Role play provides children with opportunities to make connections to their own real-life experiences. When playing with friends, children further develop empathy through cooperating, turn-taking and sharing. A fun way to promote maths as well! “It’s a tea set. Let’s have a tea party!” “Would you like to come to…

Our new fairy garden has fuelled the children’s imaginations inspiring creative role-play, dance and movement as well as fun exploration and investigation into the effects of windy weather.

There’s been plenty of sunshine this spring and summer and so lots of opportunities for us to plant watercress, beans and garden herbs. The children have been reading ‘Errol’s Garden’ to help them think about what plants to grow. We also loved hearing about how the children’s plants have grown…

Thank you to families who sent in photos and came to talk to us about Easter. We learnt that Christians celebrate the Easter festival to remember the death of Jesus and how he came back to life again.  Easter is a huge celebration with Christians going to church, giving Easter…

Thank you to families who sent in photos and came to talk to us about Ramadan and Eid. We learnt that Ramadan is a time for reflection with those who are able to fasting during daylight. Eid-al-Fitr is the festival at the end of Ramadan which begins with the sighting…

The children have been investigating change by mixing colours whilst painting, when investigating flows and measures at the water tray and when kneading different coloured batches of playdough together. Children have also flown paper aeroplanes, streamers and kites particularly on windy days. During Science Week, they loved the balloon rocket…

A huge thank you to all our families who came in to read with their child on World Book Day! A great chance for us all to celebrate our favourite stories and characters by dressing up, making props and doing role-play. Children often use their imagination to make up their…

As well as dressing up, role play with props, masks and puppets, children have been talking about and retelling one of their favourite core stories ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Children problem-solved together building gigantic straw, stick and brick houses using a variety of resources and techniques from cutting, sticking and…