Blog Author: Kayleigh Sheridan

Welcome back to our online learning after the Easter Holidays. I hope you enjoyed your break!

I have seen some fantastic activities being completed at home and being shared on Tapestry and Twitter. Your videos and photos are putting a smile on my face. I would love to see more next…

Another week at home complete! We hope you are staying in and keeping safe! I would like to say well done to those who are completing our home learning packs and doing the learning activities being posted online and thank you again to parents for supporting them. We've made it through the first 2…

We have been posting ideas for your daily learning at home on Twitter and Tapestry and I would like to say thank you to those completing it. We understand it is an unusual situation and it can be difficult when you are working from home and we appreciate anything that you do get chance to do with…

Children have continued to learn about People Who Help us and have focused on doctors and nurses. We have been learning about the whole and parts of numbers, using numberblocks, numicon, unifix and the part part whole model. In phonics we learnt the sound “b”. Playing draw the item and Fred Says.…

This week we continued learning about the police and how they help us. Children recalled information about how police help and the equipment they use. They practiced the song we have learnt, drew police officers and added a new verse. In Maths we have been practice counting objects and matching to…

This week has been a busy week. We have been learning about how Police help us and what equipment they use. We have learnt new vocabulary, listened to a People Who Help Us song, created a song map and made a police car out of play dough. In Maths, we have been looking at 2D shapes, finding them in…

We have begun the new topic of People Who Help Us this week. We have looked at links between lots of different people, their jobs and how they help us. We have been looking at people who help us at home and at school. We talked about our parents and other grown ups who are at home, teachers at…

This week has been Eco Week! We have discussed how bees are important to the earth and how they help flowers, plants and trees grow and why we need plants, trees and flowers. Owls also looked at the life cycle of a bee. We also looked at how we can help look after our earth and keep it clean and…

This week we continued with our Chinese New Year topic. We have read a book called The Great Race, which tells the Chinese Zodiac Story as well as reading Peppa's Chinese New Year. We found out it is now the Year of the Rat so we used lines, circles, ovals and squiggles to draw a rat in Make Your…

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We looked at how it is celebrated, who celebrates it and did some dragon dancing to drums. In Maths we have been exploring our numbers 1-5. During independent learning, Owls have enjoyed creating firework pictures, trying to use chop sticks,…

This week we have been reading and exploring the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have ordered the story, made play dough trolls, described the troll and listened to others read the story. We have had lots of tasks to do in Maths, helping get the correct amount of bricks to make a bridge,…

This week we continued with Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been using the story map to tell our story, asking the Giant questions, talking about how the Giant might have felt about Jack taking his things and drawing his face. We also came up with ideas for a new character to replace the Giant. We…