Reception have had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day. The children loved showing off all their outfits to their classmates. To start the celebrations, we enjoyed the story ‘Here Come The Aliens’ by Colin McNaughton and discussed what it would be like if aliens really did invade our school.
Each week, four children from Reception will be selected by their teachers to have juice and biscuits with Mr Malik as a reward for their behaviour and hard work. The adults in Reception will be looking for children who are playing nicely with each other, looking after their classroom and trying t
This week in Reception, we have celebrated Pancake Day! The children thoroughly enjoyed choosing a delicious topping for their pancake. After this, the children began to taste them. We really enjoyed getting to try the different flavours. This led to some fantastic conversations about our favourite
The children in Reception have been very lucky and have been chosen to visit Southernwood Residential Home with Little Movers. The children will go in small groups for series of visits to the home to take part in some inter generational classes. This will take place over the next few weeks. We went
This week, we had some special visitors in Reception. Some of our grown ups came into to see what we get up to at school. Our workshop focused on physical development and how important it is for our bodies. We enjoyed some gross motor movement in the hall with Little Movers. This included dancing, s
This week in Maths, we have been learning about measuring. We have been measuring lots of items in different ways. The children had great fun measuring themselves with long strips of paper. We enjoyed investigating to find out who was the tallest and who was the shortest. We then ordered the diff
In Science this term, Year 2 have been learning all about how animals (including humans) change as they grow. We have learned the names of adult animals and their young, how different animals have different life cycles and how to identify whether an animal is a mammal, amphibian, bird or reptile. Th
After reading ‘The Magic Train Ride’, a story about a magic train which visits cake land, the children were very excited to make their own cupcakes. They used their mathematical skills to weigh out the ingredients. The children also had to follow instructions in the recipe to bake the cupcakes. They
The children in Reception have enjoyed exploring our technology area this week. The children loved using the walkie talkies to talk to their friends. They could talk to each other in lots of different locations. They have also enjoyed exploring the metal detectors and finding out which materials are
The children in Reception have been very busy learning all about Chinese New Year. They have learnt about the Chinese Zodiac, painted Chinese dragons and threaded Cheerios onto pipe cleaners to make the body of the dragon. The boys and girls also made colourful Chinese dragon puppets and used them t
