Whilst we have focused time in Reception to explore texts and concepts together, time is always dedicated to child initiated play so our grown-ups can observe what we know and challenge us to deepen our understanding. We feel this time is vital to develop us into...
The children in Early Years are taking part in 30 Day Wild. This project will help the children become eco-warriors of the future by connecting with nature. We already enjoy going to forest School every week and embrace our outdoor learning. This weeks activities...
Super recall and role play in Reception this week of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. We also needed to protect our cheese straws from the Wolf so we chose to tip toe to the forest so we were sure he would not hear us!
We enjoy looking for different minibeasts so this week we were a minibeast. We read the story of ‘Snail and the Whale’ and then wrote a recount of our half term holiday as though we were the snail on the back of the whale visiting the places we went while we were off....
Reception and Nursery have cared and nurtured butterflies since they were caterpillars. We have watched them change and grow discussing the life cycle as we observed it happening. We have now set them free into the world.
This week we made cards for the Queen, explored money in Maths and learnt all about the United Kingdom including using the colours of our flag in baking cakes. To celebrate such a monumental event in British History we learnt a song about the Queens likes and jobs.
Each week we love our forest sessions. We explore the principle of plan-do-review where we decide what we are going to do and write a list of equipment we need to help us to prepare for our session.
