Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
Space
Reception have been learning all about space. Our focus text has been ‘How to Catch a Star’ by Oliver Jeffers. This story inspired us to write a list of items we might want to take to space with us! We have been very busy in our class as our provision included making...
Exploring musical instruments
Reception listened to the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Michael Rosen. We named each instruments and then explored them. We then discussed how instruments can represent a certain mood, character or action. We discussed whether the musical instruments should be...
One part is two, one part is three, the whole is five!
This week in Reception we have been using the part whole model. To deepen our understanding of the composition of numbers we used the part whole model to help us find different ways to make a number. We had a lot of fun making our own part whole model and exploring...
The Three Little Pigs
This week Nursery have been looking at the traditional tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We have been practising retelling the story using story spoons and taking on the role of different characters. Nursery have also been dressing up as either a pig or a wolf to reenact...
Under the Sea
for the past 2 weeks, Reception have been learning all about under the sea. We learnt some interesting facts about different sea creatures. We read the story ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’ and shared ideas about how we can take care of the ocean. We created different...
Little Red Riding Hood.
This term Nursery have started looking at traditional tales. We started this week with Little Red Riding Hood and explored the story by looking at the characters and learning the repetitive phrases. We have then had lots of fun dressing up as our story characters, in...
Games Club
Reception and Year 5 have been enjoying taking part in games club. We have been taking turns and sharing. We have been learning the rules for each game and discussing strategies on how to win. Year 5 have been great role models to reception.
Wonderful Winter ❄️
Reception have been exploring the season of Winter for the past two weeks. We have enjoyed exploring the ice outdoors, creating a moving penguin with split pins, using PurpleMash to decorate our own penguin or polar bear and exploring our icy small world tuff tray....
Winter Warmers🧣
Reception have been using computational thinking today to create a scarf for a snowman. They continued partially completed ABAB or ABCABC patterns before planning and creating their own. Reception were really good at making predictions about what would come next and...
Moving to music
Reception enjoyed listening to the lyrics and melody of the ‘Teddy Bear’s Picnic’. They followed the instructions to move to the music. The children changed their movements to reflect the tempo, pitch and dynamic of the piece. Reception explored dancing alone, with...
Exploring colours in Nursery
Nursery have had an fantastic morning exploring colourings using ice cube paint brushes. We started by identifying the colours we had and then we got to work mixing them! We loved seeing new colours such as green, orange and purple appear in our tuff tray. We were...
Colour Mixing 🎨
Reception have been exploring colour mixing. We painted each hand a primary colour, placed it onto the paper and then rubbed our hands together to find out what colour they made. We then added a small amount of black or white paint to make the colour lighter or...