Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
Growing in Nursery
Nursery have been very busy this term learning about growing. We started our learning by looking at different foods that grow. Nursery read the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We talked about the different foods the caterpillar ate and how some of them grow. We...
Fabulous fruit and vegetables!
In reception we have been learning all about growing and planting. We have been finding out about all the different plants that feed us. To help us explore this topic, we tasted some different fruit and vegetables from around the world. The children thoroughly enjoyed...
An Easter Eggstravaganza!
We've been wowed in school by the fabulous entries for this year's Easter Egg Competition. It was incredibly hard to choose winners from each class because there were so many imaginative, creative designs. Well done children (and of course the parents who supported...
Thank You Onestop
Everyone at Barley Mow Primary School would like to say a huge thank you to Onestop, Barley Mow for their tremendous and very generous donation of Easter eggs. The eggs were used as mystery prizes at our Easter Fair today.
SPRING
Reception have enjoyed learning all about the season, Spring. We have been on a Spring hunt in our outdoor area, created spring paintings of blossom trees and flowers, explored our farm shop role play area and lots more! Reception have been focusing on the story ‘Jack...
Easter Fun!
Reception have had lots of fun making Easter cakes and decorating them for our Easter fair. Reception decorated designed and decorated their own Easter egg. We created chicks in the play dough area and on the interactive whiteboard. We made Easter cards and matched...
Hall Hill Farm.
Nursey and Reception have had the best day at Hall Hill Farm today. Early years enjoyed feeding lambs, holding chicks, rabbits and guinea pigs. As well as meeting lots of other animals including ponies, goats, donkeys and highland cows. We were all very gentle with...
World Book Day 2024
Thursday 7th March marked the annual celebration for World Book Day. This year our theme was the Mr. Men and Little Miss books by Roger Hargreaves. We enjoyed dressing up and taking part in all manner of book related activities. Thank you for £1 donations, which...
Dinosaurs in Nursery
This week Nursery have been learning all about dinosaurs! We have loved reading a range of stories such as ‘Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs’, ‘Tyrannosaurus Drip’ and ‘Monstersaurus!’. These books have inspired our learning this week, we have been washing...
Space Chase
Reception created an algorithm for the rocket using the direction cards as part of our computing topic this term. We worked in groups and directed our friends to get the rocket to different planets. The children did a great job at using the vocabulary forwards,...
Little Movers
Reception enjoyed their last session with Gemma from Little Movers today! Reception started with their hello song and then travelled around the hall and moved in different directions. Reception played different relay games in teams. We were pretending to be bunny...
Celebrations in Early Years!
Nursery and Reception have worked so hard this week learning about three different celebrations. Both classes started the week completing activities around Pancake Day. We made pancakes in the playdough, while adding delicious toppings, used our cutting and gluing...