Nursery celebrate School Diversity Week!

28th June 2024Hayley Tampin

We have enjoyed celebrating School Diversity Week this week in Nursery. The children loved using the colours of the pride flag to decorate their own bunting flags.

We also read the story ‘and tango makes three’ by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. It’s a lovely story about a family of penguins at Central Park Zoo in New York City. Two male penguins, Roy and Silo, really want their own family – and with a little help from the zoo keeper, Mr Gramzay, their dreams come true and along comes Tango!

We talked about our own families and how they’re all different. The children also enjoyed drawing their families after reading the story.

Diversity Week in Year 1

27th June 2024L Chisholm

This week as part of Diversity week we have been looking at the many variations of ‘Family’.  We decided that a family show love, support and care for each other and we looked at all the different types of family and how they are the same as ours and how they are different .  We concluded that no matter their differences a ‘Family’ is important to our mental well being.

Careers Day

22nd June 2024s begum

We had a super ‘Career’s Day’ on Wednesday! We spent the day learning about all the different professions and jobs people do. During the morning, we learnt about TV and video marketing and then we tried on some NHS scrubs. In afternoon, we spoke to a few people about the jobs they do. Later on, we had a visit from Tracey, an author, who wrote a book called Frogsby. During the session, we listened to how the inspiration of the story came about and listened to the story being read. Then, we produced our own book characters. We had an awesome day!

 

School Council OPAL assembly

21st June 2024K Richardson

This morning School Council joined in with the assembly. In their rolls as OPAL ambassadors they talked about all of the positive and amazing things they have seen or been involved in since OPAL started. They also reminded their friends how we need to use the equipment properly. They were amazing!

 

Careers Day in Nursery!

21st June 2024Hayley Tampin

As part of our whole school Careers Day, nursery had some special visitors yesterday. We had a visit from a children’s occupational therapist, Alison, who told us about how she helps children develop independence.

We were also visited by a local author, Lauren Taylor (nee Davis), who shared her books ‘The Scoliosaurus’ and ‘The Rainbow Snail’ We loved the stories and hearing about the inspiration behind them. Lauren left us with some lovely craft activities too – a personalised banner including some of her characters and some snails for us to design our own shells. We had great fun getting creative!

We enjoyed role play activities, playing games and listening to stories about different jobs too.

Reception Maths: sharing and grouping

20th June 2024K Richardson

This week in maths we have been sharing and grouping. The children have done a fabulous job. They have problem solved, explained their reasons and ensured all groups are equal. They also shared sweets between themselves and their friends, again using their problem solving and reasoning skills throughout. Of course they ate the sweets after! Ask them to show you their skills at home.

 

1 Red Following Instructions

20th June 2024L Chisholm

In our English lessons this week we have been learning how to read, follow and write instructions.  We decided to make chocolate and syrup rice krispie cakes. We followed the instructions very carefully to ensure that our cakes turned out correctly.  We then ate them, which was our favourite part!