The reception children already knew a lot about our eight legged friends but through non-fiction books, e-books and websites lots of new interesting information has been learnt. We also looked at stories and rhymes about spiders. Our ‘exciting’ Friday writing was a story about a spider and once again there was a dramatic increase in … Read more
Another week packed with activity and learning. After a quick chat with ‘talking partners’ we 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. Story recall of ‘Odo the Snail’ … Read more
In class this week the children have been learning about butterflies and watching our Painted Lady caterpillars grow. We have read some great stories about butterflies from the informative Usborne ‘Butterflies’ with its informative website, to the classic Hungry Caterpillar and hence this weekend’s writing homework. ‘Ben plants a butterfly garden’ has prompted us to … Read more
Tadpoles, froglets and caterpillars and of course children, what a fascinating week! This week we started our work on life cycles and living things. With three tadpoles changing into froglets we read some non-fiction books and e-books about their development and completed a frog life cycle in our computer lesson. Look at these websites to … Read more
A nice short week to break everyone in gently, however we’ve managed to cram it full of new experiences! Hopefully your child has been telling you all about our recycling work. Two ladies from North Herts Council did some sorting with the children and we learnt some songs about recycling and heard the story of … Read more
The week started with feverish practising of a hastily put together class assembly. I hope that the film put onto the school website yesterday, helped you to appreciate the hard work that the children had put in over a very short period of time. With Easter cards and baskets to make, seeds to be planted, … Read more
Here is a video of our Assembly
Another busy week preparing our cards for Mother’s Day and getting ready for a class assembly. Mother’s day cards were finished just in time. I hope that the anemones made it home safely! As we prepare for our class assembly about our work on spring I would ask that all children practise saying the individual … Read more
A few lovely days were a great opportunity to get out into the local area and look for signs of spring. Having joined the RSPB ‘Wild Square’ project for exploring nature last year, the children went out with their surveys looking for signs of spring. They wrote about their walk and we looked at non-fiction … Read more
Three weeks since the holiday and three weeks to go before the Easter break and so much to pack into this half term.It has been great at last to get the children out into the spring sunshine at break times and for them to extend their classroom play into the outddoor space. With the theme … Read more
