Unicef Rights Respecting Schools

March 2025

“Adults must do what is best for me”

Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Article 3

In Pine class we promote article 3 throughout our school day, we use our zone of regulation every morning and afternoon, so we know how everyone is feeling. We use communication boards in class to ensure we can communicate our wants and needs, especially when it comes to snack time.

We also make sure our classroom and everything in it is clean and tidy so we don’t hurt ourselves, we use helmets outside when we have fun on the bikes and scooters. We also look at life skills such as going to the shop and buying food for our snack or food  technology lessons, this helps us understand where food comes from and how to pay for our food.

World Book Day and Science

March 2025

In Pine Class, we have been having fun in Science we have been looking at habitats, we have looked at our forest school habitat and went on a nature scavenger hunt. We looked for different leaves, trees and we even tried to find some mini beasts. All our adults where very grateful that we didn’t find any spiders, even though we looked very hard. We have also during our Minibus trips looked at a park habitat, we are going to be having a closer look at the pond to see what animals we can see.

We have also had lots of fun during World Book Day! We listened to a couple of sensory stories which we loved, especially when we got to join in. We also loved seeing the different costumes that the children dressed up in.

Unicef Rights Respecting Schools

January 2025

“I have the right to good quality health care, to clean water, and good food”

Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Article 24

In Pine class we promote article 24 throughout our school day, we have been looking in our science lessons all about what foods keep us healthy and how we need to have a balanced diet. We have also been looking at the different food groups and making food in our food technology lessons relating to the differing groups. We have been shopping to Tesco for our food so we can see all the different healthy options. We also have a choice of snack at snack time from crackers, toast to fruit and we always have a choice of milk or water. To keep us healthy we also have PE lessons each week and have forest school sessions every other week, both are lessons we love in Pine Class.

We also take pride in our classroom and try our very best to tidy up throughout the day and keep it tidy, we enjoy our ‘Tidy up Rhumba song’.

Outdoors

November 2024

In Pine Class we have been enjoying exploring in our Forest School sessions and out on the Minibus. We have created some Autumn artwork using leaves and sticks, as well as some charcoal art. We had to bash up some charcoal, then mix it with water so we could paint on paper. We really enjoyed hitting the charcoal.

We have also enjoyed going to Queens Park on our first minibus trip this half term. We enjoyed climbing, playing on the swings and the slides.

Phonics

September 2024

In Pine Class, we have enjoyed learning about our phonics sounds. We have used lots of communication aids to say our sounds and then we enjoyed practising the letter formation. We can write letters in flour and on a whiteboard.