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20 November 2025

Drawing and Mark Making in Nursery

Communication & Language, Physical Development, Literacy

We are reading ‘I’m Going to Eat This Ant’ by Chris Naylor which is a story about an anteater who is tired of eating ants all the time. This week the children have looked at different images and clips of anteaters. We then asked them to…

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19 November 2025

Cricket lessons from Bootle Cricket Club

We had an amazing time learning how to bowl. It was great fun learning the technique.

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19 November 2025

SWACA Visit

Yesterday we were really lucky to receive a visit from SWACA, a women and children’s charity that support families in our area.  They talked to the children about relationships and being kind to each other.  They challenged stereotypes in regards to toys and games the children play.  We celebrated…

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19 November 2025

The Annunciation

We listened to the story of the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary to tell her she was going to have a baby boy. We got dresssed up and acted it out.  

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19 November 2025

Year 1- PE Ball Skills

We had a wonderful PE lesson today. The children took it in turns with a bean bag, tennis ball and playground ball to develop their catching skills. We explored different types of catches from various heights- catch high, catch low, catch with one hand and catch with two hands. 

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18 November 2025

Bonfire night

Our home school diary task this week was to talk about bonfire night and what we did to celebrate.  We then thought about the fireworks we saw in the sky and created our own firework pictures. First we selected different colours and mixed them together, we then used a sponge to print the paint on…

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18 November 2025

Year 1-Beep Beep Day

Year 1-Beep Beep! Day

We took part in a special day today and learnt how to stay safe near roads. The children listened to a story about Timmy Time and how we should hold hands with a grown up when crossing the road. They enjoyed using cuddly toys to show Timmy and his friends how to hold…

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14 November 2025

Making Vegetable Soup in Nursery B

Understanding the World, Personal, Social & Emotional Development, Physical Development

This week the children made vegetable soup to eat as part of their snack. They used their cutting, chopping and peeling skills to prepare the different vegetables. We talked about where vegetables grow and…

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14 November 2025

Year 2 Fruit tasting

Earlier this week Year 2 visited Tesco as part of our new Geography topic ‘Journey of a Fruit Salad’. The children looked at a range of different fruits and their country of origin. This afternoon the children were given the opportunity to taste a range of fruits. They tasted mango, pineapple,…

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14 November 2025

CHET Day 3 5A

This morning, the children headed into the woods to practice their den building skills. They worked in teams to ensure that all of their group would be able to fit in.

After, we watched how to build a fire and then used it to create some delicious s’mores.

Following a trip to the gift shop,…

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13 November 2025

CHET Day 2 Afternoon/Evening 5A

After our busy morning, the children took part in abseiling and archery.

After that, we came back together to complete some pieces of pottery inspired by CHET.

Following dinner, the children enjoyed a bench ball tournament.

It has been an incredibly busy day in which the children have had…

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13 November 2025

CHET Day 2 Morning 5A

It was a morning full of smiles and enjoyment for 5A.

The children enjoyed taking on the low ropes course testing their balance and footwork.

Also, they enjoyed the night line which involved making their way through a range of obstacles all whilst blindfolded.

They also tackled the…

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