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This week we have carefully thought about our mental health and wellbeing.  We talked about how other people support us when we ‘Grow Together’ (the theme of this week).  We looked at different emotions and how these emotions can make us feel.  We found out that we have lots of people who like to help …

This week we have celebrated Chinese New Year. We learnt it was the year of the Tiger. We decorated our home corner by creating our own lanterns. We created our own dragons by learning how to use a hole punch and split pins. Then we looked at different dragon dances. We used musical instruments and …

As part of our RE we have being talking about how we belong to special communities and talked about places that are special to us. Today Father David came into Reception to talk about his job at St Oswald’s Church. He talked about the Bible and how he welcomed people to the church.

Can you spot Cunning Carrot, Brave Butternut or Posh Potato?  This week we have continued our story all about’ Supertato’.  In English we followed on from acting out the story to re-writing it using some of the key words from our word lists.  In topic, we talked about how we could design our own superhero …

Over this week we have been talking about ‘Let’s Pretend’ and what it means. We thought it was all about dressing up and turning into someone else.  We made up some wonderful creative stories using different puppets and talked about how a story begins.  We also added our own settings and invented some good and …

We have had a wonderful time today. We got out our winter warmers and braved the cold and wet weather. We then went exploring around the school grounds so that we could make our own Santa sleigh and Christmas pudding.  We mixed different types of leaves to make our mixture. Then we found pine needles, …

This week in maths we have talked about different patterns within the environment. We have created some super patterns using colour and shape too. As part of our learning we challenged ourselves to record our own work.

We have brightened up are week by painting amazing rainbows. We talked about the different colours and why rainbows appear in the sky. We learnt how to hold our paint brushes and the water to wash them clean so that colours didn’t mix.    

This week we have been find out about how different people can help us stay safe and healthy. In our classroom we created our own dentist, looked at how to call for the emergency services and used our dressing up outfits to take on different types of roles. In our book area we read the …

This morning we took to the hall to use the bats, balls, hoops and the soft play equipment. We jumped, crawled, balanced, ran on our tiptoes and started to understand how to stay safe when using larger equipment.         This morning we took to the hall to use the bats, balls, hoops …
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