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.
EYFS Super Soup | 14 Jan 2022
Bluebirds and Robins made carrot and potato soup yesterday. They practised lots of cooking skills like using bridge and claw techniques to cut (pre-cooked) carrots and potatoes as well as mashing, stirring and grinding (pepper and salt). We heard some lovely conversations about things like halves and quarters as well as cooking that they have …
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.
Our exciting entry point for our new topic of ‘Celebrations’ was a huge success! The children worked together to propel a rocket into the sky, then added ‘petrol’ and ‘rocket fuel’ to their containers and watched as it zoomed up higher than the school! It was super to see the children working together so well …
Happy Together | 21 Oct 2021
We thought you might like to see Bluebirds’ happy hands wreath. We drew round our hands in lots of different colours and created a wreath to remind us that we are all happy together!
Bluebirds and Robins got a lovely surprise today… just like Handa in the story. The children were transported to Kenya (I know, we made it back just in time for home time!) and walked with Handa with her basket of fruits. Unfortunately, we were tricked by several wild animals who stole our fruits… much to …