Chinese New Year
We celebrated Chinese New Year by listening to the story of the animal race and tasting some Chinese food. We liked the prawn crackers! We all took home a Fortune Cookie and a lucky money envelope and Chinese coin.
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Pancake Day!
We learned that Pancake Day used to be a way of using up all the left-over ingredients in the cupboard and we decided to make pancakes to celebrate the day. Kelly was very busy – she helped us all to ‘have a go’, weighing and adding the ...
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Early Literacy Family Workshop
Our Family Workshop was attended by lots of parents, grandparents and relatives who joined in with all the activities, both indoors and outside. There was plenty to choose from and learning about letters and sounds was great fun. It was a very busy day an...
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OFSTED Inspection March 2018
We are pleased that our OFSTED Short Inspection Report has been published on the OFSTED website and you may read it there now, if you wish. We hope that you received your copy and that are all as pleased as we are with the outcome. We are very grateful th...
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Closure due to snow!
Unfortunately, the weather has defeated us all over the last week. We had a faulty boiler on Monday and it was absolutely freezing in school with temperatures well below freezing. Then came the snow! We were undecided about closing initially because there...
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Animals in Hands
We had a visit today, Thursday 22nd March, from Mo and all his amazing animals from ‘Animals in Hands’. It was a fabulous day and we all enjoyed finding out what the animals eat and how to care for them. We handled a beautiful orange corn snak...
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Lola’s listening walk
This week Lola our listening leopard had a challenge for us. She asked us to use our listening ears outside to listen to the sounds we could hear and then tell our teachers what we thought made the sound. One child commented ‘I heard the wind.̵...
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Making a tent
We had another lovely Forest School session last week and the children were all very busy. Some children wanted to make a den/tent. The adults followed the children’s ideas and supported them in tying ropes to make a structure. One child commented &...
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Leaf hammering
This week in Forest School we have used a tool! The children listened to the adults as they talked about the hammer, showing them the different parts, how to use it safely and what we were using it for. The children picked a leaf from the forest floor and...
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