September - Ash 2
W/C 7th September 2026
Welcome back to the new school year!
The children in Ash 2 have made a wonderful start to the year and have enjoyed getting to know each other and making new friends.
We are incredibly lucky to have had some renovations over the summer holidays, most notably our toilets and outside area. We have had lots of fun exploring the new space and the new resources that are now in situ.
We have spent a lot of time creating our new garden area. We planted mint, parsley and a curry plant in our herb garden as well as cabbages, spring onions and kohl rabbis in our vegetable planter. In the pots, we planted Hebes, Dianthus and Cyclamens to give some splashes of colour. In the coming weeks we will plant up our bulbs ready for spring.
What a busy first week!
We have been very busy this week, helping to make our classroom feel like a home.
First, we added our birthdays to the birthday wall, so that we know when we will be celebrating our special day with each other.
Then we created a display of our self portraits. We'll draw ourselves again in July, and see how much we've changed!
We spent the rest of the week making little versions of ourselves; our Ash 2 Mini Mes! The children carefully selected the resources they needed, making thoughtful decisions about features such as hair colour and clothing to represent themselves. They demonstrated their developing fine motor skills as they cut pieces of wool and used glue and sticky tape to join different materials together.
🡄 Back to Ashlings
This week, we have continued spending time getting to know one another to help everyone to feel happy and settled in Reception. As part of this, the children enjoyed talking about the things they like and dislike using pictures. They sorted the pictures into different groups and shared their opinions with an adult and their friends.
The activity provided lots of opportunities to develop speaking and listening skills, take turns in conversation, and build confidence when expressing their own opinions. It was lovely to learn more about the children's interests and personalities while helping them make connections with the adults and children in their class. We are very proud of how enthusiastically the children joined in with these discussions!
This week, we have been developing our early maths skills by exploring different ways to sort and group objects. The children have enjoyed investigating a variety of everyday items and thinking carefully about what makes them the same and what makes them different.
We began by sorting objects by simple features such as colour, shape and size before challenging the children to think more deeply about how objects can be grouped according to their purpose or how they are used. These activities encouraged the children to look closely, compare items, explain their thinking and use mathematical language to describe their choices.
