Early Years Literacy Week finale

To end our Literacy Week in Early Years we had a Fairytale Ball and Banquet. The children all made a fantastic effort dressing up as favourite fictional and film characters. We went into the Hall for some party games including Musical Statues and taught the children how to play the old favourite 'Farmers in the Den' before enjoying some delicious party food. In the afternoon the reception children took part in an Easter egg hunt to celebrate this festival before beginning the Easter holidays. 

Reception Library visit

Today all of the children in Reception walked to Hornchurch Library for their first school trip. Once inside, the children were introduced to Viv, who explained how a library works and how to use the library correctly. She then read a story to the children engaging them by asking questions and asking children to join in using actions.
The children then had the opportunity to look at a range of books with the staff and parents volunteers before choosing one to bring back to school. Viv also showed them the 'magic table' which is an interactive table with lots of activities.
The children then enjoyed their packed lunches (Thank you mums!) before catching the 193 bus back to school.
The children were exceptionally well behaved and we are very proud of their behaviour outside of school.

Nursery Focus W/C 21/03

This week throughout the whole school is Literacy Week. 

In Nursery, we are focussing on Nursery Rhymes as stated in our Pupil Passport and we will be reading the story 'Each Peach Pear Plum'. We will be singing the rhymes in the story and discussing the characters from the traditional tales.

On Tuesday, we will be making Jam tarts linking this to the pie in the story.


On Wednesday, we are looking forward to a theatre groups production of fairy tales.


On Thursday, we will end our week with a dressing up day in which everyone will dress up as their favourite literary character. In Early Years, we will hold our own Ball and Banquet and then end the day with an Easter egg hunt.

Reception focus 21.3.16

This week throughout the whole school is Literacy Week. 

In Reception we are focussing on Nursery Rhymes as stated in our Pupil Passport and the story Each Peach Pear Plum. 

The children will be exploring rhyming strings and finding rhyming words in nursery rhymes as well as singing a wide range of them. 

On Tuesday, the children will be visiting the library in Hornchurch and learning about how a library works and what we use it for.

On Wednesday the school will look forward to a live production of 'The cat in the hat'. 

On Thursday we will end our week with a dressing up day in which everyone will dress up as a literary character. In Early Years we will hold our own Ball and Banquet and then end the day with an Easter egg hunt.

Reception's Egg Day

Today in Reception we held our annual Egg Day linked to our Easter topic. 

Every child brought in a hard boiled egg (thanks parents!) so that they could decorate it, make a safe nest for it from resources in the setting and then try to take part in every day activities whilst looking after their egg.

The children became quite ingenious with their nests using cotton wool, bubble wrap, pots, boxes and lots and lots of masking tape! It was trial and error for some as eggs were broken when dropped or when they went whizzing down the slide! 

The children used the bamboo pipes to make ramps for their eggs and also had lots of fun taking part in egg and spoon races, as well as making some cinnamon spiced Easter biscuits. 

The day ended with the children going to the hill and rolling their eggs in a competition. It was a very egg-citing day! Well done all! 

Nursery Focus W/C 14/03

This week in Nursery we are reading 'The Little Red Hen'. The children will be discussing the process of how bread is made. They will then be making their own bread rolls. On Tuesday, the children will be walking to the local bakers to buy bread and hot cross buns.  

This links in with our Easter theme. The children will be discussing why we celebrate Easter and will be making Easter cards using ICT.  On Wednesday, we have our special Easter Fun Day.

Reception Focus W/C 14/03/16

This week in Reception our theme is Easter. The children will learn about why we celebrate Easter and everyone will have the opportunity to make an Easter card for someone special. The children voted on Friday afternoon for which card design they wanted to make out of a choice of  four.  

Throughout the week there will be lots of different activities linked to our theme going on. These include cooking an Easter biscuit and decorating it, exploring the texture of hard boiled eggs in our messy play and making hot cross buns out of play dough. The children are being asked today in our Newsletter to bring in a hard boiled egg for the second half of this week. They will have the chance to decorate it, look after it, create a nest for it if they wish and then there will be an egg rolling competition.

In phonics the focus will be on the digraphs or, ur, and ow and placing these in words and sentences.

In maths we will be focussing on taking away and writing simple subtraction number sentences.

                           

                                                                                                                    

Nursery Focus W/C 7/03

This week in Nursery we are reading 'The Gingerbread Man'.


The children will be following a recipe to make their own gingerbread men.


In Maths, the children will be using positional language to find the missing gingerbread man. In addition, the children will be counting the number of buttons on the ginger bread man.

Reception focus 7.3.16

This week in Reception our theme will be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The children will be taking part in lots of different activities linked to the theme including learning to write lists in literacy and digging for diamonds in the sand pit.

In phonics the focus will be on the digraphs oo, ar and or and placing these in words and sentences.

In maths we will be focussing on naming 3D shapes and learning about their properties.                            
                                                                                                                    

Nursery Focus W/C 29/02

This week in Nursery we are discussing Mother's Day and the children will be making special Mother's Day gifts.


The children have been learning our songs for a special Mother's Day concert on Friday. In addition, we are still focusing on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.