Blog by Tag: EYFS

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…

Maths happens everywhere in Reception. Here we are exploring quantities and making number blocks using multilink in the garden. 

This week the children have been practising their observational drawing. We have used a selection of autumnal leaves and pumpkins of different colours, textures and size to carefully draw what we can see. We have talked about looking closely for details and discussed the autumnal colours we could…

After lots of discussion and interest about pumpkins over the last few weeks, the children have been using pumpkins to put their fine motor skills to the test! We have used hammers to carefully hammer golf tees into pumpkins! 

As part of our forest skills activities the chidlren have been making badges.  This week we decorated our name badges and added wool to hang them around our necks.  

The children in Nursery A have enjoyed playing with their friends again after the half-term break.  Many of the children are becoming much more confident with their climbing, balancing and riding skills, demonstrating determination and strength during their outdoor play.  They have remembered good…

Over the past few weeks the children have been really interested in pumpkins.  They have brought pumpkins in to use in our learning, and told us about visits to pumpkin patches.  We have used pumpkins in our maths counting and comparing activities, created and investigated pumpkin potions, shared…

We loved Rockstar day in Nursery A today which included our first Social Signature Assembly.  We had lots of fun whilst raising money for our school.

What fabulous costumes.  The children have loved dressing up as rock stars today. We have had a parade and danced to some of our favourite tunes! Well done to everyone for taking part. 
 

The children had lots of fun as rock stars today dancing and singing together. What a fantastic day raising money for the PTA. 

We had a busy time on our orienteering course this week.  We worked in our key groups to find animal pictures located around our school.

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…