Blog Author: Mrs Garvey

Today the children had a lovely surprise visit from Merseyside Fire Fighters as part of our current theme ‘People Who Help Us’. They experienced life as a fire fighter spraying the hose and sitting in the truck. The children and adults had a wonderful time and enjoyed the much needed hose…

Today we made delicious and cold fruit smoothies using different fruits, yoghurt and milk. They helped to keep us cool in this hot weather. 

The children are having a wonderful week outdoors in forest school with the  sunshine. They are exploring with water, playing in the mud kitchen, practising balancing, playing parachute games and building strong friendships. They also enjoyed story time outdoors with an ice-pop to cool down. 

Well done to the children who took part in the Golf Sixes competition yesterday at Aintree Golf Centre. Both year groups did fantastic and came second place.

This week the children have been making a healthy vegetable pasta sauce. They have been chopping tomatoes, courgettes, peppers and carrots to make a delicious snack. After cooking our ingredients we used the blender to create a nice smooth sauce for our pasta.

Today we have read 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet which has the children very excited and wanting to be superheroes themselves. They are making their own superhero masks and thinking about what super powers they would like to have. During snack time the children were surprised to…

This week we have started our new RE topic, 'Dialogue and Encounter'. Today the children have been talking about Jesus's friends and remembering different Bible stories where Jesus showed kindness to others. We placed our photographs with Jesus and His friends to show how we are all friends of…

This half term we are reading 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra. This week the children received a letter from the Chilly Peas asking for their help. The children were given a selection of tools including hammers, tweezers, pliers and scissors, to help free the frozen peas from the ice. They used their…

As the warmer weather arrives, the children are enjoying looking for insects and minibeasts. They have found woodlouse, spiders, beetles, ladybirds and ants so far and are looking forward to finding more after half term. 

In Nursey we have been reading 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. The children have used their cutting and sticking skills and a paper plate to show the life cycle of a butterfly. They were able to talk about the different stages and the…

The children are continuing to explore with clay. They have all made and painted their favourite minibeasts which we have displayed in our window. 

In Maths, we have been listening for patterns and finding the beat in different nursery rhymes and songs. We have also been looking at patterns around us - spotty, stipy, swirly. Today we identified and made our own repeated patterns with a partner. The children talked about their pattern and were…