More engineering in the early years:

26th January 2022Emma Powell

  • Wooden blocks to make a garage for the vehicles.
  • Aqua beads to make Elmer the elephant
  • Making food for a tea party.
  • “I’ve made a really tall tower”
  • A house for one of The Three Little Pigs.
  • Designing and making a house in the construction area.
  • Creating a stage for singing and dancing.
  • Copying a model to build a house out of lollipop sticks.
  • Using our imaginations…making a slide out of planks.
  • Copying a model carefully
  • Another super house.
  • “I’ve made a new triangle house for one of The Three Pigs”.
  • Building a dinosaur kingdom.
  • Using plastic bricks to make a house.
  • Designing and making a house using straws and wooden blocks.
We can’t wait to see what else we will create next week. We are all ready in our builders outfits!

Classifying Animals

25th January 2022Nicola Robson

This week we have been learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. We worked collaboratively to group animals before writing about them.

I wonder if you can remember what sort of teeth each group have?

This week in Class 4

21st January 2022Anna Wojcik

We have been very busy this week exploring 2d and 3d shapes, making patterns and sorting shapes. We have been working with our partners and supporting one another when learning about the features of non-chronological reports, reading texts and discussing them.

Early Years Engineers

20th January 2022Emma Powell

We have been busy in our Reception classes building, creating and making:

  • A home for the animals
  • A tent to sleep in
  • Mending the climbing frame
  • “We are fixers”
  • Helping each other
  • Building a boat to live in
  • “A house for my chickens”
  • ‘A house of sticks”
  • “It’s my house”
  • The Three Little Pigs house of straw
  • “My house of sticks for the Three Little Pigs”
  • “A kingdom house in London”
  • ‘A triangle house”
  • Paper people
  • “A BIG HOUSE!”
I wonder what else we can make over the coming days?

Fact finding

20th January 2022Claire Goodyer

This week in Class 3 we have been exploring features of non-chronological reports in our shared reading lessons. We have also demonstrated great decoding skills and found out so many interesting facts about polar bears.

Fantastic Food Chains

19th January 2022Nicola Robson

Today in class 6 we were learning about food chains. The children worked in collaborative groups to sort pictures to make food chains. It was lovely to see them all engaged in their learning.

Making predictions

18th January 2022Nicola Robson

As part of our new expedition we set up an experiment to see how different objects react to being submerged in water. We added tissues, a swim nappy, a plastic toy and a packet of crisp to bowls of water and will keep observing them over the next few weeks!