Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
Soft Play!
Nursery have had so much in soft play today for our first Monday session, during this term. We took our shoes and socks off first to keep us safe and turned on our listening ears to follow our teachers instructions. We were then put into groups and took turns on all...
Exploring 2D Shapes
Reception have been recapping their knowledge of shape names and their properties. We then explored squares and rectangles in different orientations and sizes. Reception investigated what happened when we combined shapes together. We made some amazing discoveries! 2...
Exploring Ice 🧊
Reception have been learning all about the season, Winter! We discussed during circle time how the weather changes. Lots of children spoke about how it gets colder, frosty, icy and sometimes we get snow. We discussed that the environment needs to be very cold for a...
Shapes in our environment!
This week Nursery have been learning about lots of different shapes. We have been exploring how many sides a triangle, circle, square and rectangle have and how they are all different. We worked as a class to identify shapes by their properties and colours from a...
Nursery’s Library Visitor.
Nursery were very lucky to get a visit from a librarian today from our community library. We spoke about what librarians do for their job and how they help us when we go and visit the library. Our special visitor then read us two different books that they had kindly...
Little Movers
Reception thoroughly enjoyed their first session back with Gemma from Little Movers. They explored different ways of moving around the hall to warm up. Reception used their good listening ears to know when they needed to FREEZE! They thought about what animals they...
Nursery and Reception’s Christmas Party!
Early Years have had the best time this afternoon at our Christmas party. We played so many games like musical statues, musical bumps, corners and pass the parcel, where lots of us won prizes. We then had a party tea and enjoyed lots of fabulous dancing. Everyone...
Christmas creations
In design and technology year 3 explored pictures books with moving mechanisms inside. The children used ideas from other books to plan, design and create their own Christmas books which had to include a mechanism. The children then created their books using their...
Letters to Santa
This week in Reception, the children have been writing letters to Santa. Today we had the chance to go and post all of our letters at the postbox in our local area, so they could be sent off to the North Pole in time for Christmas. All the children ensured they were...
Reception’s stay and play!
Thank you to all the parents who joined us in the Reception class for our stay and play today. The children had so much fun showing their parents the different areas in the classroom, how we learn, behave and play in Reception. The children also had the chance to do...
Stay and Play!
Thank you to all the parents that came to our stay and play this morning. Nursery had a fun time showing their grown ups around our Nursery and the different areas we learn in. Nursery also showed their grown ups how smartly we sit on the carpet, what we do when we...
Old toys vs. New toys
This week for history, reception compares old toys from the past and toys from the present. We listened to a story called ‘The old toy room’, in the story a young girl enjoyed playing with toys from the past rather than the present. The children looked at some toys...