Class 1

Today in Prime Time Nursery worked on their fine motor and mark making skills. We explored drawing different shapes. This is helping us to develop our pencil control and grip. 

We are loving using the monster phonics colours and characters to learn and write the high frequency words! 

We have been flying like eagles with our reading in reception! We have enjoyed hunting and reading sounds and high frequency words outside! 

Ralph joined Class One for Monster Phonics today! They were all very responsible, caring and gentle when Ralph visited today. 

Reception have been flying like eagles this half term in their monster phonics sessions. They are learning the alphabet sounds, developing their sounding out and blending skills to help them read simple words, and they are learning how to read tricky and high frequency words! 

This week we…

Class one have been flying like eagles today learning about the senses! We went on a sensory walk, talk about and recorded what we felt, saw, heard, tasted and smelt using drawings and initial sounds. We also tasted different foods today, explored the lavender sensory rice, made our own shaker and…

Today we visited Packington Farm! We had a super time learning about sheep, pigs, farm machinery and crops. We also got to take part in lots of exciting outdoor learning activities like building dens for animals, and creating pictures using natural materials. We were very responsible throughout…

Today we learnt more about God the creator! We read the creation story and discussed it together. We talked about our favourite parts of God’s world and what if God had not created some of the special things in the world like plants. We would have no food! Then class one flew like eagles as they…

This week we have been learning all about the body! Nursery have been enjoying building the body and also taking part in roel play in our doctors surgery! We have been learning new vocabulary like skeleton, frame and muscles. 

Reception have been learning about the sounds s,a,t and p in monster phonics this week. They have been flying like eagles and choosing to practice writing the letters for these sounds in their learning through play time. 

We had a lovely walk in the sunshine this afternoon over to St Mary’s church. We explored the church garden, smelt the flowers, looked at the tall trees and felt the old, stone walls of the church building. We also had a very responsible conversation about road safety along the way and the…

In dance and drama today the theme was friendship! We retold the story of The Smartest Giant in town through role play. We discussed how the Giant was a good friend. “He was kind.” “He shared his things.” We also listened to and sang you’ve got a friend in me. There was lots of super participation…