4 months ago
Posted on 10th Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Good Friends

In our PSED session on Tuesday we focused on “I wonder how I can be a good friend”, we talked about ways in which we can be a good friend and how we might make friends if we were struggling, we read a story called: Meesha makes friends. During activity time we make friendship spotting binoculars and spotted children in our class being good friends through them.

4 months ago
Posted on 09th Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

First day of school in 2026

We had a great first day back and settled back into school routines quickly. The snow excitement was great and we bought some snow activities inside – a snowman dice game to help us recall our tricky words, painting snow men and snow ball sorting. At break times we got to go out and explore the snow! We also enjoyed sharing a new Talk for Writing book Mr Gumpy’s outing – we used the small world items to help us retell the story. We also made some “Happy New Year” cards in the writing workshop. In the afternoon we talked about different vehicles and sorted them according to where they travel – on road, on grass, on tracks, in the air or on water.

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

National Tree week

As part of national tree week we read a book about an ever green tree: The Christmas Pine. We looked at the shape of the tree, we searched for ever green trees in Forest Schools and deciduous trees and talked about the differences. We then made our own ever green trees by weaving pieces of ever green between elastic bands, we also made some Christmas decorations from ever green trees. Some of us planted some willow that we had been keeping in water so it would grow roots, we are hoping that it will establish it’s self over winter and then grow in the Spring and Summer

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Traveling, jumping and landing safely

During Autumn Term PE lessons we learnt skills of traveling, jumping and landing safely.

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Remembrance Day

Back in November Reception learnt about why we wear poppies at that time of year. We walked to the War memorial and laid a poppy wreath that we had made altogether.

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Junk modeling

We made our own junk models and learnt about different ways to attach items to boxes etc.

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Christmas themed fun and learning

In the run up to Christmas most of our learning was Christmas themed, we wrote stories about a Little Red Elf and a lost toy, we painted Christmas trees and drew Christmas trees (inspired by the stories: The Christmas Pine and Pick a Pine Tree), we played Rudolph beetle drive with tricky words and spot arrangements on a dice, we played lots of counting games, did Christmas jigsaws played Christmas describing games, wrote lots of Christmas cards. We also played Christmas snap, made Christmas repeating patterns on bracelets, on paper chains and made Candy canes. We enjoyed reading lots of Christmas books and listened to Christmas stories on the audio book player. We also enjoyed lots of dressing up as Christmas characters and helping the Little Red Elf to solve problems like: sorting out the Christmas gifts for the Numberblocks and working out what was in some of the Christmas parcels.

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Making Christmas cakes

We read the story of Lucy and Tom’s Christmas and were inspired to make our own Christmas cakes using a traditional recipe. We followed Mrs Noden’s Grandmother’s cake recipe and worked in teams to do different jobs, grating orange zest, measuring the dry ingredients, cracking eggs, creaming the butter and sugar together and chopping cherries. We all had a go at mixing the

cake 8 times and making a Christmas wish as we mixed. We spooned the mixture into bean cans and Mrs Noden took them home to bake. The next day we put marzipan and icing on the top and wrote a gift tag for the cakes so we could give them to a loved one.

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Making Christmas decorations

For our final Forest Schools session of the year we were sent a bag of items to help us make our own Christmas decorations for the tree, we drilled holes in wooden disks and then used paint to make a thumb print snowman.

4 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2026 by Emma Noden

Making Christmas trees outdoors

…made a Christmas tree
From sticks upon the ground.
She/he laid them in a triangle shape
Right where they were found.

It wasn’t tall or glittery
But everyone could see
Christmas magic still appears
In every kind of tree.

In our woodland in early December, we made Christmas trees using natural fallen resources. We counted to make sure we had at least 10 sticks each and talked about the length of our sticks using the language of long, short, longer, shorter, longest and shortest. We tried hard to place our sticks in order according to their length to help us to form a Christmas tree shape.

Mrs Johnson and Mrs Clasper witnessed some excellent teamwork, collaboration and giggles as we reflected on our creations. Enjoy looking at our photographs.