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Designing and Making a Moon Buggy
As part of our topic ‘Explorers’ and as part of our English learning reading stories by the same author we have been reading the marvellous books by the artist and author Simon Bartram. We have been enjoying Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary, Bob The Man on The Moon, Bob and his Best Ever Friend Ever and…
Reception’s Models
Our EYFS children have been busy designing and creating junk models and wowing us with their skills and creativity.
Well done, children, your labels telling us what your models are, are fantastic too!
Jesus Turns Water Into Wine
This week in our RE lesson we discussed the miracle Jesus performed when he turned water into wine (John 2:1-11) at the wedding in Cana. The children decided that the miracles Jesus performed show us that Jesus was special and that it made his friends, his disciples, realise how special he…
Where in the world is China?
We have been learning about China as part of our geography topic and began by looking at different objects and guessing which country they came from which prompted great discussion and learning.
The children have been learning how to use an atlas, find land and oceans on globes and maps…
Letters and Posters
We had a lovely treat this week as the Upper School children came to share their writing with us. They had written letters to the children in Lower School explaining their RE learning to them and had also created some information posters about tigers to share with us.
Thank you so much…
Reception’s Learning Week 5
A busy learning week with new learning about China, capital letters and the numbers 6,7 and 8 (as well as all the many other skills and knowledge we build on every week!)
Here are some snapshots into our week …
Reception’s Learning Week 4
Reception have had a busy week being builders after watching the houses being built in the field next to ours! They have been cooking and baking in the nature kitchen, learning phonics and maths, doing PE and lots of other activities! Here are a few snapshots of their week.
Digital Writing
What is a word processor and what do we use it for?
This is a question we discussed this week and began learning how to write digitally using a word processor. We also learnt about the the speed of emails!
The children studied a keyboard and started to learn where the keys are and what they…
What are they?
Our Eco monitors, who are Duke and Alex this week, have been kept busier than usual this week as they’ve had extra plants to care for! We already have two Peace Lillies, a fern, a succulent and a Spider Plant but this week I brought in there ‘mystery’ plants.
The groups of children have been…
What would you pack in your Explorer’s Backpack?
To finish our history learning (looking at significant explorers in the past) we looked at a modern explorer this week. Zara Rutherford has just broken records to be the youngest woman at 19yrs old to fly around the world solo in a microlight this week.
The children thought about where they…
Reception’s learning
Our Reception children have had a great week as you can see from the photos below. We have been busy winter explorers looking for winter birds and learning about the different birds we are likely to see during the winter months.
We have been exploring capacity by filling different containers…
Amelia Earhart and Ibn Battuta
Continuing our learning about significant explorers the children researched and learnt about Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and Ibn Battuta a scholar who travelled for 29 years exploring in the early 1300s.
The children used iPads to research the…
