We love reading at Dorothy Barley Infant School! We had a great time on World Book Day sharing our favourite books with our friends from other classes. Thank you to all of the families who were able to join us in school to read with their...
This week we had some very exciting visitors! We met a snake, frog, gerbil, gecko and a millipede. We learnt lots of amazing facts about them. The millipede we met had 250 legs! We got the chance to wave at, touch or hold lots of...
Lots of our parents came to join us for our library visit this week. We enjoyed sharing books with our grown ups and chose one together to take home. Thank you to all of the parents and carers who were able to join us! [gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="17971,17972,17973,17974,17975,17976,17977"]...
This week we visited our school library. We were very excited and could not wait to explore all of the lovely books. We are learning to handle books carefully and correctly and we are looking forward to visiting again next week! [gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="17842,17843,17844,17845,17846,17847,17848,17849"]...
This week, Nursery have been answering The Big Question, 'What is it like to go on a journey?' We went on a journey through the school to the Main Office where we found Donna and lots of fish! When we got back to Nursery, we spoke...
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...
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"...
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...
This week we have enjoyed exploring the frost and ice that formed in the garden due to the freezing cold weather! The children made lots of comments about the things they observed and were particularly interested to find out how the ice had 'disappeared' later...
Today, we have been celebrating Children in Need. The children all looked wonderful in their 'Spotacular' outfits! As part of this afternoon's House Challenge, children worked with children from different classes and year groups to think about the importance of helping others, as well as...