Celebration of Our Learning

Reception have been learning how to be artists. They made sketch books and took them on walks. They learnt how to manipulate clay. Some children made cups, some made sculptures and some experimented with pushing objects into clay. (May 2026)

In Drawing club, we have drawn the characters and settings from our class stories. We drew the cave from Superworm. We wrote about what Superworm might be saying. We invented something to help Superworm find treasure in the soil. We wrote sentences about our inventions. We have been learning to use finger space, full stops and trying hard to start our sentences with a capital letter.  (May 2026)

In R.E, we have been exploring the Creation Story from the bible. In one R.E session, we read the story 'Paper Dolls' by Julian Donaldson and thought about what we like to create. We spoke about how important it is to look after things we have created and why Christians believe we should take care of Gods world. Pupils worked in a team to create posters about being respectful and looking after nature.

In another R.E session, children talked about who they like to speak with when they are excited, sad or worried. They learnt that Christians pray to God. They then wrote their own prayer. (May 2026)

We have also enjoyed the story 'Dinosaur Police'. In Drawing Club, we drew our own dinosaur police and wrote sentences about them. We also learnt how to write a list. We listed some of the equipment our dinosaur police would need. (March 2026)

To Celebrate World book day this year, we had a visit from an author we love. They taught us how to draw a character from their story and later we wrote sentences about how the character might be feeling during our "Drawing Club" time. (March 2026)

As part of our People Who Help Us topic, we have had some special visitors. We had a visit from our Local Firefighters, the Police and a Sonographer. We had lots of questions to ask our visitors. (March 2026)

Cake for the mayor- in our story, 'Dinosaur Firefighter', the Mayors cake was ruined. We drew a new cake for the mayor in Drawing Club and wrote sentences. (March 2026)

Each half term, the children explore baking. This half term the children drew a dinosaur cookie design and then followed a recipe to create vegan cookie dough. With the help of some parents, the children rolled their dough flat and cut out their cookie shape. They were delicious! (February) 

One of our new materials this half term in Plasticine. This is a little tricker to manipulate than playdough and it really helps to strengthen our fingers!  The children enjoyed creating volcanoes, fossils, nests and dinosaurs.  During our creative sessions, the children decide if they would like to work standing or sitting, exploring what is most comfortable for them as they create! (February 2026)

As part of our Brilliant Beast Topic, we learnt about the job of a Palaeontologists. We looked closely at fossils and created observation drawings using a range of mediums. Exploring Wax Resist - the children used white oil pastels to draw fossils and were fascinated to see what happened when they painted over the top with watercolour paint. Science in action! (February 2026)

In maths, the children have been learning all about different compositions of numbers up to 5. They are also practising matching the numerals to the amounts and are working hard on their numeral formation. They have worked hard to order numbers as they explore more and less. (January 2026)

Reception had a very exciting visit! We had a Reptile handler in. The children thought of lots of questions to ask the Reptile Handler. They noticed how each reptile was different and used lots of lovely language such as "spikey", "scaley" and "sharp." One of the lizards was very jumpy. The children were very brave and had a go at carefully holding them. (January 2026)

Our new Topic is Brilliant Beasts, in drawing club the children have been drawing dinosaurs characters from our stories, settings and helping the dinosaurs to solve problems- such as deciding what a herbivore should have for lunch! The children are learning to write words and that our letters go in a line. (January 2026)