Sunflower Class Blog
On this page you can see updates over the term of our activities and learning.
- Date:
- 7 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
International Women’s Day 2025🌍💫
Today, on International Women's Day, the foundation children celebrate the incredible women who inspire us every day! This year, we're shining a spotlight on Maddie, a talented wind turbine engineer at Orsted who came to visit us on Wednesday. Her dedication, passion, and expertise are helping create a cleaner, brighter future for us all and this is something the children found extremely inspirational!
We were so lucky to have met Maddie and hear all about her job as a Women in industry. Maddie is making waves and inspiring future generations of engineers and leaders! 🌱⚡
- Date:
- 6 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
World Book Day Visitor 🐛
Our story book we focused on this World book day was The very hungry caterpillar. When the children were outside they discovered that the hungry caterpillar had come to visit us in our garden! 🐛 Watching the children connect the story to the real-life caterpillar was a fantastic experience! We had fun learning about transformation and growth, just like the caterpillar in the book. 🌱✨
- Date:
- 6 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
🌞📚 Celebrating World Book Day in the Sunshine! 📚🌞
What better way to enjoy the magic of books than by reading outdoors in the warm sun? 🌳☀️ Today, our little book lovers took their stories outside, soaking up the sunshine while diving into their favourite books!
- Date:
- 6 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
🌟📚 Happy World Book Day from Foundation! 📚🌟
Today, our little readers and storytellers had an amazing time celebrating the magic of books! 📖✨ From dressing up as their favorite characters to sharing stories with friends, the day was full of imagination and excitement. It’s wonderful to see how much joy reading brings to our Buttercups and Sunflowers.
Our book theme in class today was The very hungry caterpillar🐛🦋 The children enjoyed each and every activity themed as The hungry caterpillar! In foundation we celebrate our love for reading everyday and we will continue to keep nurturing a love for reading as it opens up worlds of creativity and adventure. 🌍💡
- Date:
- 5 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Women in industry💪🏼👷🏽♀️
In foundation our topic this term is people who help us. Today we were lucky enough to welcome Maddie into our classroom to tell us all about how people who work on wind turbines help us. Maddie is a off-shore wind turbine technician that works for Orsted. Orsted is a renewable energy company that is working towards creating a more sustainable world that runs on green energy.🌎
Maddie gave the children an incredible insight on what it's like to work on wind turbines from looking at a huge replica of a wind turbine, to allowing the children to try on her uniform. Maddie allowed the children to have a fun and hands-on experience of being a wind terrine technician.The children had a fantastic afternoon. They enjoyed, Learning about the height of wind turbines, how they work and how they help us and our planet, looking at the wind turbine replica, trying on the Orsted uniform and harness, colouring in their Orsted drawing books and watching Miss Wilson and Miss Sutton have a race putting on the Orsted safety clothing. Miss Wilson was the Winner! 🥇
The children asked Maddie some fantastic questions:
Pupil 1: What happens if you fall in the water?
Pupil 2: Can boys and girls work on a wind turbine?
Pupil 3: How long does it take you to get to the wind turbine?
Pupil 4: Can I work there when I'm older?
We want to say a huge thank you to Maddie for coming in to speak to us! And we can't wait to celebrate Maddie's success in this industry for international women's day on Friday 👷🏽♀️
- Date:
- 4 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
PANCAKE DAY!
Today, our foundation children had an absolute flipping 🍳fantastic time celebrating Pancake Day! 🥞From tossing pancakes, getting creative with toppings and tasting our own pancakes, the smiles and laughter in our classroom was contagious!
Our little chefs truly had the best day ever! 🧑🏼🍳
- Date:
- 3 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
In Foundation we are all ready for pancake day tomorrow! 🥞🍓🫐🍌
In foundation we are having so much fun in our home corner this week! We have all been designing our perfect pancakes and making them.
We hope everyone has a great day eating lots of pancakes tomorrow 🥞I know we will in foundation!
