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Today in reception we read the story Whatever next! and then retold the story through pictures and actions. The children loved coming up with their own ideas for how to retell the story through drawings. 

This Year we are extremely lucky to all have our very own  iPads in class. Today we had some fantastic training, teaching us how to use them to further enhance our learning. Using the story of Little Red Riding Hood, linked to our writing text, we learned how to record our voices and add them to…

In Duckling class we have been using the mirrors to look at the different features on our faces, we found that everyone has similarities such as two eyes, a nose, a mouth but we also have lots of differences, such as the colour of our eyes and hair. 

We enjoyed using our fine motor skills to…

Year 2’s first session, we explored our out door area hunting for leaves, twigs, birds, rocks, flowers and bugs! We had great fun!

Today we practiced our pre writing shapes. This will help us to develop our writing skills and helps to ensure we know how to hold our pencil properly. We love writing in reception!

We were excited today to use our yellow highlighters in Writing! We were on the hunt for features we would find in a Narrative. We learned about using cliffhangers for suspense and dialogue to show what they characters were saying. After searching we made our own writing checklist which we will…

This term we are learning all about me!

This week we are starting with a discussion around our body parts - knowing we have 2 hands, 2 legs, 2 eyes, ect. We used the potato heads to create different bodies ensuring we have all of the correct body parts. We had lots of discussions around the…

We were lucky enough to have a special visitor in school to teach us how to use our iPads for learning. We used an app called KeyNote to create our own story of Hansel and Gretel using pictures, audio and text. We had SO much fun and showed our visitor what an amazing school we are! Well…

Today we have been using our iPads to partition numbers into their place values, we then looked at different ways we could represent our partitions to reinforce our knowledge and confidence 

Today we have really immersed ourselves into chapter 4 of Rumaysa for our retell, we really wanted to focus on the powerful emotions that are showcased in this chapter as well as understand what we’re actually talking about, such as what a spindle actually is!

In Art this week, we developed our visual literacy skills by exploring our outdoor environment to find circles. We discussed how we use our sense of sight to see and explore. We developed our shape recognition in the environment and took photographs to record the many circles we could…

Year 1 loved using the one minute maths app to practise the skill of subsidising. They worked hard to beat their previous scores and were so excited to showcase what they had achieved.