We had a great time in Forest School. We looked for fairies and counted how many we found. We then enjoyed delicious hot chocolate to warm us up.

This week in Reception, we have been exploring circles and triangles. We went on a Circle Hunt around the classroom and the children were fantastic detectives—looking high and low to find as many circular objects as they could. Once an object was found, children worked together to record it on a tally chart. This helped us practise counting and recording. What fun we had!

Trekkers have been exploring the theme of families. We’ve talked about our homes and the actied out family roles using the different places around our room as a ‘stage’ and building houses for our families. Through this, we’ve been discovering what important features homes need.

We’ve also been discovering the season of autumn! The children explored colourful leaves and even turned it into a dinosaur adventure. They hid dinosaurs among the leaves and learned a new word—camouflage! To make it even more exciting, the Trekkers took their own photos of the dinosaurs hiding in the leaves.

Reception had great fun collecting leaves and making their own picture. They talked about the different shape leaves and the different colours. A great activity to take learning outdoors and developing vocabulary.

Reception had great fun using the book Actual Size to measure parts of their body against the real-life images. Some of the pictures were quite scary!

Reception have had a busy week of learning and fun. We visited forest school and enjoyed outdoor adventures, teamwork and nature play. We met Rainbow Ted who went on his first weekend adventure. We drew our own Superheroes in Drawing Club and learnt about sorting in maths. We even started our new handwriting book.

We’ve had a fantastic week full of hands-on learning and creativity!

🧦 In Maths, we practiced matching socks — a fun way to explore patterns and pairs! We even designed our own matching socks using colours. We enjoyed using conkers, cubes, and fir cones in our matching activities. We explored their shapes, textures, and sizes, comparing natural and man-made objects. The children were especially fascinated by the spiky outer shell of the conkers –  lots of curious hands and great describing words were used like “prickly”, “bumpy”, and “hard”!  These hands-on experiences are helping us build early maths and science skills in a playful, meaningful way.

🎨 We also enjoyed making pictures from different parts, using our imagination and fine motor skills to create some brilliant artwork.

✏️ In Writing, the children worked so hard in their writing books — we saw some amazing sentence building and letter formation! 🌟

🔤 We had lots of fun with Fred in Phonics, blending sounds and learning new words together.

🏃‍♂️ In PE, we focused on learning how to throw and catch, developing our coordination and teamwork.

Well done, everyone — we’re so proud of all your hard work and enthusiasm this week!

We’ve had a fantastic start to the term in EYFS! The children have loved meeting Bertie the Owl, our special visitor who helps us with our RE learning. 🦉💫

In phonics, we’ve begun learning our initial sounds and the children are already showing great enthusiasm and progress! ✏️🔤

In literacy, we explored emotions by creating our own versions of The Colour Monster – each one unique and full of personality! 🎨

We also stayed for our first school lunch – and it was a hit! 😊 We all ate pizza and flap jack for pudding.

Finally, we had so much fun developing our ball skills in PE – lots of teamwork, coordination, and giggles! ⚽🏃‍♀️🏃

Well done, everyone – what a brilliant week!

Our little Trekkers have had a fantastic start to the new school year! They’ve settled in with big smiles and curious minds, diving into all sorts of fun and learning. Last week was full of singing favourite songs, chatting in Talking Circles, and getting to grips with our new routines (we’re already becoming experts at tidy-up time!).

The children have loved learning all about themselves and their new friends, pretending to be doctors and making each other feel better, and exploring every corner of their environment. One of the biggest adventures was heading out to the Forest School area—ready for the messy, magical world of Messy Maths coming soon!

We’re so proud of how confident and happy they’ve been. Here’s to a year full of wonder, giggles, and growing together!

What an amazing start to the school year! We have had a fantastic time making new friends and using our imaginations during continuous provision. In PE we loved the balancing and climbing activities, showing off our amazing movement skills and teamwork! 🏃‍♀️🤸‍♂️

It’s been wonderful to see everyone so eager to try new things and have fun together. Looking forward to more exciting adventures ahead! 🌈💪

This week in EYFS, we’ve been sailing off on an adventure with Jack and the Flumflum Tree! Inspired by the story, the children became little engineers and worked together to design and build their very own boats! 🧠💡

The children showed amazing teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving—just like Jack and his friends on their quest to cure Grandma!

Well done, little adventurers! 🌴🌈

Today in Forest School, reception children embraced the outdoors and let their imaginations run wild! Using natural clay and the inspiration around them, they each created their own unique clay models – from animals to magical creatures! 🐾🐍🦄

As they explored the outdoor environment, the children collected natural materials like twigs, leaves, and stones to add special details to their creations. This hands-on activity helped develop their fine motor skills, creativity, and connection with nature.

