Goudhurst & Kilndown Church of England Primary School

Tuesday 5 May 2026 Forest School We had a lovely day at forest school and we're very grateful to our forest school leader Bumblebee and also Rosehip for giving us all such a brilliant day.

Thursday 30 April 2026 The Rare Breeds Centre 2026 Hippo Class had a wonderful day out on our school trip to the Rare Breeds Centre.

Thursday 23 April 2026 Hippo Class this week We have had a really lovely first week back to school. Our caterpillars have arrived and we are watching them grow and change as we learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. We had lots of fun in PE learning our sports day races and we also loved dancing at our danceathon.

Wednesday 1 April 2026 Knight Day and Our New Learning It was brilliant seeing everyone dressed up as knights for our knight day. We had fun making hobby horses and riding them round on the playground. We had a brilliant range of names from Twinkle, Daisy and Sparkle to John, Robert and Jack Dennis! And of course, one was named 6,7. Knight day was a lovely way to conclude our learning on castles and knights. At the end of our knight day, I changed over our learning board, ready for the new term. In term 5 our learning focus will be living and growing. We will start off by reading ‘The very hungry caterpillar' by Eric Carle and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. On the last day of this term I introduced our new learning. We read the story and watched a little video all about the life cycle. My mum very kindly knitted me the hungry caterpillar resources and created a big knitted caterpillar with all the food he eats so as we go through the story the children can put the food in the caterpillar… and of course w

Wednesday 1 April 2026 Drumming On Friday 27th March we met Ben Jackson who will be teaching us drumming next term. Mr Jackson will be teaching us virtually, on Friday afternoons, in groups of 10. Hippo Class really enjoyed this and really impressed us with their focus. I hope they enjoy it next term too.

Wednesday 1 April 2026 Hippo Class Last Week Here are photos from last week. Hippos had a great time dancing in PE with Mrs Mileham, and also enjoyed Cosmic Yoga in Hippo Class. We completed our maths learning for the term and learnt the sound oi in phonics. Hippo Class have been really creative in their play, and have been drawing castles and building castles with all kinds of resources available within our continuous provision, and they are able to use their knowledge and apply it to their play.

Thursday 19 March 2026 Hippo Class this week We have had such a wonderful week. We enjoyed our vet visit, as well as watching a musical production of The Railway Children. And Mrs Coleman and I have continued to observe lots of engagement from the children with our learning focus ‘Castles and Knights', not only through adult directed learning but through the children's play in child initiated time.

Thursday 19 March 2026 Vet Visit As part of science week, on Wednesday morning, Mr Cameron came to talk to us about what it is like to be a vet. We put animals in size order, learned about their heart beats, learned how to use a stethoscope and how to bandage an animal. We also learned that an elephants heart is is big as a beach ball. And how tiny a rabbits heart is. The children had all sorts of interesting questions to ask him and we loved learning about how science is an important subject if you want to be vet.

Friday 13 March 2026 Hippo Class this week This week we have continued our learning on castles and knights. The class really engaged with the story ‘The castle the king built' and have really impressed me with their writing as they develop their independence. In child initiated time a group of children built an impressive castle out on blocks and cones, making battlements, a drawbridge, towers and a moat with chalk. They then had a wonderful time in their imaginative play, pretending to be kings, queens and knights, protecting the castle from attack. They did this independently, using their knowledge of castles.

Friday 13 March 2026 PE this week This week we had PE on Monday and Tuesday. We did jumping on both of our lessons.

Friday 6 March 2026 World Book Day We loved celebrating world book day. Don't they all look amazing!

Thursday 5 March 2026 Hippo Class this week The week has flown by! This week we learnt ‘er' in phonics and continued our learning with number bonds to 10 in maths.

Friday 27 February 2026 Hippo Class this week What a lovely start to term. We had some sunshine and it felt like Spring is on it's way.

Thursday 22 January 2026 Hippo Class this week We have had a lovely week. The children are really beginning to develop their independence and interest to write in child initiated time.

Thursday 15 January 2026 Hippo Class this week Hippo Class have really embraced our learning on Space and have engaged well with our story ‘meet the planets'. They have been writing about rockets as well as learning the dwarf planets song.

Friday 9 January 2026 Hippo Class this week We have had a really lovely first week back to term 3. Everyone has engaged really well with their learning and it has been wonderful to catch up with them and hear their news.

Friday 9 January 2026 Hippo Class- Rockets! This term we are learning about Space, and our story of the week was ‘Whatever Next', all about a bear who finds a rocket and flies it to the moon. We have loved building rockets this week, I am very impressed with everyone's creations!

Friday 9 January 2026 Hippo Class- PE We had lots of fun in PE on Monday and Tuesday this week.

Thursday 18 December 2025 Hippo Class - Merry Christmas! Here are some photos from the last couple of weeks. Sorry there aren't more! The last couple of weeks of term are so busy with the nativity performances and the pantomime trip as well as all our end of term commitment's that I've barely found a moment to pick up the tablet. But what a lovely couple of weeks we have had.

Thursday 4 December 2025 Hippo Class this week We have had a busy week preparing for our nativity performances next week, and this included our first dress rehearsal!

Thursday 27 November 2025 Hippo Class This Week This week we had fun meeting farmers William and Penny (Rosehip from forest school) and learning all about what it is like to be a farmer. As you can see, they kindly brought one of their tractors with them and we all enjoyed having a turn sitting in the tractor. We are so grateful for them to take the time to come and see us, it really brought our topic ‘people who help us' to life.

Thursday 20 November 2025 Hippo Class this week This week has flown by and we certainly enjoyed the snow, even if it only lasted half an hour!

Sunday 16 November 2025 Hippo Class this week We have had a great week in Hippo Class. All the children worked really hard on their writing about poppies and engaged well with their maths learning of one more. Next week we will learn about one less.

Monday 10 November 2025 Hippo Class last week Here are photos from last week!

Thursday 30 October 2025 Hippo Class this week We have had a lovely first week back! This week we have explored 3D shapes in maths, learnt new sounds in phonics (f, ff, l, ll, ss) as well as developing our skills with segmenting and blending and letter formation. On Monday afternoon in PE we started our new unit on ‘target' and practiced throwing and catching. On Tuesday afternoon in PSHE we discussed what makes us special and on Wednesday we focused on our topic ‘people who help us' as well as talking about fireworks which will be our writing focus next week. The children have really engaged with our story of the week ‘a superhero like you' by Dr Ranj and enjoyed sharing what jobs their grown ups do.

Friday 17 October 2025 Hippo Class this week We have had a brilliant last week of term! And we thoroughly enjoyed our time with our buddies this afternoon, watching the magician and spending time outside afterwards.

Friday 10 October 2025 Hippo Class this week This week we have loved learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin and today we explored real pumpkins. We will continue reading our story pumpkin Jack and learning about the life cycle through the seasons.

Thursday 2 October 2025 Hippo Class this week We have had a lovely week with our carnival taster session and our first Harvest Festival.

Thursday 25 September 2025 Hippo Class this week This week in Hippo Class we have been learning m, d and g in phonics, practicing our letter formation and practicing our segmenting and blending. It is a new skill and we will continue to model to the children how to do it. As we continue to learn more sounds there will be lots of opportunities for segmenting and blending a variety of words. Next week we will be learning the sounds o, c, k and ck.

Friday 19 September 2025 Hippo Class this week What a lovely week we have had in Hippo Class.

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