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Spring 2026
Today we welcomed builder Chris. He brought us all hardhats to wear and we had such an amazing time learning all about tools, building plans and how to keep safe on site. Chris also set up some wonderful activities for us. We did some bricklaying, practiced hammering skills and also tested out spanners with the nuts and bolts and at the end he left us the resources to keep on practicing our skills! Thank you so much Chris. We are inspired and can finish building our own models in school now with our new skills!
In design technology we have been learning how to make paper hinges ready for our big house building session.
Reception have been looking closely at patterns. We have been making repeated patterns with lots of different resources.
Science week. To celebrate British Science week we have been looking carefully at light, space and gravity. We learnt light travels in straight lines, we looked at sources of light and then learnt all about the astronaut Neil Armstrong. After this we looked at gravity and if our toast always lands butter side down when we drop it!
This week we have been designing our dream homes after doing some serious research on right move! We looked at a variety of different homes, from three storey houses to bungalows and even boat houses! Then we designed the home we wanted to make and learnt how to make simple hinges for windows and doors.
Today we celebrated world book day. It has been so much fun. We wore our pyjamas and had lots of story time sessions with children from the other classes. We also wrote why we chose our favourite books and talked about characters and settings.
In science we looked at floating and sinking. We thought carefully about heavy and light items, which items were filled with lots of air particles and which ones are really dense. We really enjoyed experimenting!
We have been looking at various different stories and characters for world book week this week. Today we joined a live storytelling of: Once upon a remix, Goldilocs rocks. It was amazing to hear from the author and then the illustrator who gave us a sketch along session to draw the character of the bear!
We played a lovely new game in phonics, musical sounds! We had to dance around to the music and when we sat down we read our phoneme card. It was great fun and a nice active phonics lesson!
We have been learning about numbers to 50 in maths and learning about the place value of numbers. Alongside this we have been practicing counting in tens. It has been lovely to see the children use numicon in their play to make car tracks and count how many tens they are long. Maths in action.
Today we celebrated St David's day. It was an important festival for a few members of our classroom so we celebrated in style. We had some traditional Welsh costume, we bakes Welsh cakes, painted daffodils and learnt all about some folk stories from the Mabinogi. It was great fun!
We have had a busy first week back and the children have plunged themselves back into provision. We have had amazing waterfall towers in the water tray, fine motor skills development by using screwdrivers in the construction area and some lovely games of UNO being played now we added the cards to our maths provision.
Today we celebrated panckae day. We read lots of pancake stories, talked about what our favourite toppings are, wrote lists of ingredients of how to make pancakes and then tasted some! They were delicious.
In art our final piece has been based on the work by Louise Bourgeois and her spider sculpture in Bilbao. To create our own sculpture we used all of the rolling and folding techniques we had learnt in the last few sesions to make the body and legs. Its pretty impressive!
This week things got tricky when we looked at 'ch' sounding as 'c' in words. We had some fun spelling such long words and came up with some fantastic sentences too.
In Chestnut class we have been practicing writing lots of differnet words with all of the digraphs and trigraphs we have learnt so far.
Our art project has progressed and i just had to show you the amazing creations we have made by rolling and folding different lengths of paper. Some of us went with a swirly style and some of us really liked the square and zig zag style of folding. Some of us even decided our paper sculptures looked like playgrounds. Lots of creativity in Chestnut class!
We have began our topic on 3D sculptures. We focused on an artist called Samantha Stephenson who created metal cylindrical sculptures on Bondi Beach. We learnt how to make cyclindircal tubes and change them via cutting into the sculpture or the thiness and thickness of the cylinder.
In science this week we have been looking at our new topic about materials. We explored a range of different materials, the snow and ice giving us a great outdoor opportunity too! Then we neamed the materials and described them using adjectives.
