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
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!
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!
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...
Owls – worth the weigh-t!
This week, we launched our brand‑new Maths strand all about weight—and what an exciting start it was! The children explored a range of classroom objects and used balancing scales to investigate which items were heavier and which were lighter. They worked brilliantly...
Shaping Up Our Learning!
Reception have been busy exploring the exciting world of 3D shapes this week! Children revisited familiar 2D shapes before diving into the features of 3D ones—identifying faces, edges and vertices with growing confidence. They investigated real-life objects to spot...
Hands‑On Science Fun: Helping the Dinosaur Reach the Top!
This week in Nursery we took part in Science Week by carrying out a fun water experiment. We began by half‑filling a bucket with water and inviting the children to notice the starting water level before placing a floating dinosaur into the bucket and observing how it...
‘Time’ to Shine in Year 2!
This week in Year 2, the children have been working hard on their time‑telling skills. We began by recapping o’clock and half past, making sure everyone felt confident with these familiar times. We then moved on to learning quarter past and quarter to, using our mini...
Owls share and share alike
Year 1 were absolutely fantastic in their maths learning this week as they explored grouping and sharing using counters and cakes. Working in pairs, the children discussed their ideas brilliantly, supported one another, and used careful reasoning to decide how to...
Hello Spring! Exploring, Creating and Investigating
We then began our new Spring topic, and the children have enjoyed a range of seasonal activities. We made bright yellow spring playdough and used string, corks and green pipe cleaners to create spring flowers, thinking carefully about the different parts of a plant...
Owls complete the pattern
To end this half term, Owl's took their learning outside and attempted to complete patterns. They had to look carefully at the previous sequence and work together as a team to add to the patters. Great work Owls! Article 28: Every child has the right to an...
Celebrating the People We Love in Nursery
This week in Nursery, the children have been thinking about the people they love and those who are important to them. With Valentine’s Day approaching, we explored what love means, why certain people make us feel happy, safe and cared for, and how we can show kindness...