm. We use our hands to find the beat within our on names and the names of our friends. We then used the instruments to copy the pulse of the rhythm and create a tune.

In art we are exploring how we can use nature to create pictures. This week we used natural resources and paint to create a collaborative picture. We found leaves, grass, stones, twigs and flowers.

The first term of the year has started with a lot of excitement in Barn owl class. We have welcomed our new reception children, who have all settled in so well! Our Year 1s and 2s have been amazing role models and have really helped our new friends settle in.

This week Reception children have been practicing writing their names with water painting as well as exploring all our different areas of learning. We have had dinner parties in Barn owl cottage and some incredible train track designs. Reception have also started phonics and have impressed us all with how well they are doing with our first sounds!

Our year 1s and 2s have hit the ground running in English with our story the little red hen. Using hot seating to put ourselves into the shoes of the different characters, we interpreted how each character was feeling. In maths we have been securing our knowledge our two digit number using number lines and numicon. We noticed that all the numbers greater than 10 needed to include a 10 numicon.