Blog by Tag: English

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.

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…

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.  

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…

Today we mapped out in pairs the sequence of events from Annie getting into the barrel to the moment she reached the edge of the falls.

Today the children in Nursery A learned about the soft wood inside an elder branch and using a metal tent peg, they created holes in the wooden pieces.  Next they used threading skills to push a piece of wool through the holes to create bracelets. Finally, they further exercised their fine motor…

Year One English - Labelling Emotions

Today the children in Year One have been discussing how the emotions of the characters in our book, ‘Lost & Found’, changed throughout the story.  We drew relevant emojis around images from the story to help us prepare for our writing later in the…

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…

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…

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…

Our book for this half term is The Gingerbread Man and the children have loved reading and talking about this book.  Today we were discussing how the Gingerbread Man could get across the river without the fox.  We talked about bridges and boats.  The children then went into provision and made…

Every week the children in nursery visit the school library. They enjoy looking at books with their friends and talking about the pictures. We read stories together and talk about what has happened.

Today we read ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ by Judith Kerr. The children remembered lots of facts…