W.C 06.01.2025

This week the children found a helmet and some boots in the classroom. They discovered they belonged to a firefighter! Activities this week included drawing themselves as a fire cadet, labelling equipment and building fire engines. The fire cadets underwent special training led by Chief Flame which involved changing into uniform, equipment carrying and physical health checks. DANGER is near…

The children did lots of learning surrounding winter, extending their vocabulary using Grandma Fantastic’s basket and writing their own winter words with support. They loved playing outdoors in the frost and exploring the concepts of freezing and melting. They even made their own ice!

They have been doing lots of handwriting and fine motor activities this week to further develop their control for writing, as well as building CVC words and have been working very hard at this!

WC 13.01.25

This week the children have continued their mantle story by listening and responding to an emergency phone call. The children learnt about fire safety and what appliances are likely to cause a fire if not dealt with carefully! The cadets made sure they had everything ready for their journey; fire engines, equipment and even a car wash to clean the dirty trucks! They built the old lady’s house and drew flames to continue the narrative outside. They embarked on their journey and saved the old lady, but are worried about how she might feel now her house is destroyed…

The children have practiced handwriting the letters c, o, a and d on whiteboards, as well as through writing activities in their provision. They have practiced building and writing CVC words, as well as identifying sounds within words they want to write. We have started reading ‘Where the Wild Things are’ for our literacy and the children have enjoyed writing their own words to describe the wild things and the sounds they might make.

In maths the children have enjoyed singing songs that represent one more and one less, as well as exploring the composition of numbers to 5 using cubes and counters.

The children were amazing in their first swimming session and learnt how to enter and exit the pool safely!

W.C 20.01.24

What a fantastic week! We have continued our mantle by thinking about the old lady’s feelings and writing our own thought bubbles. The children have also learnt about the Great Fire of London by looking at and describing old paintings. We discovered a lot of differences between the past and now!

We have continued reading Where the Wild Things are in our literacy sessions and written positive emotion sentences to describe Max. We also came up with dance words to recreate the wild rumpus and make our own music!

In maths this week the children have explored the concepts heavy and light using loose parts and weighing scales. They have also explored the capacity of different containers using objects, sand and water, as well as making comparisons.

The children are working so hard on their phonics and reading, please don’t forget to access their books at home so they can continue to practice.

W.C 27.01.24

What a busy week! The children have continued their mantle story with a new emergency; a cat is stuck up a tree! The children thought of important questions to ask the owner and discussed what equipment would be the most useful. When the team arrived at the emergency, the cat became scared of all the noise and climbed higher and deeper into the tree! The children worked in teams to gather ideas of how to lure it back down, I wonder whether they will work…

The children loved celebrating and learning all about Chinese New Year (the year of the snake) this week and enjoyed lots of different activities such as writing Chinese numbers to 10, making playdough snakes and paper lanterns!

In literacy, the children finished reading ‘Where the Wild Things are’ and considered different ways that Max could say goodbye to the wild things.

In maths, the children explored the numbers 6,7 and 8 and continued learning of one more and one less using counters and dice faces. Ask your child to sing the one man went to mow song!

The children have also loved learning more about the Great Fire of London, particularly looking at the different equipment and considering what it might have been used for.

W.C 3.02.25

This week the children have continued their mantle by successfully luring the cat down the tree, only to find it was badly cut in the stomach! The firefighters made a phone call to the vets and were asked to bring it in right away! Please visit our mantle page to see our exciting mantle journey!

The children have been learning about odd and even numbers as well as finding and making doubles in practical ways.

We started a new literacy story this week, the rainbow fish! The children loved coming up describing the beauty of its colourful scales and writing action sentences to describe how the fish move.

The children have been working hard on their letter formation, this week focusing on the letters e j y and f.

W.C 24.02.25

What an amazing first week back it has been! The children have begun their new mantle all about Fairy Tales by exploring a range of different stories, creating a map of Fairy Tale Land and being introduced to the Mayor of Fairy Tale Land. Please see our Mantle page to read more about what we have been up to!

