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There has been a plethora of imaginative play taking place this week outside with our large scale resources.  Children have made vehicles, boats and bridges over ‘cold choppy water’.  We have also noticed independence with wellies, shoes and coats improving vastly over the past few…

Christmas preparation is in full swing in Reception.  We are slowly working our way through costumes for our Nativity play.  Watch out for any lines in book bags this week.  

Blitzkrieg

Today, the children learnt about the different cities that were targeted during the Blitz. Did you know that Liverpool was the second most bombed city in the country? Why do you think this and what was the most bombed?

The children worked in pairs to add two 2- digit numbers (not across a ten). They were given the opportunity to use concrete resources to help them solve the calculations.

The children enjoyed exploring  and practising a range of rolls during their lesson led by Emily from Beth Tweddle Gymnastics.

Year One Maths

In today’s maths lesson we learned about addition by ‘adding more’.  We used ten frames and counters to help us with our addition, ‘First, then and now’, number sentences.

Comparing Fractions

Mrs Boylan’s Maths Group were today using our fraction mats to compare and order fractions. 
 

As part of Parliament Week, we looked into how our country is run and how laws are created.

We then researched who our local MP is and how long they have been in the role.

The children in nursery are continuing to read ‘The Three Little Pigs’. This week we are focusing on the wolf and have created our own Watch Out! posters. The children have drawn and described the wolf remembering vocabulary from the text.

The children have also been working together building…

We welcomed Justine from CAFOD to speak to all of the children about World Gifts today.

She came and talked about the work of CAFOD, what World Gifts are and how we can help in the work of CAFOD this advent season.

To find out more please visit: https://worldgifts.cafod.org.uk/

We have started to use Scratch to create music.

In this lesson, we have been tinkering and getting used to using the programme.

Over the next few weeks we will be developing our skills using Scratch.

The children enjoyed sharing books with their friends or by themself.