- Date:
- 3 March
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Balancesbility 🚲💙
The children in foundation have had a fantastic day out on their balance bikes.
Balanceability combines the use of balance bikes with a schedule of fun activities that aim to build confidence, spatial awareness and dynamic balance skills which will enable our foundation children to learn the basics of cycling!
They are doing brilliant on the balance bikes!
- Date:
- 27 February
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Secret Phonics 🕵️🔦
Today the children in foundation have been writing secret words using their phonics skills!
This activity successfully engage the children in writing in a different way. All the children absolutely loved this activity. The buzz it created in the classroom was fabulous to see! They were so excited seeing the secret spy laser pens and were so engaged! ✍🏻
- Date:
- 25 February
- Posted by:
- Miss Sutton
A Special Visitor
This week we had a very special visitor in our classroom... a Policeman!! We were very excited when we saw him walking into our classroom as he was running a little bit late so we didn't think he was going to come! Turns out he had already been to school when he got called away on an emergency and had to leave so we forgave him and was very thankful that he managed to come anyway!
He told us all about how he helps people and explained how he uses his words to help calm people down so that they don't have to be arrested. We asked some really amazing questions like 'How do you help people?', 'Why do you arrest people?' and 'Why did you want to be a policeman?'.
Then, we went outside and he showed us his police car! It was SO cool and we really enjoyed looking at the different colours. He told us all about why he needs his car and how it helps him do his job. We really enjoyed having our visitor in our classroom and we hope to see him again soon!
Pupil 1: "I think he was a very nice policeman!"
Pupil 2: "I liked it when he took a picture with us!"
Pupil 3: "My favourite part was when we had a look at the police car, it was SO cool!"
- Date:
- 12 February
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Safer Internet Day 💻🔒
The children in foundation have been learning about eSafety to help them understand how to keep safe when using the internet and other electronic devices.
E-safety supports our children in staying safe in the virtual world. It is important that we equip children with the skills they need to keep themselves safe so they can experience the internet positively and responsibly.
On Safer Internet day we wanted to reinforce this message to the children.
The children learnt Smartie the penguins safety song to help them remember how to keep safe!
Before you click, click, click…
You need to think…
And TELL
someone!
To follow this the foundation children were able to produce some safety rules to follow when they access the internet.
Child 1: “Always tell an adult if something pops up on your iPad”.
Child 2: “Don’t speak to strangers”.
Child 3: “Don’t play games with people you don’t know”.
Child 4: “ Don’t tell anyone your information”.
- Date:
- Wednesday 12th February
- Posted by:
- Mrs Smith
Film Night 🎥 🍿
Pupils had a wonderful evening at our Film Night, watching the Emoji movie! Pupils enjoyed snacks and drinks with their friends! A big THANK YOU to all parents and carers who supported us raising funds with the film night!!
- Date:
- 11 February
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Reading Collaboration 📖
Foundation and Year 1 pupils worked collaboratively this week with a focus on building the pupils fluency and confidence when reading.
The year 1 pupils guided and supported the foundation children who have recently started reading books. The year 1 children used their phonics skills to demonstrate how to effectively blend and segment CVC words to advance fluency when reading. The year 1 children were fantastic at encouraging and praising the foundation children’s brilliant reading and the foundation children were amazed by the fluency of the year 1 children’s reading.
Most importantly , the children all enjoyed reading together, sharing books and chatting about them.
WE LOVE TO READ!!📖❤️
- Date:
- 6 February
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
People that help us!
In foundation our new topic is people that help us. This week we have been focusing on Hospitals and the people that work in them such as, Nurses, Doctors, Midwives, Radiologists and many more. The children in foundation were particularly interested in Radiologist and what they do.
Following the children’s interests we transformed the home corner into an X-Ray machine and the children were able to see what there skeletons may look like.
They have been having so much fun!
- Date:
- 5 February
- Posted by:
- Miss Sutton
People who help us: Nurses
This week in foundation we have started our new topic 'People who help us'.
