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Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 3:00pm
Nursery have had a jam packed half term so far!
We have been spooked with lots of Halloween activities. We made some pumpkin prints and used different shapes to create a shape witch.
We remembered all the brave soldiers and planted a poppy for them on Remembrance Day. We talked about the different jobs soldiers do and how they look after us.
Then it was time for Odd Socks Day when we celebrated our differences. We read the story “It Okay To Be Different” By Todd Parr and talked about how we are all different.
Next, we had an unexpected visit to space! The children decided to build a space rocket and fly to the moon. We made a space den and even made some intergalactic space slime!
We have also been doing lots of outdoor learning and we’ve had some great tunes tapped out on our new music wall! The bikes have also been a great hit and it’s been brilliant to watch the children build their confidence and ride down the hill!
And now it’s time for all the Christmas fun to start! Sorry in advance for all the glitter!
The Week We Wore Odd Socks and Went To Space!
Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 4:45pm
It has been a jam packed week in Nursery! We started off the week wearing odd socks to celebrate Anti - Bullying week. We read the story "It's Ok To Be Different" By Todd Carr and talked about how being different makes us special. Then we read the story "The Tiger Who Came To Tea" By Judith Kerr and practised our counting by counting out stripes to put on tigers. On Wednesday the children chose to build a rocket out of the chairs and fly to space! They had a bit of engine trouble and got the tools out to fix it and then off they flew! The children had their snack on the moon and then built some rockets out of junk modelling! To finish off the space theme, we made some intergalactic space slime! Phew! We all need a rest now!
Date: 26th Oct 2020 @ 12:05pm
This week we have been learning about Black History Month. We started the week by reading the story 'Handa's Surprise,' talking about the characters, setting, and key points in the book, before sequencing and retelling the story.
We looked in depth at the illustrations of the setting and how this enabled us to know where the story took place. We also recapped on the use of adjectives, and how we could describe each fruit. We had ideas such as 'spiky large pineapple,' 'green, creamy avocado,' and 'yellow, bendy banana.' Later in the week we then wrote sentences to describe what was happening in a picture from the story, focussing on using capital letters, full stops, and segmenting and blending the words we wanted to use.
We also spent an afternoon creating and designing African masks. We explored a range of masks from countries we have looked at during the week, discussing the features, colours, and emotions the masks portrayed. Children cut out shapes from different coloured and textured paper to create the features of their masks. We discussed the use of symmetry and tried to make our masks as symmetrical as possible!
Throughout the week we have explored lots of similarities and differences, learning that everyone is different, but everyone is special.
Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 3:44pm
This week we have been reading the story "The Gigantic Turnip". We have had so much fun learning lots of new words to describe something that is big - ginormous, massive, huge, colossal, giant! The children have been practising using one handed tools by carefully cutting up different vegetables, they have also been printing with different vegetables and giving the. Alongside all of this, they have been using the doctors equipment in the role play area. We might juts have some budding surgeons amongst us!
Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 3:23pm
This week in Reception we have been reading the traditional tale 'Little Red Hen'. We read the story together and talked about how the Little Red Hen worked hard to grow the grains and to harvest them to make bread. She never gave up even though her farm friends didn't want to help her. We talked about how it is important to help others and the qualities of being a good friend.
We also made our own story maps and orally retold the story, used a range of different materials to create a little red hen at the creative table and moulded the play dough to make our own models.
As a class we then made our own loafs of bread by working together to follow a recipe. We collected the correct ingredients including flour, salt, water, oil and yeast. We measured out the flour and water and added the yeast to help the bread rise. We then kneaded the dough and placed it in the oven to bake. When the bread was ready we all had a chance to taste it. It tasted delicious.
"It's so soft and yummy" Riley said.
'It's fluffy" said Ella-Rose
When life gives you lemons.... Make Lemonade!
Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 2:25pm
In our guided reading, we looked at a set of instructions on how to make lemonade. We thought it would be a great idea to follow the recipe and make ur very own lemonade. Unfortunately, we were unable to taste the lemonade but Mrs Fielding had a go at home and she can confirm it is delicious!
The recipe is very simple to follow and it would be great for you to try it out at home and let us know how it tastes. We have uploaded the recipe onto seesaw for you to follow! You could even share pictures of you making it with us.
Date: 17th Sep 2020 @ 9:58pm
It has been an explosion of colour in nursery this week! We have been reading "The Colour Monster" a story about a monster who changes colour depending on how he is feeling. When he is happy he turns yellow, if you we could change colour, I think we would all have been yellow this week because we've had so much fun! The children have been making their own monsters and exploring the different colours. They have also been building relationships with each other by sharing and working together when playing outside.
