Developing oracy skills in Year 3
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.
Nursery B Go on a Bug Hunt
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…
Traditional Tales
Today we analysed different characters in traditional tales and looked at the themes involved.
We then predicted which characters might appear in our new class story, ‘The Lost Happy Endings.’
Year 2 Lancashire Hawks and Owls
Today we were visited by Margaret and Michael from Lancashire Hawks and Owls. They brought some of their amazing birds with them to show us. We learnt lots of facts about the birds and we we able to stroke some of them.
Year 4 Halloween Poetry
We finished our half term writing some of our own Halloween poetry. We had lots of fun creating group stanzas and thinking about rhyming couplets to complement our poems! We even got to perform our poem as a class.
Poem performance
It has been poetry week in Reception! After listening to various poems about minibeasts we then set to work to write our own class poem! As a team, we wrote our very own poem packed with rhyming words! We then thought of actions to go with each line. Reception then performed their poem to Nursery…
Designing Cakes in Nursery B
This week the children in nursery received a letter from Mr and Mrs Baker asking them to enter the ‘Award Winning Cake Competition’. The children are thinking carefully and talking to one another about the shape and size of their cakes as well as toppings and flavours.
English: The Three Little Pigs
The children worked in small groups to complete a role on the wall activity describing the appearance and personality of the wolf in the story.
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…
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.
Happy birthday little one!
This week in Nursery A we were lucky enough to receive a donation of a new high chair and doll. The children pulled the high chair up to the table and decided that it was the little one’s birthday. We found a cake and promptly began singing ‘Happy Birthday’. The children then decided to write…
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…