Today, we’ve been little engineers! We explored materials, design, and problem-solving as we made our own boats using a variety of materials like cartons, straws, and paper.

Once our boats were built, it was time for the big test: Will it float? We had so much fun placing our creations in water and watching what happened. Some boats floated beautifully, while others needed a few tweaks – perfect opportunities for learning through play!

This hands-on activity helped us explore floating and sinking, prediction and testing, and the importance of resilience and creativity. 🚤🌊

Our Reception children had a truly magical time at Forest School this week! They were busy exploring the great outdoors with imagination, curiosity, and lots of muddy fun!

🔍 We went on a fairy hunt, searching under logs, behind trees, and in the leaves to see if we could spot signs of fairy life — footprints, sparkles, and even tiny fairy houses! 🧚

🍃 In the mud kitchen, the children whipped up marvellous muddy creations — from “fairy soup” to “forest cakes” — using sticks, leaves, and heaps of imagination.

🌞 Some children chose to relax in the hammock, listening to the sounds of the forest and enjoying some peaceful, mindful moments among the trees.

It’s wonderful to see the children connecting with nature, building friendships, and developing their creativity and independence in such a joyful way. Well done, little explorers!

Today was a very special day in our class — we released our beautiful butterflies! 🐛➡️🦋

The children have loved watching them grow from tiny caterpillars into chrysalides, and finally into butterflies. We talked about the life cycle and how important it is to care for all living things. 🌍

There were lots of smiles and excitement as we said goodbye and watched them flutter away into the big wide world. What a magical moment! ✨

Today we did some amazing independent learning in maths. We practiced  number bonds to 5, wrote different numbers and even played a game on the interactive whiteboard.

What an exciting day we had in Early Years today. We have been waiting for so long but today our caterpillars finally arrived. They were all sleeping but it didn’t take them long to start to move.  We are going to watch the caterpillars grow and when it is time we will give them some sugar paste. They will then begin to turn into beautiful butterflies. We will release them outside.  😊🐛🦋

In Early Years we are starting to brush our teeth. We listen to a tooth brushing song for 2 minutes and follow the instructions making sure we clean all our teeth. We have talked about the importance of having clean hands before we start and washing our brush afterwards. It is great fun!

Rainbows really enjoyed welly Wednesday with lots of extra activities: potion making, the hammock, tree painting, using mallets to build a hedgehog house and the slack line.

In Religious Education, Trekkers looked a little more at spring. We had some pictures of baby animals and a mummy animal. We matched them up, which was tricky moving our fingers with the pictures on the board. We also looked at the life cycle of a butterfly, putting them in the correct order – egg, caterpillar, cocoon and butterfly. We then cut out the pictures and made our own life cycles.

Today the Trekkers practised making big marks in paint. We did straight lines, circles, some made triangles, we did faces, and lots more. We had lots of fun when we realised it was ok to get messy hands. We also spoke about the colours we made as we mixed the colours together.

Reception loved doing an Easter egg hunt in Forest School. They followed clues to find the treasure. They had to tick off the pictures when they found them. Everybody then had a chocolate Easter lolly. It was great fun!

What a lovely afternoon Reception had at forest schools. We climbed trees, went on the swing, made slides and see saw, used two buckets to make some weighing scales and of course plenty of bug hunting.

Reception have been learning about number bonds to 10. They have been finding different ways to make 10. They have enjoyed using numicon to help them. Lots of children then wrote the number sentence on a whiteboard. Great job by our reception children!

Reception had a great time doing their outdoor learning. They looked at different leaves, did some bug hunting and even climbed a tree.

Spring has sprung in Reception. We enjoyed doing some observational drawings of daffodils. We looked carefully at the flower and the stem.

Our pupils in Reception and Year 1, thoroughly enjoyed their workshops delivered by Judith and her team. They taught Reception and Year 1 children a lot of new skills as they travelled through Gambia.

Children made a colourful African mask, learnt traditional songs and dances, the drums and the bongo! The classes came together to put on a very energetic, entertaining and inclusive performance.

Thank you Judith and your team for coming in and working with us.  We have learnt so much about Gambia, through the arts.

Reception loved making pancakes! They mixed eggs, flour and milk to get the batter. They then fried them. We had a choice of toppings and they tasted yummy.

Early Years Foundation Stage had a visit from the Teddy Bears Hospital. They brought their teddies into school ready to visit the hospital. We had different stations to visit. We had handwashing, brushing our teeth, visiting the hospital and seeing the doctor. It was great fun to try the different activities.