Early Years: Gallery
Date: 26th Oct 2023 @ 9:35pm
This week we have taken part in various activities around Halloween. The children read the story 'What's in the Witch's Kitchen?', explored pumpkins, made potions and cast spells, printed and painted their own pumpkin pictures, did some spooky counting and subitising and finished with a Halloween fancy dress party. It was great fun.
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Date: 14th Oct 2023 @ 3:58pm
We have spent the last few weeks exploring colour. Take a look at our activities.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 3:44pm
The children had lots of fun developing their fine motor skills whilst spray painting this week in Nursery.
Our First Weeks in Foundation Stage
Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 3:16pm
We've had a busy few weeks in Foundation Stage. All of our children have now started and they are settling in nicely. Have a look at what we have been doing.
Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 3:37pm
This week in Forest School the children started by looking at the signs of summer and identifying different flowers and trees. Then Nursery children made Dream Catchers and the Reception children did some Wild Weaving.
Sports Week In Foundation Stage
Date: 18th Jun 2023 @ 4:14pm
The children have had a fantastic week of sporting activities including Fit 4 KIds, Zumba, Yoga, gymnastics and finishing with Sports Day,
Natural Minibeast Art in Nursery
Date: 19th May 2023 @ 2:23pm
This half term the children have been finding out all about minibeasts. We are currently reading the story 'A Good Place' by Lucy Cousins. The children have been inspired to create some natural minibeast art.
Date: 19th May 2023 @ 2:12pm
There was lots of excitement when we discovered a bird had made a home in one of our bird boxes in the garden. The bird now has seven chicks in her nest.
Date: 9th May 2023 @ 11:56am
For our last Forest School of the spring, the children took part in a scavenger hunt. Each time they found a flower or an insect on their card they were given a bead to thread onto their string. At the end of the hunt all the children had managed to collect enough beads to make a necklace.
Date: 21st Apr 2023 @ 4:47pm
During Forest School this week the children were developing their observational and navigational skills. Firstly, they had to look around the area to find objects that shouldn't be in the forest area. Then they had to find and follow the arrows to find the treasure. All the children enjoyed finding the gold.
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 3:30pm
This afternoon author Sean Perkins visited Lyme to share his latest book with us 'Oscar and Ben - The Birthday Party'.
Sean introduced the children to the main characters Oscar and Ben but first they had to wake them up from their sleeping bag. Once the cats Oscar and Ben were awake they sat in our classroom and listened to the story too! Oscar and Ben ventured into the forest to celebrate the birthday of their good friend Mrs Hen.
The story was exciting and entertaining and Sean even added special sound effects. At the end of the session Sean played his guitar and we sang a song about the story.
The children's faces lit up during the story telling session showing us that our children really do share a love of reading. Thank you to Sean for providing our youngest children with such a memorable learning experience.
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 4:33pm
During Forest School the children were asked to recall the names of the different flowers and trees they'd looked at last week. The nursery children then played a stick game where they had to think of different uses for a stick. They then went on to make a bird's nest and we're pleased to discover chocolate eggs in them when they went back to look at them.
The reception children were tying knots again and had to make a fishing rod using a stick and a small magnet.
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 8:15am
This week at Forest School the children once again looked for signs of spring and found different flowers and trees. After the exploration of the area, the nursery children went on to make a Sistrum. The reception children were learning to tie knots and they made a shaker.
Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 11:18am
This week was the first of our spring Forest School sessions. Mr Brooks pointed out the different signs of spring and encouraged the children to look for some too.
The nursery children then went on to make a wooden gingerbread man and the reception children went on a scavenger hunt. They had to remember and collect the same objects which Mr Brooks had shown to them earlier.
Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 11:01am
We have had lots of fun over the last two weeks with our story The Gingerbread Man. We have made and decorated gingerbread out of dough, hunted for the gingerbread man around the school, made our own gingerbread men, threaded the gingerbread man and looked at what happened when the gingerbread man got wet.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 12:08pm
This week the nursery children shared the story of The Gingerbread Man. Then we made our own gingerbread men. They were yummy.
Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 8:28pm
Last week we celebrated Pancake day by making our own pancakes. They were delicious.
Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 8:13pm
The nursery children have had lots of fun today with Chatterpix. They chose different nursery rhyme characters and made them sing. Can you guess who's behind the different characters?
Date: 15th Feb 2023 @ 7:13pm
The theme of Children’s Mental Health Week 2023 was Let’s Connect. The children took part in different activities each day. We made friendship bracelets, danced to our favourite music, made calm down bottles, did Cosmic Yoga, connected with nature and then finished the week with our own Spa Day.
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 3:45pm
This week in Forest School the children were able to experience the winter weather firsthand because it had snowed. We took every opportunity to explore the snow- making tracks, observing it and feeling it. The children were all really excited.
After that, the children made Fairy Fires. Mr. Brooks explained all about how fire is useful to humans but it can also be very dangerous. The children then had a go at using the strikers to light their own Fairy Fires. All the children had their own fire either lit by themselves or with help. It was fascinating watching the fires.
Date: 18th Jan 2023 @ 10:55am
In our reading ambassador meeting today we made plans for National Storytelling Week which will be held on the week beginning Monday 30th January. The children shared why stories and storytelling is important. They came up with ideas of events that we could do to promote a love of reading and storytelling. The ambassadors are planning to hold a whole school assembly, will be visiting classes to tell stories and they will even be telling stories on the playground at playtimes!
Date: 13th Jan 2023 @ 3:55pm
This week at Forest School the children were learning about winter. They found out that during winter the birds often go hungry because there is not much food around for them. All of the children made a bird feeder to hang in their garden.
Date: 21st Dec 2022 @ 2:44pm
Our wonderful FS children performed 'Whoops- a - Daisy Angel' - their singing, acting and dancing were all excellent!
Date: 19th Nov 2022 @ 8:11am
This week the nursery children celebrated 'World Nursery Rhyme Week'. Every day we sang a new rhyme and completed different activities related to the rhyme of the day. The rhymes were
Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 10:41am
This was our last Forest School session of the autumn term. Mr Brooks will be back in January.
This week the nursery childtren listened to the story 'Stickman' . Then they explored the forest and found sticks to make stick man. It was lots of fun.
The reception children lhad a fire and made their own Iron Age flatbread. It was very yummy.
