7th November 2025

We have had a great first week back at school. In our creative activities, we have explored the colours and shapes of fireworks through different painting and mark making techniques. The children have enjoyed wool-winding to create firework shapes too. We even used sparklers outside!

The children learnt that people celebrate in different ways and we talked about Bonfire Night as well as the festival of Diwali. The children learnt the story of Guy Fawkes in simple terms too.

In our outdoor area this week, the children have enjoyed working as a team to solve the problem of transporting the plastic balls from one area to another using the guttering and pipes. There was a lot of communication involved as well as perseverance!

10th October 2025

What a busy week we have had! This week the children have been learning about hedgehogs. They worked together to make a fabulous Hedgehog Hotel for our wildlife garden as well as using different materials in the creative areas of our classroom to create hedgehogs. They have listened to stories about hedgehogs and have found out about other animals that hibernate during the colder months. Our new vocabulary this week includes the words hibernate, nocturnal, spines and hoglet.

In our daily phonics sessions, the children have learnt the letter sounds for i and n. Every day we are practising sound blending - putting these sounds together to read simple words. When the children are ready, they will be given a set of ‘grapheme tiles’ to practise matching pictures and letters at home; they may also be given a ‘sounds’ book or ‘little blending book’.

More information on phonics and reading will be given at our meeting for parents on Thursday 6th November at 9am.

In maths this week we have compared size with a focus on length. We have done this in different ways using the indoor and outdoor environments. We will continue to do this next week, as well as looking at simple patterns.

The children have enjoyed our recent PE sessions in the hall - they have used the large apparatus for climbing and balancing then jumping and landing safely. They have listened carefully to the instructions to help keep everyone safe when using the apparatus.

26th September 2025

The children have really enjoyed using natural materials in their learning recently - we are making the most of the Autumn leaves starting to fall. Last week the children used these items to create faces, make pictures and decorate crowns to wear.

Thank you for sending in the baby/toddler photos - we enjoyed guessing who everyone is and the children talked about how they have changed. If you haven’t had a chance to send a photo yet and would still like to, we will continue looking at these on Friday afternoon as part of our Jigsaw PSHE session.

The children have made a good start to learning the letter sounds in our phonics sessions - we spent last week looking at ‘s’ and ‘a’; this week they will learn ‘t’ and ‘p’. To help them to form these letters correctly and use them in writing when they are ready, we are doing lots and lots of mark making through drawing and having a go at tracing/writing letter shapes and patterns.

In maths we have done a lot of matching and sorting items into sets recently using a variety of objects and pictures. We are using the words ‘same’, ‘different’ and ‘similar’ when sorting the objects.

19th September 2025

The children are enjoying the activities around our topic of Being Me in My World. These activities will continue next week when we look at photos of the children when they were babies or toddlers and talk about how we change when we grow older. We will also continue exploring the natural world around us.

Our daily phonics sessions have begun and next week the children will learn the letter sounds for ‘s’ and ‘a’ - look out for our phonics information event for parents (date tbc soon).

In maths the children have been learning how to write the numbers 1 and 2 correctly. This week we will look at the formation of number 3 as well as play games involving matching and sorting objects and pictures.

Our outdoor learning sessions are going well; the children are learning how to be safe in the wildlife garden and we are looking forward to our first session with the fire when we will be able to cook something to eat!

In PE the children have practised finding a space and moving around our hall carefully. They have also had a go at controlling a ball by pushing it around, kicking it carefully and throwing and catching it.

12th September 2025

We had a super week at school - the first full week for the children and they have coped well. They are picking up our daily routines and have managed to collect their own lunch from the serving area at lunchtime too.

We all enjoyed the story Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson this week. We have learnt a song about this story and will be practising the song with Makaton signs over the coming weeks. The story was a lovely introduction to our topic ‘Being Me in My World’ and we will be talking about the ways in which we are similar and different as part of this topic next week.

The children have all had a go at mark-making and drawing as well as practising writing their first names. There have been lots of opportunities to play in the classroom and outdoor areas and it is lovely to see the children making friends and having lots of fun!