This week we have been learning about shapes, we have been searching for shapes in the environment, sorting shapes and talking about their properties and using shapes to create different types of transport. Fantastic work Nursery!
Category Archives: EYFS
Amazing maths in Reception
Reception have been counting, recognising and counting on using numbers to 20.
Special places in Reception
This half term in RE we are focusing on special places. The children went on a treasure hunt to find jigsaw pieces which, when put together , make a picture of Mrs Ashton’s special place at school. Can you guess where it is?
Gymnastics in Nursery
We have enjoyed showing off our fantastic gymnastic skills in PE this week, we completed a sequence of jumping off the apparatus, followed by a roll and finally finishing with a posh pose! Fantastic work Nursery!
Reception’s Church Treasure Hunt
As part of their learning on Christianity and Easter, Reception went on a treasure hunt around the local church. They had to find several features such as a font, pulpit and candles. They had great fun exploring and enjoyed seeing some of the artefacts that we had been learning about in class.
Pizza making in Reception
As part of our story The Little Red Hen makes a Pizza, we have made our own muffin pizzas. We talked about what we thought would happen when we put the pizzas in the oven. We thought that the sauce would get hot and the cheese would melt. We chose our own toppings and we […]
Budding scientists in Reception
Following on from our Evil Pea story this week, where Evil Pea froze all of the veggies, we have been exploring ice! We talked about what the ice balloons felt like, what they thought might be inside, and how they think the round shapes were made. The children came up with some fantastic answers and […]
Nursery: Old McDonald had a Farm!
This week we have been reading the story ‘Old McDonald had a Farm’, we all enjoyed singing the song and choosing our own animals to put on his farm, we each drew a picture of our chosen animal and had a go of labelling it too! We’ve also been busy building farmhouses, practising cutting skills […]
Nursery’s EGGciting Delivery
This week the Nursery children have been learning about the lifecycle of a hen as part of their topic ‘On The Farm’. On Wednesday we had a very special delivery of eggs. We used lollipop sticks to pick out children’s names and those children carefully selected the 7 eggs, that all look different, to put in […]
Artist of the Term in Reception
This term, Reception have been learning about the French artist, Cezanne. We looked at lots of his different paintings and especially liked his fruit bowl, as it linked to our story of the week, Handa’s Surprise. We have created our own interpretation of the fruit bowl using pastels.