Date: 16th Mar 2020 @ 3:23pm
Meet Supertato! This week in Nursery we have read the story ‘Supertato,’ and learnt about the caped potato superhero fighting to save the world from the arch villain – the Evil Pea! We have been practising our Supertato story telling skills with our Superhero story basket, with added special characters made by Mrs Welch! We have also been creating our own evil peas, and exploring our Funky Fingers area using trays of peas and mashers, evil pea threading and potatoes, sticks and capes! We have been mark making with carrots, printing with celery and broccoli and even taking part in a Superhero obstacle course!
Date: 6th Mar 2020 @ 9:10am
Today we joined Reception for Mrs. G Teepee Tales. We firstly looked at the front cover of the book, discussing what we thought the book might be about. We figured out it was about a dinosaur, but not just any dinosaur, a dinosaur that had lost his roar! We all listened very carefully to the story, some of us were even chosen to become characters from the story, and we all joined in with our favourite part, 'ROAAAAAAR.' Some of our children were then lucky enough to be able to buy a book to take home with them.
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 9:10am
Year 2 amazed us on World Book Day with their amazing costumes! We shared our favourite characters and books with each other, as well as visiting the library for a special story! We had a lovely day and we would like to thank everyone for the huge amount of effort that went into making sure the children looked fabulous!
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 2:50pm
What a good day! Children have thoroughly enjoyed World Book Day. From the beginning and discussing our characters, making book marks and drawing character selfies, visiting the library and being given our own book, guessing the stories and listening to stories! We have had a brilliant day!
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 4:35pm
Today it is World Book Day, and we have had a very exciting day! We started the day by coming in Nursery, but not in our school uniform! We were all dressed as characters from our favourite story. We had characters from 'Peter Rabbit,' 'Funny Bones' and even 'Harry Potter!' During carpet time we all talked about who we were, and why we liked the story our character was from. We then took part in different World Book Day activities, including making a bookmark to keep our place in our favourite story! We finished off each Nursery session with a story before home time. Everyone in Nursery made a fantastic effort for the day, thank you for your support!
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 8:18pm
What a fantastic day we have had today! We were so excited coming into class this morning. We couldn't wait to see what all our friends were dressed as. Our classes were made up of Marry Poppins, Harry Potters, Gangster Granny, Cat in the Hats, Ron Weasley, Gruffalos, Peter Rabbit, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood and many more.
We talked about who we had come dressed as, we completed a book review and we also enjoyed re-designing a book front cover for a book that had been read to us with the cover hidden. There were some great designs and a couple even looked like the real thing!
The overarching theme of the day was to share stories .... so we read stories as class, on our own and to our friends. We also enjoyed a visit to the library in our costumes where we all received a book.
It's not all over today, we love reading and we ready every day at school! .... Tomorrow we have Mrs. G Teepee Tales coming in to share more stories with us! The excitement and our love for books never ends!
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” Dr. Seuss.
Wonderful World Book Day Outfits
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 6:42pm
Is this this best year yet? The children in Year 5 made such an incredible effort with their World Book Day costumes today, all to celebrate the wonderful world of books and highlight the importance of reading. The Queen of Hearts, Harry Potter, Matilda, Gangsta Granny and Willy Wonka were just a few of the famous book characters that made an appearance.
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 1:40pm
Today we have enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. The children looked fantastic in their costumes and they enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities. The children enjoyed sharing their favourite story books, making books marks and they even visited the library. All children have received a book token to spend on a book of their choice which are available from local super markets.
The Adventures of the Naughty Bus
Date: 28th Feb 2020 @ 4:22pm
This week our story has been ‘The Naughty Bus.’ We started the week by reading and discussing the story, talking about our own experiences of where some of us have been on a bus journey! We have been building towns and roads in our construction area, making stop signs at the writing table, and adding a certain number of people onto the bus in our maths area. We have also painted a big box that we have turned into a bus for our role-play area. We all had a great time, taking it in turns to be different parts of the bus, setting up a bus stop, and handing our tickets to the driver when the bus arrived! Firstly, we painted the bus red, found circle shapes for wheels and cut out some rectangular shapes for windows. We’ve been on lots of bus journeys to different places, giving our bus ticket to the driver and him taking us where we wanted to go!
Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 7:32pm
This week we have read and enjoyed the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.’ We started off the week by exploring instruments to represent the sounds in the story, ‘swish, splash, squelch, and stumble trip!’ We have been retelling the story using our instruments and our sensory story tray, exploring trays of mud, water, sticks and snow! We have continued to focus on our counting, number recognition and matching numeral to quantity by finding the missing bears and putting them back in the correct cave! We have also had our own ‘bear cave’ in Nursery, which has been our special mark making space for the week, with bear hunt story telling paper and pencils. We have even made binoculars in our creative area to take on our own bear hunt! We followed the clues that had been left for us to find the bear in his deep dark cave!
