Blog by Penny Kemp

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    about  Christopher Columbus. 

Think ... What do we already know about him? 

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Reception had a good tidy up time in our garden area this morning. They cleared out the weeds and turned over the soil in our tyres that we had grown potatoes and wild flowers in last year. Then they planted some bulbs and shrubs in the wooden trough planters. They learnt new things and showed…

We have had a fantastic and interesting afternoon today, thanks to Adrian Worrell who came to visit us. He dressed as Ernest Shackleton the polar explorer and took us through the ages of exploration thinking of why people explored, how they did it, when and what they did when they got to the lands…

Something unusual happened the other day in the EYFS classroom, the children had a visit from an upset Little Red Riding Hood who hadn't enough cakes to take to her poorly grandma. She had been skipping across our field to get to her Grandma’s cottage and they must have fallen out of her basket as…

As part of our Explorers topic we are doing a design and technology project where we are learning about mechanisms, in particular wheels and axles.

We have been reading the stories about Bob, the man on the moon, written by Simon Bartram and have decided to design and make a vehicle for Bob to…

We love to move around whilst we learn, it helps us remember our learning and keeps us fit. Today we were jumping up the ladder counting in 2s,5s and 10s. Year 2s were also jumping and counting in odd numbers, then even numbers and sometimes switching from one to the other! 

Well done Year 1…

Great drama lesson today, as part of our learning towards writing an explorer story the children acted out different parts of the story ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram after they enjoyed some drama warm up games.

Well done Claire, you are our star gymnast as a result of your fantastic routine this week. You listened so well to instructions and performed the different movements extremely well.

Super maths learning in EYFS this week ...

Welcome back and Happy New Year! 2018 is going to be a great year! We are starting our year off with an exciting topic called Explorers. Today the children had to guess what our topic is by looking at the items in a rucksack. Iain was the first to work it out. 

After lots of discussion the…

Hurray, we’ve sponsored a hedgehog family to help Woodlands Animal Sanctuary in all the wonderful work they do caring for animals.

The children are almost ready to present their fantastic production of Hosanna Rock!