Posts From Curriculum Category

Sep

🌼 Learning Through Nature in Wren Class

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🌺 Creating Beautiful Petal Flowers in Wren Class This week in Wren Class, the children enjoyed a wonderful creative activity using flower petals to create their own beautiful flowers. The activity provided lots of opportunities for exploration, imagination and discussion as the children carefully selected and arranged their petals. As they worked, the children demonstrated […]

Sep

🏃‍♀️ Learning, Moving and Shining Outdoors!

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🌟 Wren Class Get Moving in PE! 🌟 Today, Wren Class loved their PE session outside! The children learned why it is important to warm up their bodies before exercising and enjoyed a range of movements that helped develop their coordination and spatial awareness. They carefully practised moving safely around others, finding space and following […]

Sep

Love, Learn, Shine Through Reading

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Growing Readers Together Thank you for coming to our Phonics and Story Night. We would like to thank all of our families for their support and partnership in helping children develop a love of reading. It was wonderful to see so many parents and carers attending, and we hope you found the evening informative and […]

Sep

🔢 Number Detectives at Work!

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🧮 Exploring Numbers in Lots of Different Ways The children in Kingfishers have been super mathematicians this week! In our maths lesson, they were learning about which numerals represent which numbers and exploring lots of different ways to show a chosen number. Working brilliantly with their partners, the children selected a numeral and then searched […]

Sep

📚🦉 Following the Clues: A Wonderful Library Visit for Herons

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The Herons class enjoyed a wonderful visit to Harrogate Children’s Library this week, where they learned all about different species of owls. Inspired by the beautiful owl statue that watches over the library, the children explored the fascinating world of these magnificent birds and discovered how to identify different types using a series of clues […]

Sep

🏥🔍 Building Detectives: Uncovering Our School’s Hospital History!

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🕰️📸 Time Travellers on the Trail of the Past The Sparrows continued their exciting history learning journey this week by becoming Building Detectives and investigating our school for clues from its fascinating past. Armed with clipboards, sharp eyes and curious minds, the children began their enquiry outside, carefully studying the school building and comparing it […]

Sep

🍁 Wrens Discover the First Signs of Autumn

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🍂 Exploring Autumn Through Art and Nature Wrens have been looking at the changing weather and have started to notice some of the first signs of autumn. The children have enjoyed exploring the season through creative artwork and a range of autumn-themed provision, helping them to learn about the world around them and the changes […]

Sep

🍕 Option 1: Pizza Perfect for Daddy Bear!

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In Early Years, the children have been enjoying our key text, Peace at Last. As we explored the story, we thought carefully about how we could help Daddy Bear get a good night’s sleep. After lots of discussion, the class decided that Daddy Bear’s favourite food would definitely be… pizza! The children designed and made […]

Sep

🎨🌍 Exploring God’s Wonderful Creation 🌍

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This week in RE, the children in Kingfisher Class have been busy learning all about the Christian Creation Story. As we explored the seven days of creation, each child chose one day from the story to illustrate inside a paint pot. We then worked together to order the paint pots correctly, recreating the sequence of […]

Sep

❤️ Everyone Is Welcome: Learning from Matthew’s Story

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RE – What is the Good News that Christians Believe Jesus Brings? This week in Sparrows Class, the children have been exploring the story of Matthew the Tax Collector as part of our RE learning about the good news that Christians believe Jesus brings. 📖 We learned that tax collectors were not well liked in […]