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7 March 2024

The Hungry Caterpillar Story Sequencing

For World Book Day we focused our learning around The Hungry Caterpillar. We read the story together and made a long, giant caterpillar with balloons! We then sequenced the story by putting the fruit onto the caterpillars tummy. 
We had so much fun and the children can talk in depth about our…

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7 March 2024

World Book Day

We enjoyed celebrating World Book Day today! We brought our favourite books to school and shared these with our buddy readers from Year 4. We also read the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and participated in role play to retell the story. During the afternoon, we created our own bookmarks to…

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20 February 2024

Exploring Our New RolePlay Area

This week we were introduced to a new role play area. The children recognised the logo straight away. “It’s Aldi”. 
They have loved using the trolleys, baskets and different props to support their play. They have created narratives collaboratively and acting out their experiences. It has been…

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7 February 2024

Writing Our Names!

We are beginning to write our names in nursery as we are now able to recognise them. We used our name cards to copy letters from our name. 
Super writing! 

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25 January 2024

Our First Trip!

Nursey had their first school trip this week and what an amazing time we had!

I just want to say how proud I am of the children, their behaviour and attitude on the trip were brilliant and they were very sensible and safe. 

We had the best time going on the minibus to the park and then…

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15 January 2024

Letter formation

Today in literacy we have been focusing on forming the letters c, an and o. We began by tracing the letters before having a go at forming them ourselves. This is a real focus currently as the children are building up to being able to write captions and full sentences. We love writing in reception!

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12 January 2024

Our First Week Back!

It has been a great first week back, it has been lovely to hear all about the children's break and what they have been getting up to. This week we have been settling back into our routines and recapping learning from last term. 

In maths we have been looking at numbers 0-4, we have recognised…

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9 January 2024

Red2Blue

We launched the Red2Blue initiative in school today. In Reception, we discussed what it means to have a 'red head' and a 'blue head'. We read the story 'My Monster and Me' and discussed ways that we can move from a red head to a blue head. We used a blue crayon to draw things that make us feel…

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21 December 2023

Christmas cards

We got creative by making our own Christmas/winter cards this week. We used a sponge to print paint on the front cover, creating the outline of a snowman. We then used glue to add finer details to our design. Inside our cards, we wrote a message to our loved ones. We can't wait to take them home…

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12 December 2023

Initial Sounds

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…

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5 December 2023

Literacy AL - Pre writing Shapes

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. 

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1 December 2023

Features of a book

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…

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