On Monday, a nurse came and told us all about what they do in their job, why they wanted to be a nurse and how they help people. Before they came in, the children drew a picture of what they thought the nurse was going to look like. We had some amazing drawings, but to our surprise when they came in, the nurse was a male!!!
After he told us about his job, we asked some amazing questions and found out some very interesting things. Then, he taught us how to use bandages to help people who have hurt their hands. We practised using bandages on each other and had a great time!
- Date:
- 31 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
CVC Writing
The children in foundation have been practicing writing CVC words in flour today!
It was super fun and messy 😆
- Date:
- 31 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Story Club Hook!
Foundation discovered this morning that a bean stalk had grew in our classroom! When they all looked they discovered that somebodies feet were hanging down… the children shouted it’s the GIANT!
All the children investigated the story hook table and discovered there was beans, a gold egg, a harp and a Cow. They all predicted that our new story this week will be Jack and the Beanstalk!
The Children used their Oracy skills to predict our new story club book with each other.
Child 1: I can see some giant feet it must be the big grumpy giant.
Child 2: I can see some beans, they must be magic beans from jack and the bean stalk.
Child 3: I think it’s Jack and the bean stalkbecause I can see a Giant.
- Date:
- 31 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
The Three Little Pigs
In Foundation we have been reading the Three
Little Pigs. The children have created their own masks and used them to retell the storey of The three little pigs to their friends.
Haven’t they done a fantastic job!
- Date:
- 30 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🥠🥡🥢🏮 🐲🇨🇳
This week in foundation we have been super busy celebrating and learning all about Chinese new year! This has included looking at China on Google maps and comparing Laceby village to a village in China. We have also read the story of “The Great Race” and learnt that there are 12 animals which different years are named after. This year is the year of the snake 🐍! We have been looking at Chinese writing and practised doing some ourselves. Other activities included cutting and painting Chinese lanterns, making a dragon head and dancing around the school like Chinese dragons singing Kung Hei Fat Choy, role play in our Chinese restaurant, dressing in traditional costumes, learning about where in the world China is, Using chopsticks to pick up noodles and learning about how the New year is celebrated.
Finally, all of foundation tried some Traditional Chinese foods. The children tasted rice, noodles, prawn crackers and fortune cookies. The children used their fine motor skills when trying to eat the food using chopsticks. The children described the food as:
Child 1: “It tastes yummy but it is very slippery”
Child 2: “the food is delicious”
Child 3 “the food feels strange in my mouth but i like it”
- Date:
- 22 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Story Club Hook!
Foundation discovered this morning that we had some sneaky visitors last night trying to build three houses! One from straw, one from sticks and one from bricks! and we also managed to catch one of the visitors in our trap and it was…. THE BIG BAD WOLF!
All the children investigated the story hook table and predicted that our new story this week will be The Three Little Pigs.
The Children used their Oracy skills to predict our new story club book with each other.
Child 1: I can see three little pigs and a big bad wolf. I think our new book is The Three Little Pigs, what do you think it is?
Child 2: I can read this phonics card and it says pig so I think it’s the three little pigs.
Child 3: I think it’s the three little pigs because I can see straws, sticks and bricks.
- Date:
- 22 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Three Little Pigs Makaton
In foundation this week our story club book is the Three Little Pigs. Foundation have enjoyed learning how to use makaton signs to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs. The children in foundation have been learning all about makaton and how it creates a shared understanding that unites children of diverse communication abilities. In our foundation class we practise makaton as it doesn’t just teach children different ways to communicate, makaton also supports the development of essential skills such as fine motor skills, cognitive abilities, and social interaction.
Didn’t they all do a fantastic job!
- Date:
- 14 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Foundation Library Trip
The children in foundation had a fantastic trip to the library today. Mrs Wink kindly read us some Traditional tale stories linking to our topic this term. She also kindly let us take some Traditional Tale story books back to our classroom for all of us to enjoy reading.
We all love going to the library and listening to Mrs Wink read.
