Family names at R'Fives

Last Friday we began to learn to recognise our 'family' or surnames.We made these family shields with our family names on. We talked about what our family long ago may have done to get our family names.

One teacher is called Green and we wondered if her family lived in a field --while another teacher is called Deponeo so some children wondered if long ago her family had a lovely pony. We talked about each childs name then for PE we had a battle between two families after building walls to protect ourselves.

It was a close battle but we reckon the Deponeos were probably the winners--just.l