SEPTEMBER
WELCOME BACK
Welcome Back – 02/09/2020
It’s September…. and we’re finally back!!!!
We are all so excited to get back to Fusion and to see all our smiley children this week and next. We have missed you all a lot!!! 
Check out our new ‘Sanitise Station’ where we sanitise our hands before and after we leave the building. 
THE WAVING WINDOW Have you seen Fusion’s ‘waving window’?
The fantastic @hanaearley designed and created it for us.
As parents aren’t allowed in the building, please feel free to use it to wave to your little ones during these strange times!
ROSH HASHANA
Rosh Hashanah 
– 17/09/2020
– 17/09/2020This week at Fusion we have been celebrating Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year.
We made our own bees and bubble wrap printing to make our own beehives. Bees and Honey symbolise a sweet New Year 
We also had a Lego competition to build the best synagogue- we have some fantastic models!
Rosh Hashanah – 17/09/2020
– 17/09/2020This week at Fusion we have celebrated Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year. We made our own bees using different materials. Bees and Honey symbolise a sweet New Year
Rosh Hashanah – 17/09/2020
At Fusion we have learnt about the Jewish festival and we celebrated the New Year by colouring in food that is celebrated and we listened to a Rosh Hashanah story! We also used apples and pomegranates to do some fruit printing. The Pomegranate seeds represents good deeds.
We had apple and honey for pudding to celebrate a sweet new year 
ROALD DAHL DAY
Roald Dahl Day – 16/09/20
Roald Dahl Day 
This week at fusion we have been celebrating Roald Dahl and all his fantastic books.
Some of the activities included a golden ticket treasure hunt, BFG dream catchers, making revolting mud pies and finding James’ Giant peach!!!
WORLD PEACE DAY
World Peace Day 
– 22/09/2020
– 22/09/2020This week we have celebrated World Peace Day which is on the 21st September. We have learnt different ways to be peaceful, spoke about what is peace? Made our own peace designs with different materials and all wrote our names around the world to show we are united.
NATIONAL FITNESS DAY
NATIONAL FITNESS DAY 
– 23/09/2020Today we have celebrated national fitness day. We did a workout with MR D, have been having hula hoop competitions and practicing our archery skills. We have focused on our breathing and even squeezed some yoga in!!
AUTUMN
Autumn fun at Fusion 
The receptions used the conkers to practice their reading and alphabet!
HEDGEHOGS We used play dough and spaghetti to make prickly hedgehogs and used leaves as well! They look brilliant!
This week the Year 2’s went on a walk to the forest! They risk assessed their own trip and were very sensible! They played hide and seek, climbed some trees, spotted lots of squirrels and had lots of fun!!!
Autumn activities this week at Fusion 
Autumn activities this week at Fusion
Autumn activities
The juniors used hammers and screws to make their own conker people/animals/jewellery. They were very sensible and were able to use the hammers, screws and nails correctly 
Autumn Fun
Autumn activities
The juniors used hammers and screws to make their own conker people/animals/jewellery. They were very sensible and were able to use the hammers, screws and nails correctly
SEPTEMBER OTHER….
Our fabulous new Receptions have settled in really well at Fusion. Well done you super stars
The juniors have been having lots of fun at Fusion decorating their windows!
We have some budding artist, they look fantastic and certainly brightened the dining room up!!
The Juniors is looking more and more colourful every day! 
“Your wings already exist…. you just have to fly….”
OCTOBER
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
Mental Health Week/ Well-being Week 
– W/C 5/10/20
– W/C 5/10/20Today at fusion we made our own positive buckets. The children wrote kind thoughts and positive comments about others to put in their bucket.
The children used a bath bomb and watched what happened, next week were going to make our own bath bombs as they were very relaxing to watch when it fizzed in the water!!
Mental Health Week/ Well-being Week
We have been CHALLENGING OUR MINDSET this week. We spoke about how to make our bodies healthy and what makes our brain active. The children came up with some fantastic suggestions. We also spoke to how to look after ourselves and everyone agreeed that was the most important to be healthy and happy!
Suggestions such as getting enough sleep, eating our vegetables, smiling every day, exercising, reading a book, not playing on electronics!
