Welcome
Welcome to our small and friendly village school. We have enthusiastic pupils and staff, who are passionate about engaging in rich learning experiences.
Robins
Robins is the Year 1 and Year 2 class at Yattendon.
Mrs Mason is the class teacher with Mrs Kennedy teaching on Monday morning and Tuesday afternoons.
TA's in Robins are Mrs Keene and Mrs Worsfold who support learning in class across the week.
Mrs Keene will make sure books are changed weekly, please help your child by reading regularly and recording this in reading record books. Year 1 can change their library books on a Monday and Year 2 can change their books on Wednesdays each week.
PE sessions will be on Wednesday and Thursday.
PLEASE COME IN PE KIT ON THOSE DAYS!
Visits to the outdoor classroom in the woods will be every few weeks. Please let Mrs Mason know if you are available to help with these.
We are now in our final term of the school year. Wow, it is flying by.
Visit our class page regularly to see what learning and adventures we are having together!
Robin's enjoyed a visit to the woods to create sculptures linked to our art learning for this term.
To remember 80 years since VE Day we used our reflection books to think about the soldiers and civilians of the war. Luca kindly brought in his Great Grandad's medals to show everyone.
Sculpture is the focus of our art this term. The children have embraced clay and learnt techniques to sculpt it. We have made pinch pots, exploration tiles for impressing marks and adding relief shapes using the slip and score method. The final piece was a house tile.
Clay house tiles. Look at the detail and techniques the children applied. The results are really impressive!
In science the class is doing an experiment to find out what plants need to grow. They are responsible for looking after the seeds.
What a fun skipping workshop with Skippy Jon! He made the process of learning to skip really simple. Now it is time to practice.
Welcome to the Spring Term
We are excited to start the new term. Everyone is settled into the routines and expectations of our class and are working really hard on our learning.
Visit here regularly to see photos and evidence and all the fun we are having in Robins.
HAPPY EASTER FROM ROBIN CLASS!
Wear it Wild Day!!!! What a great fun day to raise awareness of the WWF charity.
RE - A pictorial representation of the Easter Story.
DT - this term we have been looking at healthy eating. We practised the skills of snipping, cutting, grating and peeling in food technology. We then designed and made a healthy wrap.
Snowy the class penguin spent February half term with Mrs Mason in Norfolk.
Milestone Museum Visit - 12.2.25 We enjoyed a fantastic day out at Milestones Museum. We were treated to a workshop by staff to learn about Victorian games and toys old and new. We then enjoyed exploring the streets and investigating the buildings and vehicles.
In PSHE we have been looking at dreams and goals. This week we focused on collaboration. We worked in threes to create a bird for our dream garden. The children worked well to create colourful results. We then discussed what had gone well and what the challenges were when working with others.
We enjoyed sharing our published story books with the children in Swallows class.
As our final art challenge the children create collages using their textured paper. They backgrounds for the bear and the piano.
In RE the children have made Torah as part of their learning about Judaism.
We have now completed our unit of learning in English based on The Bear and the Piano and the children are very proud of their published stories. We are looking forward to sharing them with Swallows class next week.
Our new story is called 'The Bear and the Piano' and we were excited to find a bear in a bowtie arrive in the classroom. We are looking forward to reading the story and creating our own version of the story. So far we know that the bear found a piano in the forest and learnt to play it. We then thought about all the things we have had to practice regularly to improve at.
I have worked hard to improve my cartwheeling skills - Josh.
I want to be good at gymnastics and I practice often - Penny
I am going to swimming lessons so I can get more confident - Hadley
I have worked hard to improve my handwriting - Imogen
We explored colour mixing - using the primary colours to make secondary colours. We had fun with paint and water to see the what colours we could make. The finished results looked so good so we put them on our Art board.
For Christmas our teachers adopted a penguin for the WWF for us to have in class. We have now named it Snowy and are looking forward to all having a turn to take Snowy home for a few days.
Mrs Mason introduced our new flower 'Must Do' tasks this week. We have to complete 5 challenges to fill our flowers with petals. Everyone tried really hard with all the tasks are everyone completed their flowers by the end of the week. Everyone was very proud to earn their petals. The aim of these challenges is to help everyone build independence and responsibility for their learning.
History this term is all about Toys now and in the past. We will finish the unit with a class trip to Milestones Museum in Basingstoke.
This week we looked at our own favourite toys and enjoyed bringing them in and talking about them on Friday.
Welcome to the Autumn term! We are looking forward to working and learning together.
Curriculum Map
Week 1: Settling and getting to know you time in Robins! We explored the different areas of continuous provision.
Week 2
Our first trip to the woods for Woodland Wednesday was lovely. It was warm and lots of fun. We took inspiration from our English story and made leaf animals and verb trails.
Week 4 - This weeks highlights included paired work in PE on jumping skills, number line work in Maths and sharing our memory boxes in History.
Week 5 - Computing - reading barcodes in our supermarkets,
Week 5 and 6 - Wow we are so busy!
We enjoyed singing our song High Low Chick-a-low with the actions!
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ODD SOCKS DAY - we wear odd socks to recognise uniqueness as part of Anti Bullying week.
We welcome our precious cuddly toys into school to help launch our next unit in English. It is based on the story of a lost teddy - it is call The Sea Saw. The children loved talking about their cuddly toys.
Ordering the alphabet and finding objects for each letter in the classroom.
In PE we are learning to control a ball with our hands. We have practiced dribbing and passing the ball using the chest pass. The children are showing good skills already!
