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Friday 21st September

21st September 2023 By francesstephenson

It’s been a super busy week in EYFS. Here is a little snippet of what we’ve been up to…

Nursery

This week nursery have been focusing on ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. After reading the story, the children matched and sorted objects by size – large objects for Daddy Bear, medium-sized objects for Mammy Bear and small objects for Baby Bear.

They have also enjoyed singing ‘When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears’.

Nursery have continued to enjoy their Welly Wednesday sessions. This week the children have been exploring a variety of seeds and leaves that have fallen in the wind such as sycamore seeds.

The children have used their fine motor skills to peg the tarp to the rope to create a den. Some children decided to collect sticks and leaves to create a den for animals such as rabbits.

Moreover, the children have been listening carefully to sounds they could hear in our forest area. They heard lots of noises such as passing cars, birds and the wind!

Reception

Reception began their phonics lessons this week. Mrs Bryant and Miss Dawson have been so proud of the children’s fantastic efforts when reading and writing words. Keep it up!

It has been lovely to see children independently accessing maths activities in provision this week. A particular favourite has been a game of ‘snap’, spotting the matching pictures before their peers.

Well done everyone.

Mrs Bryant, Miss Dawson, Mrs Walker & Mrs Troy.

Filed Under: Blog Reception 2023-2024

Friday 22nd September

21st September 2023 By francesstephenson

Another week of working hard and learning lots of new things in Year 1!

In RE we have been looking at a Psalm and as a class we came up with our own prayer in response. We thought about all of the things that we are thankful for and said thank you to God.

In English we started to explore a new book called ‘Aaaarrgghh Spider’. Mrs Daniels and Mrs Days were both a little bit nervous about reading it in case a spider jumped out, but thankfully it didn’t. We will be doing lots of writing next week about it!

In Maths we have been learning how to spell the numbers up to ten as words. We have been using our fabulous phonics to help us!

We have started a new Geography topic and we are leaning all about cities, in particular Durham. Lots of children were excited to tell me all about visits they have had to Durham.

We are looking forward to another busy week next week!

Mrs Daniels, Mrs Days and Mrs Walker

Filed Under: Blog Class 1 2023-2024

Friday 15th September

15th September 2023 By francesstephenson

Another week has whizzed by in Year 2!

In writing, we have been exploring Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  We have listened carefully to hear how adjectives can be used to describe and then created our own descriptions.

Look at this amazing writing from Esther and Emily. We really liked the fact that Goldilocks had little, red shoes.

In maths, we have been exploring numbers up to 100. We have created them using different resources like base 10 and numicon.

Then we explored partitioning them. We split the numbers in to tens and ones and then found out we could swap a ten for ten ones! This meant we could partition in lots of different ways.

In computing, we have continued to explore I.T. We have thought about the I.T. we see in school and how we use it. We used the computers to sort I.T. into different uses.

Have a lovely weekend from all of us in Year 2.

Filed Under: Blog Class 2 2023-2024

Friday 15th September

15th September 2023 By francesstephenson

We have had another fantastic week in Year 1!

In RE we have continued to explore families and we have thought about how we belong to so many families, including our home, school and God’s families.

In English we did some brilliant role play using dragon puppets. The children took their roles very seriously and put on a great performance.

 

 

We have been developing our counting skills in Maths this week and the children have focused on counting carefully and accurately.

The children have created amazing Art work with Mrs Days, look at the self-portraits and Picasso inspired pictures by Seren, Mabel and Lucy!

Well done Year 1, looking forward to lots more fun and learning next week!

Filed Under: Blog Class 1 2023-2024

Week Two

14th September 2023 By francesstephenson

It’s been a busy second week in Early Years. Following our reading of “Mixed” and “Remixed” by Arree Chung, the children have been exploring colour mixing. Reception have been learning that we can mix primary colours to make secondary colours.

 

Nursery

In nursery, the children have been introduced to the days of the week song as they fill in their daily calendar.

Our nursery children also had their first ‘Welly Wednesday’ session this week. They began to read ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ by Julia Donaldson. They then collected stick to create their own towns.

The children enjoyed exploring this new area of our school.

Reception

Reception have been practising their animal positions from our new handwriting scheme. The positions will help their bodies become nice and strong in preparation for their writing.

Look at them drawing in the lizard position…

Reception have also been discussing different feelings and emotions this week. We looked at the Zones of Regulation and discussed how we might feel when we are in each zone. We also began to think about ways to help us get into the green zone such as taking some quiet time in a calm area when we are feeling angry and letting others join in when they appear to be sad.

We hope everyone has a good rest over the weekend ready for lots more learning next week!

Mrs Bryant, Miss Dawson, Mrs Walker & Mrs Troy.

