What a busy week!! This week we have been reading the story of Jack and the beanstalk, we have decided to do an experiment where we grow 2 beanstalks, one in a pot with soil and one in a bag with just a wet cotton wool ball, we then voted Read more…
On Wednesday, Reception took part in their weekly forest school session, we had so much fun!! It was a little wet and windy but that didn’t stop us, we put on our waterproofs and set off for the forest. We remembered the rules from last time and practised walking outside Read more…
What a lovely week week we have had learning all about the gingerbread man! We have drawn around each other to create life sized gingerbread people, moved around the field like the gingerbread man in the story, baked our own gingerbread people, decorated them and then (the best part) ate Read more…
This half term our topic is fairy tales, this week we have been focussing on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears; we used adjectives to describe the characters, played with porridge oats and for our writing task we tasted different flavour porridge and wrote words to describe how they Read more…
This half term Reception are taking part in forest school each Monday. We had so much fun, we completed a hunt to explore our forest area, made forest school medals (even drilling our own holes!) and at the end we had a fire and toasted marshmallows! We also learnt the Read more…
Welcome back Snowdrops, we have missed all being together and it was lovely to see all of the children come into school with the biggest smiles this week. Unfortunately, we were so busy we didn’t get chance to take many pictures, but what a fantastic week we have had, we Read more…
What a lovely day we have had for World Book Day! We have read some of our favourite stories, played games, made bookmarks and puppets of some of our favourite characters and had some amazing costumes!! Miss Horrocks and Miss King loved it that you all knew who Read more…
Wow, what a fun week we had in the run up to Christmas! We finalised our nativity filming, made Christmas cards, calendars, decorations, decorated gingerbread men, watched the pantomime and then had our Christmas party! During the party we played lots of games and won prizes, we had some amazing Read more…
Wow! We had a lovely treat today, not only was it Christmas jumper and Christmas lunch day, Snowdrop Elf had left us a ticket this morning to watch ‘The Gruffalo Live’ performance, we were really excited and discussed our favourite characters from the story, then we listened to some sound Read more…
This week week we have started Getting ready (and very excited!) for Christmas! On he first of December, we had such a surprise when we found that Santa had sent a cheeky elf for our classroom. We had a vote and decided he would be called Snowdrop Elf. So Read more…