Blog by Tag: EYFS

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…

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

In Reception we have been learning a poem all about mini beasts.  This afternoon we went into the hall and performed it for the All Day Nursery children.  Reception have worked really hard on their ‘Poetry Voices’ and Nursery loved listening to it.  Well done Reception! Great Performance.…

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…