Filed Under: Blog Reception 2023-2024

Friday 8th September

8th September 2023 By francesstephenson

We have had a fantastic first week back in Year 2.

We have risen to the challenge and already exceeded Mrs Pearson’s expectations!

In English, we imagined a school without rules after sharing a story together. We wrote about how the children felt when they had no rules and how they decided to solve the problem.

Look at this fantastic writing from Josh and Ben.

In Music, we have thought about how music can help us make friends. We listened to the music and then made friends with each other. This was a great way to welcome the new member of our class.

In Computing, we explored what I.T. means and what information technology is. We found out computers are I.T. and anything that needs a computer to work is I.T.

We created a list of things that are I.T. and things that are not. We thought having a mouse in both groups was rather funny!

After all of our hard work we enjoyed our Golden Time at the end of the week.

We have had a fabulous week and Mrs Pearson cannot wait to see the amazing thing we achieve this year.

Filed Under: Blog Class 2 2023-2024

Friday 8th September

8th September 2023 By francesstephenson

We have had a wonderful first week in Year 1 and everybody has settled in really well!

In RE we have been thinking about who is in our families and our discussions have really helped us to get to know each other. We created our families using pebbles!

In English we have started reading a funny story called ‘Who’s our New Teacher?’ and the children had great fun imagining who it could be. We have done some excellent descriptive sentences about the new teacher. Well done everyone!

In Maths we have been sorting objects and giving reasons for our choices. The children have impressed us with their mathematical vocabulary.

We are already looking forward to more fun and learning next week!

Filed Under: Blog Class 1 2023-2024

Welcome!

7th September 2023 By francesstephenson

It has been wonderful welcoming so many new children into Early Years this week!

Nursery

Our older nursery children have been helping our new friends settle in – we have such kind and caring children here at All Saints’.

Nursery have enjoyed singing together and sharing our first story of the week: Owl Babies by Martin Waddell. This is a lovely story to remind us that, although we might miss our families, they always come back at the end of the day; just like Mummy Owl in the story.

It has been wonderful to have so much sunshine on our first week back!

Reception

Our Reception children have also settled into their new class very well!

We have been reading ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs  go to School’ by Ian Whybrow. Just like Harry, our Reception children have been familiarising themselves with their new classroom resources and routines.

They enjoyed sharing their family photographs and special toys with their new friends, to help us learn a little bit more about them.

RE

Our Early Years’ children have been learning how God knows us by name and how He loves each and every one of us. We read ‘Our Class is a Family’ by Shannon Olsen before looking at our staff board at the front of school to learn/remind us of everyone’s name in our school family here at All Saints’.

We hope everyone has had a wonderful first week at school/nursery.

Love Mrs Bryant, Miss Dawson, Mrs Walker & Mrs Troy.

Filed Under: Blog Reception 2023-2024

Friday 21st July

20th July 2023 By francesstephenson

We cannot believe it is the end of the year!

We have finished off with another busy week.

Finally, we finished our glove puppets. We followed our designs carefully and then used step-by-step instructions to make them.

Some of us created our own templates to use. Some of us used fabric glue but most of us sewed. We really did work had on our project and took great pride in our work.

We were so proud we went to EYFS to share our puppets. It was great to see how enthusiastic the younger children were and they asked some great questions.

We have also thought a lot about the treasures in our world this week. We have thought about how God created the world so all living things are treasures. We thought about the view out of our window and how we can ensure that this treasure is not lost. We thought that we could turn the tap off when we brush our teeth and try to do activities which don’t use electricity. What is the view from your window?

Thank you Year 2 for an amazing year. You have all worked your socks off and done yourselves proud…..and because of this we think you deserve a few weeks off!

Enjoy the summer and stay safe.

From Mrs Pearson and Mrs Days

Filed Under: Blog Class 2 2022-2023

It’s Summer Time!

20th July 2023 By francesstephenson

Can you believe it’s our final week and the end of our first year with our nursery.

Nursery took part in their very first Sport’s Day this week. They had a go at a variety of activities which required balancing, throwing and aiming. It was lots of fun and we finished off with a nice, cold ice lolly to cool down!

Reception have been working hard to finish off our RE topic all about looking after God’s world. We discussed ways in which we can look after the planet such as saving water, recycling and turning off lights.

Our EYFS children earned themselves a pirate party as a result of filling their class marble jar! Well done for all of your hard work everyone!

We played games, danced, had some party food and went on a treasure hunt!

It’s been an extremely busy year but a fantastic one. Each and every one of you have worked your socks off and we couldn’t be more proud! We hope you have a well-deserved rest over summer, have lots of fun with your families and we’ll see you all in September.

Love Mrs Walker, Mrs Troy & Miss Dawson.

Filed Under: Blog Reception 2022-2023

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