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June 2, 2023DT, Early Years, Maths, R.E., Receptionby

Reception Class Round-up:

Last week Reception Class continued to explore different types of transport, with a focus on aeroplanes. The children were set a homework challenge to make a paper aeroplane ready for a competition. They tested all their planes in the hall, to find out whose went …
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May 27, 2023Early Years, Outdoor Learning, R.E., Readingby

Pre-school: Rainbow Fish Week

Last week pre-school focussed their learning around the book Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister; a picture book story about a pretty fish that shares his beautiful scales with his friends. It inspired the children to practise their drama skills and act out the story, using …
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May 27, 2023Early Years, Maths, Phonics, PHSE, Pre-school, Readingby

Pre-school: Dear Zoo Week

One of our favourite books in pre-school is Dear Zoo, by Rod Campbell. A couple of weeks’ ago Mrs Sanders used it as a focus for the children’s learning and everyone enjoyed finding out about the different animals. The children practised their pencil and scissor …
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May 22, 2023Early Years, Maths, Reading, Reception, Scienceby

Reception Round-up: Handa’s Surprise

Last week Henrietta delivered the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’, written by Eileen Brown. The class started the week by tasting the seven delicious fruits from the story and describing them, using a range of adjectives, including some new words to develop their vocabulary. In Maths, the …
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May 16, 2023Community, Early Years, Health and Well-being, PHSE, Pre-schoolby

Pre-school: Starting Well Partnership Visit

Today the children from Hopscotch had two visitors, Lorraine and Christine from Starting Well Partnership. They came to teach them all about oral hygiene.  Whilst our children aren’t quite old enough yet to clean our own teeth on their own, we learned why it is …
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May 15, 2023Early Years, Maths, RE, Reception, Science, Uncategorized, Year Rby

Reception Class Round-up: Forces Week

Last week, in their science lessons, Reception Class  continued to learn about forces. They shared their homework challenge with each other; which was to fill a container with liquid and explore what happened when they added a marble and turned the container upside down. The …
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May 10, 2023Early Years, Forest School, Geography, Maths, Receptionby

Maths at Forest School

Today Reception Class dodged the heavy downpours to enjoy a maths-related session at Forest School, focussing on the numbers 11-20. Mrs Andrews shared a large number square with the children and they identified the row of numbers that they needed to focus on, practising counting …
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May 9, 2023Computing, Early Years, Reading, Science, Year Rby

Reception Class Round-up: Trains Week

Last week saw Henerietta deliver the story of ‘The Train Ride’, by June Crebbin. The children enjoyed retelling the story in the small world tray, acting out their own train rides in the role play area and printing with different shapes, to create pictures of …
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May 6, 2023Early Years, Eco, Maths, Phonics, Pre-school, Readingby

Pre-school Weekly Round-up: There was an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly!

In pre-school last week their chosen text was ‘There was an Old Lady’, a traditional tale that the children enjoyed learning about.  They used their phonic knowledge to try to orally segment animal words, and match initial sounds such as cat and cow.  Concept Cat …
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May 4, 2023Early Years, Forest School, Maths, Receptionby

Reception Class Forest School: Trains & Number Bonds

In class this week the children’s learning has been focussed around trains. They have also been working on learning number bonds to 10. Yesterday, at Forest School, the children combined the two by hunting for numbered trains and then pairing up with whoever had the …
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