We had a lovely morning in Maths! We just started ‘subtraction’ and used every day word problems to solve the calculations. For example, Mrs Nuttall had 10 bananas and she ate 2. How many did she have left? Putting the calculations into real life problems help the children to understand Read more
Last year at Parents Evening, quite a few parents asked for useful links to help with their child’s learning, particularly for Phonics and Maths. I have copied and pasted a number of websites we use regularly at school to support your child’s learning. I hope these are helpful 🙂 Read more
We went to the Library last Monday and Mrs Nuttall read a story, chosen by a member of our class. We then all chose a book to take home from the library to keep in school, ready for our independent reading time!
Sticking to the theme of Leaf Man and Autumn, Miss Brown came up with a lovely idea for Willows today. She asked them to print with the leaves they found outside and this created a lovely Christmas tree picture. We will be adding baubles with our fingers when they are Read more
Today Willows went out into the school grounds and chose a leaf from the ground. They brought it back inside and used their adjectives to describe how the leaf looked, felt and sounded when we moved it. We got lots of adjectives such as ‘crunchy’, ‘green’ and ‘scaly’. We Read more
We started our topic off by reading Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert in Kaden’s Garden. It was such a wonderful spot to read this book. As we looked up, there were leaves falling all around us. Leaf Man even landed on Mrs Nuttall – she was very surprised! After reading Read more
Willows talked about what makes us happy, sad, angry and anxious. We learnt a lot of new things about our friends and it was nice to talk about our feelings. It was really exciting to hear some of the things that made them happy and we discussed ways we could Read more
We have had some parents asking for a list of books we are going to be looking at over the year. These books support our English and our topic lessons so please, if you can nip to the library to have a look at them, that would be brilliant! Read more
It was a lovely start to our Monday morning. We read Meerkat Mail in pairs and as a class and looked at the different postcards within this book. Some children found it funny, some children related to the main character, Sunny. Working in pairs was great because it gave us Read more
In Willows we have a lovely opportunity for you and your child to sit back, relax and have a lovely hot chocolate each whilst enjoying a book or two at bedtime. Each week we will choose someone that has shown perseverance, hard work and has been an asset to Read more