We have been learning about the lifecycle of butterflies and as part of that we have been really interested in symmetry. During our forest school session we went out into […] […]
For the whole of this half term we have been learning about the Easter story, starting with Palm Sunday, through some of the events of Holy Week, to Good Friday […] […]
We have been learning all about animals from different parts of the world. We have used the core text of ‘The Ugly Five’ by Julia Donaldson. It was really interesting […] […]
We read the core text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers as part of our learning about Antarctica. We really enjoyed learning about penguins this week and this story was […] […]
As part of our science and PSHE learning this week we have been looking at our teeth and how to care for them. It was really interesting to read our […] […]
As part of our learning about ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ we created our own trolls using clay. This is a progression from using play’doh which we have used lots […] […]
As part of our fairy tale topic we read the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We really enjoyed this story and thought a lot about the bridge that […] […]
We had a great time celebrating World Book Day! We each brought in our favourite books and we enjoyed dressing up. Today the whole school took one book – ‘Journey’ […] […]
Today we were very excited to take another trip out of school 0 this time to the theatre! We have been really enjoying books by Julia Donaldson and so we […] […]
We have spent the last few weeks reading lots of fairy tales. We have been using pictures, puppets, props, story maps and small world figures to retell some familiar fairy […] […]
Today it was really windy and we decided to make the most of it. Some of the children had a brilliant idea to make some kites and windmills to use […] […]
We have been learning all about Shrove Tuesday and why Christians eat pancakes on this day. We also started to think about some of the things we could give up […] […]
We have been learning about the police and the job that they do. We had a fantastic afternoon solving our own mystery – the case of the missing sweets! We […] […]
We were excited to use the ipads to create our own animations of our Super Veggie and Villains using a fantastic app called Chatterpix. We learned how to take a […] […]
We have been really enjoying learning all about superheroes! We focussed on our core texts of ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra and ‘Real Superheroes’ by Julia Seal. We loved creating our […] […]
During CIL each group planted some spring bulbs. We took it in turns to add some compost to the baskets and then added different bulbs in each basket. We have […] […]
During our superhero topic we have been learning all about people who help us – real life superheroes! We have had an excellent time during Child Initiated Learning (CIL) trying […] […]
We had a wonderful time sharing our Nativity service with so many parents and carers in our school community. ‘The Raggedy King’ was performed by our Reception and year 6 […] […]
We love learning about numbers and patterns. We have lots of maths opportunities in our classroom environment at all times. We are really good at subitising, counting, sorting, weighing, measuring […] […]
We had an amazing time going out on our first school trip! It was really exciting to go in a minibus to St Christophers School and meet all of their […] […]
We have been enjoying lots of Julia Donladson’s books and have had a fantastic time learning about the Gruffalo. We can join in with the familiar refrains and have used […] […]
We have been enjoying exploring Autumn. We have been collecting objects which show that the season has moved into Autumn now. We have been using these items in our child-initiated […] […]
We have had a brilliant time exploring colour mixing. We really enjoyed the book ‘Mixed’ by Arree Chung. It is a story all about how colour became unhappy living with […] […]
We have really loved having the opportunity to learn outdoors. It is so good for us to practise our gross motor skills. We are able to explore the sand, water, […] […]
As we start the new year we have been thinking about our feelings and emotions. We really enjoyed ‘The colour monster’ by Anna Llenas. We collected lots of colours around […] […]
The children have enjoyed exploring the indoor and outdoor classrooms. They have been getting to know each other, the rules and routines of the classrooms and how to look after […] […]