We spoke about instead of saying ‘I CANT do this, what about changing your mindset to…. ‘if I keep practising I will be able to do this’
And instead of ‘this will do’ what about ‘us this my best work?’
Mental Health Week/ Well-being Week
We have been CHALLENGING OUR MINDSET this week. We spoke about how to make our bodies healthy and what makes our brain active. The children came up with some fantastic suggestions. We also spoke to how to look after ourselves and everyone agreeed that was the most important to be healthy and happy!
Suggestions such as getting enough sleep, eating our vegetables, smiling every day, exercising, reading a book, not playing on electronics!
We spoke about instead of saying ‘I CANT do this, what about changing your mindset to…. ‘if I keep practising I will be able to do this’
And instead of ‘this will do’ what about ‘us this my best work?’
Mental Health Week/ Well-being Week – W/C 5/10/20
– W/C 5/10/20This week we have been using mindful foul colouring with our names on! This was a great way to relax after dinner- they’re so colourful and vibrant!
Please let us know if you would like one with your child/REN name on and we can create and send to you!
Mental Health Week/ Well-being Week
The juniors have been getting realy confident with their yoga. They have been practising their breathing techniques and focusing on balance! Can you copy any of the moves?
HALLOWEEN
HAPPY HALLOWEEN We have been celebrating Halloween this week at Fusion. We have enjoyed playing with our sensory turf tray. It was messy and lots of fun!
Would you be brave enough to fish for fingers or find the eyeballs..
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Halloween Yoga… can you copy Mr Delaney doing the moon pose?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Halloween crafts and activities at Fusion this week!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Halloween fun at Fusion this week…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN A few of the Halloween cooking we have been up too. Some simple but fun ideas!!! From candy apples to spooky marshmallow eyes…. 
HAPPY HALLOWEENWhat’s your favourite Haunted House??? 
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Helloween activities this week at Fusion….
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Halloween activities this week at Fusion….
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Helloween activities this week at Fusion….
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Halloween activities this week at Fusion….
OCTOBER OTHER
This week at Fusion our turf tray has been ‘At The Farm’ 
The reception children used the rods to ‘hook a duck’ and work out simple maths sums. We read lots of farm animal books like The Wonky Donky, Three little Pigs and The Hungry Hen!
This week at Fusion our turf tray has been ‘At The Farm’
The reception children used the rods to ‘hook a duck’ and work out simple maths sums. We read lots of farm animal books like The Wonky Donky, Three little Pigs and The Hungry Hen!
13/10/2020
a group of Year 2 children went for a little walk to the duck ponds to complete the famous ‘Dave Trail’ which was set up by the wonderful Jane at Fusion. The children (and adults) had a great time!!
13/10/2020
This week at Fusion we made some yummy fairy cakes. The children used the scales to measure out the ingredients and make the cake! 
We decorated our cakes with chocolate dinosaur eggs!!
14/10/2020
“Would I like to paint bread?, you said”
All you need is:
Food colouring with a splash of milk in
Paintbrush
Bread
Toaster
Instructions: Paint your bread and pop it in the toaster and there you have it, painted colourful toast.
For world food week- we painted bread.
21/10/2020
“… if you go down to the spinney today, your sure of a big surprise….”
We have had great fun decorating fairy doors at Fusion. We set off today and hid them in the woods. Why don’t you have a hunt during half term, how many fairy houses can you spot? We’d love to see your pictures!!
NOVEMBER
BONFIRE NIGHT
5/11/2020
BONFIRE ACTIVITIES 
5/11/2020
BONFIRE NIGHT We made fantastic bonfire scenes using our hands!! We would love to warm our hands up on it now after a chilly day!!
5/11/2020
Bonfire Night Firework pictures! So simple yet effective!!
You need a toilet/kitchen roll tube and cut half way up around the bottom of the tube. Use different coloured paint and start making your pictures
5/11/2020
Happy Bonfire Night Sparkler fun!
We have had a great time with our sparklers to celebrate Bonfire Night! We wrote our names and made shapes and patterns!
We spoke about how to be safe with sparklers and we all listened and followed the instructions carefully. We used a carrot at the end of the sparkler to be extra safe so it was distanced from ourselves and of course had our gloves on!
5/11/2020
Happy Bonfire Night Sparkler fun!
We have had a great time with our sparklers to celebrate Bonfire Night! We wrote our names and made shapes and patterns!
