19
May
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 5
In Nursery, linked to our ‘planting’ topic, the children have been mark making rectangles to resemble the stem of a flower. [gallery ids="13394,13395"]...
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19
May
What’s happening in Reception – Week 5
This week in Reception we have finished our core text Jack and the Beanstalk by demonstrating fantastic story writing skills. We identified the key parts of the story and particularly worked on finger spaces and full stops. Well done to Etienne for his fantastic work! ...
12
May
What’s happening in Reception – Week 4
This week in Reception, we have begun to reap the benefit of all our hard gardening work by tasting our first produce - cress! Most children enjoyed eating the salad they had grown by themselves and were excited to challenge their adults to try some...
12
May
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 4
Nursery have been learning about different types of mini-beasts. The children were provided with a range of natural materials (leaves, log slices, pine cones, twigs, bamboo rings, etc) to use when creating a mini-beast of their choice. The children were encouraged to think about the...
05
May
What’s happening in Reception – Week 3
This week in Reception, we have immersed ourselves even further in understanding and caring for plants. Our focus text Jack and the Beanstalk was an inspiring link, as we watched our own runner beans grow in class and learned about the magical beans growing in...
05
May
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 3
On Wednesday, nursery visited ‘St John's Church’ for a tour as part of our Summer 1 RE topic ‘What makes a place special?’ This allowed us to further discuss why churches are a special place for Christians. We looked at different features of a church...
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28
Apr
What’s happening in Reception – Week 2
As Reception class has become more confident as writers, we have enjoyed using different implements to write and draw. This week we enjoyed writing spy messages to each other using invisible pens. The messages were revealed when we shone a light on them. We also...
28
Apr
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 2
Each week in Nursery we have a maths song of the week. This week we focused on the nursery rhyme '5 little speckled frogs' to support and develop children's ability to count and find one less. Children used numbered frog puppets to act out the song...
21
Apr
What’s happening in Reception – Week 1
This week in Reception, we began our topic on planting and growing. The children worked to write instructions on how to grow seeds and then planted their own. They used runner beans that they had already sprouted and put them in bags to grow on...
21
Apr
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 1
This week in Nursery, linked to our new topic 'Minibeasts' and core text 'Aaaarrgghh Spider!' we created a 'Nursery's facts about spiders' book by gathering information from non-fiction books and videos. Some interesting facts we learnt was that baby spiders are called spiderlings and not all spiders make...