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  • Friday 14 February 2025 What a Great Term! What a fabulous term we have had! We hope everyone has had a great day today and are looking forward to a lovely week next week.
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Fruit salad, yummy yummy! In English, the children have written the fantastic non-chronological reports all about some landmarks in London and how amazing it is. They all included features in their writing and thought about some great did you know facts!
  • Friday 7 February 2025 7th February 2025 The children have enjoyed the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff as part of our Drawing Club this week. They have worked hard in Maths, learning about doubles and subitising two amounts and finding the total, sometimes in different ways. Koalas have also looked at different materials and talked about why certain products are made from certain materials. The children have also started to make their own musical instruments, ready for this week.
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Culinary delights! It’s hard to believe we are just one week away from the end of Term 3 and half way through the school year. Our gem pot is again full, so next week the children will have extra playtime as their reward! The Meerkats are a fantastically kind bunch of children and it is so lovely to hear reports from other members of staff who also notice their kindness and general helpful ways – keep it up marvellous Meerkats!
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Friday 7th February 2025 Trip Trap Trip Trap....Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Three Billy Goat's Gruff The Three Billy Goats Gruff-Whose that Trip Trapping Over my Bridge!
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Healthy fruit salads for everyone! What a fun week we have had in Panda Class this week. We have been thinking about what foods help us to stay healthy and how we can prepare them safely. We talked about how to use the claw and bridge technique to chop, slice and cut fruit safely and which parts of the fruit we could eat. After we had designed our fruit salads, we then prepared them carefully and safely before we enjoyed eating them. It was delicious, colouful and nutritious and the children worked safely and carefully. Great job Panda Class!
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Friday 7th February 2025 - Honeybees We have had a wonderful week in Honeybee Class with our focus being The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have been story tellers, recalling the repeated parts of the story and thought about what else the characters may say. We have built bridges large and small using a range of construction, the children particularly enjoyed creating a large scale bridge and obstacle course in which they were challenged to jump, hop, skip and crawl across before being gobbled up by the hungry troll.
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Chopping and cooking! We have had another busy week in Zebra Class. The children have fully embraced our DT topic and have loved exploring different recipes. This week, it has been all about balanced, healthy eating and we enjoyed tasting different fruits at the beginning of the week. The children tried red grapes, white grapes, pomegranate, kiwi, strawberries, blueberries and cherries. We talked about the different tastes and whether we could spot seeds/stones inside. Many of us had never tasted pomegranate but we enjoyed it very much. The children then went on to design and make a healthy fruit salad. They practised their chopping, grating and slicing skills and I think we definitely have many chefs in the making!
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Friday 7th February We have had a fantastic week this week designing and making our own fruit salads. On Monday, we sorted foods into fruits and vegetables and then spent some time looking at a range of different fruits. We talked about the colour, shape and smell of the fruits before having a little taste. We used adjectives to describe them and thought about which were our favourites.
  • Friday 7 February 2025 Fruit Salad! The ‘gemometer’ in Giraffe class is close to exploding with the great work that has been happening this week. The writing has been amazing and so has all the fantastic number work.
  • Friday 31 January 2025 Friday 31st January 2025 I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down! The Big Bad Wolf strikes again!
  • Friday 31 January 2025 UK's traditional treats Leopard Class started a new topic in DT this week, we are looking at 'Where in the UK do these traditional treats come from and can I make a healthy snack to go with them?' We started the week by learning about recipes and the importance of following them in order, to practise we made playdough. On Thursday, we had a very busy morning of making scones, a traditional treat for England. The children were ready to add all of the ingredients together and learn new skills such as mixing, pinching, kneeding, rolling and cutting. At the end of the day, we had a mini tea party and tried our scones, with jam, and a bit of Welsh cake. Mrs Kerbey kindly baked fifteens (Northern Irish) and Shortbread (Scottish) for us to try on Friday afternoon. The children loved all of the treats they tried! Next week we will be continuing our DT topic and practising our cutting skills when we make fruit salads.
  • Friday 31 January 2025 31st January 2025 Drawing Club this week was based around the story of The Three Little Pigs. The children have made houses out of bricks, sticks and straw. They have also been thinking about materials, looking at different objects in the immediate environment and describing the materials they are made from. Our Chair of Governors, Mrs House, came to watch a maths session, during which the children were working out each part of an amount. They have also continued to work on different jumps in both PE and continuous provision.
