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

Woodland Wednesday – spotting changes

We were delighted that the weather was a little milder for our Woodland Wednesday session this week and we headed outside. Children spotted new plants growing and we took photos of them to look at in class. We were worried that some of our friends throughout the school might stamp, stomp or step on the new plants so we got busy making signs to warn them about the new plants. We talked about what colours would be good for the signs and the images we could draw on the signs to help people understand.

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

Matching CAPITALS and lower case letters

In our phonics sessions this week we have been matching lower case and capital letters, in our woodland Wednesday session we searched for CAPITAL LETTERS and wrote the lowercase letter to match them using chalk.

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

The Four Seasons

We created calendar pictures, colour mixing paints to create the correct colours to help us add the leaves to a tree in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The class were inspired by an photographic image of the same deciduous tree in the 4 different seasons.

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

Super subitising

This week in our maths mastery sessions we have been focusing on subitising. We have been looking at linear groups and subitising within them, for example in a line of 4 dots we might explain that we can see 2 and 2. We have been focusing on what we can see, rather than counting. We were able to choose from lots of activities to help us develop that skill, making playdough cakes for the number blocks, playing dice games (making a snowman) matching the correct number of snowballs to a numicon shape, playing the subitising guessing game.

10 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.

10 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.

10 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

10 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.

10 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.