This week, Reception began to learn about their new topic: Mini-beasts. The continuous provision has been set up with lots of activities that have allowed the children to explore different varieties of mini-beasts and the habitats that they like to live in. In the classroom, the children...
Last Wednesday, Nursery visited our local church ‘Saint Church’ for a very special tour. This linked to 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...
Over the last two weeks, Reception have been lucky enough to be taking care of a brood of chicks! They arrived last Monday morning, and were safely cooped up in their incubator. The children spent the first few hours observing the eggs and by lunch time they noticed...
Over the last couple weeks, Miss Little and the Nursery children have been busy planting beautiful flowers and plants across Nursery's playground. This week, the children have planted sunflower seeds using the equipment from our outdoor garden centre. The children have been learning all about...
Last Friday afternoon, Reception visited Hackney School of Food for a sensory experience in their beautiful garden! The children were split into small groups and had the opportunity to take part in a carousel of fun and engaging activities, including a flower treasure hunt, exploring a...
This week in Nursery, we have been learning all about small creatures...
This half term, Reception will be learning all about plants. We will learn about the process of flowers and plants developing from a seed; we will learn how to help plants grow and we will also be thinking about how we can look after the...
To finish off our RE unit in Reception, we answered our big question: 'What is so special about Easter?' The children used visuals to help them retell key events from the story and discuss the importance of symbols like the cross and the stone tomb. We...
In Nursery this week, the children loved creating The Very Hungry Caterpillar necklaces. They worked on their fine motor skills, whilst using the push and pull threading technique to thread green pasta and red circles onto a piece of string. Children practiced repeating patterns and...