This half term has been very busy but so much fun! We seemed to have celebrated lots of changes, we spent a week preparing for the Coronation of King Charles making flags, crowns, sandwiches and cakes, learning traditional country dances and of course the national anthem. We then had a true British street party in …
In Reception this half term, we started looking at lifecycles. We really enjoyed using the texts “Superworm” and “The Bad Tempered Ladybird”, the children also became very interested in size after reading both these books and lots of interesting learning happened in the moment when we decided to measure ourselves, our body parts and how …
This half term we wanted to learn about castles. This started off as an imaginative topic, we looked at stories featuring castles including the more traditional tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk and more modern texts such as Zog and the Flying Doctors. We have really enjoyed dressing up and acting out stories of …
We started the half term learning about the origins of Bonfire Night and then as the weather started to turn we used rain as a stimulus for looking at poetry for the first time. Our Animaphonics learning has become very exciting as we have got on to learning digraphs. We have continued to enjoy our …
Reception have settled really well into full school life and for a few children this was their first half term in a new setting…including Miss Gavaghan. Friendships have been made and the children are really understanding their emotions and how these have an impact on their actions. We started off talking about our families which …