Blog Author: Melissa Vaughan

Continuing with our topic ‘From Another Planet’, we have been baking some cupcakes to decorate to look like the planets in Space. 
We had lots of eager children want to decorate their cupcake like our planet - Earth. They were very good at recognising the colours they needed to make planet being…

Our Nursery 1 children have been practising lots of letter formation this week! 
We have practised writing the letter ‘m’ using the phonics phrase ‘maisie mountain mountain’ and we have also practised writing the letter ‘a’, using the phonics phrase ‘around the apple, down the leaf’. 
The…

This week in Nursery we have started our new topic ‘From Another Planet’. The children have loved playing in the space station and looking at different planets in our messy tray learning about space.
Then the children created their own planets and rockets.

At the start of the half term we planted some seeds. We learnt all about what a seed needs to grow. We put this into practice and we were very pleased to say that some of our seeds have grown and were taken home today! 
 

This week we have been inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian. We had a go at decorating some Easter eggs using the colours and patterns that he used too! We loved using lots of different tools to paint with!

Last week was British Science Week. In Year 4 we researched into the Scientist Maria Telkes. The children researched and found out about Maria Telkes’ life and Scientific achievements as a Biophysicist. One of the key facts the children found about about her was that she was known as ‘The Sun…

Today our new Happiness Ninjas from Y2-Y6 were out at their training gala. They learnt how to always be the best version of themselves and not to wait for Fridays to be happy. 

The children were each given a wristband by ‘The Marathon Man’ Gary McGee, who shared that whenever you feel tired and…

This week some of our older children have been reading ‘The Body Book’. We discussed how this book was not a story book but a book with facts in, a non fiction text. 
We have learnt that in our body there is a skeleton that keeps us upright. We had a go at finding different body parts and drawing…

What a fabulous day we have had celebrating World Book Day! We came dressed as our favourite characters or in our pyjamas. Some of us brought along our favourite story books to share with each other too. In the afternoon we were joined by some of Year 4 who came to read to us too! 
 

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This week in Nursery we have been planting seeds and learning what a seed needs to grow - sun, soil and water.We have read the stories Errol’s Garden and The Extraordinary Gardener and can’t wait to see what our seeds grow into. Inspired by the fruit and vegetables grown in the stories we read, we…

This week in Nursery we tried to bake some bread. The children each took a turn to scoop the bread mixture into a bowl. As they did this the children guessed what we would be making. Their guesses included cookies and cupcakes. They took it in turns to mix and pour some water in the bowl. As they…

This week in Nursery we started our topic “How does your garden and its creatures grow?”

We looked at different Spring pictures and began to change our tree in the Small World from a Winter tree into a Spring tree. The children all created some handprint mini beasts to go with the tree. 
 

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