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Kind Hands in Nursery

Kind Hands in Nursery

We have continued to focus on following our nursery routine and getting to know each other this week. We read the story, Picasso's Trousers and talked about how we are all artists like Picasso. We have now all completed self portrait paintings which look fantastic...

Rocking in our School Shoes!

Rocking in our School Shoes!

The children have had another fabulously busy week in the reception classes. They have spent time counting objects accurately and knowing the total. They have enjoyed writing and drawing in the writing area and in the outdoors. The children were delighted to see their...

Owls and Robins match numerals to words

Owls and Robins match numerals to words

Owls have been enjoying working with their partner in Maths to read number names and match to their numeral. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or...

New Beginnings in Nursery

New Beginnings in Nursery

A warm welcome to our new friends in nursery and also our children who attended nursery last term. Our existing children have welcomed their new friends with kindness and some friendships are already beginning to form. We are focussing on following the nursery routine...

Windy Winners!

Windy Winners!

This week our awards were for Top Writer and Top Growth Mindset. Well done to all of our winners. Class  Top Growth Mindset  Top Writer        Robins  Thea  Amaris    Owls  Ariadne  Lucas     Nightingales  Harry  Joel     Bluebells  Heidi   Hamed    Tulips  Alfie ...

Games, art, 90s and much more!

Games, art, 90s and much more!

This week in nursery we have continued to focus on beaches and Summer. We read the story, Bluey, The Beach and discussed words like; scuttle and pipi. We used the internet to find out what they mean and we watched a video of a crab scuttling and then we pretended to...

Tricky Problem Solving in Bees

Tricky Problem Solving in Bees

The Bees have been using their Mojos to stay resilient while completing a tricky problem solving task. They had to make each line using the counters on the plates add up to 10. Once they had solved that problem they had to do the same task making each line add up to...

Beach treasure!

Beach treasure!

Following on from our story called Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab, we have focused on beaches this week as Tiny Crab lived at the beach in the story. We looked at and discussed a variety of items that were found on the beach like; seaweed, crabs, starfish, drift wood,...

3d Nets in Bluebells

3d Nets in Bluebells

Last week, Bluebells were working on shape in maths. They looked at the difference between 2d and 3d shapes and identified their features: faces, edges, vertices and angles. On Friday, children used nets to build a range of different 3d shapes; it was a tricky job but...

The sun has got his hat on!

The sun has got his hat on!

We have continued to focus on the story Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab. We know the story really well know and we have participated in some super acting of it. We finished drawing fantastic pictures of the characters and items from the story and they look brilliant on our...

Counting in 2’s!

Counting in 2’s!

This week, Reception children have been learning how to count in 2's, and thinking of reasons why we would need to count in 2's. We looked at pairing socks and wellies together and worked out how many pairs before counting how many individual. The children became...

Magnificent Measuring in Bees

Magnificent Measuring in Bees

The Bees have been learning how to measure accurately. They know this is very important because they might want to be joiners, tailors or builders when they are older. They practised measuring objects in the classroom and in the playground before being given a...