Curriculum Impact Tag: English

As the children settle into nursery life, they are enjoying sharing books together. 

Nursery A enjoyed their first visit to our school library this afternoon.  We tried to guess the animals in the ‘Flip Flap Forest’ book and then we had some time to choose our own books.  

Year 4 really enjoyed their first visit of the year! Lots of lovely books waiting to be read. 
 

This week has been all about new experiences for our nursery children.  They have been discovering the nursery environment and all it has to offer, whilst making new friends.  

This week we are reading ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. Today we made caterpillar salads using different fruits and vegetables. We talked about healthy foods and where our foods come from.

Today we visited Formby Beach and Pinewoods.  We linked our visit to the book The See Saw by Tom Percival.  The children had a little picnic and time to play in the sand.  We spent time walking, talking, climbing, digging, rolling, laughing and singing! There were some very sleepy children on the…

Today Nursery A and B joined together for a picnic in the sunshine.  We have been reading the book The Sea Saw and this week, in relation to the text we have been planning a picnic.  We are looking forward to our beach trip next week too. The children enjoyed tasty banana oat bars that they made…

Some of the children in Nursery A have been busy mixing, pouring, creating and enhancing today.  They decided that they would like to make their own nursery perfume.  They added vanilla and cinnamon to the water, glitter and daisy flower recipe to create their own fragrance.…

Over the past few weeks we have opened a preteen ice-cream shop outside nursery.  The children have loved playing shop, requesting their favourite favours and toppings, writing down orders, giving money and change and creating imaginary tasty treats.  Today it was time to do it for real!  What a…

Year 4 recently visited Kingsley & Co, a Ykids literacy project operating as a cosy cafe and book shop in Bootle. 

The children absolutely loved playing, reading and simply sharing books for the day. It was a fantastic experience from start to finish! 

Kingsley & Co are a charity run…

Fruit lollies were a perfect choice to make on our warm week in nursery A.  The children used cutting skills to prepare the soft fruit and distributed them into ice lolly moulds, after calculating how much fruit we would need.  After that the children practised their pouring by adding water before…

Year 1 Literacy- Our Toy Party

Following on from our story ‘Toys in Space’ the children had a party with their own toys from home. We had lots of yummy party food and dancing. We will then be able to write our own diary entry.