This week we had a whole week of celebrating World Book Day; we made posters of our favourite books and characters, played games to practise our rhyming, shared our favourite stories, listened to our favourite author (Julia Donaldson) read some of her stories, learnt a poem, wrote a poem together Read more…
With this week being anti-bullying week, Year 1 Oaks spoke about how 1 kind word can make a huge impact on somebody’s day, we decided as a class that we would think of a word or small sentence each day that we could say to somebody to make them smile. Read more…
For the last 2 weeks, in History, we have been learning about Queen Elizabeth II and her coronation. We have been amazing at remembering facts and recalling them when quizzed by Miss Horrocks… you could even test us at home! Here are some questions we were asked: How old was Read more…
Today, we had some surprise visitors in school to visit Reception! We were all very brave; we held a bearded dragon named Boris, a tortoise called Bentley, a monitor lizard called Buzz, lots of bugs and even a snake named Woody! Some of us were a bit nervous at first, Read more…
This week was our final forest school and we had such a lovely day. We looked at the story ‘The King of tiny things’, about a little fairy who helps all minibeasts and creatures around the forest; he oiled a slug who had lost his slime, freed a caterpillar that Read more…
We had we had another fantastic forest school this week, we haunted for minibeasts, checked our bug houses from last week to see if there had been any visitors to them. We made our favourite minibeast from items we found on the forest floor and did a fantastic job! while Read more…
This week we have been looking at the story ‘Mad about Minibeasts!’ And have had so much fun investigating different minibeasts. In forest school, we went on a minibeast hunt, checking to see if any had visited the bug hotels we had made the previous week and made our favourite Read more…
This week we we had so much fun in forest school! As we are learning about mini beasts and life cycles this term, we decided to link this with our forest school session. We did so well at remembering all of the rules and explained why we need rules – Read more…
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told Read more…
We had another lovely day of forest school today in Reception… even though the afternoon session had to be moved inside because of the storms! ⛈⚡️ We are getting so good at staying safe and remembering our forest school rules: walking around the circle and not inside it, helping our Read more…