Curriculum Impact Tag: EYFS

Spring walks are so important for many areas of our learning and understanding.  We have been on a few spring walks over the last few weeks to see how the environment around us is changing and plants are growing.  This afternoon we also visited our prayer garden to thank God for the sunshine,…

After a glorious spring walk, nursery children went to play on the large field this afternoon.  After a rehearsal for their Easter Reflection in church Year 6 joined nursery for a play on the field. Well done Year 6 for being fantastic role models for our youngest pupils.  

After Mrs McIntyre using small world figures to act out the story of Palm Sunday in class, many children chose to recreate the story in their play.  One child described her gathering of the crowd like a ‘parade’ and the children told the story singing ‘Hosanna, pretending to wave palm leaves at…

This week the children have been listening to the story of Palm Sunday. They reenacted Jesus travelling through Jerusalem on a donkey with crowds waving palm leaves shouting 'Hosanna'. The children also used the figures in our golden box to retell the story. 

The children have enjoyed doing their PE lesson outdoors this week practising ball skills and travelling in and out of hoops. In the forest area, they continue to balance, swing, collect and play together using their wonderful imaginations. 

Today we investigated numbers in the environment and the children were able to make a number museum for 9 and 10 on their own!

This week we are looking at numbers 9 and 10.  Today we sorted lots of representations of the numbers into the correct piles.  

Today we have started preparation for our Easter cards.  We used a technique called marbling with coloured inks to create an abstract pattern onto plain paper.  

In RE our topic is Desert to Garden and we have been talking about spring time and how things begin to grow around us. We went on a walk around school looking for signs of spring and saw lots of beautiful flowers, plants and trees. We remembered how Lent is a time when we grow more like Jesus and…

This week we used our fine motor skills for crushing and chopping.  We prepared vegetable sticks and combined ingredients for homemade houmous.  In the afternoon the children ventured to the big school field for a picnic of veg sticks and houmous dip!  So many children did well for trying foods…

This week is British Science Week and we are noticing how science is all around us. We have been looking at animals and discussing how they have similarities and differences. The children have enjoyed playing a matching game - finding the halves of the animal faces and identifying each animal. We…

Yesterday we were scientists.  We explored what happened to raisins when they are submerged in fizzy water.  We watched them dance and it was fascinating! The we predicted how many cotton wool balls we could fit into a shot glass filled to the top with water and we were amazed to discover that we…