In phonics we have been exploring rhymes. We have been distinguishing between different words and continuing rhyming strings. We have listened to some of our favourite rhyming stories, such as The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom and Some Dogs Do. We gave each other silly rhyming names, and created our own silly rhymes such as […]
Read MoreChildren’s Mental Health Week 3-9th February 2020
HELP US Spread the Word Children’s Mental Health Week is run by children’s mental health charity to focus on the importance of looking after our emotional wellbeing from an early age. This year’s theme is ‘ ‘.Place2Be Find your Brave Bravery comes in all shapes and sizes and is different for everyone. Bravery can be […]
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In phonics we have been exploring body percussion. We have been distinguishing between different body sounds and trying to create patterns of sounds. We have also been learning words to describe different sounds and distinguishing between long/short, fast/slow and loud/quiet sounds. In maths we been learning about the composition of numbers 1-5, and we have […]
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It has been a delight to welcome the Nursery children back this week. We have thoroughly enjoyed hearing all about their Christmas holidays and sharing what they got up to during news time. In phonics we have been recapping our listening skills. We know that to be a good listener you should keep your lips […]
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What a beautiful way to start the day! The children sang with such enthusiasm and spoke so clearly. It was wonderful to see each and everyone of them contribute to the telling of ‘The Christmas Story’. Thank you to Una, Suzanne, Jane, Miss Pavlou, our nursery children and their families for making this such a […]
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This week we have been using our phonic knowledge to write some Christmas cards. We have practised writing ‘To’ and ‘From’ and our names. We have also sounded out ‘mum’ and ‘dad’ and had a go at writing those too. We designed some of our own Christmas cards, and have been really improving our scissor […]
Read MoreLetters to Santa
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And the excitement of Santa’s upcoming visit is in the minds of many of the children in school! This week, all the children in nursery, reception and year 1 took part in writing letters to Santa Claus! They either wrote asking for what they wanted for Christmas, […]
Read MoreBook in a Box Day
We were delighted to see such a wonderful collection of ‘Books in boxes’ throughout the school on Monday. Books were celebrated in classrooms right from Nursery up to Year 6. Some of the children (and parents!) had clearly spent a long time creating imaginative scenes or landscapes from the stories that they had read. Other […]
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This week in phonics we have been learning about the initial sounds in words. We played ‘I spy’ and had to spy people using the first sound in their names. We have also been sorting lots of different objects by their initial sounds, and the children are becoming more and more confident to say what […]
Read MoreBook in a Box Celebration!!
On 2nd December, we will be holding a ‘book in a box’ day. We are asking the children to bring in a shoebox with several items that represent a book, or a scene from book, that they have read recently. This is not a competition and there will be no winners on the day, but […]
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