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Leaf Man Inspires: A Week of Creative Learning

Leaf Man Inspires: A Week of Creative Learning

This week, we concluded our It’s Not a Stick focus with a creative and highly engaging playdough activity. The children worked collaboratively to follow a simple recipe, carefully measuring, pouring, and mixing ingredients to make black playdough. They were fascinated...

Super Shape Investigators!

Super Shape Investigators!

This week in Maths, our Reception children became enthusiastic Shape Explorers, investigating how shapes can move and fit together. They rotated shapes to see how they change, created imaginative pictures by composing shapes, and carefully decomposed them to...

Tree Detectives: Discovering Nature Around Us

Tree Detectives: Discovering Nature Around Us

This week the children enjoyed a lovely mix of group time and learning through play. During a Circle Time we began with a short songs warm‑up using familiar action songs such as Let’s Go Walking and Funky Monkey, helping to build confidence, relationships and a sense...

Turning Simple Materials into Big Ideas!

Turning Simple Materials into Big Ideas!

This week in Nursery, we continued to support our new friends by helping them become familiar with daily routines and understand how to access all areas of the nursery. The children are growing in confidence and independence as they settle in and build relationships...

Balancing Act in Y2 Maths!

Balancing Act in Y2 Maths!

We’ve been getting hands‑on with measuring mass using balancing scales. We started by using cubes to compare objects – adding cubes until the scales balanced to see which items were heavier or lighter. Once children understood how balancing works, we moved on to real...

This Is Me: Creativity and Confidence

This Is Me: Creativity and Confidence

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of our new children and their families. It has been a pleasure watching everyone settle in, and we are incredibly proud of how our “older” children have welcomed, supported, and nurtured our new starters. Their...

Owls and Robins reach 100

Owls and Robins reach 100

This week in KS1, our Owls and Robins have been busy growing their number confidence all the way up to 100! The children have been partitioning numbers into tens and ones, helping them really understand what numbers are made of rather than just recognising them. Using...

Springtime Fun and Easter Learning in Nursery

Springtime Fun and Easter Learning in Nursery

This week in Nursery, we focused on Easter and explored the Easter story together. Our playdough area had a special Easter and new‑life theme, complete with Easter chicks and spring decorations to spark imaginative play. We finished our Easter cards by writing names...

Exploring Patterns and New Life in Nursery

Exploring Patterns and New Life in Nursery

This week in nursery the children enjoyed a range of spring‑themed learning experiences. In maths they explored and developed early movement pattern understanding through gross motor actions, body awareness, and spatial reasoning. They created simple repeating...

Weigh to go Robins!

Weigh to go Robins!

This week in Robins, we’ve been busy investigating the mass of different objects. The children have been using words like heavy, light, greater than, and less than to compare items around the classroom. Using balance scales and non‑standard units (our trusty cubes!),...

Spring Flowers, Sorting Games and Creative Play in Nursery!

Spring Flowers, Sorting Games and Creative Play in Nursery!

We have thoroughly enjoyed making the most of the spring sunshine this week and have spent even more time outdoors. Some of us worked hard using wheelbarrows to transport bags of sand to the sandpit, carefully cutting the bags open with scissors and tipping the sand...