Blog by Tag: EYFS

As part of our special work on relationships we have talked about our families.  Who is special to us and who lives with us.  The children then made pebble families to represent our special people.  

It’s lovely to see the children back in school enjoying a heathy snack of tinned fruits.  They tried mandarin oranges, peach, pear and pineapple today.  They have settled back into our routines so well and are catching up with each other chatting about their half term adventures. 

The children have enjoyed reconnecting with friends after the half term. They are working hard making new worlds to play in using all of our resources. 

The children have enjoyed seeing all their friends again today after our half term break.  They have settled back in superbly and particularly impressed us with the way they remembered the sign of the cross and daily prayers.  Throughout the day they have been deeply engaged in many different…

As one of our focused activities this week we have been playing ‘I spy’ with some of the objects found in the Three Little Pigs story.  

The children have loved looking at themselves in the mirrors to see their crazy hair!

The children have had lots of fun today with their spooky hair styles. Thank you to our PTA for organising. 

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.

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! 

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…