Blog Author: R Heath

We have been learning all about Diwali this week.

We watched a video of a family preparing and celebrating Diwali and watched the story of Rama and Sita. We made our own Festival of Light lanterns and explored textures creating some Rangoli patterns. The children enjoyed building temples and…

Before we started our maths learning this afternoon, Class 1 enjoyed a short musical mindfulness session to calm our minds and bodies after our lunch break and to make sure everyone was ready to learn.

Today our musical mindfulness was under the sea themed and everyone enjoyed seeing which sea…

This week in maths, we have still been exploring numbers to 3 and today we were thinking about 1 less and what 1 less than means.
 

We went outside in the glorious sunshine and found lots of cones with different numbers on. Mrs Philp asked the children to travel to a cone to show 1 less than…

Today Class 1 learnt all about Ora Hygiene and Gpgoing to the dentist.

We also carried out an experiment using 3 apples which we observed over 3 days to see what happens to an apple (tooth) if we don’t look after it. We made observations of what it would look like inside a tooth if we weren’t…

Today Class 1 took home their All About Me boxes that they brought with them on their first day of school.

Everyone has had such a gorgeous time sharing pictures of their special people, their favourite items and their favourite things they like to do outside of school.

The children have all…

This week in our maths sessions we are exploring numbers 1 to 3 and have been practising our subitising skills and recognising each number in different representations.  All the children have been fantastic and have shown and developed super subitising skills to 3.

This afternoon we went…

In our topic lessons this week we have been scientists. 
We found out about look after our teeth and what Dentists do. We explored food and drink that are good or bad for our teeth, how to burns our teeth in the correct way, how many milk teeth and adult teeth we have and much more.

We set up…

We have had a fantastic day at the Wolseley Centre!

Class 1 and 2 had a wonderful time and learnt so much about caring for wildlife, following our Cannock chase codes and about mini-beasts.

We watched a video and listened to our guides with some top tips and key information, then we went…

Class 1 are so grateful to Mr Taylor, who has worked his magic on refurbishing our telephone box. It looks amazing and the children are loving using in to call their families and friends when playing in our outside area. 
 

Mr Taylor, we really appreciate you taking such time and care to make…

In our maths sessions this week, we are exploring patterns. This afternoon after looking at some repeating patterns together in class, the children were challenged to create their own repeating pattern using natural resources they found in our outdoor classroom. 
 

All the children worked…

Today in Class 1 we have been celebrating and finding out about World Mental Health day. We have all worn yellow items of clothing and given a donation to help raise money for some of the fantastic charities that support people with their mental health. 

This morning, we have shared a story…

Class 1 read the story Burglar Bill today and we did some investigating after noticing that all of our teddies had disappeared from our classroom!

We created a police station roleplay in our classroom, put on our police outfits and hats and got to work finding clues in our classroom. We had…