We spoke about how to be safe with sparklers and we all listened and followed the instructions carefully. We used a carrot at the end of the sparkler to be extra safe so it was distanced from ourselves and of course had our gloves on!
5/11/2020
BONFIRE NIGHT We made our own colourful, textured and bright fireworks using salt and paint!
What do you think?
5/11/2020
BONFIRE NIGHT The juniors conducted a science experiment Called firework explosions using oil, food colouring and water!
DIWALI
13/11/2020
Happy Diwali. We celebrated the Hindu festival of light by colouring with bright colours and making Rangoli patterns out of rice!
13/11/2020
Diwali
This week at Fusion we have been celebrating the Hindu festival of light. We made candles to symbolise light! We can’t wait to see some of yours in your homes! They look fantastic and so colourful! 
Diwali
This week at Fusion we have been celebrating the Hindu festival of Light. The children decorated their own hands to symbolise what Hindus do during the celebration.
Did you know…. The art the children did was called ‘Mehndi’ which is a form of body art and temporary skin decoration originating in ancient India, in which decorative designs are created on a person’s body, using a paste, created from the powdered dry leaves of the henna plant!
14/11/2020
DIWALI
We celebrated the Hindu festival of light 
We learnt the story of Sita and Rama and made Diva lamps using salt dough and decorated our hands which is called Mehndi which is normally from powdered dry leaves of the henna plant
14/11/2020
DIWALI
We celebrated the Hindu festival of light
We learnt the story of Sita and Rama and made Diva lamps and read a story about lighting a lamp and the celebration.
Diwali- 14/11/2020
the festival of light 
This week the children made lanterns otherwise known as ‘Kandeels’!
It is believed that when lighting the lantern the spirits will visit their relatives. If there is no light then the dead would curse their relatives to live in darkness!
REMEMBRANCE DAY
13/10/2020
a group of Year 2 children went for a little walk to the duck ponds to complete the famous ‘Dave Trail’ which was set up by the wonderful Jane at Fusion. The children (and adults) had a great time!!
13/10/2020
This week at Fusion we made some yummy fairy cakes. The children used the scales to measure out the ingredients and make the cake!
We decorated our cakes with chocolate dinosaur eggs!!
14/10/2020
“Would I like to paint bread?, you said”
All you need is:
Food colouring with a splash of milk in
Paintbrush
Bread
Toaster
Instructions: Paint your bread and pop it in the toaster and there you have it, painted colourful toast.
For world food week- we painted bread.
Remembrance Day – 11/11/2020
We spoke about what makes a Hero- brave, honest, heroic, kind, bold! We also made lots of poppies with different materials!
11/11/2020
Remembrance Day 2020
Some beautiful Flanders field water paint pictures!
‘In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly’
Remembrance Day – 11/11/20
This week we have made our own medals to remember the soldiers who fought in the war. The children really focused and they look fantastic! 
RECYCLING WEEK
Recycling Week – 24/11/2020
The infant children did a fantastic job of litter picking and making the school even cleaner than it already is!! We spoke about the importance of Recycling and how we can be green!
Recycling Week- 24/11/2020
We have been saving our milk lids to create funky characters and monsters! We had great fun making these 
Recycling Week – 25/11/2020
– 25/11/2020The junior children used old s DVD Sleeves and created their own front cover for a new movie they have created. What great and imaginative titles!
Recycling Week- -25/11/2020
-25/11/2020The children used magazines and interior books to design their dream homes. Instead of putting the magazines in the recycling bin we used them to decorate mood boards.
Recycling Week
Yesterday at Fusion the Year 2’s washed jane’s car! We used rain water we have been collecting and recyclable cloths! The children had so much fun although Jane’s is now covered in mud 
Recycling Week 
The Juniors made their own boats using materials they found. The children then experimented which boats float and which ones sunk!
Recycling Week
We made stationary holders out of rectangle materials, played recycling bingo and made up our own game of the memory game. We have learnt a lot about recycling and how we don’t always have to buy new toys etc we can make our own and it’s just as fun!
Recycling Week
We have been discussing the importance of Recycling and why we need to ensure this is being done. We spoke about what we can recycle and had a quiz to show our understanding.
