Reception

Well done to all of our reception children for a fantastic first half term!

Throughout this term we have been exploring the story ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’. Children developed their communication and language skills through role playing and re-telling the story as well as working on their fine motor development in our play dough tuff tray. We explored colour mixing to create paintings of the tiger and had a go at writing shopping lists.

In maths we have been ordering and comparing items. Children made their own stick men and used cubes to measure them to explore length, investigated height by finding out who was the tallest and shortest in the class, explored capacity through water play and used the balance scales to find out whose snack was heaviest and whose was the lightest.

Keep up the good work!

Year 1

In Literacy children have been learning the story ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’. We created a story plan using images to prompt our learning and then used the images to re-tell the story in our own words.

In Maths children have been developing their understanding of addition with numbers to 10.

Our topic for Science this half term has been plants. We have explored the trees that grow around the school field and learnt how to identify different trees. We made models of flowers to label the different parts before growing our own plants from seeds.

Well done Year 1 for making a fantastic start to the year!

Forest School

Children have explored our Forest area by using the bug hunting equipment to find mini beasts, digging in the mud pit, using clay to make hedgehogs, working together to make mandala patterns and trying out our new Forest School phones.