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17 March 2025

Snack and Chat!

Snack time is always popular in nursery but even more so on Mondays as the children are so keen to share with us their weekend news and catch up with their friends.  Here they are developing turn taking, conversation, eye contact, vocabulary, listening skills and much more.   The children choose…

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10 March 2025

Perfect Pancakes

Last Tuesday was a hive of activity in Nursery A as we celebrated Shorve Tuesday.  Children had a chance to make and eat pancakes with some traditional toppings. We even made one for Mr Dinsdale!  We talked about the reason why we have Shove Tuesday in preparation for…

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5 March 2025

Shrove Tuesday

In celebration of Shrove Tuesday, the children had a special visitor come in to school to make pancakes with the children. We talked about what ingredients we need to make pancakes and how they are cooked. The children choose their toppings and ate their pancakes together!

 

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4 March 2025

Nursery B’s Shrove Tuesday

Today the children have been learning about Shrove Tuesday and Lent.  Together we made pancakes and all had a turn at mixing, whisking, pouring and eating!

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27 February 2025

Magic Moments!

Not content with simply building a wall for Humpty Dumpty, two of our creative learners in nursery decided to work together to make a bed for him, using some blocks as a blanket to keep him warm.  Look at those smiles! 

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14 February 2025

Maths -Making and talking about arrangements (Nursery A)

As part of our mathematics focus this week we have been putting blocks together to make arrangements.  We have been making towers and lots of children decided to build a wall for Humpty Dumpty. We discussed the different shapes and how flat shapes are easier to stack than curved or slanted…

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7 February 2025

Design Technology

As part of their work on mechanisms Y2 investigated axles. 

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4 February 2025

Year 2 Lego Club

The children in Lego and k’nex club are becoming more creative each week.  We’ve had so many different designs and the children have been working brilliantly together.  Today some of the children chose to make marble runs using the Lego baseboards.  

 

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24 January 2025

Year 1 Crudites

Year 1 Crudités 

Year 1 enjoyed chopping the different vegetables into strips and making a delicious dip. “It was so yummy. I liked it all.” 

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24 January 2025

Future Architect

Architects of the future here in Reception.  The boys spent most of the afternoon building this airport!

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20 January 2025

Let’s Build in Nursery A

Using a mixture of wooden blocks and natural resources, the children decided to make a fort today.  The children worked together and side by side to create their masterpiece. There was lots of discussion and negotiating taking place too.   We didn’t want to tidy it away at the end of the day!…

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17 January 2025

Pitta Pizzas

This week we made pitta bread pizzas in nursery.  We took turns, talked about our ingredients which included, tomato purée, pitta bread, cheese and sweetcorn.  We really enjoyed eating them when they were ready.  George commented “I really really really liked the sauce and the sweetcorn too!”…

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