Early Years News

What another fun-filled week we've had! We kicked things off by exploring St. Patrick’s Day, diving into all things rainbows and shamrocks. Along the way, we strengthened our creativity, maths, and fine motor skills while also deepening our understanding of the world. Our Talk for Writing journey with Stuck in the Mud continued, and at last, Daisy was set free—yippee! We had so much fun returning Daisy’s missing print after it magically disappeared and helping Farmer Tom feed his animals. In maths, we began exploring the concept of tall and short, introducing it through our song of the week, I'm a Little Bean. We put this into practice by threading beanstalks, building and comparing tower heights with our friends, and even creating our very own measuring chart to find out who is the tallest and shortest Acorn! We would also like to say a huge thank you for your efforts with our Comic Relief dress up - you all looked amazing!

This week in Reception, the highlight of our week was following instructions to make delicious and yummy honey sandwiches. The next day, we changed the ingredients, writing the instructions as if someone else was going to eat them. It was so much fun.  Suggesting weird and gross ingredients made everyone smile. My teachers are extremely impressed with how well we could change the class story map, making it our own and then reading it back to our friends. Everyone enjoyed listening to the creative twists we added, making the story even more exciting and unique.

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This week we have been busy exploring numbers in Year 1. We have learnt how to partition 2 digit numbers using base 10 and have learnt how to show our learning using part-whole models. Elsewhere in the curriculum, the children have enjoyed practising ball skills with Mr S, our visiting sports coach. They have been learning how to roll and throw the ball accurately and have been applying these skills to both kick-rounders and dodgeball. We are looking forward to our next PE sessions on Monday.

We have had a very busy week in Year 2, with lots of visitors and ending on a very fun dress up day for comic relief. The children had fun exploring how to measure different items using centimetres and metres, which turned in to a competition of which table could measure the most objects! We have also made butterfly feeders for the garden in Science and designed bookmarks and small bags in DT.

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Year 3 have had an amazing week working hard learning fractions, about how the earth is a giant magnet, and completing some excellent persuasive writing. The children have been fantastic in all areas, tackling some very tricky concepts and asking brilliant questions.  Seeing their faces light up when we created our own compass in class together was my highlight of the week for sure.  Well done Year 3.

Earlier this week, Year 4 had the opportunity to showcase their maths (our first lesson on fractions) and their PSHE (friendships) learning when our visitors dropped in on lessons. As always, the children were engaged and spoke very well about what they were learning.  We are looking forward to performing a selection of songs from Young Voices to year 4 parents next Tuesday afternoon. It has  been several weeks since we last sang the songs, yet, when we had an impromptu sing-through on Wednesday afternoon, it was as if we’d never had a break! 

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