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…
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…
This week, the whole school have been helping to raise money for Children In Need. Each class have been completing the ‘Act Your Age’ challenge in their PE lessons with our PE coach Mr Tomkins, and today came to school in their pyjamas. Mr Tomkins is amazed at how well Read more…
Yesterday in class we learnt about Remembrance Day and why we wear Poppies. We watched a short video and looked at a PowerPoint all about Remembrance Day and made poppy flags by painting apples red and printing them, we had lots of fun waving our flags as we were leaving Read more…
This term our topic is Julia Donaldson. Each week we will read a different story written by Julia Donaldson and our first week was Zog! The children learnt what an author was and how we will be looking at the same author each week until Christmas. In the story, Zog Read more…
For World Mental Health Day, we all wore yellow. Throughout the day we took part in lots of lovely activities and talked about how it is important to keep our mind healthy as well as our body. We liked that Miss Horrocks called it our ‘rainbow brain’. We did some Read more…