Blog by Penny Kemp

We love learning in a practical way and the children in school in EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 have done some great maths using these I made for them at the weekend!

Mrs Kemp :)

Have a look at the lovely surprise we found in the classroom this morning ...

Our Christmas jumpers ...

We had lots of fun and games today! 

We looked at many beautiful picture books and learnt about polar bears which led us to print some snow bears of our own. They turned out so well that we made them into Christmas cards! 

The children used different techniques, tools and materials to create their bears, have a look through these…

Here are just some of the activities we have been doing ...

Thank you so much Elaine we LOVE our presents of beautiful books, Supertato and Evil Pea are some of our favourite characters!

Elaine Silverwood from Book Bean and Ice Cream in Kirkham has kindly given us these fantastic books, take a look at the joy they’ve brought ...

Take a look through these photographs at all the great learning our brilliant Reception children have been doing recently ...

Super maths learning with our Reception children learning all about the number 5, have a look through these photos ...

We have had fun making pictures of sparklers ...

We had a theme day on Friday learning all about the Gunpowder Plot and why we celebrate with fireworks and bonfires every 5th November. 

These photos show the art skills Year 1 and 2 learnt and practised using oil pastels. They experimented with line, colour and shapes. After experimenting they…

We have begun our new topic of this half term which is called Fire! Fire! our storytelling and writing activities are all based around the story Zog by Julia Donaldson.  Have look at these photographs to see the fun we have been having so far ...