2024/2025 – Fusion

SEPTEMBER

WELCOME BACK

September

…. And we’re back!

We have had a lovely day today welcoming back existing children and meeting new children!

This week we are focusing on settling back into Fusion routine, House points and exploring new resources!

Wow another day exploring, we checked in on our eco pond spoke about rules and what makes a good friend and added them to our monkey tree

10/09/24-

This year we were very excited to start taking Nursery children from the Grove School and providing wrap around care for them.

This has been a huge success and they have all settled in so well and it’s lovely to see some of the children come from Fusion Pre-School !

ROALD DAHL DAY

Roald Dahl Week

What characters can you recognise? We have made beards, created our own chocolate factory and mixed together some of George’s Marvellous medicine

‘When you think good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely’ Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Week

We designed our own book covers

made our own gruesome twits

played Roald Dahls Bingo game and mixed together our own marvellous creations

Did you know that Roald Dahl wrote over 60 short stories… how many have you read?

Roald Dahl Week

Look what we have been up to this….

The Dream Catchers are from the BFG. Did you know Native Americans believed that at night the air was filled with dreams, both good and bad. They would hang the dream catcher over their beds. They had to be careful that daylight could reach it. As its name suggests, it attracts and then catches in its web all kinds of dreams and thoughts.

We made violet from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as she blows up bigger and BIGGER!

PEACE DAY

YOM KIPPUR

World Peace Day…

‘The International Day of Peace is for ‘commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace within and among all nations and peoples’. Put simply, it aims to build a more peaceful world for everyone who lives in it. Peace affects almost every aspect of our lives

A lovely week at Fusion!

The juniors went offsite on an adventure to post some cards for the younger children. A group of juniors have started a art club on Wednesdays 5-6pm, it’s going great and this week they made flowers!

and homework and reading club!!

LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS LUNCH

The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch

This week we have made water colour paintings, decorated lighthouses, role played with the shops and used our forest school skills to use pullies to carry lunch from one location to another!

“We have a light upon our house and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas”

The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch

This week we have made our own lighthouses,’adr telescopes and chosen our favourite lunch choices!

What a busy week!

SUPERTATO

Supertato!

What’s your super power?

There’s an evil pea on the loose in the supermarket, causing havoc wherever he goes! He has sticky-plastered poor carrot to the conveyor belt and drawn a moustache and glasses on broccoli, and poor old cucumber has been mummified with a bandage! Still, try to calm your frayed nerves because, never fear, Supertato is here to save the day!

Supertato Book….

We captured the pesky peas and mushed them up!

Tried Brussels sprouts but they did not go down very well

Made our own super hero potatoes and characters

Supertato Book

Arcimboldo paintings and vegetable printing

Did you know -some of Arcimboldo’s portraits are reversible, and are designed to show a completely different image when viewed upside down, such as “Reversible Head with Basket of Fruit.”

SPACE TORTOISE

Next week the book we are focusing on is…. Space Tortoise….

Also looking at Rosh Hashanah

and World Smile Day

Space Tortoise!

We met the real life tortoise called April from sycamore class. Enjoys making our own tortoises using buttons and enjoyed playing with the tuff tray!

Did you know tortoises are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for “tortoise”)

This week we have been making cakes! We practiced different types of icing and frosting using different methods.

Did you know….

The term ‘cupcake’ was originally used in the late 19th century for cakes made from ingredients measured by the cupful. The traditional pound cake recipe was easy to remember for its pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of flour, and a pound of eggs. Likewise, the name “cupcake” comes from how the recipe was measured: 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, and 4 eggs.!

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Floella Benjamin – Coming to England

This week we have been reading the book Coming To England. We have made butterflies, masks and reception practiced their cutting skills. Thr juniors made these delicious Nigerian treats called chin chin.

https://www.seriouseats.com/nigerian-chin-chin-recipe…

Back History Month – this month we have been speaking about the amazing contributions that people have made to society as a whole. We have spoken and learnt about the impact of Black music, Black scientists and inventors, activists.

This is a great resource from National Geographic to support explaining Black History

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/…/black-history-month

This week we have been making cakes! We practiced different types of icing and frosting using different methods.

Did you know….

ROSH HASHANAH

AUTUMN

DIWALI

Rosh Hashanah

At Fusion we have some children who celebrate the Jewish festival Rosh Hashanah, we ate honey and apples which symbolises a sweet new year, tried pomegranates and made apple biscuits!

