This week, Reception have been investigating the composition of the numbers 6, 7 and 8. They used counters and dominoes to find the missing numbers and then recorded their answers.
Category Archives: EYFS
Map work in Reception
This week, Reception have been reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Following on from that, they have created their own maps of the forest that Little Red Riding Hood travelled through. We discussed the Tyrone of features that might be included on a map and they included houses, trees and the path way.
Doctors in training in Nursery!
This week we have been learning about doctors and how they can help us. We have read the story ‘Going to the Doctor’ and talked about our experiences of seeing the doctor. We have looked at the doctors equipment and what they do, then practised with it in our doctors surgery, lots of children have […]
Gymnastics in Reception
This week in PE, Reception have been creating a sequence that involves a jump, landing and a forward roll.
Nursery: People Who Help Us
This week we have started our new topic all about people who help us, we have been learning about the emergency services and how they can help us. We talked about ringing 999 and we decided if different scenarios were emergencies or not. The children have enjoyed role playing police officers and firefighters and had […]
Reception: Storytelling in the woods
This week, Reception have been retelling the story of Goldilocks and the three Bears in the woods. They had great fun eating the porridge, sitting on the chairs and pretending to sleep in the beds.
Welcome to Nursery!
This week, we have welcomed some new children to our Nursery class through our rising three’s scheme. They have settled so well, made lots of friends and we are so proud of them all! Welcome to Hillside!
Disco Fun in Early Years
Nursery and Reception had the best time at their Christmas disco! They danced until their legs ached! 🥳
A Christmas Story in EYFS
The children in Reception and Nursery have been busy practising their performance of the Christmas Story this half term, they have been retelling the story using actions and learning lots of new songs to tell the story. They were all amazing at performing in front of their audiences last week and made us very proud […]
Christmas artwork in Reception
This week, Reception have been focusing on careful brushstrokes to create the branches on their Christmas trees. We have also talked about and experimented with colour mixing to create a variety of shades of green for the leaves. We think that they are going to look amazing!