Mark making, art lessons and peer reviewing in Reception

A while ago one of our friends announced that they were very good at drawing dragons. An art movement was born and friends flocked to the quiet corner to learn his wise ways! Here are the results of some excellent teaching from four year olds 🎨

How progression works in Reception.

Making maps in preschool

We have carried on with our learning and are dying our maps with teabags so they look aged. We are also rolling them up so they look like scrolls and ripping the edges.

Our pirates are hunting for treasure in the playground.

We have found and sorted it into different materials. We found plastic, material, rubber, paper and metal!

The big picture

Collaborative art helps us to tell stories and develop our communication skills with each other as friends. I recommend using old wallpaper and having a family drawing moment! It’s great fun. Just make sure the wallpaper isn’t still on the walls 😆. Charity shops often have rolls of wallpaper that you can buy cheaply and […]

Preschool walk around.

Here’s some nice memories for our friends who go home for lunch. Tell your families all about the friends that you can see.

An Elephant called Elmer has been teaching us for World Book Day

A small and kind elephant who is a little bit different has taught us about being happy and creative this week! We have been sequencing some of the stories and making little books. We have also been creating collages and making art inspired by feeling joyful.

Exploring changes in materials in Preschool

We are using our language skills to describe the changes that we see and make predictions.

My Love is like a Red, Red Rose 🌹

Year 4 have been delving into poetry again this week and we spent yesterday listening to and reading the famous Robert Burns poem, My Love is like a Red, Red Rose. We listened to Eddi Readers’s beautiful sung rendition before reading the poem to each other, discussing what some of the unfamiliar language might mean […]

Outdoor learning in Preschool

The kitchen is open and we are making stick sandwiches and leaf soup today. Role play is so important in order to help develop language and conversation skills.