Celebration of Our Learning

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)