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22 October 2025

Earth and Space

Today, we were lucky enough to have visitors from Liverpool Hope University.

They worked alongside the children in small groups exploring a range of questions surrounding Earth and space.

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17 October 2025

Spring Bulb Planting

After a big garden clear up in Nursery A this week, we have been busy planting some Spring bulbs.  

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16 October 2025

The Gingerbread Man Crosses the River

This half term we are reading The Gingerbread Man and this week we focused on him crossing the river. We placed a gingerbread man in water and watched what happened. The children could see how he floated at first but then began to crumble and break. They also noticed how the water changed colour…

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15 October 2025

Hedgehog Bread in Nursery A

The children made hedgehog bread rolls in nursery today.  They used skills of mixing, kneading, rolling and cutting.  They observed the dough rising and baking.  Nursery smelt amazing!  We hope our families enjoy the bread.  

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13 October 2025

Technology in action

This is what technology looks like in Early Years - how things work. Today the children loved using a hand drill to make holes in our wood slices.  Thank you to Mr Seddon (Mrs Seddon’s husband) for preparing all these logs for us.  One child told another member of staff, “We used a real-life hand…

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13 October 2025

Minibeasts

As part of our poetry week, we have been reading lots of poems about minibeasts. We have explored new vocabulary, where we might find minibeasts and what equipment might help us to find them! We then, in small groups, used all our knowledge to find minibeasts in our garden area. So far, we have…

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3 October 2025

God’s Beautiful Creation

Building upon our knowledge of the Bible being a special book, we listened to the first story in the Bible and then heard it retold us in our golden box.  The children were mesmerised by the light for light and dark and understood that the cloths represented the sea and land.  We learned that God…

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3 October 2025

Developing our Woodland Area

This week the children in Nursery have been helping to develop our woodland area.  We had a generous donation of logs, so we used our strong muscles to move them into position to create a circle. During our time in the woods we are building our resilience and confidence by taking risks and…

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1 October 2025

Showing our Love and Care

In Nursery A we have been demonstrating our love and care through role play.  We have been caring for our ‘babies’ by making sure they are fed, clothed and well looked after.  We have names for our dolls so that they are treated with dignity and respect.  We talk about why we need to look after…

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1 October 2025

Andy Goldsworthy Inspired Natural Art

We have been inspired to make some art with nature by finding out about the work of artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.  After collecting Autumn treasures at home, we have used these to create.  We have made faces, patterns and even our own trees.  We have been developing our vocabulary around…

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30 September 2025

Y2 Children’s University

Y2 took part in a Children’s University master class all about Space.

 

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29 September 2025

Year 1 Science- What are the parts of a plant?

Year 1 Science- What are the parts of a plant?

We have been learning about the different parts of a plant. The children played a number matching game to help label the different parts of a plant. We talked about the flower, leaf, stem and root.

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