Ashbrow School

The year 2 children have been thinking about why they enjoy coming to Ashbrow School. This is what they had to say…

” I like ashbrow School because the people are respectful”
” Everyone at Ashbrow is nice!”
“Ashbrow school is fun!”
“Ashbrow school is cool!”
“Ashbrow is the best school ever!”
“The teachers make the learning fun!”
“I like coming to Ashbrow school because I enjoy learning new things”
“I like numeracy because I like solving problems”
“I like Ashbrow school because everybody is different”
“I like going to school because I love playing with my friends”
“I like Ashbrow school because it is super”
“I like coming to school because I enjoy Forest”
“I like coming to school to play with my friends”
“I like coming to school because I enjoy Physical Education”

These are lots of reasons why we love Ashbrow Infant School.

We thought it might be nice to share some stories with you on the blog. We have videoed them for you to watch and listen to.

What was your favourite part of the story?

Handas Surprise

Where’s My Teddy?

Have you got a favourite story you would like us to read? Let us know!

Look out for our next ‘Share a Story’

The children in Key Stage 1 have been experimenting with different instruments. They have been thinking about the sounds that fireworks make and trying to create some of their own.

Here are a few videos of the children showing their work.

Firework Music 1

Firework Music 2

Firework Music 3

Firework Music 4

Firework Music 5

On Monday 8th May the children in Key Stage 1 took part in a ‘wellbeing’ day! All the children participated in different activities outdoors. The activities provided were all to make the children feel good about themselves.

The children took part in…

Forest, Areobics, Music making, Peer Massage, Smoothy making and a story telling session. All the activities were outside and some were even in special tents.

At the end of the day ALL the children left school with a huge smile and feeling good about themselves. The adults too had a big smile and felt very proud of the children at Ashbrow!

Here are a few photos of the day!

This week Sycamore class were visited by a storyteller who met us in the Forest Garden and told us a fantastic version of Red Riding Hood. It was different from the versions we had heard before so we decided to change the ending to one we liked better!

Susannah then started playing on her tin whistle and we followed her through the trees, looking for spring flowers and listening out for the crackle of leaves and branches under our feet. Eventually, she led us to a lovely sunny spot on the banking where she told us the story of young girl who meets a mysterious woman in white.

The story finished with everyone taking a ribbon and dancing through the lavender before being given a special gold coin – BUT everyone had to promise to tell the story to someone else before they ate it. Who did you tell?

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Of course, in Sycamore class we are fantastic at creating our own stories and we have spent a beautiful sunny afternoon back in the Forest Garden putting the finishing touches to our own story plans. We can’t tell you what our stories are about just yet, but we have collected some brilliant ideas and hope to share them with you soon!

Getting inspired in the Forest Garden on a sunny afternoon

Key Stage 1 have all been reading traditional tales over the last couple of weeks. The children have had many opportunities to dress up, use props and puppets outside with Mrs Moville and use Easi-speak microphones to record their different character voices. Ash class had a fabulous session using story telling chairs outside and identifying popular story language inside.

This week the children were set a number of problems, related to different and popular traditional tales, and they had to find their own solutions…………

Here are some of the activities they were asked to complete….

Some of the children spent a long time finding a solution to a particular job and most were determined to succeed!

The children were asked to build a house for the three pigs that was strong enough to stand up in a gentle breeze and a hurricane! (In order to make it a fair test we used a hair dryer and everyone tested their houses in different strength winds, using 2 different settings). It was great fun!

The quickest challenge was to see how long it took to climb to the top of the beanstalk (wall bars). Some of the children took more than 20 seconds but some were able to do it in under 6 seconds!

Climbing the beanstalk

One of the children’s very favourite jobs was using props and costumes in the role-play room with Mrs Moville and re-enacting some of the traditional tales they had read in class. They could choose who to be and what to use and some of them even made up their own story. The final part of this job was to write down any story language they had used.

Watch this slideshow and see if you can guess which traditional tales the children are re-enacting.

Can you think of any story language we might have used in these stories?

Click on the link below and watch this video of another group of children re-enacting a different traditional tale.

Traditional tales video

Have they used the correct story language for this traditional tale?

At the end of the day the children were asked to share anything they had learnt. Here are some of their thoughts….

“I didn’t know I could climb that high”

“I didn’t know you could use a hairdryer for wind”

“I haven’t made (acted out) my own story before”

“I thought the sticks would blow down in the wind but they didn’t”

“I didn’t know I could climb fast”.

Which problem would YOU have tried to solve and what do YOU think YOU might have learnt?

Each of the different classes in our school all have their own forest friend. Each week one of the children who has worked very hard and tried their best all week, gets the chance to take their class’ forest friend home for the weekend.

Ash (Year 1) – have a fox called “Daisy”