Preparing for Christmas and fun in the snow!
This week we have started to prepare for Christmas. We made some fantastic hats that we will wear during our Christmas performance. We chose to either make a Christmas tree hat or a reindeer. We used handprints for the main part of the hat and decorated them...
Road Safety in Nursery
This week in nursery we have focussed on road safety. We discussed the importance of holding our adult's hands while crossing the road and how to cross safely. We practiced using the key words; STOP, LOOK, LISTEN THINK and used toy cars and figures in a tough tray to...
Diwali in Nursery
This week in nursery we have been finding out about Diwali, The Festival of Light. We made our own diva lamps using clay and painted them using some metallic paint. We talked about the fact that clay can be shaped and changed before it dries and hardens but once it...
Remembrance and Poppies in Nursery
This week in nursery we have focussed on Remembrance Day. We discussed why we wear poppy badges in the week leading up to Remembrance Day and we created poppies in many different ways. We painted, drew, used the interactive white board, made collages and used some...
Halloween Activities in Nursery
Our activities this week have linked to Halloween. On Monday, we made black playdough and added silver sparkles. We created some wonderful Halloween themed items like; spiders, slugs, worms, bats and creatures with multiple eyes! We have worked on strengthening our...
When Goldilocks went to the house of the Bears…
I Over the last two weeks the Reception Class children have been learning all about the story of ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’. Last week, we found that someone had been into the three bears house, the children were investigating and looking for clues to find out...
I can do it!
This week we have read the story of Elmer. We discussed diversity and having similarities and differences by linking the premise of the story and the fact that we are all different. We participated in Elmer themed activities by creating Elmer/elephant pictures, using...
Performance Poetry in UKS2
Last week, children in years 5 and 6 looked at war poetry with a particular focus on 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae. They explored the imagery used within the poem and how it was structured, later using this as inspiration to write their own World War 1 themed...
Cauliflower Cards and much more!
This week in nursery we created a Christmas card by making a hand print Santa Clause. Our beautiful artwork will be sent to a company called Cauliflower Cards who will produce our cards which will be available to buy in the near future. We have made our own play dough...
Amazing adjectives in Year 1!
In Year 1, the children have been reading the traditional tale 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. This week, we looked at the character Jack. We thought about how we could describe Jack, using adjectives for his appearance and his personality. We wrote our adjectives on post...
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...
Phonics Meeting for Reception Parents
Further to the Reception class parent reading meeting in school this week, please find attached information about phonics and reading information. You can download the presentation as a PDF, where there are QR codes signposting you to different areas of support from...