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...
Baby visitor in Nursery!
We enjoyed having a visitor in nursery on Monday. Miss Clough's great-nephew visited us to help us learn more about babies. He was supposed to visit during our baby animals/mammals topic but was unwell unfortunately. We thoroughly enjoyed having him in nursery and...
Five Little Sunflowers!
We have continued to explore our beach treasure this week. We finished drawing some beach treasure of our choice which has been made into a beautiful display in nursery. We completed beach themed pictures and games on the interactive white board and continued to share...
Beach treasure!
We have started our new beach topic this week. We explored and examined crabs, seaweed, shells, pebbles and drift wood in our investigation area using magnifying glasses. We also shared the book, Look what we found at the beach which is a beautifully illustrated and...
Super snails and much more!
This week we have continued to learn more facts about worms and composting. We started to make a display of what is compostable and which insects we can find in a compost bin. So far we have produced some fantastic worms, fruit flies and snails. We have enjoyed the...
Data Collecting in The Reception Classes
The children have loved learning about pictograms and tally charts. They have spent the week busily finding out their friend’s favourite things and tallying them up to find out their most popular and the least popular. They have used pictograms to find out favourite...