This half term we are reading stories by Julia Donaldson, we have been discussing the roles of Authors and Illustrators and talked about the different stories that Julia Donaldson has written. This week we read Zog; we wrote about what Zog can do and what he looks like, we made Read more…
In Reception we looked at different festivals that are celebrated throughout the year and how they are celebrated. We learned about the hindu festival of light ‘Diwali’ and ‘bonfire night’, we compared how they are celebrated and completed some crafts around this. We made firework pictures, Diva lamps, Rangoli patterns, Read more…
Yesterday we had a really exciting day! It was our final day in partnership with the MAF charity. During our fun day we took part in a prayer zone challenge, completed a prayer for a country that MAF helps in and also had the chance to sit in a MAF Read more…
This week we have been learning about Britain. This afternoon, we decided to celebrate by holding a British afternoon tea party with all of the children in Reception. We had finger sandwiches, chocolate chip muffins and scones with jam. We waved union jacks and listened to the national anthem.
This week on our last week of around the world, we have learnt all about a England, we have talked about London landmarks, looked at the countries of the UK and discussed the food we eat and our climate. Today we finished our topic with a great British street party, Read more…
We have had so much fun this week and done some amazing exploring and investigating! This week during our around the world topic, we visited India, we answered the register by saying Namasté, had an Indian sweet shop in the playdough area, made rangoli patterns, designs our own mendhi patterns Read more…
This week we have been learning all about France, we started by listening to the story ‘A walk in Paris’ which showed us some famous Paris landmarks – The children have had some fantastic recall when telling us what they might see if they visited Paris, they could become tour Read more…
To start off our careers week in school as part of World Book Day, we had a visit from PC Partington and one of his colleagues. They are police dog handlers and they brought some of their police dogs with them. They talked to us about what their job involves Read more…
This week, we have been learning about different careers on the lead up to World Book Day. Today we had a visit from a nurse. It was really exciting. She spoke to us about her job, showed us her equipment and let us ask her lots of questions. We learnt Read more…
This week we have been reading the ‘Three Little Pigs’. This afternoon, we used different materials to try and make the sturdiest house for the pigs. We talked about the properties of the different materials, chose our materials carefully and then built our houses. Mrs Greenwood was the Big Bad Read more…