This week in Year 1, we compared fruit and vegetables. We discovered where they grow: under the ground, on the ground or on the branches of a plant.We compared their taste, finding that fruits are sweeter and we compared oranges with tangerines and celery with...
On Tuesday, Year 2 took part in a workshop about rainforests and the animals who live there.We learnt about how they adapt to their habitat and what they need to survive in the rainforests.We met lots of different animals and even got to hold some!...
This week at Nursery, we have been learning to use positional language to describe where something is. We learnt the meaning of the words 'in', 'on top', 'under', 'in front', 'behind' and 'next to'.We then continued to develop our understanding of position and direction on...
Our new topic in Oak Class is 'On the Move'. This week we have been reading 'Car, Car, Truck, Jeep.'We have been learning the names of different vehicles and making vehicle sounds.Today we have had great fun taking turns to drive vehicles through paint and...
This half term we have been exploring shades and tones and creating a gradient of colour. We added white and black paint to make colours lighter and darker. We have used the techniques we have learnt to make Christmas cards for our families.We also enjoyed...
This week in Reception, we were so lucky to be visited by an orchestra. We learned the names of each instrument and we sang along to some familiar songs that they played. Some of us even became stars of the show!We were so excited to...
This week at Nursery, we have been getting very messy! We combined different ingredients together to make slime and watched how it changed the more we nixed it. The children learnt and used new words to describe the slime such as,"sticky", "gloopy" and "gooey".[gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage"...
In Oak Class this week we have been reading 'The Jolly Christmas Postman'. We have had great fun looking through toy catalogues and deciding what to ask Santa for. We all used our phonics to write letters to Santa.We have put our letters in an...
In our cooking lessons, the children in Oak Class have been learning how to cut safely with a knife. We cut up peppers and cucumber to make a pasta salad. We called it our Traffic light salad because it had red pepper, yellow sweetcorn and...
This week at nursery, we have been learning about 2D shapes. We looked at a circle, square, rectangle and triangle and played games involving these. We learnt about the sides and corners of each shape and looked for them in our environment.We particularly enjoyed potato...