Saltwood Church of England Primary School

SaltwoodChurch of England Primary SchoolLove, Creativity and Strength

Class R 2023-24

Look at what Class R got up to last year!

 

Minibeast Hunt

Class R are very interested in wildlife, particularly 'minibeasts'. This year we will be looking at the smallest creatures we can find around our school; both in the pond area and in our outdoor area and field. 

Later this year we will be working with rangers at Brockhill park and at Dungeness to help local wildlife projects. We also plan to do some hands on activities at school including pond dipping and making wormerys.

 

 

 

 

Keeping Healthy

Class R have been learning all about how to keep healthy this term. We have had a visit from Sam who is an optometrist and also from Dr Bala and Jo who are a GP and a physiotherapist respectively. As well as having lots of adults telling us how to look after our bodies, we have been finding out for ourselves too. We talked a lot about healthy food, sleep, exercise and even how to brush our teeth! We have had a doctors surgery inside and a healthy cafe in our outside area too. 

Baby Clinic

Lots of the children in Class R are interested in babies and so we decided to open a baby clinic in our role play area. The children were able to weigh and measure the babies as well as looking after them with lots of clothes a baby bath and doctors' apparatus. We were very lucky to have 3 babies who came to visit us too! 

Diwali

This term we have been studying 'Celebrations'. As well as preparing for our first nativity performance we are looking at Diwali and Hannukah too.  We will also learn about Chinese New Year when we come back from the Christmas break. The children have been really engaged in our learning on Diwali and particularly enjoyed making these gold and silver diwa lamps from the story of Rama and Sita.

Letters to Santa

 
We have been busy writing our letters to Santa and today we posted them off at the postbox on the village green. 

Chinese Dragons

Class R have been having lots of fun learning about Lunar New Year. Did you know the year of the dragon begins on February 10th?

 

Class R Fun Skills!


Our Reception children had fun at Three Hills this week as they took part in a multi-skills morning. Miss Morris was really impressed with how the children listened and followed instructions, remembering the skills they had been taught!

 

 

Canterbury Fire Station Visit

Class R  had so much fun at Canterbury Fire station and The Westgate Towers last Friday. They learned all about what fire fighters do today and about how policing in the past was very different to nowadays at the town's former jail!

 

Class R help to make a difference!

Class R have done a marvelous job on their courageous advocacy project this year. Our aim was to help wildlife local Rangers. We raised money for Brockhill Country Park to buy a wormery (you can see Ben handing the cheque to Ranger Ella here) and we also went to Dungeness to help Ranger Owen to do some litter picking. We gave Ranger Owen some money to buy new litter pickers and gloves too. Well done to everyone!