Unicorns

Spring Term 1 ‘New Year, Happy Me’

Welcome back! We hope all our families have had a great Christmas break.

This term, our inquiry title is ‘New Year, Happy Me’. We will be exploring all about what ‘new year’ means to us and also to others across the world. We will be thinking about how to be the best versions of our selves this year and what skill we would love to achieve. With Chinese New Year coming up, we will be exploring their culture and traditions and will be bringing some of these traditions to Lympsham.

We will also be looking at Winter and all it brings, including the season changes and hibernation.

Autumn Term 2 ‘Traditions’

Another great term in the Unicorn Class here at Lympsham exploring our Inquiry of traditions. This term we been looking at different traditions ranging from our family traditions in our family homes to traditions across our country and the world. The children have enjoyed learning about the importance of Remembrance Day, why we celebrate Bonfire Night and the tradition of Diwali. The children have enjoyed learning about the tradition of Christmas and the values of Christianity around the celebration. We had many discussions around the act of Christmas giving and as a class we wanted to give something back to our community this year. We came up with holding a class bake sale to raise money for The Children’s Hospice South West, which raised an incredible £136.85! The children baked lots of delicious cakes and cookies at home and brought them in to school to sell to family and their peers. When reflecting on this, the children had a strong sense of pride in the achievements and felt so happy they were able to support this charity in such a positive and meaningful way at Christmas.

Following our focus book ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’ the children enjoyed practicing their writing skills in their own post office in the classroom. We used our counting skills to buy envelopes and stamps and then worked hard drawing and writing our Christmas lists before sending them off. We extended this learning further by posting our very own Christmas cards to our families using the village post box which the children found so exciting! To finish off our term, the children put on an amazing Nativity preformed at our village church for our families to enjoy.

Autumn Term 1 ‘Marvellous me’

What a wonderful term the Unicorn Class have had here at Lympsham. The children have been exploring all about themselves and their families through our Curriculum Inquiry. We have come to the conclusion that we are all unique and special and have enjoyed celebrating our differences. The children have enjoyed sharing their favourite stories together, drawing self and family portraits and enjoyed discussing the differences they found. We used different materials to build our homes including Lego, different sized wooden blocks and gave junk modelling a good try too. We have together created a classroom charter listening to everyone’s ideas and views which we then all signed with a thumb print giving the children ownership of their rules. We have also explored height and size learning new mathematic language. The children have enjoyed exploring their names and learning how to write them.