31
Mar
Making pepper shakers in Year 2
In Reading, Year 2 used their amazing reading skills to follow instructions on how to make a pepper shaker out of a bell pepper and rice....
English – Reading
17
Mar
Finding our Phonics ‘special friends’ in the Reception learning environment
In Reception, we have been practising our segmenting, blending and letter formation in the continuous provision. We are working on identifying and using our special friends. e.g sh, th, ch....
09
Mar
Transforming into superheroes in Nursery
As part of Book Week, we created our own costumes! We used lots of different materials to create masks and outfits. We carefully cut out on top of drawn circles and ovals to make our eyes and the top of our costumes. We found this...
03
Mar
Bollywood dancing with author Puneet Bhandal in Year 3
For World Book Week, we went to the library to listen to Puneet Bhandal talk about her new book ‘Starlet Rivals’. We then did some Bollywood dancing with her....
03
Mar
Circus Drama Workshop in Nursery
This week we took part in some Drama. We learnt to move our bodies like clowns, jugglers, tightrope walkers and magicians. We had lots of fun. As world book day is approaching we have been spending lots of time in our book corner and reading poems....
03
Mar
World Book Day in the Preschool Two Year Old Room
Preschool enjoyed dressing up as different characters for World Book Day. Watch out, there’s a lion about!...
12
Jan
Comparing character descriptions in the BFG in Year 3
In Writing, we were immersing ourselves into our new book, The BFG. We talked about how characters can look one way on the outside but on the inside be different to what we expected. Here we are matching appearance descriptions to the personality we would...
12
Jan
Creating a dragon world in Year 2 inspired by ‘Tell me a Dragon’ by Jackie Morris
Dragons spotted in America! We started our writing topic based on the book ‘Tell me a dragon’ by Jackie Morris by imagining there were sightings of dragons in America. To entice the dragons back where they belong we designed and created a dragon world together...
12
Jan
Exploring ice and snow in Nursery
In Nursery, as part of our exploration of the story 'The Snowy Day', we have been exploring ice and snow! We used our senses of sight, smell and touch to explore what the ice looks, smells and feels like. We learnt that ice melts when...
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01
Dec
Making bears based on the book ‘Everywhere bear’ in Nursery
In Nursery, we are reading, ‘Everywhere bear’. We all decided to make our very own bears out of paper plates. If you see a bear lurking, then don’t be scared, as all our Nursery bears are very friendly....