Blog Author: Mrs Down

Rowan Class enjoyed lots of different activities this week to celebrate Chinese New Year. We enjoyed making fruit fireworks, practicing our repeating pattern skills. We made some very colourful dragon masks, and had fun dragon dancing. We then had a go at Chinese writing, writing the word,…

Rowan Class have been looking at Christianity as part of World Religion Week. We built churches from blocks, made stained glass windows with paper and card, and copied Christian symbols with chalk and natural objects. We enjoyed swimming again this week, became a lot more independent in cookery,…

Rowan Class have had a super busy week!

We got back in the pool on Monday as our weekly swimming lessons resumed and we all had so much fun.

We have been using our Thinking and Problem Solving skills in cookery this week, making sandwiches, and decorating cakes - counting ingredients and…

Happy New Year Rowan Class! 

It was lovely to see you all back in class this week. We enjoyed making New Year fireworks from breadsticks, painting fireworks and making New Year wishes. We started the year working hard as always with our handwriting skills and number recognition, and enjoyed a…

Rowan Class have had a lovely final week! We have enjoyed lots of Christmas crafts and activities, including making our very own Christmas cakes. We really enjoyed seeing the alpaca's, and some of us even fed them! Our Food Bank donation box was very full, thank you to all who donated.

We hope…

Rowan class have been busy Elves this week, making lots of festive crafts for their friends and families. We have made Christmas cards, reindeer food, calendars and Father Christmas faces and door hangers. We enjoyed a lovely Christmas lunch on Wednesday, and had a great Christmas party on…

A very busy week in Rowan Class. We started our festive activities, making Christmas cards and rehearsing our song for the Christmas Production. In My Communication we have continued working on retelling narratives by looking at the story The Bear Hunt. We enjoyed a sensory story, retold the story…

Rowan Class have had a lovely week, lots of super learning and lots of fun. We particularly enjoyed our hot chocolate and story in the woods, as a reward for our brilliant independent walking around school. Me and My Body was such good fun too, and we even had a go on the body boards! We will…

We have enjoyed lots of activities about friendship this week. We have shared stories, created pictures of our friends and said why we like them, discussed what it means to be a good friend and made a friendship tree. We are kind and caring to all our friends in Rowan Class.

Have a lovely…

Rowan Class have been busy learning about and celebrating Diwali this week. We read a story about a young boy and his Diwali experience, and made some brilliant sentences about different pictures from the story. We made diya lamps from clay and tried different foods. 

This week we also…

Rowan Class have enjoyed learning about Autumn this week. We have been on a senses walk, finding lots of things we can see, smell, hear, touch and then we came back to class to taste snack. We have worked hard making brilliant sentences about different Autumn pictures, counted acorns, leaves and…

Rowan Class have worked very hard this week with their phonics. Sound Bingo, matching initial sounds to pictures, blending sounds to make words and we finished the week off with a lovely initial sounds walk with Coco! It was so much fun, the sun stayed out and we all had a turn walking Coco.…