Harvest, Farms, apples, apples and more apples!

 What a week! What a week! 

Every week I am just amazed by the children, they are just wonderful!

We have throughly enjoyed our theme of harvest and farming this week! So much so I am going to the let the pictures do the talking this week!!

We have had a wonderful time using our 'Joy Boxes' this week, these boxes are designed to promote talk, partnership and sharing, the children all sit together and share a box of joy, which is filled with interesting knick knacks!

We had a fantastic time making Apple Crumbles, Mr Bascombe took us in small groups to pick the apples from the trees, we went in small groups to peel and chop the apples and made the crumble topping too!

This wasn't the only thing we did with apples, we also made apple printing pictures!

Our theme this week was farming, we have read farm related stories and explored how we look after animals, particularly muddy animals!

We were sad to postpone our trip to Maiden Castle Farm, however this will be rearranged for the last week of this half term!

We have also enjoyed drawing this week!

We have had two sessions are part of our Food, Faith and Farming focus, on Tuesday we learnt about Humanism, and Christianity!

We have also played and then played some more!

We loved the farm shop this week!

On Thursday we had a special delivery which was super exciting! We discussed how the crane lifted the heavy bags and the children guessed what we might use them for, watch this space!!

Today we had our Multi Faith and No Faith Harvest assembly,  I am extremely proud of all the children and how beautifully they sang our Harvest song! 

Turning our attention to next week, myself and the reception team are SUPER EXCITED as we are having a Moon and Space week, this theme has been led by the interests of the children and we can't wait to get cracking!! 

This weekend perhaps you could ask the children what they already know about space and the moon? We will be exploring this all next week!

Coming up:

3D shape in Powermaths

Space and the Moon in Understanding the World

Space potatoes (just wait and see)

Flu immunisations (11th October)

Parent's Evening 12th&13th October

We also have a very special guest visiting us on Monday, Greg Bottrill is a former Early years leader and has written the most excellent books including Can I go and play now? Which inspires our learning practices in Reception. We cannot wait to have Greg to play!

Phew! What a week! Very well done Reception children, you are Fantastic!

Ms Evans and the Reception Team

Postponing our Farm Trip 5th October

 Hi all,

Having watched the weather closely over the past 24 hours, it looks like we are due a very wet morning tomorrow, I have decided to postpone our trip to Maiden Castle Farm and hope for better weather in a few weeks time.

I am aware that the children were really looking forward to the trip (me too) but I want to make sure that the children have the very best experience and the wind and the rain forecast for tomorrow would impact that.

Thank you to those who have volunteered to accompany us tomorrow, I will be in touch with plans over the next week. 

I would ask that you please share this information with others so we are all aware of the change for the morning.

Many thanks

Ms Evans

A truly inspired to learn week

 Goodness me I don't know where to begin! 

What a fantastic week we have had! Once again we have been extremely impressed by all the children, their attitude towards their learning, positive behaviour and each other!

We kicked off the week on Monday with the launch of our Food Faith and Farming Fortnight with a visit from Barrbara.

We also had our first PE lesson, lots of children were able to get ready by themselves which is fantastic!

In scarf this week we reflected on the things we are good at.

We've even had a go at chopping our own snack in the snack station.

Children are becoming increasingly confident when exploring our learning landscape and they are working so well together. We have had some super sharing and problem solving across the week.

                                         We had great fun picking apples with Mr Bascombe

Today we had an extra special visitor who delivered the children's POW Passports, more information on these will be shared next week.

This afternoon we had a fantastic talk from Sherene Shoukrey all about Islam and being a Muslim.

The children loved sharing their ideas in Drawing Club this week, our focus was on the classic animation Wacky Races. On Thursday we drew pictures of what you would get if you won the race, my favourite was an octopus!! Because why wouldn't you win an octopus! The magic of childhood has shone through!

Coming up next week:

It's harvest and farm week throughout our provision.

Identifying more or less of different objects in Power maths

Exploring feelings and emotions in Scarf

A Squash and a Squeeze in Drawing Club.

We also have more faith based inputs throughout the week.

Don't forget we have our EYFS and KS1 Mutli-Faith or No Faith assembly on Friday which you are warmly invited to attend and our Local Food Links Fair from 2.30 on Friday afternoon!

As ever please do get in touch if you would like to discuss anything.

Ms Evans and the Reception Team