The answer, despite the rain, is lots and lots! From writing CVC words to catching and counting raindrops in a cup, today had it all! 

The children enjoyed eating the bread they had helped to make earlier. Look at their brilliant spreading! 

As an Early Years team we use what we call The 3 ‘M’s in all of our interactions with our children. The 3 ‘M’s stand for, Mark-Making, Making Conversation and Mathematics. Today’s nature inspired tough-spot activity highlights how all of these areas were explored by the children. Children writing labels and making mathematical drawings, children talking about colours, textures and the seasons and children grouping, sorting and counting objects. Play, sprinkled with the 3 ‘M’s, is a powerful learning model. 

Year 4 had a great afternoon learning common classroom phrases in French. Year 4 practiced their  pronunciation and made up actions. Well done Year 4.

Remember tomorrow is school photos so please come in wearing ties.

The Year 4 team 😊

Singing nursery rhymes are a brilliant way of supporting language development, and  our new children are really enjoying our rhyme boards. Look at how these props engage children, supporting social interaction and counting skills! 

Wow- we’ve been so impressed by how well Year 1 have learnt what verbs and nouns are. We used our new colourful semantics cards to identify each part of the sentence and the children then had a go at writing their own using the card to make sure they included each part.

Year 5 had lots of fun today learning some rich vocabulary words. The actions we created really made us giggle. Why don't you ask the children to tell you the words and show you the actions at home! We played a few games to help us learn the words and can't wait to continue to develop this learning as the week goes on.

This afternoon, Year 1 learnt about deciduous and evergreen trees. Can you remember the difference? We then had lots of fun on a leaf hunt to see what types we could find and some even tried to sort them into evergreen or deciduous. What a lovely afternoon!

Today we went on a sensory walk around our Reception garden. Using our new text, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’, we re-traced the families journey through the different environments! Along the way we sang the songs and explored all of the rich vocabulary. What a great way to start a new story!

Year 5 have been very busy today exploring theme parks as we launched our new project 'Scream Machine'. The children were excited to use iPads to investigate and explore different theme parks, from Drayton Manor, Crealy and Alton Towers to Lego Land. They looked closely at the maps and compared the lay out of the parks. Interestingly, some had a helpful key but others didn't. The children are now enthused to create their very own theme park plan this week.