Willow Class 2024-25

Welcome to the Willow Class pages where you can find our all about our Early Years Foundation Stage children and their learning.

Term 1 and 2 2024

Willow Class have made an amazing start to their journey at Lympne! They have all settled in well and have made lots of new friends.

In Term 1 they learnt a lot about different feelings and how to process and regulate their emotions. They also celebrated their Phonics and Maths learning with 'Maths Rocks' and Monster Phonics dress up days.

Term 2 began by learning about Diwali and Bonfire Night, they enjoyed creating their own Rangoli patterns and firework art! They then focused their learning around dinosaurs and had a lot of fun reading dinosaur books.

In December, we enjoyed practicing our ‘Lights Camel Action’ and having Mr Jingles the Elf visit us.

Next term we are looking forward to learning about the Gruffalo and China and starting dance in PE!

Term 3 and 4 2025

In Term 3 Willow Class focused their learning around books by Julia Donaldson. They learnt about China and planned and participated in Luna New Year Celebrations and performed their jungle themed dance in our annual dance show. Willow Class also celebrated 100 days of school by inviting their families into school so they could show them what they've been up to.

In term 4, Willow Class had a lot of fun learning about superheroes and reading books like Supertato and Kindness is my Superpower. They had a superhero day where they completed superhero training challenges and had lots of Superhero themed fun at Forest School.

2023-24

Summer Term Update

Willow Class have been learning all about how chocolate is made and Ghana. They made their own chocolate lollies, went on a Safari and made Ghanaian Masks and their own Kente Cloth outfits! They also learnt about the Hindu festival of Holi with Oak class and had a super fun day learning about the festival of colour and even throwing Gulal paint! The children also went on a class trip to Maidstone and made their own pizza’s at Pizza Express before enjoying some role play fun at Little Street.

Spring Term Update

We started Term 3 by flying to China. We learnt about the landmarks, had lunch in a Chinese Restaurant, learnt some Mandarin and celebrated Chinese New Year! We enjoyed learning about the story of Gruffalo and exploring our Gruffalo Café during Let’s Explore time. We also enjoyed takin part in the whole school celebrations for World Book Day and Let Your Light Shine Day and got to go on a trip to Three Hills to take part in some sporting activities.

In Term 4 our topic was ‘What a Wonderful World’. Stories like the Bog Baby and The Messy Magpie and David Attenborough clips helped us appreciate how incredible the world is and what we can do to look after it. We introduced the children to ‘Graptor’ our class litter picker who has been going home with Willow Class for litter picking adventures. This term we celebrated 100 Days of School, Easter at the church and enjoying the amazing school Talent Show.

Autumn Term Update

Willow Class have made an amazing start to their journeys at Lympne! They have all settled in well and made lots of new friends.

In Term 1 we were joined in class by the Colour Monster (based on the Colour Monster book). The Colour Monster was having a difficult time regulating his emotions, so each day we thought of ideas to help him get back to being happy and calm, in the process we also learnt to process and understand our own emotions! In PE we loved doing Bike-ability on the balance bikes and lots of dancing! We also learnt how Hindu’s celebrate Diwali by making Rangoli art, having a feast, doing lots of dancing and learning about the festival of light.

In Term 2 we had a lot of fun learning about the book ‘Supertato’. Evil Pea kept popping into class to play pranks on the vegetables so we made traps and posters to make him stop. We had a Superhero day where we all dressed up as Superheroes and completed some of Evil Pea and Supertato’s challenges! We also read the book ‘Kindness is my Superpower’ and thought about what our Superpowers are, and we read ‘Real Heroes’ and learnt about the real superheroes doing jobs that help us every day!

In December, we enjoyed practicing our Nativity ‘Lights Camel Action’, going to a Christingle celebration, the Marlowe Pantomime and having Hearty the Elf visit us.