Year 3
Reception Party Day
Thank you to all the parents who donated food and drink for the party today. The children opted for games of bingo and fan making before tucking into their tasty treats!
Art & Design
The Wonders of Darnhill – mask making
Over the last week Reception have worked to produce individual masks with support from Laura at Cartwheel Arts. They thought about the ‘Wonder of Learning’ and added different symbols onto their masks. Today the children were photographed both with and without their masks and these will be added to the Read more…
Art & Design
Mini beasts celebration in Reception
As we come to the end of our ‘Growing and Changes’ half term, Reception enjoyed a day of mini beasts art and crafts. They have learnt so much about the different insects over the last few weeks and were so excited today when some of our caterpillars finally emerged out Read more…
Mathematics
Patterns all around us!
As part of their learning in Power Maths, Reception have been exploring pattern. They have enjoyed creating their own patterns using a range of resources and explaining to each other which part is being repeated.
Music
Miss Jones and her beautiful harp!
Today Miss Jones brought in her harp to show the children. They listened carefully as she explained what all the different parts of the instrument were for and demonstrated how to make various notes and sounds. We were all very impressed when Miss Jones played some songs that we knew Read more…
Relationships & PSHCE
Bouncing back when things go wrong!
This term as part of our RSE curriculum, Reception are learning to challenge themselves and show resilience and confidence in their learning. They listened to the story ‘Rosie Revere, Engineer’ by Andrea Beaty and created their own obstacle course outside. The children each had to wait their turn and keep Read more…
Art & Design
Easter celebrations in Reception
The children have been enjoying lots of Easter crafts and activities; they have made chicks, Easter cards, chocolate nests and sequenced the story of Easter. Many children even won an Easter egg at our phonic and tricky word bingo!
English
Reading in Reception
Reception are keen to read as soon as they get into school! They are using their phonic skills to decode the words and help each other. They also enjoy re-reading these books in a group and talking about the characters and events in the story. This week they decided to Read more…
Year 3
Red Nose Gingerbread Biscuits!
As our story this week has been the traditional tale ‘The Gingerbread Man’, the reception children made and decorated their very own red nosed cookies. They were very relieved that none of them jumped up and ran out of the kitchen!!
Relationships & PSHCE
Our Bubble is Back!
We are so pleased to have our bubble back together again. All the Reception children have enjoyed their first morning back in school!