Blog by Tag: Communication and Language

Nursery have been working very hard on hearing the initial sound of their names. They can now do this and we have moved on to hearing the initial sound of a variety of words.

We have loved playing ‘Bertha the Bus’ in phonics and this has helped us to hear the first sound in…

We celebrated Christmas Jumper Day by coming to school in our Christmas/winter jumpers. We raised money for Save the Children - we discussed what this charity does and how our donations help others. As part of our Christmas Jumper Day celebrations, we designed our own Christmas jumpers, using a…

Today we raised money for ‘Save the Children’ charity by wearing our winter/Christmas Jumpers. The children loved taking part in festive activities and having Christmas lunch together. 

We discussed what a charity is and how the money will be used to help others. 

This week we have been learning all about weddings. The children through the week have looked at traditions and how different religions and cultures celebrate a wedding.
In Design and Technology this week we have used a range of different materials to create our own wedding outfits. 
The…

The children have been practising their pencil grips and pencil control to trace over different pre-writing shapes. They have also applied this independently within the provision. 
Brilliant concentration and determination. 

This week we have been reading one of our treasure stories ‘What About Me’. We listened to the story and took part in extended discussions about the characters and key events in the story. 
To begin with we discussed the two features of a book we have been focusing on - the title and…

The children have been learning all about shapes this week. We have been focusing on sorting  simple 2D shapes into groups. The children are focusing on recognising the shapes in different ways such as size and colour but knowing they are still the same shape represented in different ways. They…

This morning the children were showing a strong interest in the frosty morning. We discussed what we could see and feel this morning as a group and we then recapped previously taught knowledge of Autumn. 
We talked about Autumn having lots of different weather types over the month. 

We then…

Today in maths we have been exploring how to practically find two parts and name the whole up to 5. Some of us were also able to answer a reasoning question relating to the composition of numbers up to 5. We are super mathematicians!

We discussed the features of fiction and non-fiction texts. We found out that fiction books are made up stories containing fictional characters, whereas non-fiction books provide information and contain lots of facts about real things. After looking at some examples together, we worked in…

This week we have been learning all about babies. The children have brought in pictures of when they were babies and have loved looking at themselves, sharing these with their friends and discussing what they see. 

We started with a very Important question ‘Are we all the same?’ 

We talked…

Today we used freeze framing to re enact  key elements of the story. We then created a bank of questions to ask Plop and used this to complete our hot seating.