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Expressive Arts & Design

The children have been exploring with paints creating firework pictures and colourful pebbles for our woodland area. 

We saw fantastic creativity and imagination in our sensory play this week.  Children were focused and engaged well with the experiences provided.  Cognitively, sensory play stimulates neural pathways in the brain through exploring different textures, materials and smells.  

The children made a shape pattern by drawing around 3D shapes. They then painted the different sections using primary colours.

The children worked in groups to sort animals into vertebrates and invertebrates.

We are making boxes covered in fabric. We used the nets of shapes to create the box. Next we will cover them in fabric.

We are studying The Winter's Child and today we acted out a scene that we wrote ourselves. Some of us were a little nervous but we had great fun pretending to be characters from the story.

This week the children have been working in their key groups to find hidden bugs in our woodland area. They used their investigative skills to look for the photographs of different insects and to talk about their features. We will continue to learn about bugs this half term as we are reading ‘I’m…

Year 2 enjoyed practising their jumps, rolls and balances in gymnastics today.

Year 1 Science-Animals including humans 

We have been learning about what makes an animal? An animal can move freely, it can eat other living things and it needs water to survive. We also discussed why an animal is not a plant. The children enjoyed playing “ guess the animal” game in…

Maths happens everywhere in Reception. Here we are exploring quantities and making number blocks using multilink in the garden. 

This week the children have been practising their observational drawing. We have used a selection of autumnal leaves and pumpkins of different colours, textures and size to carefully draw what we can see. We have talked about looking closely for details and discussed the autumnal colours we could…