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4 weeks ago
Posted on 11th Feb 2025 by

Safer Internet Day 2025

We marked Safer Internet Day today with a variety of activities. The theme this year is: ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. We gathered in the hall for an assembly led by our Digital Leaders. They ‘scammed’ children into thinking they were winning some tempting prizes, but actually there were some bad consequences! The message was that if things are too good to be true…they often are!

Later on, EYFS used songs and small world play to tell the stories about being safe. KS1 took part in a variety of different activities and KS2 took part in the BBC Live Lesson where we had to identify the signs of a scam.

We even got a shout out on the BBC news feed!

4 weeks ago
Posted on 07th Feb 2025 by

Numbers Day in Nursery!

In nursery we celebrated by dressing up and welcoming our parents to a special assembly all about numbers.

We sang and chanted songs and showed our parents how each song could help with a different aspect of mathematics. We repeated stem sentences and looked at the models and images we use.

We also chatted about subitising and it’s importance in our curriculum.

1 month ago
Posted on 06th Feb 2025 by

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt . . .

We explore stories from our unique reading spine in a variety of ways in order to develop vocabulary and understanding.

Today the children in nursery splashed in water, squelched in mud and stumbled through trees in order to find a bear!

We were also able to innovate the story as the grass was not long and wavy. The children described it as, “short and frosty!” We also added ice to the story and slipped and slid on it!

This also inspired mark-making.

1 month ago
Posted on 05th Feb 2025 by

C is for Community

This term in the EYFS the children are exploring the overarching theme of community.

The role-play area has been enhanced to enable children to show what they know about shops and supermarkets. Their language is being extended as they learnt about receipts, cashiers and aisles. It is also a rich opportunity to explore purposeful mark-making during play as children write shopping lists, receipts and food labels. The children have also been learning about foods and cultural foods eaten by the families we serve.

Children are being taught directly about shops during small group sessions in which they have shared information books, listened to environmental sounds in shops and learnt poems about key concepts such as trolleys.

The children in Reception are visiting a local shop in order to gain even more knowledge that they can use and apply in their acting.

 

2 months ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2025 by

Design Brief: To Design A Patterned Decoration From Malleable Materials

We followed the whole school sequence of learning for Design Technology in order to design a patterned, malleable decoration.

We used photographs of Christmas Trees and appraised patterned baubles.

We then explored ways to create everyday patterns and then repeating patterns. This supported our vocabulary development.

Then we explore salt dough and clay and ways to create patterns such as pressing, using tools, beads and sequins.

We evaluated our designs and discussed what we liked and how we could improve them.

The decorations took pride of place on our Christmas Tree.

2 months ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2025 by

A Throw Back to December – A Time To Celebrate!

We had a very busy end to the autumn term . . .

As part of our People and Communities topic we learnt about how some people celebrate Christmas. The children learnt about the Christian story of the Nativity through small world, role-play, songs and books. They were inspired to make marks of some of the significant characters. We stole the show in Our First Nativity performance, there was not a dry eye in the hall! This took lots of self-regulation and courage.

The children also shared photographs of celebrations that they have participated in at home. This evoked lots of rich language of comparison.

The countdown to Christmas was very exciting and we used our Advent Calendar to see the passing of time. We placed a star in the five frame each day and could describe whether it was full, nearly full, empty or nearly empty. We could see whether we had a long way to go and as we were getting closer.

3 months ago
Posted on 03rd Dec 2024 by

We’re Going On A Baby Hunt!

Becky, who is a Christian, from Sutton Hill Church came to visit the children in nursery and teach them about the Christian story of the first Christmas.

This has supported the children’s learning about celebrations. The children have been exploring the story in a range of ways such as through books, small world resources and songs and this experience supported their deeper knowledge of the beliefs of some Christians.

 

3 months ago
Posted on 29th Nov 2024 by

Real experiences enrich our learning, making it memorable . . . Baby Reya

We have been learning about babies as part of an Understanding of the World project.

We have analysed objects, looked at baby photographs, learnt songs, nursery rhymes and explored a variety of books about babies.

We now know a range of vocabulary and concepts linked to this.

“Babies can’t walk very well. Need a pram.”

“I was a baby a long, long time ago. Now I am a child.”

“Babies need a high chair or they would fall off!”

“I’m a child. I have pants not a nappy.”

Today we had an expert visitor, a real baby visit the setting. We noticed the size of the baby, it’s clothing and the things it needed. We told his mummy what we knew and asked whether the baby drank from a bottle or had a nappy. We sang Reya a lullaby. We also met Rowan who is 1 and discussed how he is older than Reya but younger than us.

 

 

3 months ago
Posted on 29th Nov 2024 by

Sealegs Puppet Theatre

Rob and his amazing puppets visited our school last week and we watched his interactive show Tales from the Farmyard.

It was a magical, musical affair which captivated all of the children and supported their listening and attention skills as well as their retrieval and inference skills.

Children were able to use their existing knowledge of classic songs like Old MacDonald and stories such as The Little Red Hen to join in and understand what was happening.

It was also a wonderful opportunity to pre-teach concepts and vocabulary about the farm which the nursery children will explore further in the spring term, and consolidate the reception children’s knowledge.

4 months ago
Posted on 20th Nov 2024 by

Exploring Seasons

Children in the Foundation Stage have access to the outdoors on a daily basis. Children learn about the seasons through first hand experiences.

This week it snowed! It was a wonderful opportunity for children to use all of their senses to explore this first taste of winter and it evoked some descriptive language.

“It’s freezing cold!”

“Crunch, crunch, throw it at you.”

“Look at the sky, it’s grey.”

“My footprints go round and round.”