Waterfoot Primary School

P.E. Day: Thursday

Your child can come to school in the active uniform or a more traditional uniform on non-PE day. Please refer to the Uniform Policy if you are unsure.

Homework: 

Homework is handed out on a WEDNESDAY and returned the following MONDAY. You will receive Maths homework one week, phonics the next.

Topic Homework: 

Each half term, a copy of our topic homework grid is sent home and it is also available on the website. Please support your child by helping them to complete some the fun activities.  Each completed activity is rewarded with house points. 

We have been so proud of how well the children have settled into their new school, learning new routines and meeting new friends. Take a look below at how happy they are undertaking new independent challenges!

Oak class have thoroughly enjoyed creating faces using loose parts. We used our imagination and creativity to represent facial features and expressions.

We are continuing to make new friends and are having lots of fun working collaboratively in our provision areas.

Oak class have been having lots of spooky fun this week. We have enjoyed sharing many stories including, 'Christopher Pumpkin', 'Squasherella' and 'The Witch's Cat and the Cooking Catastrophe'. We were inspired to create our own 'magic' potions, choose creepy ingredients to add to the cauldrons, investigate pumpkins both inside and out, and make lots of fabulous pumpkin characters.

Today we had lots of fun whilst wearing our odd socks. We enjoyed telling everybody about our socks. How we had chosen them and whether they were our favourites. Feeling inspired, we created our very own unique sock designs. They were fabulous! We then shared the lovely story, 'Simon Sock' by Sue Hendra.

This half term we have had lots of fun experimenting with colours. We made our predictions, then mixed different colours to see what happened. The children had some fabulous ideas!

Today we visited the theatre and the children had lots of fun making crafts and watching a production of The Squirrel, The Cake and The Cabinet.

10.01.2024: Today the children created a complete meal from scratch, including pizza using mozzarella, fresh tomato sauce and delicious healthy toppings. We also made a strawberry and banana smoothie and a berry and yoghurt granola pot. We are amazing chefs!

02.02.24 - Today we explored our school grounds and talked about the different features. The children were very excited to discover the wonderful places around Waterfoot School.

Oak Class have been finding out all about Lunar New Year and the different places where it is celebrated. We shared the story of 'Winnie and Wilbur at Chinese New Year,' by Valerie Thomas during our Drawing Club sessions, and this fabulous story inspired us to find out more...

Mardi Gras

20/02/2024 - Today we learned about Mardi Gras. We dressed in bright colours, watched clips of carnival dancing and made colourful masks.

Look at our brilliant bead snakes! Threading the beads onto a pipecleaner is so good for developing our fine motor skills and hand eye coordination.

Today we have been learning about keeping safe. We can name lots of things that help us to keep our bodies clean and safe, and recognise things that might not be safe.

No peeking!

Today's challenge was to use some of our senses to work out the identity of different vegetables. We were brilliant at explaining what we could smell, feel and taste.  Well done everyone!

This week was all about Science! We investigated apples and talked about how they look and taste, then put them into a zip bag so that we could make observations about what happened to the apples over time. We have also been learning about senses, and used our senses to describe the smell and texture of different objects. 

The children really enjoyed learning to ride a bike this week, and it was lovely to see their confidence grow. 

Today we went into our beautiful woodland area to look for the first signs of Spring. The sun was shining and the children managed to spot insects, birds, flowers, leaves and buds.

We have been learning all about sunflowers, their life cycle and what they need to grow. We have had lots of fun planting our own sunflowers and watching them grow. We wonder whose will grow the tallest?

This morning Oak class were very excited to go on our visit to Little Lancashire Village. We all had so much fun exploring the role play areas, getting into character and playing with our friends.

This half-term we are learning about people from our local community who help us.  Oak Class welcomed some special visitors, PC Hopkins, PCSO Hayhurst and their colleagues.  We were able to ask lots of questions so that we could find out what police officers do and how they help to keep us safe. We were very excited to have a closer look at some of their special uniform and equipment. 

18.06.24 - Oak class have been learning that Journey Sticks have been around for many years and were used by Native Americans and Aboriginal people to share stories from their travels. This afternoon, we set off on a journey into our woodland area. We were surprised by how much it has changed since our last visit. We carefully selected lots of natural materials along our way to remind us of our journey. We used string to attach them to our stick in chronological order. We then used our journey sticks to help us to recount what we saw in order.

We have been learning about 'natural' and 'manmade' materials. We went into the woods to look for some different natural materials. We had fun collecting flowers, leaves and twigs. We then made some artwork by weaving the materials.