- Date:
- 13 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
THE BIG SCHOOL BIRDWATCH
In foundation this week the children have been learning all about British Birds that we might see around our school. As a part of the RSPB Big School birdwatch Buttercup and Sunflower children went on a muddy walk to the nature area.
Before we went on our school birdwatch the children made some bird food to help feed the birds through the winter and some binoculars to spot all the different types of birds.
On our birdwatch we took a birdwatch tick list and completed the survey from our findings back in class. We saw Wood Pigeons, Crows, Seagulls, a Magpie and a Robin. Miss Wilson also used an app that listens to the birds singing and we identified that the birds singing around us were Robins, Blue tits and Pigeons.
The children had a fantastic afternoon bird watching around our school.
- Date:
- 9 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Foundation Hook Day!
Don’t they look fantastic in their Traditional Tale outfits!
- Date:
- 9 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Foundation Hook Day!
In foundation our topic this term is Traditional Tales. For our hook day the children came dressed as a character from a Traditional Tale story.
The Foundation children discovered this morning that we had a sneaky visitor in our classroom last night, who kindly left us all some ingredients to make gingerbread men. Luckily Miss Wilson had left her phone on record and captured our mystery visitor! and it was.... THE GINGERBREAD MAN!
The children practised their oracy skills by discussing with each other how the gingerbread man had snuck into our classroom.
Child 1: He must have opened the window and jumped in.
Child 2: He used his candy cane to smash the window and break in.
Child 3: He must have jumped out of the oven.
The Gingerbread man kindly left us some ingredients to make some gingerbread. However, before the children made the gingerbread we discussed how we would make the biscuits, bake them and decorate them. The children then designed how they wanted their gingerbread man to look and used their design to decorate their gingerbread man using icing sugar, sprinkles and smarties.
What an exciting and fun filled day they all had!
- Date:
- 6 January
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Traditional Tales
In foundation our topic this term is Traditional Tales. The children predicted from the story hook display that the first Traditional Tale we are reading is The Gingerbread Man.
The children identified a rolling pin, gingerbread cutters, gingerbread recipe book and they all smelt some ginger.
Child 1: The ginger smells like Oranges.
Child 2: It smells like Chicken.
Child 3: The ginger smells like cake.
Child 4: It smells like gingerbread men.
- Date:
- 18 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Foundation class had a visitor today!
He said they are all on the good list 😁
- Date:
- 18 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Foundations Christmas cards and 2025 calendars.
The foundation children have been super busy making their Christmas cards and 2025 calendars. The children made the cards using different lengths of paper to create Christmas trees. When making these cards the children used maths sentences such as “this piece of paper is longer” and “this piece of paper is shorter”.
Before making the calendars we gathered pupil voice on what the children wanted to have on the front of their calendars. Many children suggested the four seasons as in foundation we have been learning all about the four seasons recently. Therefore, to create the 2025 calendars the children dresses up in spring, summer, autumn and winter clothes.
Haven’t they done a great job!
- Date:
- 17 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
The children in foundation are party ready!
They have all been super busy making their party hats this morning.
- Date:
- 16 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Panto Time!
Foundation had a fantastic time at the Wizard of Oz pantomime today.
Oh no they didn't!
Oh yes they did!
- Date:
- 13 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Motor Skills
Using our fine motor skills to decorate trees and gingerbread men
- Date:
- 13 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Decorating the Tree
Foundation pupils love decorating their tree in the home corner each day.
- Date:
- 13 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Christmas Performance
Foundation all ready for their Christmas performance. Didn't they all do a fantastic job! All of the children have worked so hard learning twelve different songs and many speaking lines. Really captured the Christmas spirit.
- Date:
- 12 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Christmas jumper day 2024
The Foundation children have loved coming to school in their Christmas jumpers. They learnt about why we wear Christmas jumpers on Christmas jumper day and how their donations could help other children.
Miss Wilson had a mini me for the day in our matching Christmas jumpers.
- Date:
- 11 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Foundation all enjoying their Christmas dinner!