The One With The Author - Dan Worsley
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 10:16am
Today, we were lucky enough to have Dan Worsley in to help write an opening to a jungle themed story. We looked at a setting description that Dan created himself so we could discuss the figurative language he had used and why; we were able to magpie some of his ideas. Thanks to Dan, we were able to grasp an idea of how to write our own jungle themed setting description and we can't wait to show him what we have achieved this time next week. Keep your eyes peeled for some our work being published on the website soon.
Thank you again to Dan for coming in to share some of his fantastic writing skills with us!
The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 6:25pm
This week we have enjoyed the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears.’ We firstly read and discussed the story, talking about the characters and where the story is set, before getting busy with lots of activities! We have retold the story in our role play area, using different sized spoons, bowls and chairs, whilst also making chairs and beds for different sized bears in our construction area! As usual we have spent lots of time in our outdoors area, finding hidden bears and taking part in a police role-play to investigate Goldilocks! We have investigated with porridge oats, scales and containers to explore capacity and weight, and been exploring shape in the environment! See what shapes you can see whilst you are out and about over the weekend!
Guided Reading Parents Workshop
Date: 25th Nov 2019 @ 11:46am
Year 2 enjoyed having their parents visit this morning to support their reading skills. Parents were given useful tips to help their children develop their reading skills at home such as predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising pieces of texts.The children did a great job showing off their superb reading skills. Remember reading as often as possible will develop your child's reading fluency and overall understanding of texts which is a key aspect of achieving end of year 2 expectations.
Date: 22nd Nov 2019 @ 4:11pm
Nursery rhymes play an important part in early childhood development and education, as well as being fun they help children develop social, physical and emotional skills. We have particularly concentrated on 5 nursery rhymes this week, focussing on one song each day. We started the week with 'Baa Baa Black Sheep,' where we looked at weighing different bags of objects, talking about which were heavier and lighter. We then moved on to 'Down in the Jungle,' where children looked at ordering animals by size. On Wednesday we sang 'Row, Row, Row your boat,' and made bottle cap sailing boats, talking about how we could get them to go faster! On Thursday we were lucky enough to have some of our adults join us to celebrate World Nursery Rhyme week, and we showed them everything we have been learning, including our rhyme of the day 'Incy Windy Spider.' Today we have looked at 'Two Little Dicky Birds,' making our own birds in the craft area, and using seeds and lard to make bird feeders to hang on the trees outside! We have put them in the fridge to set over the weekend, and will be hanging them out next week and keeping an eye to see it we can spot any birds eating them! Children have been practising these songs as part of their BLT for the past couple of weeks and it has really shown in their work in Nursery, we have had a jam packed, fun filled week!
Date: 13th Nov 2019 @ 8:15pm
Our story for the week has been the 'Stick Man.' We read the story together and learnt all about the 'Stick Mans' journey to return to his home. We went for a walk around the school gardens to search for the perfect sticks to make our own 'Stickmen.' We found lots of different natural materials in the garden, including lots of different sizes of sticks! We took them back into Nursery, where we looked sorted them into length order, talking about the longest and shortest sticks. We have made 'Stick Men' at our Play Dough table, using the different tools and resources available to create individual features on our men. At our Maths table we have been practising creating squares, triangles, and rectangles using sticks, and in our water tray we have been looking at floating and sinking! We also created our very own 'Stick Man' sun catchers, have a look at them next time you come into Nursery! Hopefully the sun will be shining through them!
Date: 7th Nov 2019 @ 4:00pm
The children and parents were Nature Detectives. Parents learnt ways to support their child's reading. writing and maths with a Nature theme. They learnt how to support learning at home and in school and each family made a scrap book to record their learning. Parents learned more about the KS1 curriculum and went on an educational visit and learnt about how we grow our fruit and vegetables.
They also made a planter out of paper, planted a seed, to grow in the ground.
Date: 8th Oct 2019 @ 12:39pm
This week were lucky enough to have a fantastic visit from SMJ Falconry who brought 4 owls; Midge, Molly, Ollie and Spud. We found out lots of interesting facts about the owls and even had the opportunity to hold on wearing a special glove. Back in the classroom we read the story Owl Babies, uses props and puppets to retell the story orally, made owls out of recycled materials, used play dough to make our own owls and built nest out of natural materials. We also drew the owls from the story and labelled them with the initial sound. What a busy week we have had!
Date: 7th Oct 2019 @ 8:46am
Year 2 were excited to see the Book Bus arrive, we looked at a range of different books from many genres and read one together as a class. Children then choose to buy one to take home. Remember reading is very important but it is also very fun when you have the right book. We hope everyone enjoys reading their new books and Miss Ward and Miss Hooson look forward to hearing all about them.
