Understanding the World in Reception

We have been applying our maths knowledge to observe our ducklings by creating tallies of the amount of times that they eat or drink water.

Reception – farewell ducks

Duckdate

I think these photos and videos will speak for themselves! Enjoy!

Year 1 Science – Duck!

After spending time learning about different types of animals, Year One we’re visited by some local ducklings (from reception). How exciting! The have 2 legs, wings, feathers and are warm blooded… They must be birds!

Duckdate

Dorothy certainly is a leader, and one to keep your eye on! She managed to jump out the cage this week whilst I was putting the others back and ran around the class! She LOVES diving too. Dave seems to follow her and Dale is pretty chilled and doesn’t seem to mind being handled at […]

Reception – R.E

It was quite a beautiful day today in Reception! Yesterday we had the difficult chat with the children that one of our ducks had sadly died and gone to heaven. We spoke about how our loved ones look down on us from heaven, how they think of us, and when we are feeling sad or […]

Here’s a duckdate on Reception ducks!

They’re loving their daily swims! We are responsible duck owners, cleaning up after them! One of the children noticed the duck had pooed and said “I’ll clean it Miss Sheppard give me a tissue!” Wow! We were all amazed at how big the chicks have got over the weekend, it was a lovely moment watching […]

Daily duck update!

So, we have now swapped the live to YouTube as this gives us an unlimited amount of time to stream. link – https://youtu.be/sUw0KJ54Ou8 We have 4 ducks named: Dale, Daisy, Dorothy and Dave. We did a class vote for these names! Dale has a bad leg so is having to have hydrotherapy (as advised) and […]

Reception ducklings

The school has been a buzz of EGGcitement since the ducks arrived! At the time of writing this post we had 3 ducks! Who knows how many we may have by morning! This new link will take you to my Vimeo profile where you can find the live link, and previous videos. Also a HUGE […]

THE DUCKS ARE LIVE IN RECEPTION

The ducks are now live in Reception! Follow the link here to watch them hatch (hopefully). For the time being the egg with a small hole has been named Determined Dale. Enjoy!