Blog by Penny Kemp

The children have loved exploring this tray this week, lots of play, talk, maths and storytelling happening!

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about famous explorers. The children have learnt about people who explored space, hot places and cold places in the past. They’ve also spent time thinking about what equipment they would need if they were to go exploring to any of these places nowadays…

As part of our author study we have begun a series of writing activities based on John Burningham’s story called The Magic Bed this week. It’s a great story about a boy called Georgie who, instead of buying a brand new bed from the department store as his Grannie wishes, buys a bed from an…

The children in Year 1 and 2 have been exploring fact families in addition this week and using their understanding to help them add two digit numbers which cross over ten. The children in Reception have been learning all about weight, measuring how heavy or light items are and comparing. They have…

Inspired by the snow this week the Reception and Year 1 children created snowflakes improving their fine motor control and talking about pattern and shape. Our Year 2 children had a challenge to create a snowman with a personality!

We had a very chilly time playing in the snow on Tuesday morning!

We have begun learning about British garden birds this week as we are going to take part in this years Big Schools Birdwatch with the RSPB. After talking about the different kinds of birds we see in our gardens we did some birdwatching on our field. We talked about the birds’ habitats and how at…

We have read both The Colour Monster and The Feelings Doctor and the emotional toolkit and it sparked lots of great discussion and learning. The children had some great ideas and ways to help themselves when they have feelings they don’t enjoy and we shared ideas finding new ideas to put into our…

Our Reception children have been busy little learners this week showing me how well they can count, talk about more and less, recognise numerals and work as a team. They have also been impressing me as we talked about shapes and colours. They are busy learning new sounds and tricky words. Take a…

We have started reading books written and illustrated by John Burningham, who is the author we are studying this half term. Which books do you recognise, which stories do you know?

Welcome 2024! I am extremely happy to be back in Lower School with our fabulous children and we are having a great week of learning so far. 
 

The children have been enjoying reading to their new reading buddies. Take a look at these photographs…

Dear Parents and children,

Woo hoo it is nearly the summer holidays! I hope you are all looking forward to the freedom of the break from school and enjoying family time together. I’ve been putting together some ideas of how you can keep up the great progress in reading and writing your children…