This week the children have started looking at the story of Percy The Park Keeper – After The Storm. The children read the beginning of the story where a tree fell down in a storm.

Today in our school woods the children explored the features of trees and learnt about the different parts of the trees.

The children all found that the trees in our woods are very very tall! They have branches way up high with leaves on. The children thought that the branches on the trees were like our arms and the leaves the trees hands.

The children then thought about the trees body – the trunk. Some trees have big trunks and some have small trunks. The children described how the trunk felt.

We then had a look if we could see the trees roots under all the autumn leaves.

We then went to see if any trees in our woods had fallen down like our Percy the Park Keeper story.

On Thursday the children made poppies to remember all the soldiers who have fought in wars.

The children then put all their poppies together to make a Foundation Stage wreath.

The children had two sets on non identical cubes. The children had to use their sorting skills to sort the cubes into the different colours and then make two bars to compare the amount. The children used their maths knowledge to explain which colour cubes had more and which had fewer.

This week in Year 1 we have been looking at bar models. We have also been using our rekenreks to support our learning in our power maths sessions!

Today, the children in Foundation Stage have been learning about another celebration – Bonfire Night!

The children began the morning learning about all the different things that happen on Bonfire Night.

The children then made firework pictures using their printing skills.

The children also made sparkler using breadsticks and melted chocolate. They were very yummy!

Outside the children helped Miss Barber make a BIG bonfire picture…which was lots of fun!

The children finished their day by learning about Bonfire Night safety with Fireman Sam.

On Thursday, the children in Foundation Stage learnt about the festival of Diwali. The children began the morning learning about who celebrates Diwali and how people celebrate Diwali.

The children then enjoyed lots of activities linked to their learning about Diwali.

The children made sweets for Diwali because people who celebrate Diwali give sweets to their friends as a way of celebrating.

The children made their own Rangoli patterns as people decorate their homes with Rangoli patterns.

The children learnt that Diwali is the ‘Festival of Lights’. The children all made their own Diya Lamp using clay and sequins to decorate them.

We then finished our day with a story all about celebrating Diwali.

Year 1 had lots of fun looking around the school grounds and in the forest learning about Autumn. We went on a scavenger hunt to observe the changes in the season.

Year 1 had a great time creating a spaceship from the pumpkin that we received from the allotment!

We looked at the spaceship in our story ‘Toys in Space’ and created the features of a spaceship from cardboard and tin foil.

We have been reading a brilliant book called ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey.

One of the characters in the story is a Hoctopize so we made one of our very own!

We had lots of fun making one and then we wrote our own instructions on how we did it.