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.
Leaf man!
After listening to the story ‘Leaf Man’, we used our Autumn collection to create our very own Leaf Men! What brilliant creations!
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…
Baking Cookies in Nursery B
This week the children baked cookies together. We talked about the different ingredients and followed the instructions to make delicious chocolate chip cookies. We used scales to measure the ingredients and mixed and stirred using wooden spoons and whisks. The children then used their hands to…
Year 2 Design & Technology
The children used a cardboard template and a tangle of wrapping paper to create their own version of a patchwork quilt.
You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!
This week the children have been reading the story of the Gingerbread Man. We have been using our speaking and listening skills to talk about the story and we even decorated our own gingerbread men!
All aboard the English Martyrs Bus Tour!
The children in Nursery A have been playing together to create a bus, using crates, wheels and wood. A tambourine made a perfect steering wheel. Watch out for the fast drivers!
Year 2 Design and Technology: Structures
In D & T the children have been testing out differsnt ways to use paper to build structures of varying strength. One group managed a structure of card that was nine storeys high today!
Making Caterpillar Salads in Nursery
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.
Reflections of our time in Reception
This week the children are reflecting on our time in Reception. We have talked about what we have enjoyed, what we found tricky and all the activities we have loved. We then made dream catchers, threading wool, beads and feathers together thinking about our dreams and hopes for year 1.
Year 1 Design Technology
Year 1 Design Technology
The children enjoyed learning how to thread a needle in design technology today. They used binca to practise a running stitch.
Water between our fingers and sand between our toes!
This week’s warm weather has called for a variety of sand and water play in nursery. The children have enjoyed exchanging wellies for bare feet in the sand and have explored pouring, funnelling and spooning water both in indoor and outdoor water play. The children have been cooperating in much…