This week in Reception, we have celebrated Pancake Day! The children thoroughly enjoyed choosing a delicious topping for their pancake. After this, the children began to taste them. We really enjoyed getting to try the different flavours. Chocolate spread was the most popular choice as it was yumm
Over the last week, schools have been receiving reports of an increasing number of incidents involving inappropriate pop-ups occurring when children are accessing the internet outside of school. This has been happening across the region but there have been isolated incidents involving pupils of Ha
Learning how to behave safely around the fire pit is really important for our young children, getting them ready for their Forest School sessions. We practiced how to enter and exit the fire area and had a chat about what kind of things they might like to cook. Then it was down to meet the hens, the
I would like to say a huge thank all the parents/carers and a family members who have added their names to the national Parliament Petition regarding school funding. As a result of the support from school communities, this issue will now be debated in Parliament on Monday 4th March. Hopefully, alo
The children in Reception have been learning about road safety today. They learnt how to cross the road safely and what to do when walking near a road. They even got to dress up! We said a little rhyme to help us ‘Stop, look and listen before we cross the street’.
The children in Reception have been very busy learning all about Chinese New Year. They tasted Chinese food, painted Chinese dragons and threaded Cheerios onto pipe cleaners to make the body of the dragon. The boys and girls also made colourful Chinese dragon puppets and used them to dance to music.
In Reception, the children have been learning about measuring. We used cubes to measure different objects and we even measured monsters and dinosaurs! The children used mathematical language when comparing different lengths.
The children in Reception had great fun in the snow on Friday. Everyone got wrapped up warm and went out to build a snowman. They also enjoyed painting the snow different colours and using pipettes to drop coloured water onto the snow. These activities were helping the children to develop their fi
On Tuesday, Reception had lots of fun in PE. They had to travel with a beanbag on their head around the cones. It was hard not to drop the beanbag. At the end of the cones, they had to jump in a hoop and then run back to the beginning. The best bit was using the hoops as steering wheels in and out o
Nobody was expecting the fantastic surprise we all got this morning – SNOW! As soon as the first few flakes began to gracefully fall from the sky, the excitement built until the children saw that a thin blanket was lying on our school grounds. The big question from the children inevitably was �
