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“Let’s have some time together” is a phrase you will often hear adults in our early years setting saying to children.  For example, “Let’s have some time together to play, read, tidy, build, talk, think about, focus on”.  It is an effective way of connecting and bringing learning on through…

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

We have been talking about balancing today as part of our work with our book.  The children have loved doing the actions to get through the creek.  

This term we have been exploring lines of longitude and latitude.

In this lesson, we focused on a location on the Tropic of Cancer.’

In groups, we explored where Dhaka was located and what the landscape is like.

We also discussed the issues of living there in particular the impact of…

Today, we started our new topic on volcanoes. We looked at the different layers of the Earth, and used play-dough to create them. Ask us about the different layers of the Earth! 

Year 4 completed their art topic of painting today by producing one of their own abstract pieces focusing on flowers. The children used a range of materials to help create their desired effects; sketching pencils, water colours and acrylic paints. 

In this lesson we explored the hardness of materials.

In groups, we used different types of rocks and tried to scratch them using: plastic, nails, coins, split pins and our fingernail.

We discovered than chalk was the easiest of the rocks to scratch.

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!…

Our vegetable noodles were so good. We are making stuffed peppers next week.

In Nursery we are learning about using different media and this week we have been exploring the marks made by felt tip pens.  So many children have been encouraged to pick up pens use them for a variety of purposes.  We have had pictures created of families, friends, a rainbow cake, a unicorn,…

In RE we have been been continuing to learn about the visit of the three wise men and adapting the well known story “We’re going on a Bear Hunt” by Michael Rosen for “We’re going on a star hunt”.  Today in Nursery A we adapted it further when, with much excitement, we spotted a cat up in our…

The children created a printed leaf surface for use in the next lesson. They then used a range of fruit and vegetables to make a symmetrical design from prints.