  • Friday 31 January 2025 Musical Meerkat Bakers! As I was loading all the photos for the week, I am amazed at just how much the marvellous Meerkats have packed into their week. They are such an enthusiastic bunch of children, it is a joy to be their teacher!
  • Friday 31 January 2025 Friday 31st Jan 2025 This week, Wallabies have enjoyed reading The 3 little pigs and creating their own characters, settings and adventures during drawing club. In provision they have been busy creating the houses of the 3 little pigs using straw, sticks and bricks, practising their threading skills using pictures of the pigs, re-telling the story using masks, using lollipop sticks and blu-tac to build a house for a pig, using duplo and lego to build houses and so much more! They have been super busy!
  • Friday 31 January 2025 Honeybees 31st January 25 Our learning this week focused on the story Handa's Surprise written by Eileen Browne. It has taken us on a trip to Africa alongside Handa, a little girl who travels with a basket of fruit to give to her friend Akeyo. On her journey many cheeky animals take the fruit without her seeing from her basket so Handa really does give her friend a surprise when she arrives. The children have really enjoyed the story, learning all about the different animals, what sounds they make in the wild and what they like to eat. They used their understanding of the story to match the animal to the fruit they took, made their own fruit baskets and enjoyed choosing and chopping fruit to add to their own fruit basket to eat.
  • Friday 31 January 2025 Cooking and Calculations! What a busy week we've had! So much fabulous and varied learning - it's been wonderful to see the children trying hard to figure things out and develop this skills.
  • Friday 31 January 2025 Friday 31st January What a great week we have had!
  • Friday 31 January 2025 Tasty Treats!! If your child has come home buzzing about London then the reason is all because of our English topic. It leads on from us exploring the UK and for the next 2 weeks there is a huge focus on London. We have been looking at the different landmarks, bridges and looking at the general hustle and bustle of the city. This will lead us on to writing a non-chronological report. You can find a video of the book here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9bn8798SyY
  • Thursday 30 January 2025 Zebra 30.01.28 This week we have been very busy Zebras! We have started our new topic looking at tasty treats from around the UK. We made playdoh on Monday to get us thinking about measuring and following a recipe. We then got to make our own shortbread and taste some other tasty treats.
  • Saturday 25 January 2025 Chinese New Year
  • Friday 24 January 2025 Honeybees Friday 24th January 2024 We have had a great week in Honeybee Class learning all about The Three Little Pigs. The children have enjoyed acting out parts of the story as either the wolf or a pig, they have made masks, parts of the story using playdough, bricks and straw and sequenced the story using picture cards. The children have become really confident with retelling the story.
  • Friday 24 January 2025 24th January 2025 This week the children have investigated ice and talked about liquids and solids. They have 'visited' China, continued to work hard in Read, Write, Inc sessions, maths and Drawing Club. The children also had some time to make their own spring rolls and eat them up!
  • Friday 24 January 2025 The UK, maths and diary writing This week has been full of fantastic learning.
  • Friday 24 January 2025 Music and dancing with the Meerkats! We are half way through Term 3 and wow the marvellous Meerkats have really challenged themselves in all of their learning this week. But first, I must congratulate them all on their beautiful manners, both myself and Miss Smith notice daily how polite the Meerkats are as a class but this week others members of staff have been to see me to tell me that they have noticed too. Well done Meerkats we are so very proud of you all – keep it up!
  • Friday 24 January 2025 Mighty Musicians and Mathematicians Panda Class have worked their socks off this week and we have been blown away by their amazing attitude to learning.
  • Friday 24 January 2025 Writing a diary! What another busy week in Zebra Class! In fact, we have worked so hard we have managed to fill up out gem pot and earn a class reward (bubble fun!) Well done Zebra Class!
  • Friday 24 January 2025 Friday 24th January 2025 "Celebrate the Magic of Lunar New Year: Traditions, Stories, and Festivities Await!"
  • Friday 24 January 2025 Friday 24th January We have had another great week in Bumblebees with many proud moments!
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