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Today we showed Miss Mayer how we hold our pencils and how many of the pre-writing shapes we can complete. This is something we will be working on over the year as it will help us in so many ways. When colouring we will learn new types of lines to represent objects. people and animals and it will…

In our Daily Maths sessions this week, we have been learning number rhymes. We practised singing 'Five Little Speckled Frogs', 'Five Little Ducks' and 'Five Little Monkeys'. We used our fingers to represent numbers within five as we sang along to each song. We are becoming more confident when…

Sharks proved their understanding of staying safe online by playing and creating games where we collected safe online content such as firewalls and avoided dangerous items such as PEGI 18.

Today we’ve had our first gymnastics lesson. We learnt all different gymnastic shapes including the pike, squat and dish. We had great fun practising our new skills!

We loved free colouring today! We could choose to draw anything we wanted. Miss Mayer was super impressed with how many colours we knew and how we could communicate our interests. We looked at what hand the crayons felt comfortable in and how we correctly hold a pencil/crayon.

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We had a wonderful first week in Reception! We enjoyed exploring our new environment, and had lots of fun both indoors and outdoors. We have also spent time getting to know each other, creating new friendships!

Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed their first art lesson of the year!we learnt about using our whole body to draw, then practised this drawing spirals outside. It was great to see them choosing to work together to create multicoloured spirals too!

Sharks creating model hearts using a plastic cup, balloon and water with red food colouring. Our favourite part was when the blood splurged out of the blood vessels (straws!)

Today we had lots of fun role playing and freeze framing our new story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children all got into role and thought about the actions and behaviours of each of they characters. 

Today we voted for our first class text. We chose 4 different books, read the titles and blurbs and then had a post it note to vote for the one we wanted to read. We can’t wait to read Dave the Pigeon every day after our lunchtime break with Mrs Myatt :) 

Our first 3 days in Nursery were so fun! We met our new teachers, made new friends and explored all of the different areas in our classroom and outside!

I hope you all had as much fun as I did and I can't wait to see you for our first full week on Monday. 

Wow, for enrichment morning, we have created some incredible Zentangle patterns. We have enjoyed learning all about these patterns and having a go at drawing our own. I must say we have some very talented artists!