This week the children had the opportunity to create ladybird pitta bread pizzas. The children were encouraged to follow a recipe and count out the ingredients to a given amount. The ingredients included Tomato Sauce, Mozzarella Cheese Olives and Pitta Bread. This activity was linked to our...
In Reception for Maths we have been looking at all the different ways that 10 is made. We used songs, games, our fingers and tens frames with different coloured counters to explore all the ways that 10 can be made. In writing we have been looking...
In Nursery this week we have been exploring colour mixing and how to make new colours from primary colours. Our colours of focus were 'white' and 'red'. We identified that when mixing the two we made the colour pink. We then used this colour to...
This week in Reception we have started our new topic of Transport - inspired by the story The Train Ride. As we became more familiar with the story we drew a story map and then began to draw our own. We imagined where we might go on...
For Literacy we have started our new focus text 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We are using our knowledge of geometric shapes and patterns to draw our own Ladybird. What will she hear? [gallery ids="7713,7714,7715"]...
This week in Reception we finished our collection of made-up stories that were inspired by Michael Rosen's poem 'Lost'. The children were authors AND illustrators and demonstrated a wide range of skills in illustrating from photography, painting, drawing to using props. We began a new...
It’s the Chinese year of the Tiger! (Lunar). In Nursery we have been looking at how 'Chinese New Year' is celebrated and watched ‘Dragon Dancing’ before re-enacting our own class unicorn dragon dance. We learnt about lanterns and special family meals. For snack we tried...
We were all very excited to finally be allowed to partake in our annual Sports Day at London fields in July 2021 when the COVID restrictions were lifted. Take a look at some of the events that took place...
This week the Nursery children began their ’Art Project’. The class have been looking at the British artist Goldsworthy, an artist known for his sculptures and photography. Goldsworthy creates land art all around the world using natural materials such as leaves, twigs, peddles, rocks and...
In Reception the children have been immersing themselves in the story of the Gruffalo. They particularly noticed all the rhyming words. Every week with new texts they have key new vocabulary that they learn. Their favourite was 'poisonous' which described the wart at the end of Gruffalo's nose....