Hatchmere's Class Blog 3.10.25

Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 3:37pm

A huge thanks for our Harvest Foodbank donations, you have been incredibly generous. Mrs Snowdon will be taking them to Church with her this Sunday.  

Hatchmere thoroughly enjoyed spotting signs of Autumn within the school grounds. We discovered eaten sunflower heads, poppy seeds, leaves on the floor, changing leaf colours and berries. We collected some more treasures for our Autumn Treasure Tray and the children got right to work exploring them with their tweezers and magnifying glasses. 

Our Mathematicians are continuing to develop their subitising skills and growing more confident in explaining their knowledge of number. For instance: one and another one and another one makes three. They are beginning to realise that numbers have other numbers hidden inside them. Hatchmere have also been manipulating shape to create a picture. This opened up oppurtunities to learn about shapes and explore them in relation to their picture creations. 

This week we discovered a deceased mouse in our Outside Classroom. It opened up some really wonderful and thoughtful discussions around dying and death. We had no way of knowing what had happened to the mouse, but the children came up with some ideas relevant to their experience: The Gruffalo came – Our naughty visiting cat – It was poorly. Again, the conversations and vocabulary Hatchmere were using were thoughtful and respectful. We were able to talk about the Christian belief that the mouse had gone to heaven, we buried the mouse in our Wildlife area and thanked the mouse for its life on earth and providing us with a value learning opportunity. 

The Cricket Coaches were stunned into silence as Hatchmere surprised them with singing ‘We don’t like cricket, we love it’. The children loved the shocked faces of coaches and there were lots of giggles all round. Well done, Hatchmere. 

As our phonics programme continues to progress the children have now begun to word build. They have been using the sounds that they know to create CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words: sat, mat, sag, tin, pit etc. This is a tricky task at first, however, in Hatchmere we always say the same thing – ‘It’s ok to find things tricky, what is important is that we try’. Lots of support and praise is always given to the children at this early stage.  

Hatchmere are very excited to share their class dance with you all: Chu Chu Wa 

Class Nursery Rhyme: Miss Polly Had A Dolly 

Have a lovely, if somewhat breezy, weekend. 

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