As part of our Amazing Animals topic, we had a visit from Melody from White Cross vets today. She brought Alfie the Pomeranian and taught us all about how vets help us to look after our animals. She brought a stethoscope, some pretend dog teeth, some dog treats and a vet outfit (among other things!) …
The children really enjoyed looking at Google Earth and zooming in to find Tranmere Park School and then learning about how we need to take care of our planet. They heard about things that they can do such as turning off taps and lights, making sure they don’t drop litter and helping with recycling. They …
At Bluebird’s drop in children were taking part in activities linked to Handa’s Surprise e.g. making fruit skewers, turning old CDs into a piece of fruit (!) and clipping the correct number of pegs onto pictures of fruit. We then had a quick dough disco and finished with the French song ‘Deux Petits Oiseaux’. They …
We had another visit from The Dunwells today. How lucky are we? They did two songwriting workshops and with Year 4 and Year 5 which were performed for us at the end of the day. The songs they had written sounded great. After that we were treated to an exclusive little gig from the the …
Lots of parents and other family members attended our puppet making workshop this morning. Our guests were given a brief overview of the EYFS Expressive Arts and Design curriculum and then challenged to release their own inner creativity and make something from a variety of small wooden pieces, matchsticks or lolly sticks! Next, Bluebirds and …
Bluebirds played along to Rock a Bye Baby on the chime bars. They all played D beautifully!
Bluebirds and Robins have been making sounds with instruments and then creating pictures to represent them. They were so good that we put together a little composition and took turns to play it. We also used green and red to mean ‘play’ and ‘stop’. Some children took turns to be the conductor as we played …
Our new topic this half term is ‘Let’s Pretend!’ For our entry point we had a good chat about what we thought pretending was and then each dressed up as a character and pretended to be someone or something else. Since then we have had a LOT of fun pretending on the stages in the …
We made a wonderful start to our ‘Celebrations’ topic this week. We learnt about Divali and made diya lamps, rangoli patterns and Divali biscuits. We even made firework fruit kebabs! We learnt a Divali dance and ended the fun with a (digital) firework display!