The children planted cress seeds and decorated their pots using recyclable materials!
THANKSGIVING AND ST ANDREWS DAY
Happy Thanksgiving 
– 26/11/2020
– 26/11/2020Today we have celebrate Thanksgiving by learning about the celebration, we decorated Turkeys and made our dream feasts!!
Happy St Andrews Day 
– 30/11/2020
– 30/11/2020Today we made Scottish shortbread! They tasted delicious 
Happy St Andrews Day. – 30/11/2020
Today we celebrated the Scottish celebration!
CHRISTMAS – DECEMBER 2020
HANNUKAH
Happy Hanukkah – 10/12/2020
This week we have celebrated The Jewish Festival of Light, Hanukkah. We made our own Menorah’s and Dreidals and listened to traditional Jewish Stories.
We used our edible dreidals to play a game and made some fresh Challah bread 
Happy Hanukkah 10/12/2020
This week we have celebrated The Jewish Festival of Light, Hanukkah. We made our own Menorah’s and Dreidals and listened to traditional Jewish Stories.
We played a really fun game using the Dreidel!
NATIONAL CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN JANUARY 2021 – MARCH 2021
MOTHERS DAY
Happy Mother’s Day 
– 14/03/2021
– 14/03/2021This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers 
What’s your favourite pun!
We think you’re 1 in a ‘melon’ 
we think you’re the ‘grate-est’ 
You’re ‘fan’tastic
Happy Mothers Day- ‘Hop’ you have a good day 
we love you ‘berry’ much 
Happy Mother’s Day – 14/03/21
– 14/03/21This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers
Happy Mother’s Day – 14/03/21
– 14/03/21This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers
We love you ‘Berry’ much 
Happy Mother’s Day
This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers
Peppermint creams- https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/peppermint-creams
Happy Mother’s Day – 14/03/21
– 14/03/21This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers
Happy Mother’s Day
This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers
Happy Mother’s Day – 14/03/2021
– 14/03/2021Happy Mother’s Day
This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers
Happy Mother’s Day – 14/03/21
– 14/03/21This week at fusion we have been celebrating Mother’s Day and all the special ladies in our lives. We have been busy making, baking, sticking and painting for our mums, step mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters, neighbours, friends, teachers
You’re my cup of tea 
ST PATRICKS DAY
Guess the COVID Safe Leprechaun 
– 17/03/21
– 17/03/21
Happy St Patrick’s Day 
-17/03/21
-17/03/21
Happy St Patrick’s Day – 17/03/21
– 17/03/21Did you know st Patrick’s real name was Maewyn Succat??
We had fun completing an Irish word search, Irish dancing and creating our own st Paddy’s day wish! 
St Patrick’s Day experiment- Rainbow Jar Science Experiment
Try this activity at home and see how many layers you can get!
Happy St Patrick’s Day – 17/03/21
– 17/03/21Top of the mornin’ to you!
Today at fusion we planned how to catch a Leprechaun- some very interesting ideas and made different types of rainbows- we didn’t find any gold at the end though 
and made different types of rainbows- we didn’t find any gold at the end though Did you know the Green in Ireland’s flag stands for nature and hope!
EASTER
HAPPY EASTER 🐑🐣🐰🥕 – 2021
We have been busy hopping around making Easter crafts and learning about Easter. Have a look what we have been up to!
PET WEEK
National Pet Week 
This week at Fusion we have been looking at animals.
We have been acting out and guessing different animals, making natural remedies for the animals in the mud and even had a interesting debate about adopting v’s buying a pet!
Pet Week at Fusion 
Pet Week- The Junior children had a fantastic debate as to whether animals should be given as prizes! Have a look at what the children said 
Pet Week!
Claire brought her rabbit,Smoky into Fusion for us to play with! We couldn’t believe how soft she was and the Juniors have now started a campaign to get a school pet!!!
Today at Fusion carrying on with Pet Week, we were very lucky to have a Shetland Pony called Solo join us! We learnt lots about him and enjoyed stroking him!
National Pet Day
Today to celebrate National Pet Week, the lovey paula and Skye came to visit 
Skye the dog is a diabetic dog and we learnt what it was like to live with Skye.
