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Another amazing week in PE @ XP
Double, Double, No Toil or Trouble: G31 Nailed It! @ XP Gateshead
Easter Traditions @ Norton Infants
Crew Rosa Parkes – Well done! @ XP East
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Last week Nursery were exploring and for most being introduced to the real meaning of Easter for the first time. We told a child friendly traditional tale of Easter and the children explored themes of whether the treatment of Jesus was fair and kind? Were the people who hurt him “Loving Lions”? They were hooked into the story, using a Good Friday version of pass the parcel. The children pulled out items that were significant to the story and suggested what they maybe… They had some great ideas, grappling that a bamboo cross was “a sign” or “an arrow”. They suggested that the piece of red material was “a towel” or “scarf” and that a crown made from pipe cleaners was “a hat” or a “hula hoop”. They correctly identified bread and fish and stones.
The children carried large construction tubes, testing their gross motor skills, around the outdoor area including up and over the hill. They worked in pairs mostly, being teamwork tigers. The tubes symbolised Jesus cross. The children offered some wonderful ideas around this activities, understanding that Jesus must have been “tired”, “aching”, “sore” and they found it “tricky”.
Throughout the week the children had the opportunity to create an Easter crown using craft materials.
To activate and construct the idea of Easter being a time of new life, the children took part in some planting. They each took turns to plant their own cress seeds, learning what things plants need to survive and grow. The children really enjoyed this activity and were able to explain that plants need “sun”, “water”, “air”, “soil” or “muck” to grow.
Our maths work also centred around traditional Easter and new life last week too as the children recapped on repeating patterns using traditional pictures and baby animals.
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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.
