Just a reminder about the farm visit on Tuesday. The children need to wear their school uniform and their normal school shoes. Bring named wellington boots in a named plastic bag. As the children are outside all day they will need a waterproof coat with a hood. Think about the thickness of the coat depending … Read more
The reception classes have been busy in their first few weeks at school. We discovered that one of our class dinosaurs was turning 5 so we decided to throw him a birthday party. This involved making birthday cards, decorations and decorating biscuits. We really enjoyed playing dinosaur party games. As we will soon be visiting Wimpole … Read more
Half of Oak class and half of Ash class have been enjoying their first week of school this week. The other half will start on Monday. The reception teaching staff have been rather impressed at how well the children have settled into school life so far. Even though the children have only been attending in … Read more
This was our last week of learning about space and we ventured into alien territory. Making our own aliens was an exciting activity and a chance to let the imagination run riot! Describing their aliens in writing on Tuesday was more challenging but the children tried hard to use some descriptive language to aid an … Read more
Hello again after a couple of ‘blog-less’ weeks! The butterflies have flown, we have had a holiday and the fete is over and here we are back for the last few weeks of your child’s reception year. Where has this year gone? The children learnt about the moon last week, This week they made rockets … Read more
Learning to recognise different types of minibeasts and hunting them down to observe formed the basis of our work this week.Having learnt all about what makes a bug an insect, Monday afternoon saw the children ‘tree shaking’ around the field to find which minibeasts live in or on the trees. Having found and collected several … Read more
Monday started with a quick chat with ‘talking partners’ and we soon discovered that between us we knew quite a lot about snails. A non-fiction Usborne text entitled ‘Snails’ added to the children’s knowledge and they all wrote some interesting facts for their writing in class. A story recall of ‘Odo the Snail’ on Tuesday … Read more
In class this week the children have been learning about butterflies and waiting for our Painted Lady caterpillars to arrive. They arrived after lunch and they are tiny. We will be checking them daily to see if they are eating and growing. We have read some great stories about butterflies. Starting with the informative Usborne … Read more
Last week we started our work on life cycles and living things. The tadpoles survived the Easter holiday and we have been watching them closely. A few are starting to grow their back legs! We looked at websites to find out more about frogs: www.usbourne-quicklinks.com In our Big Write lesson this week the children wrote … Read more
Easter came and went and here we were back for four action packed days. On Tuesday Van Gogh (Paul Priestly) came to visit us, with a very dramatic, action packed representation of his life and famous works .Key Stage 1 children then had some practise of sketching fields, trees, bushes and stars and shading using … Read more
