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Nursery A children have been enjoying practising throwing, catching, balancing and ball hitting skills using playground equipment in the sunshine.  

Today we looked at the disaster of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

We discussed the dangers of travelling on the Great Lakes and the factors that led to the ship sinking.

Isabella 5A, ‘I enjoyed having the opportunity to research in class.’

The children have been looking for signs of autumn and have brought their ‘autumn treasures’ to show their friends. They have collected leaves, conkers, pine cones, berries, twigs and seeds. Once child brought in a pumpkin which she had grown in her allotment, This  sparked conversations about…

The children have been learning about the Bible. We looked inside our golden box and found our special book. The children all held the Bible and we talked how it has lots of wonderful stories about God and Jesus. We also talked about why we make the sign of the cross when we say our prayers. The…

Today we looked at comparing large numbers whilst playing the game ‘Higher or Lower’. The children read different numbers before deciding if the next number would be higher or lower. 

Year 1- Science Day and Night 

We have been learning about day and night. We talked about how the Earth rotates. When the sun shines on Earth it is called the day time. When the Earth turns away from the sun it gets dark. It is called the night time. 

This afternoon we ventured to the grassed area in front of the dinner hall to have lots of fun. As part of our ongoing theme of change we collected leaves and discussed differences, we then explored the adventure trail using our gross motor skills.  There were some wonderful examples of managed…

We noticed that many of our children were finding threading a little bit tricky to complete independently so we took it into key person groups this week and the children did brilliantly.  

Today we enjoyed playing outdoors in the autumn sunshine. We collected lots of leaves and talked about the different colours - green, orange, brown yellow and red.  We then practised travelling, climbing and jumping on our obstacle course.

We haven’t just been finding out about our new friends in nursery, we have been thinking about ourselves and asking what makes us special.  We used mirrors to look carefully at our faces and draw our own self portrrait.  Thinking about the shape of our faces, eyes, nose, mouth and ears.  We then…

Today we explored gestation periods of different mammals.

We concluded that,’the larger the mammal, the longer the gestation period,’ however there are some exceptions to that rule.

Frieda 5A, ‘I enjoyed creating a bar chart to show the different results.’

We have been learning how to dribble and pass in basketball. It's been great fun and we are really improving.