EYFS – The Conkers

Welcome to The Conker’s class page!

Welcome to the Conker’s Class page. Here you can find lots of information about us so you can keep up to date with all of the exciting things that we get up to throughout the school year.

Mrs Parker (F2P) is our teacher. Mrs Fraser, Miss Piotrowska, Mrs Dempsey and Miss Bursztyn are our Teaching Assistants.

During this academic year, we will be communicating through the use of Class Dojo and sharing lots of the children’s wonderful work there too. Please do ensure you have set up your Class Dojo account in order to access this.

If you need to contact us at any time throughout the year, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We can be reached through the messaging feature on your Class Dojo account, via email or in school, by appointment with the school office.

Our Routines

Our school day begins at 8.40pm and ends at 3.10pm.

Reading for pleasure books will continue to come home each Monday and are chosen by your child. It is ok if they bring books home they have already read. Remember, this is a book for YOU to read to THEM at bedtime. It will need returning to school on a Thursday please.

We continue to have PE on a Wednesday afternoon. Please send your child into school WEARING their P.E kit (dark coloured tracksuit bottoms or leggings, a white t-shirt and a red hoodie/sweatshirt or their school jumper or cardigan and wearing trainers or plimsols).

We will be visiting Eco-Land on Thursday afternoon. Please send your child into school with a suitable coat, sun hat/cap and wellies in a carrier bag.

Our Learning

This half term our exciting topic is called “If you go down in the woods today”. Throughout this topic we will be finding out about animals and insects who live in a woodland, what their specific habitats are like and the food they eat. We will be exploring food chains and creating exciting menus fit for the Gruffalo and his friends! Each week our ‘Everywhere Bear’ will bring us a new book and our week’s learning will be centered around this. Keep an eye out on Class Dojo I will post our new books and the new words he brings us too!

In RE this half term we will be exploring Branch 5: To the Ends of the Earth. This topic celebrates the season of Easter, the Resurrection of Christ and his victory over sin and death. It is a season of great joy, new life and hope. Throughout this branch we will talk about Jesus returning back to his Father in Heaven and how The Holy Spirit was sent to us by Jesus to be our friend and guide. We will explore how The Holy Spirit came as tongues of flame and wind, filling his disciples with a great joy and how they began to speak foreign languages. We finish the topic by knowing that the Good News of Jesus was lived out by the early Christian community.