We would like to wish everyone celebrating the festival of light a joyous Diwali celebration!
As you know, EYFS love a celebration so we created our own CD Diva Lamps, decorated henna hands and watched how Diwali is celebrated. If you want to learn more you can watch the clip below.
My First Diwali
JoJo and Gran celebrate Diwali
We loved seeing all of our EYFS looking so scary in their Halloween costumes yesterday
Spooky school has already proved very popular with the children this week. They have loved engaging in role play, strengthening their fine motor skills and exploring sensory trays! The Nursery children have already started to turn staff into frogs 🐸
We look forward to sharing some of our scary learning tasks 🕷️
Thank you so much to everyone who attended our Book Breakfast today with the EYFS children. We love involving families in our learning and sharing parts of our routine.
Grandad’s Library is one of our favourite places in school!
Here is some of the lovely feedback we received:
“Enjoyed coming into school and spending time with Lucas, sharing stories. He was very and excited and I enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere. It helps support connections between home and school giving it a “family feel”.”
“Lovely reading session with Mrs Hanratty. Great to finally see Grandad’s library which Joel mentions and talks about a lot. So many lovely books to choose from.”
I wonder what we should do for our next Family Day? If you have a suggestion, leave it in the comments below. 🙂
EYFS had a lovely time taking part in our little movers dance week. They all brought their best moves and showed us just how good they really all are at dancing. Well done EYFS!
Following on from our terrific team work last week to make a scarecrow, EYFS joined forces again to make so tasty Harvest Soup. They children took turns to chop up all the vegetables, shared resources and we cooked it together in class. Once the soup was blended, we all had a taste and gave it a thumbs up or down. It was very popular 😃
This week, EYFS discovered the importance of working as a team. We designed some scarecrows as part of our Magic Monday session and then through the week we jumped into action to make a real scarecrow.
Keep your eyes peeled for the end result which will be displayed alongside the other scarecrows created by the other classes.
EYFS had a lovely visit from the hand washing and oral hygiene nurses. They showed us how to correctly brush our teeth and wash our hands to protect us from invisible germs. It was a lovely afternoon and we have all been singing our hand washing song when washing our hands.
This week, EYFS shared the story of “The Little Red Hen” who made some bread all by herself. We started to wonder what her bread looked, smelled and tasted like so we bought a range of different types of breads to try. The children sampled panini, wraps, pittas, baguettes, tiger bread, bagels and muffins. After tasting the breads, the children gave the bread a thumbs up or thumbs down.
The staff were very impressed with the vocabulary the children used to describe the breads and were so proud that they were willing to try new foods!
This week the children in Reception have been using their balance and coordination skills to explore our trim trail. They have independently climbed, balanced and moved along our outdoor equipment. We have been very impressed by the children’s confidence and determination when tackling tricky parts of the trail. It was lovely to see the children helping each other and shouting words of encouragement to their friends.
Well done Reception!
