Class 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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s been an exciting week with the new climbing frame arriving! Luckily the sun came out so that the children could use it.

Mrs Compton has been providing new and interesting tuff tray activities for the children to explore. 
Next week should see the arrival of a new writing table which is…

This week the children have been matching in maths. They were challenged to make matching towers with their partner. Today they had to complete other matching tasks like finding matching pairs or matching numbers to objects.

In literacy this week the children drew pictures of their favourite…

What another wonderful week!
The children have continually impressed us with their fantastic behaviour and willingness  to have a go at the activities. 
The children looked at pictures by Paul Klee and have drawn stick people and animals. They made their own paper using wax crayons and black…

Welcome back!
Wow! What a lovely week!

The children have been incredible and a joy to teach! They have been settling back into a routine and have enjoyed playing with their friends and making new friendships.

Thankfully the sun has appeared at times and the children have been able to play…