In Maths exploring and comparing length and height, being introduced to vocabulary long, short and tall. They have explored these concepts physically by making playdough snakes, measuring each other, and building lego towers! They have also been exploring the composition of numbers to 10 using the '5 and a bit' structure and making their own staircases to 10.

The children have been practicing their formations of numbers 2,3,5 and 7 and applying these during their provision.

We started our new Geography topic 'A Place called Home' by looking through family photos and identifying similarities and differences between them. We discovered that families can look very different from one another! We also looked at features of different homes within the UK; flats, bunglows, semi-detached/terraced houses etc. This allowed for lots of sharing and discussion about our own homes. Thank you very much for everyone who sent in family photos, the children loved speaking about them!

W.C 3.03.24

It has been a great week! The children have continued their mantle by forming a team of Fairy Tale Problem Solvers. We have discussed everything that a HQ should include, such as paper, pencils, telephones, laptops and magnifying glasses and used this to turn our own role play areas into one! Activities have also included drawing ourselves as a problem solver, creating a team badge and writing down the thoughts of the villagers. Please visit our Mantle page to see more!

In Maths we have learnt about time and how we can order and sequence it. The children enjoyed exploring what activities they could complete in 30 seconds, as well as sequencing daily activities on a weekly timetable. They have been exploring the composition of numbers 9 and 10, as well as sorting representations of 9 and 10 into groups.

On Thursday it was World Book Day! The children loved bringing in their favourite stuffed animals and sharing stories with them. We did lots of fun activities based around stories, such as making bookmarks, drawing our favourite book characters and coming up with our own poem! Please visit the facebook page to read more about the day.

W.C 10.03.2025

It has been a busy week! The Fairy Tale Problem Solvers had a meeting with the Mayor to ask their questions; What has the troll done wrong? Why are the villagers scared of him? What does the troll look like? Please see our mantle page to see more of what we have been up to this week!

The children have continued the topic of fairy tales by learning new descriptive vocabulary for both a troll and a princess. They then wrote their own descriptive sentences, some remembering to include capital letters, finger spaces and full stops!

In maths they have continued their work on numbers to 10 by representing 9 and 10 in different ways, including actions! They have further explored 1 more and 1 less using the stem sentence; 1 more/less than ... is ... and using a range of resources to show this.

W.C 17.03.25

This week the children began to plan their journey to visit the troll. They used map skills and directional language to write an instruction sentence. More details about the journey can be found on our Mantle page.

In maths this week, the children explored number bonds to 10 by making arrangements of small world objects in their play. They were able to identify the ways that number 10 can be separated into 2 or 3 parts and begin to use these within a simple number sentence.

In handwriting, the children have practiced writing pairs of letters from the abracadabra family and using the correct spacing.

W.C 24.03.25

This week in Mantle, the team have planned what they will pack on their journey to the troll, drawing and labelling these inside their backpacks. They considered how they could travel across the river and decided we need to build a boat! First, we needed to test which materials would be best to build a boat out of, so we conducted our own science experiment to see which were waterproof and which were not.

In maths, the children have made doubles and odd and even numbers using counters and 10 frames. They have started to identify the connections between even numbers and doubles using practical resources.

The children have also practiced writing target pairs; ll,lt,li,lu, using the correct letter height and finger spaces to separate pairs. They have worked so hard at this!

The children in RA have loved watching cosmic yoga and practicing mindfulness!

W.C 31.01.25

The children continued with their boat making this week. they explored which materials sink and which float and used this to make their own boat designs! At the end of the week the children started to create their own boats, reading for testing next week!

In literacy this week, the team started their journey to the troll, by trekking through the long wavy grass. They observed the sounds and feelings of the grass on a bright , sunny day and used these to create their own descriptions. 

In maths this week the children have learnt all about 3D shapes, identifying 2D shapes within them, identifying their properties and searching for them in the natural environment.

Thank you so much to everyone who attended the maths workshop this week. Your children loved showing you what they can do!