Star of the Week!

Our 'Stars' for last week were Taylor, Eva, Tillie and Owen. Congratulations and well done to all of you!

Let's Plant a Sunflower . . .

The children have all planted their sunflower seeds this week . . . 

First they put some compost in the pot

Then carefully planted the seed

Before giving it a nice drink of water

Now we are waiting to see what happens!

Happy St George's Day!

We have been finding out about St George and how he saved the princess from the dragon!

It was great fun trying out some jousting - we had some very skillful knights! 

On St George's Day afternoon, we had a special celebration and after watching some of the older children act out the story, Mr Morris cut the ribbon to open our new castle play area . . .

 The sun was shining as we had a lovely picnic on the school field - and played some princess related ring games!

We hope you had a lovely St George's Day - we would love to hear about your celebrations!

Bird's Nests

Today we heard the birds singing in the trees and we spotted a nest very high up in a tree. We talked about why birds build nests. They need a home, a place to lay their eggs and care for their chicks. We learnt that birds build their nests in places off the ground so the eggs and chicks are safe from wind, rain, strong sun and predators such as foxes, cats and people We then had a go at making our own nests using twigs, leaves and dried grass.

"A people's nest" - Ethan

What do you think of our nests? We had the advantage of having 2 hands. It must be tricky with just a beak!

Star of the Week!

Congratulations and well done to Kaitlin, Lydia, Archie and Jessica - all of you were our 'Stars' last week! What a great start to the Summer Term.

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary!

It was lovely to see everyone again following the Easter holiday, and we started off the new term by sharing some of our favourite rhymes, including Henry bear's favourite . . .

Singing Mary, Mary got us thinking about our own gardens, and what we know about growing:

Ava S - "My blossom in my garden is very beautiful and it grows on the trees. It needs the sun 'cause it feels warm."

Cody - "Flowers grow when you give them flower seeds. If you don't water them they won't grow. I want to find out how they grow!"

Ellie F - "My mummy's flowers - they grow this much! (Ellie showed us with her hands) When the flowers grow, they need some sun"

Jamie - "I know how flowers grow, I grow them myself, my dad lets me. I grow them with seeds and then you give them some water and then they grow and it takes a long time. Put the seeds under the ground"

We thought about whether or not all the flowers would grow to be the same size in Mary's garden, and looked at five different flowers:

Amelia - "This one is big, this one is small, this one is the biggest, they're both big, (holding two up) this one is little!"

  

They then put them in order according to their height . . .

Evie - "Big one first and then a medium one, and then a little medium one and a tiny one and a teeny weeny one!"

Some of the other children also used 'short', 'tall', 'high' and 'long' to describe the flowers - how would you have described them?

Next week are going to plant some sunflower seeds to see how tall we can grow our own flowers!

Star of the Week!

Our Star of the Week for the last week of the Spring Term was Billy - congratulations and well done!