We all thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Book Day on Thursday. Reading is at the heart of everything we do at Dorothy Barley Infant School and we are proud that our children are growing a love of reading.The children looked wonderful in their pyjamas and we...
This week in Bumblebee Class, the children have been busy exploring our focus story, Monkey Puzzle. They thoroughly enjoyed reading the story together and acting it out during our Talk for Writing sessions. The children also worked very hard on their writing, creating sentences about...
This week in Reception, we have been reading the story 'Little Robin Red Breast' and we loved it so much, we learned how to draw robins by following a step by step video![gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="20264,20265,20266,20267,20268,20269,20270,20271,20272,20273,20274,20275,20276,20277,20278,20279,20280"]...
This week in phonics we have been working really hard, learning new sounds and blending them together to read words. We are doing very well!We also began writing some words using the sounds that we have learned. What superstars![gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="19624,19625,19626"]...
This week in Oak Class we have been sequencing the story Supertato.The children were able to cut the pictures and sequence them. They were then challenged to write sentences about Supertato. We know that Supertato is strong and brave. The children were able to remember...
When Reception returned from lunch earlier this week, they were met with a big surprise! Their classrooms were a mess with flour, ginger and broken biscuits scattered across the floor in their home areas, and little footprints everywhere. The children even found a rolling pin,...
On Monday, we were very shocked to find that someone had built a house made of sticks in our garden. After we had investigated we found out that it was the Three Little Pigs! Unfortunately, when we returned to look at the house in the...
This week we came into Nursery to find mysterious footprints which led us to a bridge. When we looked under the bridge, we found an ugly old troll hiding!He left us a book called 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' for us to read which we...
On Monday morning we came into school and found dinosaur footprints in Oak Class. We followed the footprints outside and found dinosaur eggs in the tuff tray!We had great fun smashing the eggs with little hammers and helping baby dinosaurs to hatch. We then matched...
This week in Reception we had so much fun celebrating World Book Day! We really enjoyed our families coming into our class to share a book with us. We took turns to read our book to our class and also spent some time in the...