Welcome to Badgers' and Foxes' page, where you can find regular updates on our news and learning!

Week beginning 6th October 2025

With the weather starting to feel very autumnal it feels perfect for celebrating our Harvest. Rehearsals are going brilliantly and we are very excited for our performances next week. Please continue to learn lines and practice songs, we look forward to seeing you on Thursday 16^th Oct, 9.15 at St Georges Church.

We are now working securely with place value and have begun to focus on addition and subtraction. We have been using a variety of methods including: number bonds to 10, partitioning, 10’s frames and number lines. Ask your child to share which is their preferred method and give you a demonstration.

In Art we have been looking at artists famous for painting portraits including Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. We’ve had lots of fun experimenting with abstract portraits and using water colours.

After our launch and the huge success of our Mental Health programme My Happy Mind we have returned to the first module of The Brain. We have been extremely impressed with how much the children have been able to recall. In Yr2 we progress from understanding the parts of the brain and their function (Team HAP) to learning about neuroplasticity and how we can use this to help us when we learn. Remember if you haven’t already signed up to the Happy Mind app take a moment and access support materials on a range of things for you as a family as well as find out more about what we learn at school.

This week we have finished our Zig the Alien stories! We displayed what wonderful and creative imaginations we have and look forward to sharing them with you during the consultation evenings- Tues 4^th Nov 3.30-6.30pm and Thurs 6^th Nov 4-7 pm, if you haven’t already, sign up via your Arbor account.

Week beginning 22nd September 2025

We have had a great start to Year 2, learning lots of new routines and reminding ourselves of our school rules and values. 

Foxes and Badgers are enjoying being ambassadors and showing our younger children a great example of how to be responsible and make sure that everyone at school feels safe. 

We have been revising our knowledge of place value in Maths, learning about part-whole models, place value charts and comparing and ordering numbers. 

In English, we have learned the story of 'Zig the Alien' and we will be writing our own versions of the story over the next week or so.

Our Phonics review lessons of Phase 5 are going very well, and it is good to see everyone making an effort to learn their weekly spelling words.

In Science, we had a super time exploring and even holding real fish.

We have begun thinking about our Harvest Performance which will take place at St George's church on the 16th October. Please keep an eye out for your child's words in their reading records. We'd like the children to  learn these by heart if possible, please!

If your child does not have a speaking part this time, they will be a musician instead and will get a chance to speak at our Christmas performance. 

Recorders have come home this week. The children have learned the very first note, note B. 

Ask your child to show you what they have learned! The children need to look after their recorders and bring them to school every day.