It's been another busy week in our Reception Classes. The children had their first visit to their Year One classes and met the staff there. The children found out whether they are in Owl or Squirrel Class next year. The visits were very successful and the children came back extremely excited fro...

It's been a very arty week in our Reception classes. We have been busy making Father's Day cards, so please look out for these in the children's book bags. We have also been busy making the artwork for our "Art on a Postcard". These look great. We've had a lot of forms back...

In Jigsaw, we have been looking at the life cycles of animals and humans. We thought about how we have changed as we have grown, and what has stayed the same. We know that growing up means learning new things and becoming more independent.  We also learnt about how our bodie...

We introduced the concepts of animation in Year 1 today. We looked at using the program Scratch Jr. to make our sprite (character) move (animate). We learnt that we can create a sequence of instructions by linking our blocks together. We made our sprite move forwards, backwards, up, down and even sp...

We’ve had a busy week in our Reception classes. We’ve been looking at frogs and we had a real frog in our classes to study. After looking carefully at the frog we made clay models of frogs. We looked really carefully at the shape of the body and the legs. We used clay tools to make marks...

To finish our geography learning we explored the use of maps. By recapping the four main compass points, we were able to create our own routes to get from point a to point b. For example, 4 steps north and 3 steps east. The children worked in teams to find the easiest set of instructi...