Reception sing, dance and drum us all into the weekend!

Are you ready to party? Reception are! Coordinating dance moves and songs about pirates as well as finding different beats on a drum kit.

It’s the Friday rave with Fred the frog!

Dancing through Monday

We have been looking at different types of dancing today. We even added some bells to our ankles to copy the dance moves!

Year 1 Dance – 5,6,7,8

Year One really enjoyed their first dance lesson of the term with Gemma! Here are some great moments from the lesson.

Arts round-up

Hello St. Margaret’s! I thought it was about time we had another round-up of all the amazing Arts and Culture out there. I’ve gathered together lots of resources below, all with links to the relevant websites. There should be something for everyone so have a browse and maybe step out of your comfort zone and […]

Miss Sheppard’s (very bad) dance challenge!

I challenge you children to a virtual dance off! In Reception we often use “Just Dance” and follow the moves, so I thought I would upload some videos of “dance challenges” I have found during lockdown. One is called the “Cha Cha Slide Challenge” I have uploaded a video of myself doing this and a […]

Nursery 2/4

Need a bit of a lift Nursery? Well get on your dancing shoes and let’s go wild by playing the Stick Song from Hey Duggie on a 5 minute loop! Grown ups, it’s an easy find on YouTube and a firm favourite as you can see from our videos! I have also included some dances […]

Peter and the Wolf 7pm TONIGHT – free performance

The Royal Opera House are going to be streaming productions for free over the coming weeks and the programme starts tonight with children’s ballet Peter and the Wolf. This colourful, narrated children’s ballet sees a boy save his grandfather and animal friends from a big, bad wolf. Suitable for all ages, it stars pupils of […]

Nursery singalong

After some yoga in the morning courtesy of Cosmic Kids why not check out the fantastic resource that is BBC Nursery Radio. It is great for developing early language skills and has nicely animated nursery rhymes with large, clear subtitles that you can pause to encourage early reading. Can you find the letters in your […]

Nursery ❤️Music!

We have been joining in with rhymes and making dance moves to music today. We are getting very good at copying movements and putting them together into a sequence to make a dance. Our listening ears are fantastic!