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22 March 2024

Egg Hunt

Today we took part in a whole school egg hunt. We have learnt egg hunts are a traditional activity when celebrating Easter and loved taking part. 

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21 March 2024

Cornflake Cakes

Nursery enjoyed baking cornflake cakes this week. We used lots of different skills such as measuring the correct amount of cornflakes, mixing ingredients and watching them change. We were very impressed watching the chocolate melt when we add heat. 
Cornflake cakes are traditionally used at…

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15 March 2024

Floating and Sinking

Our second experiment of the day shocked us! We made our predictions that the egg would sink when put it in the water and when we tested our ideas we were right, it did sink. 
Miss Mayer then gave us water with added salt. This tricked us and the egg floated at the top of the water! 
 

we…

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15 March 2024

Science Day

To celebrate Science day we explored colour mixing by making rainbows. We have been very interested in rainbows as we are moving in to Spring and seeing different weather types. 
We coloured our rainbows and added water to watch them grow!

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8 March 2024

Minibeasts!

We have done lots of learning about minibeasts this week. Identifying different minibeasts we find in the garden and their habitats. The children have been using fine motor skills to catch the minibeasts with tweezers. We have completed observational drawings, minibeast tracing and building…

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8 March 2024

Mothers Day Celebrations

This weekend it will be Mother’s Day and the children have made cards to show their love and appreciation for everything you do. We talked about everything our family does for us and how this makes us feel. We had some lovely ideas as to why we love you. 
 

Inside our card we have a little…

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7 March 2024

World Book Day

We have took part in lots of activities today to celebrate world book day. We sequenced the story, made caterpillar hats, had buddy reading with year 3 and ended out day with hot chocolate and biscuits and a lovely story. 
We had so much fun sharing our teddies, blankets and favourite books.…

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7 March 2024

The Hungry Caterpillar Story Sequencing

For World Book Day we focused our learning around The Hungry Caterpillar. We read the story together and made a long, giant caterpillar with balloons! We then sequenced the story by putting the fruit onto the caterpillars tummy. 
We had so much fun and the children can talk in depth about our…

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1 March 2024

How to Plant a Seed

We have been exploring plants all week and the children were very excited to plant their own. We looked at what we would need as a group and named the different resources ‘seed, pot, soil, watering can, trowel’, we then wen to collect our resources in small groups, recapping the correct names and…

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29 February 2024

Observational Drawings of Flowers

This week we have been learning all about plants. The children have shown an interest in drawing different flowers and we looked at the different shapes and parts of a plant. Some children were able to name different parts of the plant as they were drawing it. We looked closely at what colours we…

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26 February 2024

Throwing and Catching

This week we used our prior knowledge of ‘underarm throw’ to begin throwing and catching to friends. We recapped target throwing at the beginning of the lesson and most were ready to move on.

We learnt the importance of knowing our partner is ready to catch for their safety. Making eye contact,…

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23 February 2024

Change4Life Excel Academy Event

This week Year 3 and 4 took part in School Games ‘Change4Life’ event that took place at Excel Academy. We had so much fun taking part in a range of active activities putting our skills to the test. We took part in activities we have done in school such as fitness, multi skills, parachute games. We…

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