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X30 Corner Football Thursday @ XP
The Power of Passage Presentations @ XP Gateshead
Where will our vehicles take us @ Norton Infants
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Last week Nursery brought case study three of our expedition to a close by thinking about “Where will your vehicle and imagination take you?”
We all bordered the “Imagination Station Train” and pretended as we chugged along the tracks and pulled into lots of imaginary worlds. The journey began by being modelled to the children, encouraging them to think of far away or imaginary places, such as Lollipop land or Chocolate World. As the children became immersed in their play, they began to suggest stops of their own such as Dinosaur Land, The Jungle, Mermaid World, Unicorn Land and Sweetie Town.
The children were then asked if they could go in any vehicle, to any place – Where would it be? How would they get there? And most importantly what would their vehicle be powered by? The children made some wonderful suggestions using their imagination and knowledge, built up from throughout the expedition, really consolidating their learning. We really have been on the move!
In provision the children also explored, used their imaginations and translated their learning to create their own imagination station journeys.
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Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Beautiful Work by Daria @ XP Gateshead
Mindful Monday @ Norton Infants
Highwayman ‘Swift Nicks’ Nevison visits NJS @ Norton Juniors
C30 Tranquil Tuesday @ XP East
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Last Friday we celebrated World Book Day. It was a fabulous day and children were all very excited to dress as a book character and design a hat inspired by a book of their choice. We had some amazing creations that will be talked about for a long time to come.
We started the day with our community meeting where we paraded our amazing hats and costumes. We then went back into the classroom to take part in different activities linked to some of our favourite stories. We created Hungry Caterpillar repeating patterns, built houses for The Three Little Pigs and spent time listening to some of our favourite stories.
Today in Crew Nursery kicked back with a follow up activity to world book day. They each attempted a Fairytale character Hide and Seek. The children looked for traditional characters and counted how many times they could spot them. Most children attempted to write numbers or make marks to represent what they had found. Amazing work and lots of fun!
On Friday Nursery celebrated World Book Day. Children were so excited to come to school in fancy dress as a book character or with their home made Dr Seuss inspired crazy hat. All children and hats looked absolutely amazing!
We celebrated with a a host of book inspired small world activities where children could create their own stories around their favourite characters.
We made bookmarks to help keep our place in our books….
Finally we used our tales tool kit writing frame to help us tell stories by cutting and sticking characters and drawing our own settings. These were amazing, the story language and creativity that the children used was fabulous.
The children arrived looking absolutely amazing in their costumes, and the hats were truly sensational. A huge thank you to all of you parents for the time and effort you put into helping the children prepare for today – it really made the day extra special.
We started World Book Day just as you might expect… with our heads in a book! The children enjoyed some quiet reading time before we gathered together to share and admire everyone’s fantastic costumes and creative hats.
Throughout the day, the classroom was full of exciting book-themed activities. In the construction area, the children took on the roles of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, building houses and acting out the story together. We also created Hungry Caterpillar repeating patterns, made our very own beanstalks, and even had a go at writing our own stories.
It was a joyful day full of imagination, creativity, and a love of books. Well done to all of the children for their enthusiasm and fantastic participation – we are very proud of them!
Thank you again for helping to make our World Book Day so special.
This year our World Book Day had a Dr Seuss theme – a cat in the hat inspired crazy hat! Boy did the children deliver!! We had everything from gardens to space helmets and minions to globes – the children’s hats absolutely blew our socks off! 👒🎩
In crew this morning, Y2 created their very own crew murals inspired by their favourite books. We took time thinking of a way to represent our favourite books, drawing them and then sticking them all together to create our collaborative artwork.
We also spent some time with The Cat in the Hat himself this morning – we watched the story and then had a go at drawing our very own Cat in the Hats. What a great day!!!
