NEWS & EVENTS

This week, we have started our exciting new Religious Education topic: Birthdays . To celebrate, we’ve been preparing the classroom for our puppet, Ellie’s birthday! The children have been busy decorating the home corner, creating beautiful birthday cards, and even making birthday cakes with playdough. Through these activities, we are learning about the importance of preparation and celebration. This theme will lead us into Advent , a special time when Christians prepare for

The children are fully immersed in their Gingerbread Man story. We have been retelling the story in our small world area and acting it out outside. We also had great fun baking and decorating our own gingerbread men, and we can’t wait to eat them!

We welcomed our Reception parents into school today for our English Café. In the hall, Miss Green talked about the importance of reading to children and the positive impact it has on their vocabulary. Parents were shown how a phonics session works and how it supports children in developing their reading skills as well as learning to write. Finally, parents joined us in the classroom for our Drawing Club session on The Gingerbread Man . We enjoyed drawing the Gingerbread Man,

On Friday, our Reception children concluded their unit of work on Baptism. We gathered to share what we had learned and celebrated together with a class liturgy. During the liturgy, we began by singing “All Are Welcome” to remind us that Baptism is the time when people are welcomed into the church.  We talked about different ways we can make people feel welcomed and drew these in our books. Miss Green then marked a cross on each child’s forehead with oil, symbolising the oil

This week, we spent time with our buddies creating poppies for our Remembrance liturgy. We used fingerprinting and collage to make each poppy unique and special. As we worked, we talked about why people wear poppies and remembered those who are important to us. We also learned about the armed services and how they help to protect our land, sea, and air. It was a thoughtful way to honour those who have served and to reflect on the importance of peace.

Today, Reception had a lovely visit to our local church, St Anthony of Padua. As we walked together, we noticed the beautiful autumn changes – the leaves turning colour and falling to the ground. We also talked about the different types of houses and the shops we passed in our local area. Everyone was very sensible and followed the Green Cross Code carefully when crossing the roads. When we arrived at the church, Father Jonathon kindly welcomed us and showed us around. The hi

This week, Reception have been exploring a range of musical instruments. We have been learning the names of the instruments and how to play and stop them carefully. The children enjoyed experimenting with different sounds, playing their instruments both loudly and quietly. Next week, we will be continuing our musical journey by focusing on tempo  — learning how to play our instruments fast and slow .

Over the past few weeks, our learning in Reception has been all about pets ! We enjoyed reading the stories Six Dinner Sid  and Dear Zoo...

We have come to the end of our RE topic learning all about myself.  We drew pictures of ourselves and wrote our names in our topic...

We have been using our large outdoor construction to build a park. We have made a climbing frame, a slide and a seesaw. This is great for...

Reception have been enjoying their PE lessons in the gym. We have been learning how to find our own space and playing listening games.

Reception have enjoyed exploring and playing in their new classroom.  We have been learning our new routines and getting to know our new...

On Friday we went to the gym and played some parachute games. We listened really well and sat in the circle to wait for our instructions....

Please find below some links and activities of learning we have covered these last few weeks in school. You can watch the videos and...

Over the past few weeks we have been reading stories base on feelings, we have read ‘The Colour Monster’ and ‘Lucy’s Blue Day’ and talked...

This week we met our buddies and had playtime together!

We all did really well to get changed into our P.E. kits on our own. We needed a little bit of help, when our clothes were inside out or...

When we are in our outside area we are developing our gross motor skills. We made our own assault course, painted the fence and wall...

We used all of our autumnal collections to make some autumnal artwork inspired by Andy Goldsworthy.

In our ‘Welcome’ unit in RE we have been learning about Baptism. We talked about who was at a Baptism and what happens during one. Then...