Year 3 have had a wonderful time working with workers from the Willmott Dixon company to create a bug hotel fit for a Queen Bee. We also enjoyed planting and weeding and consolodating our learning from our Science topic Plants by getting Kaden’s garden ready for the Jubillee celebrations. Here Read more
This week we have been reading The Gingerbread Man in our literacy lessons. We have learnt how to retell the story and we have been designing our own gingerbread person. The children used coloured icing pens to help with their fine motor skills and chose the decorations carefully. They had Read more
This week we have been looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This afternoon we have been taste testing different flavours of porridge. We discussed which flavours and toppings Goldilocks would like and then we tried the different ones for ourself. We tried plain porridge, porridge with jam, porridge with Read more
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We started the week off by reading the story and talked about the different characters from the story. In our topic afternoon we talked about the different materials used to build the pig’s houses and discussed the properties Read more
This week, we have celebrated Easter and learnt about the Easter story and Palm Sunday. Yesterday we were very busy on an Easter hunt. Everyone had an Easter hunt checklist and we had to find the objects around the Reception area. We found lots of Easter pictures around our classroom, Read more
Today in forest school Mr Tomkins has been teaching us about the different seasons. We discussed the different seasons and we talked about the season we are in now, ‘Spring’. After learning about Spring, we all went on a Spring hunt. We worked with a partner to find different signs Read more
This week we have been learning about Italy. We found out about Italian food and drink, landmarks, facts about the country and we even spoke some Italian! The children learnt how to say hello and goodbye, the names of numbers and colours and simple phrases such as “how are you?” Read more
Today we have celebrated The Festival of Colours (Holi Festival). We have had so much fun! We started the day by listening to the story behind the Holi Festival. We then experimented with paint mixing and crushing flowers to see what colour mark they would make on big paper. In Read more
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about India and have focused on the story ‘Festival Of Colours’. The children use the flowers they have to create powder colours and use it to throw during the Holi Festival. In writing we have been able to write down the colours Read more
This week we have talked about what a scientist is and what we think they look like. We created our own pictures of what we thought a scientist might look like and showed our pictures to our friends. During forest school we did our very own science experiment and used Read more