Have a read to see different ways to celebrate

https://www.chabad.org/…/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah-2024.htm

It’s Autumn….

We made scarecrows, acrostic poems, played with the leaves and made oat and apple muffins!

Find the easy recipe here…https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/…/oaty-healthy-apple-muffins

Diwali

We have been celebrated Diwali this week. We put on sahrees and made mango lassi which is a a sweet smoothie drink!

HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween!

We have been celebrating early this year!! We made moving bats

scary outfits

skeleton activity

and spider making

Halloween activities!

Witches potion making station- the children were experimenting with different textures and resources to make their potions

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Did you know…. People originally carved turnips instead of pumpkins.

It’s been a spooky week at Fusion….

We have made ghosts, Batman masks, spiders and ghouls!

Did you know pumpkins take around 120 days to grow!

REMEMBRANCE DAY

BONFIRE NIGHT

DIWALI

Lest we forget

and we’re back with a BANG

Sparkler fun this afternoon at Fusion!

Bonfire night activities

Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot!

JIGSAW PERFORMING

OUTSIDE

SPINNEY TRIP

Wow what a fun afternoon we have had!

The lovely Alice from Jigsaw Performing Arts came to Fusion and worked with the Infants and Juniors to teach us a song and dance! Ask you child to show you what they learnt

They’re running classes at KWS in January, have a look to see when!

The dark nights don’t stop us going outside!

We have made lots of games using torches and made patterns using our shadows!

Fun in the woods!

Today we had a lovely autumn walk through the woods! We had a great time collecting pinecones and running down hills!

KARATE

Cranbourne House Treat

In every House on every street…

Boxing

Farrell came in yesterday to teach us about boxing! He taught us the boxing stance, how to jab, cross and how to move. We can’t wait till next week for another lesson!

Cranbourne House Treat

Well done for winning the most amount of house points, the children voted and won an ice cream at Fusion!

We have had a lot of fun this week exploring different types of houses after reading ‘in every house on every street’

A TICKET AROUND THE WORLD

Topic – A Ticket Around The World

This week we have tried different flavoured teas from around the world!

We made croissants from France and chocolate truffles from France

Today we went on our aeroplane and went around the world we stopped off at China and tried Mooli and Dudhi cuisine from India!

Today at Fusion the infants learnt about different types of buildings around the world. We used junk modelling to make different famous landmarks….

Well done to Nisem’s team who made Big Ben- great teamwork!

The pyramids, Eiffle Tower, Big Ben were a few of the creations

This week we are looking at the Book ‘A Ticket Around The World’ we have spoken about different countries and the animals that are native there. We learnt about Brazil and made posters with our findings. Made Brazilian masks and have been listening to music around the world….

Book Topic – A Ticket Around The World

Do you know What country these come from?

Steel Pan In Motion came to Fusion today! Wow we learnt so much today about the steel pan! Did you know it’s the youngest instruments? it has letters inside the drum to help us make the music!

CHRISTMAS

JANUARY

WORLD RELIGION DAY

A group of Juniors visited St John’s Church today to celebrate World Religion Day

World Religion Day 2025 is a day dedicated to acknowledging and respecting the various religious traditions and beliefs practiced around the world. It encourages individuals to learn about different religions, engage in interfaith conversations, and work towards a more harmonious and inclusive society.

WORLD RELIGION DAY

World Religion Day

This week we have been looking at different religions around the world.

Watch this short clip to understand a bit more about Religion Day…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQ9x6rKvoY

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year!

We have welcomed our families back this week!

COLOUR MONSTER

Colour Monster

This week we have been talking about our emotions and feelings and how we display them. We made emotion watches to use!

This is a free resources which you can download for activities to suppose children’s well-being…

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/resources/…

A group of Juniors visited St John’s Church today to celebrate World Religion Day

Percy the Post Penguin

Penguin week!

Watch this cute video of a Penguin making friends

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3uXXh1sHcI

Today is National Penguin Day

The book we are looking at is ‘Percy The Post Penguin’

Did you know… Penguins often dance for joy at the sight of someone they love. When penguins find their love, they also sing to them.

Percy The Post Penguin

Did you know- A group of penguins in the water is called a raft but on land they’re called a waddle!

