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This week we have been exploring clay making different shapes to create mini-beasts. This is helping us to improve our fine motor skills. 

Making a Venn diagram of facts related to Kitty Wilkinson and Florence

Year 1- Design Technology

We have been making sliders in Year 1. We made bridges using cardboard to help our sliders go up and down.

Visiting our school library for the first time was a very special trip for our nursery children. There were gasps of awe and wonder as the brand new resource was revealed to our youngest children.  We loved the books and listening to ‘The Lion Inside’ as part of story time.  We are learning how to…

To consolidate our learning on addition and subtraction we played in pairs a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.

To place their counter the children had to solve an addition or subtraction.

Y2 are learning how to over stitch to make a felt house with a window and door.

This week the children created Danish open sandwiches.

Working in pairs, they carefully tasted and selected the ingredients to use for their own sandwich.

We then evaluated our sandwiches for taste and what we would change.

Luca 5A, ‘I really enjoyed the taste of the cucumber and cheese…

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…

This week we have investigated patterns in class.  The children loved making their own simple patterns using our every day resources.  

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!

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.