Exploring Remembrance Day and Guy Fawkes Night in Nursery
This week in nursery, we have been learning about Remembrance Day and exploring the significance of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance. The children took part in a variety of creative and sensory activities, including drawing poppies with pencils and crayons, which...
Owls explore tens and ones
Owls class had a great week exploring numbers to 20. They started by looking at 'ten and a bit' making our numbers using tens frames before moving on to tens and ones. We have made the numbers 11-19 and know they all have 1 ten and some ones. 20 almost caught us out...
From Caterpillars to Underpants: Our Repeating Pattern Adventure!
The Reception children have had a fantastic week exploring patterns in lots of creative ways! They threaded colourful beads, made repeating caterpillar patterns, and even created patterns using underpants on a washing line! Through these playful activities, they...
A Taste of Autumn: Cooking, Creativity and Colour!
This week, the children enjoyed a rich and engaging sensory experience inspired by Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. After reading the story together, they took part in a hands-on cooking activity, safely chopping onions, garlic, and pumpkin with adult support. They...
Owls and Robins explore shape
Owls and Robins have been exploring shape. We have been pattern seeking and creating pictures composed of 2d shapes. We also sorted 2D shapes based on their properties.
Hammering into Autumn: Building Strong Hands and Minds
We’ve been busy exploring the wonders of autumn and building strong hands for writing through a variety of exciting and sensory-rich activities. The children used real claw hammers to gently tap golf tees into pumpkins, learning the parts of the hammer — the handle,...
From Leaves to Lupins: Another Week of Discovery
This week, our nursery children have been busy continuing their autumn topic with lots of hands-on exploration and creativity. They closely examined branches, leaves, and acorns collected last week, then created beautiful drawings for our oak tree wall display in the...
Subitising Superstars: Exploring Numbers 1 to 4
This week in Reception, children have been developing their early number sense through exciting activities focused on numbers 1 to 4. Using flashcards, finger patterns, and everyday objects, they practised subitising, recognising small quantities without counting....
NumBots – KS1
We’re excited to let you know that ks1 are using NumBots, a fun and interactive online programme designed to help children build strong foundations in number sense, addition, and subtraction. NumBots is all about helping children develop quick recall of number facts...
Elms Explore Square Numbers
This morning in Elms, we have been exploring square numbers. We used counters to represent the arrays of the first five square numbers, before applying our understanding to fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions. We worked together well with our partners....
Transition and much more!
This week our children who are moving on to Reception in September spent two days in their new classrooms meeting their teachers and familiarising themselves with their surroundings. It was lovely to hear and see how happy the children had been and how impressed their...
Doubling Wings and Growing Things in the Reception Classes
The children in Reception have been thoroughly engaged in a cross-curricular exploration of symmetry, doubling, and the life cycle of a butterfly. The children used paint to create beautiful symmetrical butterflies. In maths, they used butterfly templates and pom poms...