Welcome back to the final term of the school year! Our topic this term is called 'Underwater Worlds'. We started our topic by exploring fish and nets in our water tray, creating narratives with pirates and playing a fun Pirate Counting game and lots more.

In our topic lesson, we listened to the Stories 'Only One You' and 'You Be You', and we thought about what makes us special and unique. Afterwards, we decorated pebble fish just like the fish in the story, making sure that our fish looked special and unique and wrote a sentence to say why we are special. 

As writers and illustrators, we thought about the story 'Sharing a Shell' by Lydia Monks and Julia Donaldson. The children drew pictures of the Crab character and wrote sentences about him. They thought up new homes for the crab and drew and wrote about things they might find in a Rockpool. 

As Mathematicians,  we have been playing lots of dice games to help us understand addition and subtraction and noticing that adding increases amounts and subtraction decreases the total amount. We have continued to revise halving and number bonds to 5. Today, we revisited 3D shapes and used our noticing skills to talk about the properties. We will continue to focus on shape next week. 

As artists, we have been sculpting figures out of clay for our wonderful Windrush-themed exhibition, which is coming up! 

Over the half-term break, Helen took great care of the Caterpillar Chrysalis at home, and across this week, the children have been excited to see some of the butterflies emerge. This afternoon, the children helped release them into our garden, and some were lucky (and brave enough) to hold one or to look closely at it, as it landed on them! We hope to release the others next week! 

Thank you for the food cans and money donations today. Your generosity will help many families in Oxford. 

Coming Up: 

-Lego/Construction building afternoon for all significant males on Friday 13th June 1.30-2.30. Please arrive promptly at the main school gate. If convenient, your child can go home with you at 2.30. 

-We are also delighted to invite you to our Windrush Celebration Exhibition on Monday, 23rd June, from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM at St Frideswide Primary School, Cricket Road, Oxford, OX4 3DR.

This special event honours the legacy of the Windrush Generation and showcases the incredible creativity and learning of our pupils. You will experience:

• Children’s Art Displays inspired by Windrush stories and heritage

• Singing Performances from our talented students

• Community Contributions, including photos, stories, and words from local voices

This is a wonderful opportunity to come together as a school community and celebrate the rich cultural history that has helped shape our society.

The exhibition is held in collaboration with the Eyukamba Foundation and The Parish of Cowley and St John.

We warmly encourage all parents and carers to attend and support the children’s work. We look forward to seeing you there!

In addition, St Frideswide’s will be participating in the Cowley Road Carnival Windrush Celebration at St Mary and St John Church on  Sunday, 22nd June. Families are welcome to come to the church service at 10.30-11.30 and stay for the family lunch and exhibition, where you can see song performances from some of the St Frideswide pupils and view some of the children's Windrush-themed artwork. 

Our Home-School link workers Tracey and Charlotte have two Parent drop-in support sessions in school 8.10-9.30am: 

Tuesday 10th: Sleep and Bedtime routines at home

Tuesday 17th: Toilet training 

If this is something you need support with, please come along. 

Legoland Family Trip Friday 4th July 7.45 am-5.00 pm