Newsletter Friday 6th March

Dear Parents,

It been a really busy week!  Here are the highlights:

Animal Rescue and Care (ARC) visited F2 on Tuesday.  The children talked about different pets people have at home and how to keep your pet happy and healthy.  They will be back again next Tuesday.

The children have been enjoying playing in our fire station role play area.  They helped to paint a burning building as well as a fire engine and have been having lots of fun using them!  The trip to the fire station on Thursday really helped to extend their knowledge and understanding of what happens at the fire station.  Lots of children volunteered to take part in activities and asked lots of questions. Please see the Fire Station post for photos of our trip as well as this week's school newsletter.

Thank you for supporting us with the 'All About Me Bag'.  It's great to see so many children sharing their special toys and objects from home with their friends at school.  This week, Nozomi, Blake, Carrie, SuSu, Huong Giang and Olivia all brought in things from home.

A reminder that every Monday we share weekend news.  Please could you help support the children to do this by talking to them about what they did over the weekend on Sundays.

Ms Koto talking about how we look after animals.

At the fire station.

Nozomi and Blake share their All About Me Bags.

Happy 4th Birthday Duc An and Eason!

Splash pool as normal next week on Tuesday and Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kind Regards,

Ms Gurvinder, Ms Grace and the F2 team.

No Splash Pool

Dear Parents,

As we are going on a trip tomorrow Thursday 5th March we will not have our splash pool session. This will resume next week.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
F2 Teachers

Coffee Morning this week

Newsletter 27.02.2015

Dear Parents,

It was really great to see the children back at their enthusiastic and energetic self as they participated in Science Day. We have some interesting range of activities that children and parents all took part in. We had Floating Eggs, Magnet Painting, Invisible Ink, Milk and Fairy Liquid, Celery and Colour experiment, Baking soda and vinegar investigation. We set these activities up for 2 days to consolidate the learning that took place last Thursday and the children still continued investigating the magic these experiments bring.

All the children have been really engrossed discovering new learning from the activities that we have done, however there were a few who have shown great curiosity and enthusiasm by asking different questions and expressing their amazement about the whole experience.

To further support investigation and discovery amongst F2 children you might want to have a look at some videos of Sid the Science kid in YouTube. (please clink on the link to take you to one video)

We have also been asking more children to take home the All About Me Bags home. This is a good opportunity for the children to speak in front of a small group and talk about their favourite toys, books, photos etc. Kindly support your child by talking to him/her about the bag and what he/she would like to share with her friends at school.

Next Thursday 5th March 2015, F2 will go on a trip to the Fire Station. This is to further develop the learning that is now taking place in the classroom about fire engines and fire fighters. We will leave TX at 8.15am so please ensure that your child is at school at 8am. All children should come to school wearing their complete uniform. In line with this, there will be NO SWIMMING on Thursday 5th March 2015.

ARC (Animal Rescue and Care) volunteers will visit F2 unit next week.

Our Scientists of the Day

Our Scientists of the Day

Our Scientists of the Day

Science Day - Kizoa Video Maker

Welcome back to Term 2

Dear Parents,

We hope you have had a good holiday!  We are looking forward to welcoming the children back tomorrow.  A couple of reminders/notices for this week:

-Please update blogs or send us your holiday photos. We will be encouraging the children to talk about holidays this week.

-We are looking forward to parents and carers join us for Science Day on Thursday.  There will be lots of different activities for you and your children to try.  You are welcome to join us either between 8-9 am and 2-2.30 pm.

-Due to Science Day on Thursday, there will be no splash pool.  Splash pool sessions will begin next week.

See you tomorrow!

Ms Gurvinder and Ms Grace

Newsletter 13.02.15.

Dear Parents,

It's been an exciting end to the half term.  Please see below for all of this week's 'happenings':

Percy the Persevering Turtle
We have been busy looking out for children who have being trying really hard and not giving up when a task becomes challenging.  This week we noticed Pristine did not give up whilst learning to use the bats and balls in the big playground.  Well done!

Learning about Tet
We listened two traditional stories about the Vietnamese new year.  The first was the story behind the importance of pink flowers and the second was about why Banh Tet is eaten.  We also read different versions of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' since this year is the year of the goat.

The children have also been busy preparing for new year in our 'Tet home' role play area.  They have been cooking special rice cakes, ironing Ao Dai and decorating the blossom tree.

We hope you enjoyed the pineapple candy that the children made this week!  Please see below for notices and photos.

Happy New Year!

Ms Gurvinder and the F2 team.

Notices

All About Me Bags
This week, Daiwik and Sophie have been chosen to take home the bags.

Holiday photos
Please update your child's blog or send us photos of your holidays and new year celebrations.

Science Day
Please join us for Science Day on Thursday 26th February between 8 and 9 am for some investigating and exploring fun!  If you are unable to attend at this time, you are also welcome to join us in the classroom at 2 pm.

Making pineapple sweets

Playing a Vietnamese game

Using the bats and balls in the big playground

Making Tet cards

Michelle sharing her 'All About Me' bag

Pristine with Percy the Persevering Turtle 

Nghia sharing the contents of  his All About Me bag.

Our children in their beautiful Ao Dai on Thursday

EYFS Tet Celebration

Dear Parents,

Thank you for providing such a wonderful atmosphere for our Tet performance this morning.  We hope you enjoyed the show- the children certainly looked as if they did!  Please see below for some of the photos.  Others will be uploaded onto children's individual blogs.

Kind Regards,

The F2 teachers