Thursday 19th December:

Today we went to St Johns Church in Boxmoor for our school carol concert. We sang Christmas carols and listened to readings from the bible. We were able to spot our decorated tree at the back of the church.

The children in KS1 worked well together to produce a fantastic Christmas nativity called ‘Baubles’. The boys in reception were mice and the girls were stars and all took to the stage to do a dance.

Thursday 12th December:

Today we went to Watford to the Palace theater and watched ‘Sleeping Beauty.’ We all had a great time.

Our Autumn Term 2 topic is Penguins. We have been learning about where the Emperor penguin. We have learnt about where they live, what they eat, how they move and their life cycle. We completed lots of activities during child initiated play.

Wednesday 13th November

Today we had a singing coach come into to work with us on our Christmas Nativity songs.

Week Commencing: 11th November

This week we have been learning about Remembrance Day.

Week Commencing: 4th November

Today was our first visit to the forest school classroom at Box Moor Trust. We went on the minibus up to the Old Barn where we met Jacqui. We put on our hi visibility jackets with our name badges on and then set off on the walk to the forest school classroom. On the way to the classroom Jacqui pointed out different things in the woods for example mushrooms, fungi, bird boxes and different leaves. When we got close to the forest school classroom there was a big tree called the ‘Hello’ tree, we said hello to it and put our named gnomes down. Jacqui then showed us the boundaries of the forest school classroom and introduced us to the fire pit and the fire pit rules. (No fire yet just practicing) We then got to explore the classroom and do some activities – animal zip line, pulleys, animal swings, animal homes, mud kitchen, painting trees with water and lying down looking up at the sky and the trees. It was all a lot of fun and we look forward to the next time we visit.

Week Commencing: 4th November

This week we have been learning about the story of Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night. We have also had lots of Halloween activities out during child initiated play. For Halloween this week we read the book ‘Room on the Broom’.

Week Commencing: 21st October

This week we went on an Autumn walk around the schools grounds collecting natural things that were different colours and stuck them to our collection sheet. We also read the book ‘Stick Man’ and went on a walk to collect sticks to make our own stick men. We also had lots of Autumn activities in class.

Week Commencing: 7th October

This week in maths we have been learning about 2D shapes. We used 2D shapes to make pictures, used the bee-bot to find 2D shapes and made 2D shapes on the geo board.

Week Commencing: 23rd September

This week we have been reading the book ‘Owl Babies’ for our topic Autumn.

Week Commencing: 23rd September

Today Jacqui from forest school came to visit us at school again. We went through the forest school rules and then went outside in groups to explore the schools grounds. Jacqui talked to us about the weather and about some of the natural things found around the school grounds.

Week Commencing: 23rd September

This week in maths we have been learning about repeating patterns. We have been making our own repeating patterns using paint, making necklaces and patterns using things from the classroom.

Week Commencing: 9th September

Today Jacqui from Box Moor Trust came to visit us at school. She showed us lots of pictures of the forest school classroom and explained what it looked like. She went through some of the rules that we will need to remember when we attend the forest school at Box Moor Trust. We then made name badges and named gnomes which we will use when we are at forest school.

Week Commencing 30th September:

This week we have been reading the book ‘The Gruffalo’ during literacy. We have been doing lots of activities linked to this book we painted pictures, completed puzzles and been on a Gruffalo hunt in the garden!

Week Commencing 30th September:

We have been learning to recognise numbers 1-10 and practice counting with objects.

We took part in creating a whole school mosaic which will go on display in the courtyard. We can’t wait to see it finished!

Week Commencing 9th Sept:

We have been getting to know each other and our new classroom.