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Year 1- RSHE- Who is My Neighbour? 
 

The children listened to the story of The Good Samaritan and talked about who their neighbour is-everyone! We made paper chain people and thought of ways we can help our neighbours. 

Today we have used mirrors to explore reflection.

We noticed how the image was flipped when the mirror was placed on the mirror line.

The children enjoyed creating their own designs and seeing them reflected through their mirrors.

This week we have been looking at more traditional toys and games from the past.  We went outside and played Lucy Locket, Ring of Roses and In and Out those Dusty Bluebells and Farmers in his Den.  The children loved playing the old games and have started using them on their own on the yard at…

Today one of our  nursery children came to tell me that she had built a church.  What an amazing creation! She showed me all the people and told me that they were at Mass.  We discussed that the people were parishioners and that we call them the congregation when they are gathered in prayer.…

This week the children have enjoyed engaging in sensory water play.  Intended to support fine motor skills and develop mathematical and scientific concepts, the children have focused on this form of play for extended periods.

The children impressed us all with their creative and teamwork skills this week.  Working together and using their own ideas, they designed and made a large and imaginative birthday cake as part of their play dough and role-play.  All topped off with a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’.  What a…

To celebrate all the hard work that the children have put in over the past months, we celebrating our final test with a chippy lunch!

bread, butter, curry and gravy!

The children are continuing to explore with clay. They have all made and painted their favourite minibeasts which we have displayed in our window. 

We have been discussing animal enclosures today.  What they need for each animal.  The children have been very excited to explore in provision by building their own enclosures. 

To some this might look like a messy busy classroom.  To us it is a creative, collaborative creation that the children have worked hard on all afternoon and are rightly proud of.  It represents relationships, compromise, dialogue, decision making, flexible thinking, resilience, perseverance and…

In Maths, we have been listening for patterns and finding the beat in different nursery rhymes and songs. We have also been looking at patterns around us - spotty, stipy, swirly. Today we identified and made our own repeated patterns with a partner. The children talked about their pattern and were…

To help support our understanding of coordinates, we played in pairs a game of Battleships.