Panda Class Blog 22nd January 2025


Dear Panda Families, 

We hope you are all well! The Pandas are enjoying our recent activities and learning engagements surrounding the Lunar New Year! 

Tomorrow (Thursday, 23rd January) is a non-uniform day. The children are invited to wear their Lunar New Year clothes. 

On Friday 24th, it's a 'dress casual' day, so the children can wear a non-uniform and choose to wear clothes of their choice (ideally colourful clothes, not Disney/Marvel costumes).

We're all looking forward to visiting Bradbury tomorrow with all of our K1 classes and K2 to watch the lion dance!

As you may have seen from our photo albums, the Pandas have been gleefully playing instruments such as the drums and cymbals and taking turns to puppet dragons and lions in open play!


The Pandas have been enjoying the open-play engagements, including finding golden treasure in the sandpit, creating concoctions through scientific role play and practising their gross motor skills outdoors.

In class, we have been discussing Lunar New Year, and remembering how to be kind to one another. We've started a new kindness jar - this time, each class is working towards getting 10 kindness pom poms, and our treat, once completed, is to make fruit salad and have a class picnic in our Panda room!

The Pandas have been very focused whilst making playdough dumplings and showing how dextrous they are when using chopsticks for our 'noodle' inspired sensory tray. 


Some dates for your diaries:

23 Jan - Lion Dance @ Bradbury & LNY Dress Up 

24 Jan - Dress Casual Day

27-31 January: Lunar New Year Break (No School)

3 February: ESF-Wide CPD (No School)

4 February: Classes Resume

21 February: Sports Fun Day


Here are our class photo albums for you to view:

                                            Panda Class AM & Panda Class PM


And our Spotify Album is Here. 


Wishing you all a very Happy Lunar New Year, filled with good health and happiness! 

We look forward to seeing you all soon after the holiday on Tuesday 4th February!


Best regards,

The Panda Team

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