This week in Preschool we have been looking at the book “Handa's Surprise”. We managed to get all of the fruits mentioned throughout the book and had a taste testing session with them....
This week in babies we have enjoyed reading and talking about Handa’s Surprise and looking at some real fruit in the home corner!...
This week in Reception, we have been studying the book 'Biscuit Bear' by Mini Grey. We have been practising roles during our play in the Toy Hospital; the children particularly loved using the stethoscopes! For our mark making, we focus on the features of a...
This week in Nursery, we dove into an exciting new story called "So Much"! The children loved hearing about a family coming together to plan a big surprise for their dad's birthday. Inspired by the heart-warming story, the children practised writing their own birthday cards; using their...
We have been studying the book ‘Bea’s Bad Day’ by Tom Percival which explores the different emotions Bea feels when her expectations for her birthday are not met. We created our own artwork and identified how we might feel when our expectations are not met....
In Writing we tested our summary skills. We played a game where we spoke about the characters, settings and plot from the book Varjak Paw for one minute....
In Nursery we continued reading the story “Anna Hibiscus’ song”; we then had a go at pounding yams, like Anna’s aunties do in the book! We soon discovered what hard work that is! Finally, as a reward for the hard work, we tasted the yams....
In Nursery, inspired by our new book Anna Hibiscus’s Song, we compared and explored differences and similarities of life in London and life in Africa. We started by observing the different types of houses and animals. We enjoyed playing around our small world tray which...
The topic of this week is animals! We’re reading a book called ‘hugs’ about safari animals, it’s so exciting to listen to the different sounds that they make....
A day before Pyjamas Day, we decided to have a sneak peek of some of the stories we will be reading on the day. We took part in Ed Vere's Special 'draw-along'. Ed Vere has written some amazing children's books. 'Bedtime For Monsters' is one...