Curriculum Impact Tag: EYFS

Given the weather forecast for the rest of the week, we took advantage of the beautiful autumn sunshine yesterday and took our play to our forest school area.  The children used their muscles to lift and carry pumpkins and explore cause and effect.  We found a large number of ladybirds so we…

We may not have had an End of Branch assembly for this current topic but rest assured the children have been working really hard learning all about Creation and how God loves us all.  These are our displays that highlight what they children have been up to.  Make sure you have a look at parent’s…

With Halloween so close lots of children in Reception have been visiting the pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins for their homes.  You can also pick corn on the cob and we were lucky enough talk about this in our Harvest assembly this morning.  Thank you for sharing! 

We were very lucky today.  After our shared Harvest Assembly we had a very special visitor to our classes.  Fr Anthony came into our assembly and read a special story to us.  We were so excited to finally meet our new priest and were thrilled that he read a lovely story for us.

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In English we are reading ‘Home’ by Carson Ellis which is a wonderful book about different homes around the world. The children have enjoyed looking at the pictures and have used some of these to create their own homes. They have been describing their creations and sharing their images with…

We are hammering golf tees into pumpkins this week to practise our fine motor skills.  

We have been taking advantage of the mild Autumn days to spend lots of time outdoors.  The children have been exploring our forest school area, playing parachute games and using pumpkins as part of their play.  They have been developing teamwork and working our physical gross motor skills…

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about and experiencing God’s wonderful world in a variety of ways.  We have draw God’s world on a big frieze, been on a walk to look at the beauty of God’s creation and have painted aspects of God’s world in small groups.  We have been thinking about…

Nursery B have been learning about Harvest and thanking God for our wonderful world and everything in it. We have been talking about our farmers and the crops they grow. The children then continued their learning and set up vegetable patches and shops in Nursery where they could buy their fruits…

Following on from our poetry work on minibeasts, the children are using resources indoors to make their own minbeast habitats.   They have worked together and were so proud of their creation.  They spent a considerable amount of time playing once it was built.  

The children have been creating magic recipes and potions using pumpkins and other natural ingredients in our forest area. We have created our own pumpkin patch and have been learning about pumpkins describing their colour, shape and size. We also had lots of fun decorating our magician hats. 

Today we have been talking about being made welcome.  We went over to church and re enacted a baptism and discussed being welcome in the Church’s family.