Blog by Penny Kemp

Our Reception superstars started their six week course learning how to ride balance bikes, strengthening their muscles and improving their balance skills. Take a look at these photos from their first session today. 
 

In our gymnastics lessons the children are learning how to travel in different ways using their hands and feet for support. They have been practicing caterpillar walk, frog jumps into a walk and bunny hops.  They have all been learning how to do a tuck jump as well. 
 

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Our Reception children have been learning lots of different things in maths recently, measuring, comparing and making patterns. Here are some photographs of the children creating repeating patterns with natural resources outside. 
 

In our Geography lessons we have been learning the names of the seven continents and five oceans of the world. We have been investigating cold places in our quest to decide whether we would prefer to live in a hot or cold place. 
 

Today we learnt where the Equator is and what it means, then…

So much great learning is happening everyday in Lower School, we are so busy I often don’t get chance to take photos! Here are a few of our clever Reception children writing numbers 1 to 5. 
 

We were very lucky this week when Sam, Luca and Rafa’s Daddy came into school to tell us all about his job being a vet. It was a great way to round off our science learning about animals this half term.

We learnt more about how to look after our pets at home, the dangers that face them and how…

We have had ‘the best day ever’ today at Blackpool Zoo! We have been learning about animals in science and hit and cold places in geography so went out on a visit to get some first hand knowledge and experiences. 
 

Take a look at these photographs of our day…

This week in Lower School all the children have been comparing numbers as part of their maths learning. Look at these photos of year one’s learning for a snapshot of the week …

After talking about seasons, autumn and plants the children created some autumn trees of their own. 
 

We are a super team in Lower School!

All week the children have been investigating on our ‘curiosity table’. They have been learning about trees, how they grow, their seeds and the weather by studying conkers and acorns.
 

They’ve been looking closely at patterns and colours in the squashes, conkers, acorns and leaves outside.…

Our Reception are such GREAT learners we are having a lot of fun learning letter sounds and blending them together to read words. Over the past two weeks they have learnt s, a, t, p, i, n. Take a look at these photos to see what they’ve been doing …