Blog Author: Karen-Jane Bowers

A morning of pretty mixed weather! The children were absolutely brilliant today. The first group probably had the best of the weather and were able to have a go with the fire strikers. Then, the rain came and both groups were just fantastic shelter building and working out ways to protect the…

During our Online Safety Day we looked at a recipe for a safer internet.

This term, we have been learning the story of 'The Three Little Pigs'. We have acted out the story, created a hinge to trap the wolf and tested which material would make the best roof for the little pigs house. We also looked at Native American wolf masks and created our own! 

We have been building up our gymnastic skills, from looking at how we balance, to learning jumping and climbing techniques. The class have been really engaged in their learning and loved learning new skills before sharing them with the rest of the class.

We studied map making and orienteering at Forest School

Greek headress - for the Olympics / mud pots inspired by the Greeks!

Greek headress - for the Olympics / mud pots inspired by the Greeks!

Tower building - can we get as high as the Lighthouse in Grace Darling's Story?

We made some bird feeders for our Forest School area.

Fledglings started learning how to combine two groups this week. We started with pegs, but quickly moved onto using a “part part whole” diagram. Superstars! 

We used play dough to create each layer of the earth! When we cut our world open, we could see the inner core, outer core and mantle.

We have used clay to create our very own models of the victims of Pompeii.