Reception invited family members into school to join us on our animal day. Thanks to Laura, the Animal Lady, we got to meet a wonderful selection of animals such as a snake, a bearded dragon, an owl, a gecko, a hissing cockroach, guinea pig and an extremely cute honey bear (which turned out to be everyone’s favourite!). We learnt lots of facts about each animal and then completed a piece of writing with our grown- ups. We had a fantastic day!

The children in Nursery have been very busy enjoying Easter activities in class. They were challenged to create an Easter Bonnet at home and we have been overwhelmed with the responses. It has been lovely to see the children take part in an Easter Bonnet parade and play bingo with their families during our play and stay. A huge thank you to everyone for taking part!

Two's stay and play was based on the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. There were lots of mark making activities provided such as butterfly and fruit painting, playdough disco, fruit hunt outside, spaghetti paint brush painting and moving like a butterfly using different materials.

For this year's Shakespeare Fortnight we returned to 'The Tempest', Shakespeare's tale of revenge set on a magical island. We looked at...

This term T4Ts topic has been ‘Around the World’. The children have been introduced to countries around the world including the UK, Australia, China, India, Africa, and Italy. The children have taken part in lots of different activities which have been based around these countries. Some of their favourites have been: - making boomerangs and racing them on the school field; making Divas which children have taken home; painting hands to print the Italian flag; collaging African

Nursery parents and carers joined us for a short presentation focusing on the importance of developing ‘gross motor’ and ‘fine motor’ skills. We suggested activities to try at home to support this and looked at the progression of writing structure. Our families joined in with ‘Dough Disco’, ‘Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle’ and a range of pre-writing activities in the Nursery.

We celebrated Chinese New Year! The children learnt to say hello in Chinese by saying “nihao”. 2024 is the year of the dragon. We shared the story of The Great Race. In PE we moved like the different animals, then had our own animal races. The children explored lots of Chinese artifacts and played with coloured rice. They created some red and gold lanterns and put a given number of golden coins in the lucky red money envelopes. Food tasting was enjoyed by all!