Blog by Penny Kemp

Our Year 1 & 2 children have begun a new design and technology project this week. Their project is to design and make a moving monster.

We began by looking closely at a variety of mechanical and non mechanical toys and answering these questions…

• Can you name any components (for example,…

Today in our PE lesson we have been doing a variety of activities to develop our throwing skills.

The children focused on throwing for accuracy and concentrated on throwing their beanbag or ball at a target. Our success criteria for a great overarm throw are:

• stand sideways
• step forward…

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring the big question ‘What made Jesus Special?’.

We have been answering some key questions …

What does special mean?

Jesus was special. How and Why?

What made Jesus special?

We began by discussing friendship, reflecting on our own…

This week we have continued our science learning looking closely at plants. The children have compared different plants, looked closely and named a variety of fruit and vegetables. They’ve recapped their learning about trees and built upon their learning. 
 

Take a look at these photos to see…

We were so lucky to get some of the brilliant author and illustrator Rob Biddulph’s books last week. We love Rob’s picture books and have some favourites in our classroom already so, knowing his stories and loving his artwork already made it a special treat to have books signed by him! A big thank…

This week as part of our science topic about plants we have been learning about garden plants, wild plants and trees. 
 

We looked outside, looked at photographs and watched videos about these plants and used our scientific enquiry skills to learn. 
 

Here is a snap shot of our…

Our Reception children went out in the snow before anyone else this morning to explore the wonders of nature. They looked for signs of wildlife and talked about how the weather affects and changes the world outside. 

Take a look at the things they found and the fun they had…

What an absolutely beautiful snowy morning it was this morning! We couldn’t resist going out to investigate. We looked for signs of wildlife and found bird prints in the snow. 
 

We practised our phonics and then began creating different giant footprints thinking about the traditional tale…

Our science learning (all about plants) is linked to our English learning this week as the children have planted a bean seed with a plan to take care of it and watch it grow into a bean plant. 

We looked back at our previous learning (see here …

This week we have been reminding ourselves of the tradition tale Jack and The Beanstalk. The children have been collecting and using ambitious vocabulary, acting out the story and retelling it by using puppets and drama.

We have begun to read Jim and The Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs and started…

Our Reception children have been learning about zero this week in their maths learning as well as doing lots of counting. 

As one of their continuous provision activities they have been matching and pairing socks. This activity gave lots of opportunities for maths and practising fine motor…

After discussing ways in which we are going to take greater responsibility and care of our planet this year the children chose to make posters to remind everyone around school how to.