This Is Me – Celebrating Growth and Progress in Nursery
This week, the children updated our “This is Me” display by creating a new self-portrait. Each child carefully observed a photograph of themselves and produced a drawing, which was then placed over last term’s portrait. This gave them the chance to compare their...
Owls find one more and one less.
Owls have continued to build their confidence with numbers to 50 this week. They’ve been using Base 10 to make different numbers and exploring how many tens and ones each number contains. The children have also enjoyed practising finding one more and one less—adding...
Winter Wonders in Nursery
This week in Nursery, the children have been fully immersed in a magical world of winter! Our learning was inspired by the story Jack Frost, which led to wonderful discussions about the characters and the winter weather shown in the book. The children shared...
Owl’s get partitioning
This week, Owls have been investigating numbers to 50. They have been counting in multiples of 10 and making numbers up to 50 using base 10. On Friday they started to partition the numbers into tens and ones using a part whole model. They were amazing...
From Snowy Toes to Sparkling Trees in Nursery!
The children have been full of festive creativity! They designed Christmas cards featuring fantastic snowmen made from their own footprints. First, they chose their favourite colour of card and practiced their design and technology skills by folding it carefully so...
Elms and Oaks Get on the Road to RIAT
Elms and Oaks took part today in the Road to RIAT STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) challenge. We first learnt about how rockets get into space. We used this knowledge to design our own rockets, thinking about the most effective shapes for the fins and...
Festive Hats Ready for the Big Performance!
This week, the children enjoyed a festive craft activity as they prepared for our upcoming Christmas performance. Each child had the choice of making a hat shaped like either a reindeer or a Christmas tree. To begin, the children used their handprints as the main...
From Zebra Crossings to Lollipop Patrol – Road Safety Week in Nursery!
This week, we celebrated Road Safety Week with lots of hands-on learning! The children created red and green crossing props to understand traffic signals by cutting them out and attaching them to a lolly stick, We watched a short road safety video, and then put tour...
A Week of Kindness and Remembrance in Nursery
This Week in Nursery we celebrated Interfaith Week by learning about Christianity. The children listened to the story of The Good Samaritan, which helped us think about what it means to be kind and helpful to others. They enjoyed discussing ways we can show kindness...
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...