Blog Author: Miss Jennings

We had such fun this afternoon using the leaves we collected on our autumn walk to create some leaf art work using paints and printing. We also used our hand clamp and hand drills to create leaf and conker bunting. We hope the squirrel from our book doesn’t think it’s us that has been stealing his…

We have really enjoyed our Leaf Thief book this week and ended it with a wonderful Autumnal walk around the village. We looked for signs of autumn spotting the beautiful colour changes on the trees and collecting leaves for our art work. We even spotted a squirrel who some of the children thought…

What a fantastic forest school session today. We harvested courgettes from our garden to create delicious courgette and chocolate muffins. We followed the recipe: stirring, mixing, grating and measuring and had so much fun. It was fantastic to use produce from our own garden.

Thank you to Mrs…

Our science topic this term is all about people who help us and this week we have focussed on the police. We became detectives and used our careful observation skills to study fingerprints. We had a mystery to solve - who stole Miss Jennings cup of tea? The culprit left a fingerprint on the mug,…

We have enjoyed exploring our phonics creatively this week building CVC words with play doh and magnetic tiles. The children have made such great progress.

We had a fantastic afternoon walking around Elford village today. We spotted key features of the village such as the village hall, the school and the park to tie in with our Marty Maps it Out book. We are looking forward to making some of our own maps now that we know the way around our village.

We have really enjoyed our topic this week exploring different jobs of people who help us. We especially enjoyed our visit from a local fireman who brought us some fire fighter uniforms and helmets to try on. We shared stories about fire safety and he taught us how to check our fire alarms and…

Our science topic has been all about people who help us. We have focussed this week on dentists and looked at how to keep our teeth healthy. We used an apple to represent our teeth piercing holes in it to show what could happen to the enamel  if we didn’t brush our teeth. The children made some…

We have now begun our phonics in class 1 exploring initial sounds in lots of fun ways. The children have demonstrated enthusiasm and great understanding - we are so proud of them.

Wow! 
What an incredible afternoon we had for our Splash Day!

We enjoyed a water slide, slip and slide, water games and an ice cream man! 
Thank you to our wonderful PTFA for organising such a fun filled event to celebrate our end of year!

We wish you all a wonderful summer!

We have enjoyed our maths this week. We explored shape through model making and creating vehicles. We also created some shape themed art work and used the hammers and boards to create pizza designs exploring shapes. We demonstrated great maths knowledge naming shapes and their features. We also…

We have had so much fun in forest school this afternoon. We brought our topic learning on extreme weathers into the forest creating turmeric sun paintings and summer wind sticks. What a fab afternoon.