This week we have enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year. We have found out about how people celebrate around the world and have taken part in some of our own celebrations in class. We particularly enjoyed finding out about the animal disagreement and how the animals decided which one of them should start the cycle of the years.
Tonight the children in Reception enjoyed their first Valentine’s Disco organised by the Friends of Norton Campus Association. There was dancing, games and prizes in the hall as well as juice and treats for everyone. A huge thank you to the organisers for creating such a happy event for our children.
Over the past week Nursery have explored and embedded our story of the week “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” The children began the week by being fairy tale detectives, as someone had been into Nursery over the previous weekend and broken our dollies chair, bed and left their empty food bowl laying around. The children were very excited and outraged by this, they had lots of different ideas of who this could be including; “the Troll”, “A big mouse”, “the Gruffalo”, “a bear” and “Goldilocks” herself.
Nursery played in oats, experimenting with filling and emptying containers of three different sizes, using small, medium and large spoons.
They explored and sorted hard and soft materials.
Using their maths skills Nursery measured the Three Bears using unifix cubes and worked hard to count how many cubes tall the bears were, using their fingers to encourage careful counting and 1-2-1 touch counting. The children revisited and used our key vocabulary Large, Medium and Small to describe Daddy, Mummy and Baby Bear.
As part of our Thoughtful Thursday Crews Nursery followed an online drawing tutorial, following step by step instructions and modelling from myself of how to draw a bears head. Our 30 hour children extended this activity to add the bears body using their own imagination.
As part of Flexible Friday Crew, the children all tried Porridge 🥣. For some children this was a new experience for others it was an alternate way to eat their porridge, as we had the option of either Golden Syrup or Sugar with our Porridge. Some children like “Jam”, “Nuts, raisins and Honey”, “Nutella”, “Raspberries”, “Blueberries” and “Strawberries” with theirs at home.
Finally to consolidate and bring all of our learning to life, Nursery took part in mini role plays of the story in front of their peers and grown ups. This takes a lot of confidence and most of the children enjoyed and were willing to take part in the experience using lovely story language. Well Done Boys and Girls! You’re all “Go for it Gorilla’s” and superstars!
At the end of last year, we asked students in C29 to reflect on the learning that took place outside the classroom and how this has helped them to build Crew.
Look at this collection of recent work which is now on display in the corridors of Carcroft School. Be sure to stop and admire students beautiful work from across phases and Expeditions!
Beautiful Work from Harris @ XP Gateshead
Animal Habitat Research @ Norton Infants
Y6 Athletics Champs! @ Green Top
E28 Crew Ardern DofE Charity Work @ XP
Crew Malala Achievements @ XP East
Recycle Walk @ Carcroft School
Setting Description Artwork @ Norton Juniors
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This week in RE the children in Reception learned that different religions have special places such as churches, mosques and synagogues. We then went on to think about the places that are special to them where they feel safe, happy or have fun. The children gave some really interesting answers and responded to each others answers with further questions. Well done Class 2 🙂
This week we have been identifying and researching different animal habitats. We worked hard to think of some amazing words to describe the habitats. We used words such as ‘dusty’, ‘gloomy’, ‘dark’, ‘hot’ and ‘icy’. We then visited the library to collect a selection non-fiction books to research the animals that are best suited to each habitat. We made posters to represent our findings. We have really enjoyed learning about habitats and are looking forward to writing our setting descriptions tomorrow.
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The children enjoyed using their story wands and were retelling some of the fairytales we’ve been reading in our expedition so far. They used expression and were even spotting some tricky words!
We have been getting smart in our phonics today. We’ve been using our segmenting fingers to spell some words. What superstars you all are! 🌟
We then went outside and enjoyed some well deserved fresh air.😊
We had a great community meeting this morning! We have been thinking about our feelings and using our zones of regulation in our wise Wednesday sessions, so today we decided to think about how we could get ourself or others more into the green zone. We played charades and Mrs Parsons says!
I was so impressed with the confidence of all of our little actors!
We even managed to celebrate our brilliant basketball team who took part in a tournament at Campsmount yesterday.
Mrs Parsons xx
There is no better way to start the week than with sharing the beautiful work that has been happening in classes. It was also lovely to give out postcards to those children who are always modelling our core values and HoWls during our community meetings.
I’m already looking forward to next week ⭐️
Mrs Parsons xx
