We’re going on a windmill hunt…

10th February 2022Gemma Tinker

Today we decided we wanted to find the windmill that Class 1 had told us all about. We thought about our core text this week – Hansel and Gretel and realised that we could make a trail whilst we hunted for the windmill. It was cold, but we wrapped up well and set about finding the windmill. We had so much fun and cannot wait for our next adventure!

  • Today we wanted to be just like Hansel and Gretel…
  • We looked at different things that we could leave just like Hansel so that we didn’t get lost…
  • We thought brightly wrapped chocolates would make a fantastic trail…
  • We all got a chocolate…
  • We thought about which way we would walk…
  • And discussed who would go first!
  • We were searching for a windmill…
  • We began to lay our trail…
  • We followed as each person placed their wrapped chocolate down…
  • Up a hill…
  • All the way to the top..
  • We looked all around us … until…
  • We found it! In the distance – a windmill.
  • We followed our trail all the way back to the playground, collecting a chocolate each as we went!

Celebrating Chinese New Year…

4th February 2022Gemma Tinker

After a week of exploring and investigating in our Curiosity Cube we are finally celebrating all things Chinese New Year!

We moved like dragons in PE… dancing, breathing fire, wiggling our tails, flapping our wings, roaring and tip-toeing. We moved around the room in a long line. It was lots of fun!
Investigating and exploring Chinese foods … we will be tasting some food later!
Look… I can pick up pieces of rice!
We’ve drawn dragons and made models of fire-breathing dragons.

Remembrance Day in EYFS

11th November 2021Gemma Tinker

In EYFS today we have been learning about Remembrance Day, we have been thinking about the brave soldiers who protect our country to keep us all safe. We have printed poppies, made edible poppy biscuits and delivered them as a random act of kindness to all of the grown ups in school who help keep us safe everyday. We also surprised the staff at the Junior School with a biscuit too! We have coloured poppies, drawn our own poppies and even attempted to write the sounds we hear in words.

Outdoor Learning

10th November 2021Gemma Tinker

We are having lots of fun outdoors this morning in Class 2. Working together to build a den underneath the climbing frame. It took lots of attempts for our bricks to stay standing!

Our first week back…

3rd November 2021Gemma Tinker

  • Spooky Cosmic Yoga fun…
  • We love copying the skeleton dance!
  • Spider pose!
  • Learning all about 3 and drawing triangles.
  • Adding 3 spooky ingredients to a spell!
  • Retelling The Gruffalo…
  • How sneaky these two letters make one sound!

We have had such a great first few days back after our half term break. We have had a fabulous few spooky days, a Halloween disco, a new spooky Maths area to create spells – we needed to count ingredients into little cauldrons! We have enjoyed reading Room On The Broom and The Gruffalo!

    Class Two are so Kind

    15th October 2021Laura Parsons

    Our day was brightened in Class Five today as we received a special delivery of crispy buns just to brighten our day from our friends in class two. What a kind thing to do – they were delicious! You must have worked so hard making them, we really appreciate your random act of kindness.

    Little Artists in the making…..

    13th October 2021Emma Powell

    We looked at the large tree in our garden area. We noticed that the leaves are still green and are all still on the tree. We wonder what it will look like when we come back to school after the half term break?

    We created pictures which were inspired by the artist Guiseppe Archimboldo:

    We looked carefully at the work by Archimboldo and created our own versions:

    We are going to sketch our work next…..we look forward to seeing what they look like when they are complete.

    Investigating Pumpkins…

    11th October 2021Gemma Tinker

    • How can we open them? Shall we smash them?
    • So many seeds…
    • I’m strong enough to open it…
    • It’s heavy…
    • Nearly inside both now!
    • Yes we did it! Look at all of the seeds!
    • It’s yucky … but I want another go!
    • I’m not sure whether I like it … but I love investigating!
    • Seeds… there are LOADS!
    • This one is slimy…
    • Wow! Can I have a turn?
    • It’s heavy … and it smells funny!
    • I am sooooo strong!
    • No seeds left in this bit!
    • It smells funny … and it feels a bit funny too!
    • I like this … I like seeing inside!
    • Counting…
    • Can I play here all day – I love investigating pumpkins!
    • Digging deep to pull out the stringy bits!
    • I emptied it!
    Class 1 and Class 2 have enjoyed investigating pumpkins in the outdoor area this morning… What a fantastic start to the week… slimy, gooey, hard but smooth, sticky, stringy pumpkins! I wonder where our learning will go?