Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
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...
Visit From Birtley Library
This week nursery had a lovely visitor from Birtley library. She came into our nursery to read us some stories! We decided as a class which story we would like to read first. We loved showing different types of faces and predicting what will happen next. We loved...
Determined Dinosaurs!
Wow Nursery have been working their socks off this week learning all about dinosaurs for our blaze the trail unit. We started by looking at different species of dinosaurs and their characteristics such as: how many limbs, what they eat and how they move. We practised...
Gateshead Stadium.
Reception had lots of fun on their school trip to Gateshead Stadium today. We joined lots of other Reception classes from other schools and participated in a circus themed multi-sport festival. Inside the sports hall there were lots of different stations set up with...
All About Winter
This week we have been learning all about winter and the changes which happen at this time of year. We started off by observing the changes which have happened outside in our nursery garden. We noticed that all the leaves on the trees and bushes had fallen off and...