Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
Ball Skills in Nursery
This term nursery have been practicing ball skills. We have been exploring how to move a ball around out bodies and across the floor. We discovered that using a bigger ball was easier to control when moving it on the ground. Next we practiced our throwing skills. We...
We Love Vehicles
This term we have been learning about vehicles. We started off our learning by exploring different types of vehicles and why they might be better for the job. We discussed why a tractor would be better to help a farmer and a car would be better to go to the shops. We...
Nursery Love Mini Beasts!
To finish off the term, nursery have been learning about mini beasts. We started off our topic by completing a work shop with Northumbrian wild life trust. We were able to explore mini beasts in investigation jars. We looked at honey bees, spiders, dragonflies and...
Mad about Mini-Beasts.
Reception have been learning all about mini-beasts for their current topic. We started our learning by welcoming Alex from the Northumberland trust into our class, who bought some special friends with her. Alex kindly showed us different preserved insects and taught...
Things That Grow
This term nursery have been very busy learning all about growing. We started off by exploring plants and changes which we could see within the EYFS garden. We discussed the pear tree and how we picked the pear to make compote in September, we identified the buds of...
VE Day in Early Years.
Early Years have been learning all about Victory in Europe Day today. First we watched a power point teaching us about how important today actually is and why it is celebrated in our country.Nursery and Reception have then made flags either in the writing area, art...
Nursery Learn About Easter
This week in nursery we have been talking about a family custom which may happen in our house, Easter! We discussed the different things which may happen/ change in our house for Easter. Lots of us mentioned the Easter bunny and chocolate eggs. We used this tradition...
Gymnastics With Nursery
In PE this term, nursery have been learning about gymnastics. We started off our learning by exploring different shapes we could position our body in e.g. tuck shape, straight shape, pike shape, straddle shape and a star shape. We had to work really hard to keep our...
Spring has Sprung!
Reception have been very busy this spring term. We started by reading Jack and the Beanstalk and followed the story by looking at the life cycle of a bean and what it would need to grow, before planting and growing our very own beanstalks. We also made beanstalks out...
Vincent Van Gogh Sunflowers
This week we have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh. We started off our week by discussing what an artist is, then looked at some of his work and talked about the colours we could see. Within our continuous provision, we enjoyed using Van Gogh’s famous sunflower...
The Bug Man.
Reception had a visit from the ‘The bug man’ this week. We spent the afternoon learning about some interesting facts about mini beasts from around the world and we were all super brave at touching and holding the animals. Reception also sat very smartly and quietly to...
What the Ladybird Heard
Following our trip to the farm, we were very excited and inspired about what we had seen. We used this excitement to inspire our learning this week. In our tuff tray, we sorted animals into ‘live on a farm’ and ‘do not live on a farm’ categories. We strengthened our...