Blog by Tag: Communication&Language

On Monday the children in reception received a very special parcel! They had been chosen to look after a cheeky Elf By Father Christmas himself! The elf has been named Buddy and the children are already vey excited to see the mischief that will unfold. He has already held a snowball fight with two…

The children had a 'frightfully' fantastic Friday to round off our spooky week in Reception!
 We spent the morning decorating spider biscuits, conjuring gruesome spells and showing off our best terrifying poses in our outfits, can you guess who we are? 
The afternoon meant for more spooky fun,…

The reception were incredibly surprised to find two large parcels waiting in the classrooms for us this afternoon!
'What could be inside? Who could have sent it?' we wondered! The boxes were very heavy! 

With a little help from our teacher's, we managed to unwrap the parcels and found two…

This term we have been reading the story 'Shh! We have a plan' by Chris Haughton. The children really enjoyed creating story maps, cold colour collages and even acting out the story in our role play area! The children used props and took on a role to become the bird catchers and catch the…

This week in reception we have been celebrating 'Spooky Week'!

To start the spooky celebrations we worked together to make Witches gloop, a spooky potion that if consumed will turn anyone into a snake! 
The children got stuck in mixing, spelling and deciding ingredients, some of us even wrote…

Year 1 had a great day at the zoo. We visited to support our learning about animals. We identified lots of mammals, reptiles, birds and insects while we were there and used our scientific language to talk about their features, habitats and behaviours.