“Have you ever seen a Penguin come to tea… take a look at me… a Penguin you will see”

Chinese New Year

We have had another day of learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year. As it is year of the snake we did lots of snake crafts and even got to meet a snake called Tom!

We also got to try some tasty prawn crackers!

Chinese New Year

Did you know it’s the year of the snake

The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.

Valentine’s Day

“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet”

Valentine’s Day craft.

Can you guess the language?

Je t’aime

ami tomay bhalobashi

Eus te amo portuguese

Ich liebe dich German

aishiteru

i love you

Te quiero

Amharic

kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah

wo ie ni

Ek het jou lief

ya lyublyu tebya

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Valentine’s Day

Today we have been experimenting with colour and water using pipettes and spray bottles Ronnie heart pictures

National Bird Week

We have really enjoyed learning about birds and knowing about their habitats. Can you see what birds we have made?

Bird nests, bird colouring, bird word searches, bird feeders…..

Q: What do you give a sick bird?

A: Tweetment!

MARCH

Ramadan Mubarak.

Saturday/Sunday is the first day or Ramadan and this week we have been learning about fasting and the Muslim faith. We have spoken a lot about giving to charity and being kind to each other and not wasting food.

Jobs!

Do you have an interesting job – we would love to hear about it? Come into fusion to speak to the children.

We have been looking at police officers, construction workers and played bingo with jobs!!

St David’s day

Today we celebrated the welsh day – St David’s Day

Did you know St David is the patron saint of Wales, and its national symbol is the daffodil. One of the first flowers of spring, the daffodil is usually in full bloom by 1 March, the day St David died in 589 AD.

Pancake Day. Shrove Tuesday

Today we had lots of fun with shrove Tuesday, we decorated our own pancakes then used the toppings to recreate them!

Fats

Pancake Day is also known as Shrove Tuesday. …

Pancake Day is a Christian festival. …

It always falls 47 days before Easter. …

The name ‘Shrove Tuesday’ comes from the word ‘shriving’. …

The first pancake day was in 1445. …

The

Exciting news!!!

Fusion now has an allotment on the piggotshill site! We’re all very excited and have wonderful visions! We need your help! Can you spare some time to help us? Offer us your gardening wisdom? Any green fingers out there?

we’re going to be taking the children in small groups to help us too!

Allotment is well under way! What brilliant helpful children who are all passionate about gardening and wild life

Science week 2025

This week we have asked who do science experiments at home- only 40% children said they do! There are lots of Simple science ideas and resources available on this link-

https://www.britishscienceweek.org

Finishing science week with magnets looking at forces, invisible writing and a rain cloud experiment!

Have a look at this simple science experiment –https://funlearningforkids.com/rain-cloud-jar-science…/

Science week

Making slime, making breadsticks experimenting with yeast and activation, cloud dough and looking t Isaac Newton!

Did you know –

Isaac Newton has two birthdays. …

Isaac almost gave up on his education. …

An apple never actually fell on his head. …

Newton discovered a lot more than gravity. …

Isaac has his own special 50p. …

He died at age 84.

His dog set the laboratory on fire once

Mothering Sunday.

This week we have been celebrating all the special ladies in our lives and showing our appreciation to them.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the special ladies in our lives

Who knew? The roots of Mother’s Day go as far back as Ancient Greece, when Greeks used to hold an annual spring festival dedicated to the maternal Goddess Rhea, mother of the Gods.

APRIL

St George’s Day activities

The allotment is taking shape!! Helen has been working her magic over the Easter break… we have strawberries and radish’s growing already!

This week the sun has been shining and following the children’s interesting den building- Helen implemented some of her Forest School learning as we built dens and had pullies the children played with.

MAY

Detective Dog

We found a crime scene left in the hall and had to read the clues to work out who did it? The children read the clues and worked together to find out who did it and who’s body shape it was!!

We made dog houses using our kinetic magnets too!

Detective Dog Book

This week we made paw biscuits, found the goodies in the dog food, role played with paw patrol, and used our nose sense to sniff out the food/drink!

As part of our ‘Detective Dog’ topic this week, Jim kindly came to Fusion with his dog Red. We watched Red sniff out some objects and enjoyed learning about police dogs.

Did you know that Hertfordshire has over 50 police dogs!

Today we had a visit from Phil and his guide dog Humbug! Phil told us all about Humbug and how he helps him every day. He also told us how they train guide dogs and answered lots of our questions!