Autumn Term 2021

Marvellous Me

This half term our topic is Marvellous Me. We have made amazing self portraits by looking carefully at our features in the mirror. We have had lots of circle time sessions to discuss our favourite things. Our play-based learning approach has reflected the children’s interests and we have all been very busy exploring our learning environment.

Magic Mondays– Monkey Puzzle

Magic Mondays is a day of arts and crafts based learning. We have been learning lots of new skills such as cutting, sticking, painting, folding, hole punching and more. We are developing our fine motor skills as well as our creativity. We are learning to show resilience, passion and excellence.

Exploring

This half term we are getting used to a brand-new environment. We are exploring all the different areas and learning how to take care of our classrooms, share with our friends and developing our independence.

Gross Motor Skills

Outdoor play is the perfect opportunity for working on our gross motor skills. We are free to use large movements such as stretching, bending, balancing, and travelling in different ways.

Rabbit Foo Foo Wands

We have begun our baking sessions by making magical wands. We really enjoy taking part in special shared experiences. We are learning to follow instructions, linking activities to our stories, learning about hygiene and using our senses.

What an amazing 2020-2021

Autumn term

In the autumn term the children learnt about harvest, animal that hibernate, Halloween, Remembrance day and how the trees and plant change. What a busy half term!

At Christmas the children really enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree, practising for their Christmas video of songs for their parents and making toys for all the good girls and boys in Santa’s grotto. 

Spring Term 

In the Spring term we enjoyed our home learning! All the children did some amazing work, we are very proud of them.

Summer Term 

This Summer we were very excited to be back in school.  First, we started to learn about Space!  Now we are learning all about plants, mini beasts and animals.  We can’t wait to go on our end of year trip to the farm.

Spring One 2020

We started the new term with a whole school trip to see Snow White.  The children had an amazing time and came back to act out the story in the classroom.

They all drew pictures of Snow White.

The children have loved playing in their new sand area!

We have started to think about lots of different stories.  We had made bread to take to grandma’s house like Little Red Riding Hood and porridge like Goldie Locks

All the children did amazingly on the balance bikes and could whizz around the playground with great confidence.

Since the beginning of the year they children have shown fantastic progress in their English and Maths.  They love to take part in their phonics lessons and Maths activities.

The children love to dress up and act out all the stories they have learnt.

Autumn 2019

What a wonderful start to the new year we have had!  All the children have settled in really well.  Look at the amazing learning that has been going on.

We can’t wait for our first Stay and Play session on Friday 11th October.

Spring One

This term Reception class have been learning about space. We have been learning about which planets are in our solar system. We have created our own space station in our outside area.

We enjoyed building space rockets with the large bricks.

We have turned our reading area into a solar space station.

Our class story is ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. Our display shows the little bear zooming off to space in his cardboard box. We have made name rockets to add to the display.

We have been using Numicon to help us solve ‘1 more than’ maths problems.

In Ladybirds class we have made aliens in space ships. We have used our own handprints to create our aliens and googly eyes to give them character. We needed to cut our shapes accurately and be very careful when applying the glue.

Balanceability

This half term Reception have taken part in ‘Balanceability’ a balance bike training programme. We had to make sure we were safe by putting our helmets on and listening carefully to Chris’s instructions. We mastered lots of different skills on the bikes including posing like a superhero and as a dinosaur!

Home School Links

The children in Ladybirds and Butterflies have made some fantastic aliens and space rockets for their Space homework…. Wow!!! They are AMAZING – thank you.

Autumn Two

This half term our topic is Celebration. We have been learning all about the Hindu celebration Diwali. We discussed the story of Rama and Sita then made Diva Lamps.

Reception have experienced lots of fun and exciting activities when settling in to Sandy Lane. We have enjoyed exploring our new learning environment and making new friends along the way.

In reception we have been learning to order our numbers to 10.

First, we laid the numbers out to make sure we had ordered them correctly and then we joined them together with split pins or treasury tags.

In Ladybirds class we enjoy building models using the large wooden bricks.

We all like to share, take turns and create models together. This is going to be our very own car.

Off we go on our adventure!

In Ladybirds class we are learning to read words, make words with magnetic letters and write words.

Learning to write sentences is fun too. We try very hard to form our letters correctly and keep our writing as neat as possible.

Here we are reading captions and matching them to the correct picture.

The First Christmas

Reception class performed ‘The First Christmas’ nativity play to all the children in school and to parents. We had lots of songs to learn and some of us had to speak and pretend to be different people. We wore special costumes, that was fun. We were very nervous but we loved it.

We hope you like our photographs.

Autumn

This half term our topic is Celebration. We have been learning all about the Hindu celebration Diwali. We discussed the story of Rama and Sita then made Diva Lamps.

Reception have experienced lots of fun and exciting activities when settling in to Sandy Lane. We have enjoyed exploring our new learning environment and making new friends along the way.

Summer One EYFS

The Worth Valley Railway

We enjoyed our day at the Worth Valley Railway. We dressed up as book characters.

We are enjoying looking at a map to see the train route.

Later we enjoyed playing in Haworth Park.

Gruffolo Crumble

We made Gruffolo Crumble using bananas, strawberries and blackberries.

We cut the fruit carefully and laid it in the baking tray.

We crushed biscuits to make the crumble topping and measured out all the ingredients to help bind it together.

We ate the Gruffolo Crumble with ice-cream, it was delicious.

Our Senses

In Reception we have been learning about our five senses. We have put our sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste to the test in a variety of exciting activities.

Taste

We tasted a variety of foods and used new vocabulary to describe them.

Bitter? Sweet? Salty? Sour?

Smell

We used our sense of smell to guess what was in the bowls. We were surprised at some of our findings!

Touch

We made fantastic collages using materials with different textures. We felt them carefully and described them before adding them to our pictures.

The Grand Finale!

To end our Senses topic, we worked together to make a crunchy, fruity Gruffolo Crumble! It was delicious!

Our First Christmas Production

Our first Nativity was a success!  We performed the First Christmas in front of a two packed audiences and enjoyed every minute!

We performed many songs and acted out the Nativity play after lots of hard work and practise. We concentrated hard and remembered the words to all the songs. We had been practising our lines at home and in rehearsals and made our teachers and parents very proud with our performances!