- Date:
- 9 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Foundation Enterprise
Haven't they all done a brilliant job!
- Date:
- 9 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Christmas Costumes
Foundation are all ready for the Christmas Costume Competition.
Don't they all look fantastic!
- Date:
- 2 December
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Mrs Claus Bakery
Foundation stage are all enjoying our outdoor role play area that is currently Mrs Claus Bakery.
Practicing our oracy skills, has provided the children with opportunities to take on different roles using appropriate knowledge and vocabulary.
For example:
"How many gingerbread men would you like today?"
"Ok I will get those for you. One moment"
"These gingerbread men taste delicious"
- Date:
- 25 November
- Posted by:
- Mrs Smith
Road Safety
Mark from Humberside Fire & Safety paid us a special visit to deliver a whole school assembly this week. We have been learning about road safety in our classes through different activities. He used demonstrations and visuals to show us the importance of wearing helmets when we cycle or scooter, as well as how important it is to be visible and wear bright colours around roads.
- Date:
- 20th November
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Diva Lamps
As part of our learning about the festival Diwali we made Diva lamps. We used salt dough. When they dry we painted them and added sparkly details.
- Date:
- 1st November
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Laceby Stanford Primary Academy
Today we celebrated becoming our school becoming part of the Wellspring Family and our new school name Laceby Stanford Primary Academy.
We listened to music, drew our new badge and enjoyed a cake with a special sign on.
- Date:
- 31st October
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Seasonal Changes
Foundation stage children looked at the seasonal changes and the colours of the autumn leaves. They used small brushes to paint a trees trunk and branches. After this we used our fingers to paint the autumn leaves. Our creations are displayed on our art gallery.
Can you spot our hedgehogs? We used forks to print the spines.
- Date:
- 31st October
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Understanding and managing feelings
Zowie from Compass GO joined FOundation classes this morning to do a workshop on understanding and managing feelings.
She shared The Colour Monster story and taught us some breathing techniques to help us if we need to feel calm.
- Date:
- 16th Octobber
- Posted by:
- Mrs Smith
🍁 Autumn Craft Event 🍁
Pupils had a wonderful Autumn craft event making and crafting lots of autumn themed activities! From Leaf faces to 3D trees… lots of crafting fun! The cherry pie and drink was yummy too!!
- Date:
- 10th October
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Balance Bikes
Today we all got to test out our new balance bikes.
- Date:
- 9th October
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Well Being Wednesday
As part of well being Wednesday we collaborated with Year 6 this afternoon to celebrate world mental health day. We shared positive affirmations, practiced different calming exercises and had a good natter!
- Date:
- 9th October
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Hook Day
On our hook day today Buttercups and Sunflowers class have come dressed in their favourite things. The children have also brought in their favourite toys and books to show everyone in the class. We are all loving learning all about each other.
- Date:
- 1st October
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Heavy and Light
In maths today we have been learning about heavy and light. We used the balance scales to see what was heavier and lighter.
- Date:
- 30th September
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Anna Hibiscus
We are reading a story about Anna Hibiscus. She likes to climb a mango tree in her garden. We wondered what mangoes tasted like so we gave them a try.
“Sweet and juicy”
“Soft and sticky”
“ sour and squishy”
“Yummy”
“Delicious and tasty”
- Date:
- 24 September
- Posted by:
- Mrs Smith
Reading Workshop for Parents
Thank you to all those who came to Mrs Smith’s Early Reading Workshop today.
It was lovely to see so many of you and hear how keen you are to help your children with reading at home.
The slideshow to accompany the workshop has now been added to the class pages. We look forward to the Maths workshop next week.
- Date:
- 16 September
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Daily Phonics
In foundation we have started our daily phonics lesson. We are learning new sounds and sayings to help us with letter formation.
We are learning to talk to our partners, my turn and your turn as well as phonics celebration actions.
- Date:
- September
- Posted by:
- Mrs Hill
Welcome to Foundation Stage
Our newest school members had a fantastic first day. We were so busy exploring our new school.