Skye the dog is a diabetic dog and we learnt what it was like to live with Skye.We loved asking lots of questions about Skye and learning about Huskey’s! Thank you for visiting Fusion
National Pet Day- this week at Fusion we have been celebrating pets!
We made our own animal masks and played pairs by matching the noise to the animal 
Happy Earth Day
We made informative posters on how we can protect our species
WORLD EARTH DAY
22/04/21
Happy Earth Day 
Happy Earth Day
We spoke about what we can do to help the planet and what we can do to be less harmful! We made our own acrostic poems and decorated world biscuits
Happy Earth Day
To celebrate Earth Day we had a debate about Climate change and what we can do to keep our world safe!
Happy Earth Day
Happy Earth Day
We did a cool science experiment using bicarbonate soda and vinegar to see how the world is being polluted! We were looking at eruptions and natural disasters that occur
QUEENS BDAY
21/04/21
The Queens Birthday activity this morning at Fusion 
Queen’s birthday celebrations today at Fusion! If I were queen for the day….
ST GEORGES DAY
24/04/21
Happy St George’s Day
We played chase the flag And decorated our own dragon eggs!
Happy St George’s Day
We made our own dragons, shields and roses to celebrate Saint George
Happy St George’s Day
We decorated our own shields and pretended to be knights. We role played the story of Saint George and learnt about the celebration of the Patron Saint of Englan
WORLD PENGUIN DAY
29/04/21
National Penguin Day 
We have been busy this week at fusion learning about Penguins and their habitats
National Penguin Day
We have been busy this week at fusion learning about Penguins and their habitats
National Penguin Day
We have been busy this week at fusion learning about Penguins and their habitats
National Penguin Day
We have been busy this week at fusion learning about Penguins and their habitats
National Penguin Day
We have been busy this week at fusion learning about Penguins and their habitats and made our own homes for the penguins!
CHILDRENS WEEK
10/05/21
Mmmh delicious bread rolls made last week by the Infant children!
Children week! The children chose to focus on Disney week this week- do you like our Forky and Mr Potato!
Children’s week- this week at fusion the children wanted to look at Disney! Can you guess what films these crafts are from?
We will give you a clue- Snow White is one!
EID MUBARAK
13/05/21
The lovely Nisem spoke to the children about her culture and celebrations around Eid. We learnt a lot and the children asked some fantastic questions! We practiced henna designs and the children even got to decorate the staffs hands! Eid Mubarak 
GENERAL FUN AT FUSION
20/05/21
Water fun today at Fusion! What imaginative games the children thought of!
Happy World Bee Day -20/05/21
-20/05/21
Happy World Turtle Day 
-24/05/21
-24/05/21We sang the lovely And catchy Tim the Tiny Turtle to celebrate world Turtle Day
Happy World Turtle Day – 24/05/21
– 24/05/21We sang the lovely And catchy Tim the Tiny Turtle to celebrate world Turtle Day
Happy World Otter day! – 28/05/21
Why did the otter cross the road? To get to the otter side
JUNE ACTIVITES
Fun in the sunshine today at Fusion 
– 08/06/21
– 08/06/21
Fun in the sun this week den building in the shade and lots of secret spies!
den building in the shade and lots of secret spies!
These have just gone in the postbox for some of our lovely children…..
Smoothie making!! – 21/06/21
Today at Fusion We have made delicious fruit and vegetable smoothies! We chose up to 5 ingredients and mixed our own juices together! 
Some children tried some new fruits including cranberries, mango and pineapple but the most popular was a strawberry surprise
Fun in the sun this week den building in the shade and lots of secret spies!
den building in the shade and lots of secret spies!
These have just gone in the postbox for some of our lovely children…..
FATHER’S DAY
Father’s Day – 18/06/21
This week at Fusion we have been celebrating the special males in our lives- Dad, Step Dad, Foster Dad, Uncles, Brothers, Friends… 
…’you are my sunshine…. ’
’…..’you’re one in a Mel-on ’
’….’ You are the coolest…. 
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Father’s Day – 18/06/21
This week at Fusion we have been celebrating the special males in our lives- Dad, Step Dad, Foster Dad, Uncles, Brothers, Friends…
… we think you rock!!!
This week at Fusion we have been celebrating the special males in our lives- Dad, Step Dad, Foster Dad, Uncles, Brothers, Friends…