3 months ago
Posted on 24th Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Music

This term we are having a break from penny whistle lessons, this week we explored the glockenspiels. We identified the pulse in a piece of music and then tried to play along with a simple piece of music.

3 months ago
Posted on 24th Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Moving around the apparatus

This week in our gymnastics session we explored different ways of moving over the apparatus

3 months ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Bike day

On Tuesday we bought in our bikes and scooters to school. We learnt about how to be safe on our bikes and how we can ride safely, especially when there are other riders around. We used road signs, pedestrian crossings and traffic lights. In the afternoon we also looked at art work inspired by bike wheels and drew our own versions of them.

3 months ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Broom and den making

The fairies wrote to us about a vehicle that we had not thought of for Mr Gumpy’s journey – a broom! The told us that these were easy to make in forest schools and they left us the string to make them. They also left us a book called “Winnie’s broomstick”. Some of us made broom sticks and some of us helped make a den, working together and thinking about cooperation which we had learnt about in our PSED session on Monday.

3 months ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Year of reading for pleasure

2026 is the year of reading for pleasure! Reception class has kick started the year with a year of new books; there are 12 books wrapped up one for each month of the year. We will open one book per month.

3 months ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Bicycles in the past

On Tuesday we bought our bikes into school, in the afternoon we compared our bikes to photos of bikes from the past. We talked about the similarities and also the differences. Children identified that wheels were different, paint colours, that really old bikes had wheels made from metal. We learnt new vocabulary such as saddle, hand bars.

3 months ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Climates around the world

This week we have been learning about hot, cold and warm climates around the world. We located North and South pole regions in relation to the equator. Children then used an atlas to locate countries in a cold, hot and warm climate on the map. Some children completed world jigsaws and some children traced a world map.

3 months ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Colour mixing

Class 2 has been exploring colour mixing, they have made colour wheels and then used the skills that they learnt through this to create concentric circle art work. They have created some very effective pieces of art work.

3 months ago
Posted on 20th Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Learning about cooperation

In our weekly PSED session we helped Ziggy solve a problem he was having with his friend Zaggy. They both wanted to use the wooden blocks to build but they wanted to build different things, what could they do? We read a book called “Together we can” which helped us to think about how we can work together (like our school learning power – TEAM ANT) to achieve a goal. During our afternoon exploring session we looked for lots of great cooperation happening in the classroom, especially at tidy up time.

4 months ago
Posted on 16th Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Living and non living

We have started a new unit of science learning this half term about living things. We learnt about Mrs Gren who helps us to remember all the life processes and we also looked at: living, not living any longer and has never been alive. Miss Manton put a selection of items on our table and asked us to sort them according to whether they were: living, not living any longer and have never been alive.