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19 November 2024

Snow and sledging in Nursery A

We wasted no time in making the most of the sprinkling of snow we had this morning, learning a ‘sprinkling’ of new snow related vocabulary too!  We used lots of teamwork to pull the heavy sledge and even more teamwork to throw snowballs at the adults!  Smiles all round and despite our cold hands…

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19 November 2024

Year 2 Science: Life Cycles

In Science we talked about the life cycle of a chicken and the different stages involved. The children worked in small groups to sequence pictures and write about each stage.

 

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17 November 2024

Messy Mud Kitchen Play

The children have been getting messy in the mud kitchen this week. 

An article in QA Nursery Magazine explains the many benefits of mud kitchens some of which are listed below:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)

Mud kitchens work incredibly well as part of PSED for…

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8 November 2024

Learning About Classification

Today in science, we learnt about classification and taxonomy. The children designed their very own classification chart to sort different sweets!

 

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18 October 2024

Bug Hunting!

The children have loved hunting for bugs in the garden this week.  After reading poems about mini-beasts we all searched the garden for their secret hiding places to see what we could find.  Harry was especially keen and helped lots of the children on their search. ‘I know all the good hiding…

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17 October 2024

English Martyrs Autumn Cafe!

This week’s menu:

Starter:  Leaf Soup

Main:  Autumn Omelette

Dessert: Spider crispy cakes

Turn-taking, playing, mixing, stirring, speaking, listening, measuring, counting, experimenting = LEARNING!

 

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17 October 2024

When the lights go out…the torches come out!

A power cut in nursery didn’t stop the fun and learning this week.  We used torches to find our way around nursery, exploring light, dark and shadows.

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14 October 2024

Year 1 Science- Sense of smell

Year 1 Science-Sense of Smell

We have being using our sense of smell to explore different foods. We matched the labels to the different pots. 
 

“It doesn’t smell good.”

”It smells like garlic bread.” 

 

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8 October 2024

Year 2 Science: Hygiene Investigation

The children learnt about the importance of hygiene in order to keep healthy and then they carried out an investigation to show the effect of soap on germs.

 

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3 October 2024

Investigating Hands Spans

In this lesson, we looked at the different ways and reasons why children are measured and weighed.

As a class, we measured our hands spans and then took an average for the class, boys and girls.

Our conclusion was, ‘the larger the handspan, the taller the person.’

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1 October 2024

Year 2 Science: Exercise

The children learnt about the importance of exercise, how it benefits our bodies and how it can make us feel.

 

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29 September 2024

Bird spotting in Nursery A

Some of the children have been keen to find out about the different birds they might see in the nursery garden.  

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