Blog Author: Mrs Coleman Harris

The week commencing Monday 3rd February we are going to be learning more about the story of Hansel and Gretel! We will read the traditional tale and also an alternative version of the story. We will sequence the story, read and match sentences to the pictures in sequence and retell the story. We…

In forest school we created dancing sticks for Chinese New Year! We used them to create a dragon dance and we created our own dances using our sticks to make patterns in the air. We had so much fun and we worked as a team! 

Today we cooked noodles in the wok and then tried them for snack time. We also tried delicious prawn crackers (That melt on your tongue!) and crunchy fortune cookies! 

We created a giant dragon head and then used it to create a dragon dance for Chinese New Year! We had lots of fun creating the dragon and dancing as a team! 

The week commencing Monday 27th January we are going to be learning more about winter! We will explore and observe ice, we will design and write about our own snowman (We are hoping snow will come soon so that we can build our own!), we will also sequence and talk about what happens to a snowman…

On Thursday 6th February we are holding a parent stay and play in Class One from 9am until 9:45am. Please come along and join your child in learning through lots of wonderful play based activities. We look forward to seeing you there!

We have been using our creative skills today and we have been creating our own winter scene! The best thing was we were in them, dr weed in our winter accessories! We used cotton wool, foil, cotton buds, glitter, paint and a variety of other tools and materials to create our winter scenes. They…

The week commencing Monday 20th January we are learning all about Chinese New Year! We will learn about the celebration, traditions and the story of The Great Race surrounding the celebration. We will draw and write about Chinese dragons, use ordinal language to discuss what place the animals come…

Today we learnt about the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000! We were amazed at the story. We talked about what the left over food could be used for and we came up with some very thoughtful ideas. We made our own bread today and we have made extra to share at snack time tomorrow. 

We have been learning about what happened to the baby in the manger and God's rescue mission. Today we listened to how Jesus calmed the stormy seas. Then we made our own boats and used small world to retell the events. We used super creativity and our imaginatios! Elsa even came along and…

The week commencing Monday 13th January we are going to be learning all about winter! On Monday we will go for a winter walk around Colton. We will look at the changes to the environment and talk about changes throughout the seasons. We will also create winter songs and perform them with…

This week Class One will be thinking about the big question 'what happened to the baby in the manger?'

We will learn about the miracles, teachings and parables that Jesus shared. We will read about how Jesus fed the 5000, how he calmed the seas and how he healed the sick. We will take part in…