This has been our second week of investigating the book ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson in Reception. We have been learning about habitats and linking these to our rights and basic needs. We learnt that all animals, including humans, need: […]
Today is the International Day of Education – a day declared by the United Nations in celebration of the role education can play in establishing peace and sustainable development! With climate change becoming an increasing threat to children’s education around the world, […]
For the last 2 weeks we have been learning about the story of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen. The children have enjoyed going on their own bear hunt, sequencing the story and we have even had […]
Today the children had a visit from the dentist. We had to sit in a funny chair that reclined backwards, open our mouth and then the dentist counted our teeth using a special mirror! Then we were given our own […]
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Christmas Fair last night and support the school with our fundraising efforts – your help is very much appreciated. The children enjoyed making their beautiful snowman decorations, and they sold […]
The book we are looking at this week is called ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell. We have been listening and joining in with the story, and we have been learning some facts about Owls: they are nocturnal (they come out […]
This week we have been learning about internet safety with Smartie the Penguin. We have talked about not talking to strangers on the internet, and never telling anybody our name or where we live and go to school. If we […]
This week our learning has been based around the story of Owl Babies by Martin Wadell. The children have enjoyed retelling the story, acting out the story with props, sequencing the story, writing initial sounds for objects/characters in the story […]
Yesterday all of the children in school had the opportunity to play glow in the dark dodgeball! The hall was in darkness. We had special black lighting lamps and fluorescent jackets. The children were put into teams and had to […]
This week the children have been learning about their Right to a safe and healthy environment. We have spoken about re-cycling and spotted that the things we can recycle have a green set of arrows on them. We re-used our […]