Blog by Tag: UTW

Today we began our topic of celebrations. We looked at what some different types of celebrations are and the children spent time discussing the celebrations they took part in. We then identified which pictures taken at various celebrations fit with the ones they celebrate eg if they celebrate…

This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We took part in our first Forest School session with Autumn activities. 
We enjoyed leaf threading, mud painting, collaging with natural materials and pumpkin cutting.

We talked about our sea sea and used them for hands on…

Today we looked at the signs of autumn and how we know the seasons are changing. We then went out and looked at the signs of autumn around our school. We saw brown and orange leaves, berries growing on the trees and also discussed the weather. 

Today we used the mirrors to talk about the different features we have. We identified what we looked like such as the colour of our hair, skin and eyes. 
We then looked at our partner and discussed what similarities we have, and what differences we have. 

We have learnt we all have the similar…

This week we enjoyed the play dough. We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the dough to make different features of our face. We then talked about our families and the children started to make their family members. 
We discussed is everyone the same? What makes us different? Is it ok to be…

This week we have been learning all about our families. Who is in our family?
We drew pictures from memory and with the support of some images from home of who is part of our family. 
We learnt everybody’s family is different. 

This week we have been learning about our emotions through the story ‘The Colour Monster’. We enjoyed reading the story and hearing about the different emotions we may feel. We talked about what things may make us feel a type of way and how we express our feelings. 

We have took part in lots of…

We have been exploring our different senses each week. This week we focused on our hearing. As a group we listened to potential sounds we would hear inside and outside. We loved guessing the sounds. We then went on a sound walk to see what we could hear. 

We explored squishing and stamping on…

This afternoon as part of our understanding the world topic, duck class have been on a walk around our local area. We discussed road safety and different human and physical features in Hanley. We even got to see some ducks! The children were so well behaved. 

We have began our topic ‘All About Me’ and we started by looking at our body parts and facial features. We loved using construction to make up our body and describing the different parts. We practised using our body parts to move in different ways during our PE lesson and used loose parts to make…

As part of our topic 'Me and My World', we learnt about the different features of a street. We looked at photographs of streets in Hanley, and identified features including roads, pavements, lampposts, traffic lights and roundabouts. We spoke about the role of these features and shared our own…

What a super morning we have had! We enjoyed a forest school experience for enrichment day and we have been doing lots of different activities.

We loved den building, using our imagination, problem solving skills and working together to make a den. We then enjoyed some hot chocolate in our…