Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

Role Play and keeping healthy.

Charlie’s block play; where he created a sequence of washing clothes making a washing machine, a tumble dryer and a washing line, inspired us to to explore why and how we keep ourselves clean and to add resources from the real world to develop our imaginary role...

Exploring malleable materials as part of our early handwriting!

In the nursery we are loving exploring different materials like dough, foam, soap and paint. These fun  activities help us develop  arm, finger and hand strength which we will need when we begin to coordinate pens and pencils. Whisking Whisking Cutting Cutting...

Dental Resources: learning and fun!

  We have been lucky to borrow some dental resources from  Devon Dental  services for a week. We learnt a lot about how to care for our teeth. Teeth books A blow up dentist chair At the dentist game: which foods stay stuck on our teeth for a long time? The fruit...

Making structures outside

This week the children used the blocks outside to create spaces where we can play. They made a police car complete with blue lights! A small group worked together to move the blocks to create this enclosure. This is a police car it goes “Nee naw!” Blue...

Pumpkin fun!

We have loved exploring pumpkins. We have learnt that they can look very different: different sizes and weights; different colours and they look great when carved! Having pumpkins in our class prompted us to share our experiences of pumpkins and dressing up up for...