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Over the last week the children have been helping our new children settle into new routines. They are making new friends, playing together and getting to know one another. 

Year 3 spent time visiting church to see the Nativity. We took the opportunity to pray, reflect and be thankful for the wonderful Christmas we enjoyed.

We created our own printing tools using clay, pine cones, shells. It was very messy but fantastic fun.

Year 1-Design and Technology-Rainbow wraps 

We had lots of fun in Year 1 making rainbow wraps. We talked about which foods are healthy and how they contain vitamins. The children used graters and peelers to make the wraps. “They are so yummy!” 

Year 1-Science-Material hunt

The children worked in groups to explore and find different materials around our school.

“Fred is made out of fabric.”

Year 2 talked about different vegetables and how eating a colourful selection of vegetables often contains a wider range of nutrients. They experimenting in chopping, grating and peeling vegetables to make a colourful layered salad pot.

The cold weather last week has inspired us to investigate ice.  The week is off to a great start using ice to practise our fine motor skills.  We are using ice blocks with food colouring to draw pictures, write our names and make shapes on the paper. 

Year 2 visited church today to see the crib. 

Practising our subitising skills in class this week. We are rolling a dice, recognising the number then circling the corresponding dots on a piece of paper.  The children are loving this already.  

After a discussion in Nursery, one of our children brought in a pack of balloons.  Mrs Bruchez had been talking about papier mache and how to make it.  As she started to demonstrate, some air escaped from the balloon, much to the amusement of the class.  It turned into 5 minutes of pure joy and…

This term we are looking at how the Earth is divided.

We looked at how the Equator bisects the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

We then researched and discussed the differences between the two hemispheres.

We visited to church to see the crib and the three wise men visiting baby Jesus.  We talked about how the 3 kings are also called ‘The Magi’ and we spoke about the importance of the star that they followed to find baby Jesus.  One of our little boys suggested we sing the ‘Little Baby Jesus’ song…