Blog by Tag: my thinking and problem solving

Sycamore have enjoyed a day of activities themed around ‘Remembrance Day’. 

This morning we enjoyed a circle time and we shared our ideas and what we remember about Remembrance Day. We then had our 2 minutes silence to remember all the soldiers who have fought in wars to help keep us…

7A have loved learning about Bonfire Night this week as part of our Celebrations topic. 

On Wednesday afternoon, we completed a challenge to create safety fireworks for the younger children to refer to on Bonfire Night. We listened to a safety presentation and then added our own suggestions…

Wow Willow class, what a great first week back! 
You have had a great start to the new term. We have started our class book of Little red riding hood, looking at the characters and how we can use descriptive language like adjectives to define characters in book. Some of us even tried writing a…

We have had a great first week back after half term. 

There has been lots of firework and bonfire themed fun this week. 

In our My Thinking and Problem Solving sessions we have been working on recognising objects up to 10 in different arrangements, adding 1 digit numbers together using…

This week we have been learning all about Bonfire night. We had our very own pretend Bonfire night where we put on our gloves and hats, waved pretend sparklers and toasted our marshmallows and dipped them in chocolate. We know that fire is hot and that we need to keep safe with our adults. We…

Sycamore’s Spook-tacular Week!

Sycamore class have had great fun within our Halloween theme, this week. 

They have been very busy:

• Working together to count out ingredients to add to the magic potions.
• Using words and gestures to request shapes to create faces on…

We have had the most brilliant week in 9G! 
 

Everyone has worked so hard and tired activities they wouldn’t normally do, embracing the Halloween spirit! 
 

We have collected eyeballs from pumpkins full of jelly, made witches spells in the kitchen, palates lots of group games and even…

This term our theme is Celebrations. We have really enjoyed celebrating Halloween this week. We completed a Blue-Bot challenge to make potions, completed a Halloween workout, played Halloween games, wrote about Halloween on Purple Mash, had fun in the photo booth and enjoyed Halloween treats. We…

Prepare to be scared when you see these spooky pictures of Willow class!

Willow Class worked so hard this week to create some amazing Halloween decorations! 
Everyone has been super brainy, working with class adults to complete assessments so we can try some fun new work after half term! We…

This week 7A worked on a spaghetti challenge in pairs. They had ten minutes to see who could build the tallest tower using spaghetti and playdough. Jake and Megan won the challenge and we discussed the team work skills they used to support winning the challenge such as good talking, helping each…

What another amazing week in 9G! We really do love all being together!

On Monday 9G began our new story ‘We’re going on a Leaf hunt’. Miss Hendy did a sensory story to go with each page. We then practiced our writing of autumn words, reading and played in the new sensory autumn tray. In the…

Wow, what an amazing first whole week back 9G have had! Everyone has coped very well, and we have had so much fun being back together!

On Monday, we continued to look at our feelings, recognising what makes us happy, sad, cross, or scared. We explored this through the story ‘What makes us…