Nursery have had a very busy week completing lots of Easter activities, they have listened to the Easter story and retold it using clues they found in the woods. They have been creating Easter artwork, making cakes and learning about the life cycle of a chick. We hope you all have a lovely Easter Nursery […]
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Easter in Reception
The children in Reception have has a fantastic week learning all about the origins of the Christian Festival of Easter. As well as talking about the changes in nature around springtime, they have baked chocolate Easter cakes, created Easter collages, completed Easter maths work and been on an amazing Easter treasure hunt. The children collected […]
Traditional Tales in Reception
This week, Reception have been immersing themselves in the story of The Three Little Pigs. The children are loving our new story and one of their favourite activities has been exploring building using a variety of materials in the classroom and also in the woods. There have been many cross-curricular links in this story including […]
Gingerbread Man – Reception
Reception have really enjoyed their second week of the Gingerbread Man story. This week they have learned to retell the story themselves, written a version of the story, decorated their own gingerbread men and made gingerbread men bird feeders, which we then took up into the woods for the birds. The children are settling back […]
Nursery’s Investigation for British Science Week
As part of British Science Week, Nursery have been learning about the importance of washing our hands to get rid of the nasty germs. We talked about how important it is to use soap when washing our hands and then used pepper (as the germs) and investigated what happened when we don’t use soap and […]
Science Week in Reception
Reception have had a very exciting return to school. On Monday, we started a new story, the Gingerbread Man. As part of our activities, we investigated what would happen if the Gingerbread man fell into a variety of different liquids. We experimented with water, coke, vinegar and oil. Straight away, the Gingerbread man in the […]
Book Week in Nursery
It has been such an exciting week for the Nursery children both at home and school with lots of different book week activities to enjoy. The children have been very busy writing book reviews, making bookmarks, creating their own under the sea scene and story, reading lots of new stories and lots more! Here are […]
Book Week in Reception
What a fabulous week Reception have had for our last week of Lockdown and also for our Book Week. We have had so many exciting activities to choose from and had the opportunity to be as creative as possible. We have produced some amazing pieces of work and learned so many new things. We loved […]
Nursery’s Learning
We are so impressed with the fantastic start to the new topic that we have had. The children both at home and at school have been enjoying lots of farm related activities – we have been singing Old McDonald Had a Farm, making animal masks, creating our own farmyards by carefully following instructions, completing obstacle […]
Reception Class Learning
What a lot of exciting learning that went on last week in Reception. Our story of the week was The Disgusting Sandwich by Gareth Edwards. The children all made ‘nice’ sandwiches as well as disgusting ones. We hung our disgusting ones in the woods for the wildlife. Don’t worry it wasn’t too disgusting, a mixture […]