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...
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 term in Oak Class we are reading Traditional Tales. We have started with The Enormous Turnip. We have read the story and thought about some of the vocabulary.We then acted out the story and on Wednesday we cut up, cooked and mashed a turnip. [gallery...
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"]...
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...
This week in Reception, the children have really enjoyed retelling the story of The Gingerbread Man. They have learnt lots of new words and actions and are being fabulous story tellers.During free flow, they have made their own gingerbread man books, story maps, lolly stick...
We have had a very exciting week in Reception this week. We had found that an old lady had used our home area in class to bake a gingerbread man but he had run away!We searched for clues all around the school to help us...