Pumpkin Play in Nursery A
Over the past few weeks the children have been really interested in pumpkins. They have brought pumpkins in to use in our learning, and told us about visits to pumpkin patches. We have used pumpkins in our maths counting and comparing activities, created and investigated pumpkin potions, shared…
Year 2 Lego Club
The Year 2 Lego club have been very busy this half term, creating and building each Tuesday after school. Super work!
Pizza, Soup and Bread Rolls!
Year 4 have been very busy cooking this half term! We talked about healthy alternatives to foods containing lots of preservatives in our supermarkets. We made a simple pizza with a flour and yoghurt based dough, slow cooker tomato soup and fresh bread rolls!
the children loved the experience of…
Flatbreads
In DT, the children enjoyed making flatbreads.
They worked in small groups to mix their ingredients together and used rolling pins to shape their flatbreads.
Hedgehog Bread in Nursery A
The children made hedgehog bread rolls in nursery today. They used skills of mixing, kneading, rolling and cutting. They observed the dough rising and baking. Nursery smelt amazing! We hope our families enjoy the bread.
Technology in action
This is what technology looks like in Early Years - how things work. Today the children loved using a hand drill to make holes in our wood slices. Thank you to Mr Seddon (Mrs Seddon’s husband) for preparing all these logs for us. One child told another member of staff, “We used a real-life hand…
Design & Technology: Textiles
The children worked in table groups to do a range of fine motor skills activities. The focus activity was sewing a felt door onto a felt house wall.
Leaf man!
After listening to the story ‘Leaf Man’, we used our Autumn collection to create our very own Leaf Men! What brilliant creations!
Creating using Natural Materials
Today the children in Nursery A learned about the soft wood inside an elder branch and using a metal tent peg, they created holes in the wooden pieces. Next they used threading skills to push a piece of wool through the holes to create bracelets. Finally, they further exercised their fine motor…
Baking Cookies in Nursery B
This week the children baked cookies together. We talked about the different ingredients and followed the instructions to make delicious chocolate chip cookies. We used scales to measure the ingredients and mixed and stirred using wooden spoons and whisks. The children then used their hands to…
Year 2 Design & Technology
The children used a cardboard template and a tangle of wrapping paper to create their own version of a patchwork quilt.
You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!
This week the children have been reading the story of the Gingerbread Man. We have been using our speaking and listening skills to talk about the story and we even decorated our own gingerbread men!