Blog by Penny Kemp

This morning the Reception children performed 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow With A Flippy Floppy Hat' to us. They were wonderful and brilliant because they enjoyed it.  they did the actions perfectly, they danced, they joined in with the music and they actually sang. 

We were the audience and…

As part of our learning through our topic ‘The Great Outdoors’ we have been enjoying the story ‘The Scarecrow’s Wedding’ by Julia Donaldson. 

We have been learning the story ready to help us with ideas to write our own adventure story with scarecrows as the main characters. 

The Reception…

We have been thinking about all the things we are grateful for in Lower School and also thinking about our hopes for the future for ourselves and the world around us. 

Our discussion began with a lovely charity book called ‘Big H and Little h’ that was kindly sent to us by Victoria the author…

We are always talking about the weather! In Lower School we are talking about it a little more than we usually would at the moment as it is the focus of our geography learning this half term.  

Our new topic this half term is called The Great Outdoors (it's a great topic) our main focus…

It’s Earth Day every day but today we marked the official Earth Day with some beautiful new books. We have started reading them and they are sparking interesting questions and discussions. 

Each day in our phonics lessons we practice sounds we have already learnt, words we use in our sentences often and then we learn a new sound. We like to learn in fun ways, today we practiced reading and writing words with the ‘ur’ sound in them outside in our fabulous outdoor learning…

We have been busy making our brains bigger this week doing lots of different maths activities. The Reception children have been looking at numbers to 20 and beyond. They have been using tens frames to make a full ten and then more to understand numbers beyond ten. They have also been playing bingo…

PE back on the field in the sunny weather this week!

It’s been a wonderful start to the summer term ...

Oh my goodness we have had a very exciting morning, it all started when Alex found a letter that had mysteriously appeared in the classroom.

The children were very, very excited by the letter and Maddison told us all that she knew that the Easter Bunny could be invisible and hide behind trees…

Here are the finished cards our EYFS and Year One and Two have made this year to give to their families to celebrate Easter. 

The children have been learning about measuring in maths so what better way to practise their learning than weighing out real ingredients to make some Easter themed biscuits? 

Lots of learning and fun was had as the children made, decorated and ate their biscuits (with even more hand washing…