Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
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...
Reception’s Farm Trip.
Reception have had a great day today on our farm trip to Hall Hill Farm. We held chicks, bottle fed lambs and met lots of other animals, whilst learning facts about them. We also enjoyed a tractor ride and got to play outside in the big adventure park, because of it...
Nursery Go to The Farm!
What a fantastic day we have had at Hall Hill Farm! We were able to hold lots of different animals such as chicks, rabbits and guinea pigs. We then fed goats, sheep, lambs and donkeys. We talked about the names of animals and how some animals have different names if...
World Book Day
Nursery have loved coming to school in their pyjamas for World Book Day. This week we have been reading the story ‘The Colour Monster’. We worked as a team to create our own colour monster front page cover. This then inspired us to make our own colour monsters in the...
The Three Little Pigs
This week nursery have been learning about the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We loved joining in with repeated phrases of the story and discussing what happens next. Within the provision this story has inspired a lot of our learning! We have used puppets and story...
Little Movers
Reception have had so much fun this half term with our coach Gemma from Little Movers. Little Movers is great for us, as not only only does it keep us fit and healthy, but it helps our hand and eye coordination, fine motor skills and gross motor skills as well as our...
Space!
Over the past couple of weeks Reception have been learning all about Space. We have had a lot of fun learning about all the planets in our solar system and learning about the role of the sun and the moon. The children became astronauts in our class Space Station and...
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
This week we have been reading the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We read the story and joined in with repeated phrases such as ‘Daddy Bears porridge was too hot!’, ‘baby bears chair was just right!'. We used these repeated phrases during our play when using...
Chinese New Year
This week nursery have loved learning all about Chinese New Year. We started off our learning by reading the story: ‘The Great Race’. From this story we learned that 2025 is the year of the snake. We watched videos which told us all about how Chinese New Year is...