Class 1 spring 1 Week 5
We have had a lovely week celebrating the lunar New Year. The children have learnt about how people enjoy fireworks, feasts, dragon dancing and giving friends and families red envelopes with money inside for good luck and prosperity. The children compared how New Year celebrations are similar or…
Class 1 Spring 1 Week 4 2025
We have continued with our topic on space this week! The children have loved our enhanced provision. We hope you enjoy looking at the photographs.
Cool Blue oo has featured heavily this week in our writing about space!
A little trickier has been the sound ‘ar’!
In EAD the children have…
Class 1 spring 1 Week 4
This week seems to have flown by!
In maths the children have explored weight, using the vocabulary heavy and light and balance.
In Monster Phonics the reception children have learnt about cool blue oo
I have been very proud of their attempts to write sentences!
The preschool children…
Class 1 Spring 1 Week 2
We have learnt about Antarctica this week. The children learnt facts about penguins, wrote sentences and made a penguin model.
In maths, preschool focused on 1,2 and 3 while reception focused on counting on using a number line.
We also focused on the number zero and talked about how…
Class 1 spring 1 Week 1
Welcome back and Happy New Year to you all!
The children have come back rested and eager to learn. We have been impressed with how well they have settled back into their routine.
This week reception have looked at the phonemes y, z, zz and qu.
The preschool children have been listening to…
Class 1 Autumn 2 2024
Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!
See you all in 2025
Thank you for all your support with your children this term.
Best wishes
The EYFS team
Class 1 autumn 2 week 6 2024
We have had such a busy fun filled time these last two weeks!
The children made christingle candles and have been busy making Christmas cards, snowman, angels and snowflakes.
I am very proud of the children’s nativity performances and I would like to thank you for your support with…
Class 1 autumn 2 Weeks 3 and 4
In Monster Phonics the Reception children have covered f, ff, s, ss, l and ll.
Mrs Nilsen has been working hard with pre-school at sitting still, listening carefully and taking turns. She has also been practising Christmas songs.
Reception have begun using known high frequency words…
Class 1 autumn 2 Week 2 2024
This week in Monster Phonics the children have learnt the phonemes h and b.
On Monday the children listened to a story about Remembrance Day and they all made a poppy or printed a poppy picture.
On Tuesday, the children discussed changes in seasons and studied hibernating animals. They…
Class 1 autumn 2 Week 1 2024
It has been lovely to see the children after their half term holiday.
We have had such a busy week celebrating Bonfire Night and then learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali.
We hope to meet our new friends from The Howard later in the academic year at our next forest day.
The children…
Class 1 autumn 1 Week 8
What a lovely end to the term!
We have been busy learning about patterns in maths and have created all sorts of different patterns using beads, counters, corks, pom poms, printing and materials from outside.
The children have planted their pea plants in the garden. Fingers crossed they’ll…
Class 1 Week 6 autumn 2024
This week we have been talking about being kind. The children talked about kind hands and we made a tree to put our kind handprints on.
On Tuesday the children learnt about food that is harvested during the autumn. We looked at the artist Acrimboldo and the children made portraits using fruit…