by Amanda Clough | Jun 21, 2024 | Around The World, Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, IT and Computing, Maths, Outdoor Learning, Science
This week we have participated in the whole school Olympics Celebration Day. We made some fantastic Argentinian Flags on Monday and Tuesday. We painted the appropriate sections light blue and glued on the Argentinian badge. We stripped some Willow sticks of their...
by Amanda Clough | Jun 7, 2024 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, IT and Computing, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning, Science
Our topics this half term are Summer and transport so we have shared stories with those themes during snack times. This week we have focussed on counting again in maths which we did through a variety of games both inside and outdoors. We made our own playdough and...
by Amanda Clough | May 24, 2024 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, IT and Computing, Maths, News
We have had another lovely week. We have tended to our seedlings which are thriving in their bigger plant pots and new greenhouse. However, some of our seedlings have been eaten by slugs so we have put some Rosemary in our greenhouse which will hopefully repel the...
by Mr. Hawdon | May 22, 2024 | Around The World, Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, English, Events and Visits, Health and Well-Being, Ladybirds, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Proud to Present, Reception, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips, Willows
Yesterday, Liz Million came to Windy Nook for the day to share her amazing knowledge on illustrating. She worked with the whole school in workshops across the day. Liz began to share her story to the children about how she is from Darlington, went to university in...
by Amanda Clough | May 17, 2024 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, Health and Well-Being, News, Outdoor Learning, Science
This week we have spent a lot of time in our nursery garden. We used compost from our compost bin and re-potted our sunflower seedlings into bigger plant pots. We discovered some tomato seedling growing in the sunflower plant pots which are a result of tomatoes being...
by Amanda Clough | May 10, 2024 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning
During snack time we have shared the story, Not a Stick. We found a stick outdoors and re-enacted the story. We used our imagination to pretend the stick was an object. Some of chose items from the story and some of us thought of our own items like a flower and a...
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