Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
Gibside. 🏛
Nursery and Reception have had an amazing day today at Gibside for our school trip. We started the day in our groups where some of us were looking for mini beasts among the bark and mud using the magnifying glasses. The other group made art using the nature around,...
Brilliant Bugs
The children in Nursery and Reception were lucky enough to have a visit from Costain roadworks. Costain are currently working on the A1 and were here to tell us about animal habitats. The children learned that animals will be losing their habitats because of the...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛
The children in Nursery and Reception have been learning about ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and the lifecycle of a butterfly. We have used natural resources to represent the lifecycle showing the egg, caterpillar, cocoon and butterfly. We have sequenced the story and...
Amazing Gardening Club
Reception and Year 4 have been taking part in gardening club this half term. The children have been tidying up the outdoor area by weeding and removing any overgrown plants. They have been learning how to use gardening tools safely and which tools are most appropriate...
Minibeast Mad!
Nursery and Reception have been learning all about minibeasts! We have read the story ‘Mad About Minibeasts’ and ‘Matisse’s Magical Trail’. We have been ‘painting with paper’ like the artist Henri Matisse. We used tracing paper to trace over a minibeast and then used...
Coronation Celebrations!
The children in Nursery and Reception have been learning all about the King and his upcoming coronation. The children have been creating crowns using their fine motor skills when cutting. They decorated them with jewels to make them look even more royal. We also...
Time
’The children in Reception have been learning all about time. We started by looking at a minute timer and completing different activities during that 1minute. We had to write our name as many times as possible, completing jumping and some hula hooping. We had lots of...
Little Gardeners.
Nursery and Reception have been rather green fingered since returning to school. We started the new term by reading Jasper’s Beanstalk and Katie’s Sunflowers in Nursery and Jack and the Beanstalk in Reception. This made us think about planting and growing and we...
Easter in Early Years. 🐰🐣
Nursery and Reception have worked so hard again this term and have covered many topics including light and dark, pirates and down on the farm. This week we have been getting excited for Easter and have made many Easter crafts as well as helping to make Easter cakes to...
Down at the Farm. 🐖🐄🐏
Tuesday was Nursery and Reception’s trip day to Hall Hill Farm. We started our journey on the coach and we were all so very excited. Once we got to the farm, we were split up in to two different groups with our teachers, parent helpers and guides for the day. Some of...
Soft Play Fun!
Nursery and Reception have had lots of fun in soft play this term for PE. They started off by practising taking their socks and shoes off, using their good looking eyes and turning on their listening ears to keep them safe. Nursery and Reception both waited patiently...
Surprising Snow
We had a surprising change in temperature recently and the children in Nursery and Recption were fascinated. The children watched the snow fall and wondered if the snow would be deep enough to build a snowman. The children linked their learning indoors by drawing...