Foundation News
Health and Wellbeing Day in Reception.
Meet the Gratitude Pig! During our Well-being day we met the 'Gratitude Pig' the children learnt that 'Remembering what you're grateful for helps you see the good stuff as well as the bad'. The children have been writing notes of gratitude and posting them into our gratitude jar. We can read and share these [...]
George Saves The World By Lunchtime!
In our story this week George learns he doesnt need a cape to save the world. The children are learning that they can save the world by doing simple things each day. We have learnt about the 4 R's Reuse, Reduce, Recycle and Repair! After all the sorting this week the children must be [...]
Library Trip
This week we have been learning about the plastic in the ocean and the harm that it does to the sea creatures. We have sorted plastic and cardboard in our recycling area , this is something that you could practise at home. We reused a plastic bag to make a kite after listening to [...]
Litter and recycling
It has been lovely to be back this week, and to see some sunshine at the end of the week! We have kicked off our new topic with a week all about litter and recycling. In maths we have bee practising number bonds to ten using Numicon and the children learned them very well. [...]
Bees and Weddings
This week we have been learning about how bees make honey. We learnt that they are insects with six legs and three body parts. We know that they drink nectar from flowers to make honey. We also did the waggle dance and learnt that bees do this to show each other where to go. [...]
Butterflies week
This week has been all about butterflies. We have learned about the butterfly life cycle from egg, to caterpillar, to chrysalis and butterfly and made some super playdough models to show each stage. We have been very creative with symmetrical patterns on butterfly wings, using painting, drawing and even peg boards! We were very [...]
Reception Caterpillars
This week we have been learning all about caterpillars. We learnt the knowledge that caterpillars are insects with six legs and other prolegs. We learnt that they eat leaves and spin cocoons. We know that they then change into butterflies. We have some caterpillars in Reception. They are getting big and we are waiting [...]
Ladybirds
We hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. The children have returned refreshed and raring to go! Our learning this week is based around the story of 'The Bad Tempered Ladybird' written by Eric Carle. We were impressed that some of the children recognised the author and knew he had also written 'The Very [...]
Snails in Reception
This week we have been learning lots of key knowledge about snails. We learnt that they are not insects, they have a foot, tentacles to smell and feel, a shell and eyes on stalks. We learnt that they live in cold, damp places and eat, leaves, animal poo and each other. We [...]