This week we have been celebrating Autism Awareness week and today the children have been learning some basic facts about Autism. We have discussed how we are all different, and that some of us have things that are the same […]
This week as part of our RE Curriculum Reception visited our local church – Beeches Evangelical Church. This is part of the schools commitment to visiting three different places of worship during children’s three years with us. We pick places […]
Today Crocodiles have been doing something ‘funny for money’! Campaigning and raising funds for Comic Relief. We have taken part in a non-uniform day in exchange for a donation. We have connected today with our Rights, and have considered the […]
On Friday we celebrated World Book Day. We are very keen to promote the love of reading with all of our children, and World Books Day gives us an excellent chance to share and promote our love of books. It […]
This has been our second week of investigating the book ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson in Reception. We have been learning about habitats and linking these to our rights and basic needs. We learnt that all animals, including humans, need: […]
Today is the International Day of Education – a day declared by the United Nations in celebration of the role education can play in establishing peace and sustainable development! With climate change becoming an increasing threat to children’s education around the world, […]
Yesterday all of the children in school had the opportunity to play glow in the dark dodgeball! The hall was in darkness. We had special black lighting lamps and fluorescent jackets. The children were put into teams and had to […]
This week the children have been learning about their Right to a safe and healthy environment. We have spoken about re-cycling and spotted that the things we can recycle have a green set of arrows on them. We re-used our […]
This week in a build up to World Children’s Day, in Reception we have been learning about air pollution and how it effects us. In the outdoor learning area we all took part in a leaf experiment. Our first job […]
Following on from our Commonwealth Connections partnership last year, we had the pleasure of a PE session with two professional sports coaches this week. We played a rugby game where the children worked as a team to grab and collect […]