Police Officer Visit
To support our PSHE learning about future career aspirations, Tansy were visited by a police officer called Ian this morning. Ian discussed the role of a police officer with the children and showed them his handcuffs, baton, police helmet, hat and radio. The children thought of some super…
The Magic Paintbrush
Tansy class are currently reading the book, The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson. This week, we received our very own magic paintbrush with a letter from Shen asking us to use it to do good for the poor. The children had some lovely ideas of what to paint such as houses, money and food. They…
Chinese New Year
Tansy have been learning about Chinese New Year celebrations this week. Today, to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year we cooked some traditional Chinese food. The children chopped the vegetables and enjoyed tasting them raw before we cooked them with noodles and beansprouts.
The Big School Birdwatch
Tansy were very excited to use the binoculars they made last week to look for birds this afternoon as we enjoyed participating in The Big School Birdwatch! To help entice the birds to our garden, we hung cheerio birdfeeders in the trees. The children then enjoyed looking for the birds photographed…
Christmas Jumper and Dinner Day!
What a blast we had in our Christmas jumpers and enjoying the fabulous roast dinner the kitchen made for us! A huge thank you for your donations towards our charity for this year.
Explorer Dome
We had the BEST time in the explorer dome this morning! Ben and Amy taught us about different light sources and explained that some need electricity to work. We enjoyed looking at and touching a plasma ball to develop our understanding of what electricity is. Ben then showed us how to create…
Cowslip - Fun in the explorer dome!
Cowslip had a great time in the explorer dome today. We listened carefully as we travelled around planet earth and learnt about the different habitats within it. We were transported to the rainforest, desert, and the arctic and we even got rained on! We talked about why the different animals were…
Buttercup's adventures in the Explorer Dome
This morning Buttercup travelled around planet Earth exploring different habitats. We looked at animals in the rainforest and were even rained on! We talked about how much life rainforests support and the damage being done to them through deforestation. We then explored the desert and how…
The Twinkly Nativity
Thank you to everybody who came to watch our performance of, The Twinkly Nativity!
I am sure you will all agree that the children were absolutely fantastic! We all had so much fun learning the songs, Makaton signs and rehearsing for our performance, and I am so incredibly proud of all the…
Blue Lantern Parade
Today we held our very own blue lantern parade to celebrate the night spirits that we learned about through or literacy focus story, Ning and the Night Spirits. The children waved streamers and wore hats they'd made over the past few weeks and some of the children played musical instruments too.…
The Hay Bale Hotel!
We were so incredibly proud of them all for showing such courage and enthusiasm, resulting in the most spectacular show! A huge thank you for your support.
The Christmas Story...
Today, the children visited our local church to complete a workshop about the Christmas Story. The children worked their way around the different stations, with each one being a different part of the story that Christians believe in.
The was also a great opportunity to learn about their place…