Jack and the Beanstalk

This week the children were sent a tough challenge by a mysterious giant! They got stuck in measuring plenty of objects, trying to figure out if they were bigger or smaller than the giants foot. 

The children also explored a variety of beans looking for similarities…

The Three Little Pigs 

This terms topic of Traditional Tales saw us seeing in the New Year reading the 'Three Little Pigs'. The children have loved reading this book; they got very into character and ended up creating their own dramatic performances! It was great to see them having fun and…

Reception had so much fun at their Christmas Party this year with DJ Kellet. 
There was lots of dancing, party games, prizes and yummy food too! 

Take a look at some of the children's fabulous dance moves.. 

On Tuesday 13th December the whole of KS1 were treated with a visit to the pantomine.
They went to see Aladdin at the Grand Theatre and it was wonderful!

The children had a good giggle at wishy washy getting soaked in the laundrette and gave their loudest 'Booooo' to the evil Jafar. 

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Christmas arrived in Reception this week and the children have had a ball decorating the tree and wrapping presents! 

They have written tonnes of christmas cards and lots of christmas lists for santa, we even wrote some creative sentences about what we would do if we got stuck in a…

We received a very exciting letter in Reception this week.
It was from Stickman and he needed our help!
He asked us to complete many challenges that involved measuring, testing materials and building him a new house! 

Take a look and see what we created for him and how we did it...

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The children had a ball singing and dancing to our favourite christmas songs with Spellbinder on Thursday!
He took us on a magical journey with a russian granny, Rudolf and ofcourse Father Christmas. 

Phoenix and Joey also took a special role in the celebratory parade for Rudolph, great fun…

Reception were given the challenge of making their own snowmen and snowdogs this week! They could only use materials found in their classroom and there were some very inventive ideas.
Who knew Numicon shapes would make brilliant buttons? 
 

The Reception Team 

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This week in reception the children made their own snowman and snowdog! 

They wanted to make their own versions of the characters since reading the story 'The snowman and the snowdog' last week and they have done a brilliant job!
The new 'snowy' members of the reception team have been named…

This week the children have been enjoying the story 'The Snowman and the Snowdog'! It is a very lovely story about a snowman who comes to life at night and has led to lots of creative learning. The children made winter snowflakes and winter scenes for our snowmen, they made igloo's for our snowmen…

Miley and Marshall brought frosty leaves that they found on their way into school this week and the children just loved finding their own out on the playground! 

The frosty weather has also led to some great discussion in the classroom. We used our talk partners to discuss our own experiences…

On Monday the children enjoyed exploring and investigating ice in the ice tray. 
We engaged in lots of exciting discussion around melting and what happens when we heat ice. We also discussed which animals like to live in cold habitats and Miley told us that 'Polar Bears live in the arctic'!
The…