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Our Reception children are learning how to use different materials to make marks in their art activities this week. They are improving their fine motor skills and show greater care and accuracy when they are drawing.

Yesterday they began to explore making marks with wax crayons. They…

Today we started a new art project learning how to create 3D paper sculptures as we work towards a bigger project. To begin with they had some skills to achieve to be able to say …

• I can roll paper to make a cylinder.
• I can combine paper cylinders to make a sculpture.
• I can adapt my…

Our Magic Story Cupboard gave us the most beautiful picture book one day this week, it’s called ‘Molly, Olive and Dexter - Who’s Afraid of the Dark?’ By Catherine Rayner. 

Catherine’s illustrations are so beautiful that I decided they would be a great inspiration for the children to learn and…

Our Year 1 and 2 children have been busy learning how to add and subtract two, two digit numbers crossing and not crossing ten recently. 
 

These photos show the children adding the digits, talking and learning collaboratively. 
 

Our Reception children are busy learning how to construct a sentence, here is a snapshot of just one of the activities they have done this week helping them to understand how sentences are made. 
 

They cut out the jumbled up words, rearrange them to make a sentence and then glue them beneath…

The children were taught part of a dance routine today which they were quick to pick up and enjoyed learning. After rehearsing this, the class then worked in pairs to come up with their own moves to add to the dance and complete it. The children demonstrated their ideas to each other with a final…

Today the class explored air resistance and the force of surface friction by making balloon rockets out of different shaped balloons and using different types to string to make their balloon rockets move. They discovered that friction slows objects down and stops them; they discussed how smoother…

We have had a little move around in our Lower School classroom and now have a new role play area which the children are really enjoying. Our theme for learning in Year 1 and 2 this half term is ‘Explorers’ and after lots of discussion together the children got to decide what they wanted me to make…

Our Reception are busy learning all about the numbers 1 to 5, they are doing lots of different activities every week helping them to recognise the numerals, write them, count, subtilise, add 1 more and say what is 1 less. 
 

Here is a snapshot of the learning they did today using play dough…

At this week’s curling session, the children in Upper School were shown how to slide and then release the curling stone down the rink and onto the scoring target. Everyone seemed so much more confident with the skill of sliding along the ice and made good progress towards being able to play a…

Our Reception children have been busy building their number sense this week by digging through the sand to find numbers that were hidden. Once they found them they practised forming the numbers in the sand and then had to bury the number again by tipping the number shown in buckets of sand over…

Our Reception children have been super writers this week, recognising sounds in words and building cvc words. 
 

What superstars!