Holly Class is taught by Mrs Stonehouse and supported by Mrs Padfield and Mrs Morris. Other adults who work in the class are Mrs Chilcott (Thursday) and Mr Hayman for P.E.

Our themes for this year in Holly Class are:

Autumn One - Magical Me

Autumn Two - Celebrations

Spring One - Food Glorious Food

Spring Two - Our World

Summer One - Once Upon a Time

Summer Two - Sealife and Fossils

Autumn One - Magical Me

Our new reception children have had a fantastic start to school life. The children have impressed us so much by how quickly they have settled in. Well done everyone on having such an excellent start to your time at primary school. 

In Autumn one our learning theme is 'Magical Me', as the children settled into school life in Holly Class we have started to explore our learning theme. We have talked about what makes us special, painted self portraits and talked about our families. 

We had 'Little City' to visit us this week, the children had lots of fun dressing up and exploring all of the different areas!

As part of our Harvest Display, Holly Class made Sid the Scarecrow, with the help of Mrs Morris.

During our Outdoor Learning session this week we went on a Welly Walk to pick Blackberries, earlier in the week we had read the story of The Gruffalo, with our freshly picked blackberries we made our own Gruffalo crumble!

We went to explore our local church, St Peter's this week. The children completed a scavenger hunt of all of the features of Christian churches, they were very confident in naming the features and talking about why they are special to Christians. 

As part of our learning about Harvest Festival, we read the story of The Little Red Hen, we talked about what The Little Red Hen had to do in order for the wheat to grow and then how she turned it into flour to make bread. We had a go at making our own bread, carefully kneading the dough. We performed at St Peter's church singing 'I'm a Little Hedgehog' and 'Autumn Colours'. 

Holly Class and Cherry Class came together this week to have an Apple Day, we went on a long Welly Walk to two local orchards to collect apples. When we returned to school we used a scratter and press to juice the apples to make yummy juice! We even made our own apple pies. 

Autumn Two - Celebrations

Our theme this half term is 'Celebrations', we started this by focusing on the festival of Diwali. The children enjoyed making their own lanterns, Diwa lamps and Rangoli patterns. We had a special visitor come in to talk to us about Diwali and we even got to do some Indian dancing.

This week we have learnt about Remembrance Day and why it is an important celebration. We have worked hard to make a display for the front of school, as part of this Holly Class made two wreaths, one to display at school and the other at church. 

This week Holly Class received their Bibles from the Vicar and Church Wardens, we had a special Collective Worship where they were presented. 

We had a very exciting trip to The Egg Theatre this week to watch The Snow Mouse, this was our first school trip!

Darrel Wakelam came to visit Holly Class this week, he worked with us to create a fantastic piece of artwork all about The Mirraculous Catch, which will be displayed in teh school entrance. 

Christmas has arrived in Holly Class!