Minibeasts
As part of our poetry week, we have been reading lots of poems about minibeasts. We have explored new vocabulary, where we might find minibeasts and what equipment might help us to find them! We then, in small groups, used all our knowledge to find minibeasts in our garden area. So far, we have…
Design & Technology: Textiles
The children worked in table groups to do a range of fine motor skills activities. The focus activity was sewing a felt door onto a felt house wall.
Year 2 PE Skipping
The children played some jumping warm up games before practising individual skipping techniques.
Musical Instruments in Nursery B
The children have been learning about musical instruments and exploring the sounds that the different instruments make. We sang a variety of nursery rhymes and chose the instruments to match the rhyme.
Graphic Novels
The children created their own graphic novels. They decided their characters and where it would take place. The children enjoyed being creative and having the opportunity to create their own original story.
Recount - Journey along the river
Today we mapped out in pairs the sequence of events from Annie getting into the barrel to the moment she reached the edge of the falls.
Fine Motor
In Reception we take every opportunity to practise our fine motor skills. This week we have been using Geo Boards and elastic bands.
Leaf man!
After listening to the story ‘Leaf Man’, we used our Autumn collection to create our very own Leaf Men! What brilliant creations!
Scarf dancing
We have been using scarfs to make movements to music. A fun way to develop our gross motor skills!
Creating using Natural Materials
Today the children in Nursery A learned about the soft wood inside an elder branch and using a metal tent peg, they created holes in the wooden pieces. Next they used threading skills to push a piece of wool through the holes to create bracelets. Finally, they further exercised their fine motor…
I Spy Beautiful Things
Last week we read the first story in the Bible about God creating our beautiful world. Today we decided to go for a walk around our school grounds to look for some of the beautiful things God has given us. The children identified flowers, plants, trees, leaves and grass as…
Year One English - Labelling Emotions
Year One English - Labelling Emotions
Today the children in Year One have been discussing how the emotions of the characters in our book, ‘Lost & Found’, changed throughout the story. We drew relevant emojis around images from the story to help us prepare for our writing later in the…