Foundation Stage
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 play....
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. [gallery order="DESC"...
Reception children’s Animation of Characters
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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.
Christmas Crafts 2022
Thank you for joining us for this busy and fun afternoon session. The photo booth was a huge hit with the children. Well done for joining your child at this activity. We had so many parents...
Lunch time Learning fun! September 2022
Staying for lunch at school for the first time can be a BIG deal for the children and families but working together we have been able to make this part of our day a time to be social and learn to be independent too!
We are managing so much: listening, answering questions, chatting, making choices, remembering routines and using physical skills to hold our trays and to cut our food to eat!
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- Line up and take a tray, a knife, a fork and a spoon
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- Take our plates of food from the cooks.
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- Choose some salad
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- Carry our dinner to our seat
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- Scrape our plates and sort everything into the correct buckets.
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- Enjoying chatting with our friends and an adult.
Lunch time at school is an important part of our learning day!
We are learning how to write letters
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- nnn ….a bridge letter
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- We explore letter shapes in the air
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- We explore letter shapes in sand
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- We explore letter shapes on a white board
You might also hear about how we have been dancing VOLCANO’s ! This session is call ‘Write Dance’ and we exercise our muscles so that we have strong arms, wrists and fingers ready to write. Volcano dancing last week involved shaving foam!! This week it will involve hair conditioner and powder paint! ( photos to be added!)
A Christmas Theatre Group visit Foundation Stage
Autumn Term in the Foundation Stage
Our ‘Wait, Watch and Wonder’ books chart and show the progression of learning across all areas of the classroom. On this site I have selected to show a very small amount of the interests which have featured this Autumn Term, the photos stories we have would fill numerous photo album!! Please do come and look through our ‘Wait, Watch and Wonder’ books when you bring your child into class each in a morning, the images will make you smile.
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- Learning to cut masking and create a joint image.tape
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- Learning to mix our own powder paint
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- Explore the possibilities of structural sconfigurations using a range of media
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- How do we make structures using soft mediums ?
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- How do we make a structure secure? s using a soft medium
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- Fine motor control and spatially awareness to form 3d shapes.
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- Birds eye perspective views and mazes started to form…
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- Imaginative ideas became sparked as snake mountain, volcanoes were constructed .
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- Working with Friends has been a HUGE focus
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- Being togther as new skills are learnt
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- Completing a challenge togther
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- Sustaining concentration together .. Friends can help in so many ways!
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- Our drawing skills and consentration is continually increasing as we challenge ourselves.
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- In this sequence of photos she was challenging herself to draw a tiger.
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- She initially thought she could not draw one….. BUT
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- HER IMAGE IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. xx
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- I could FILL the whole Website with the designs they have formed with these blocks BUT Fire engines, ambulances and other vehicles have been a firm favourite.
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- Driving off togther in the vehicle they built.
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- PHYSICAL EXPLORATIONS as the children build their own obstale course
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- Jumping down the hill into the sand pit!!
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- Collecting our own water for our guttering explorations.. That’s a whole project which as fillled the term!!
BUILDING and FORMING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS through our Sherborne Developmental Movement sessions every Thursday. We laugh and giggle throughout these sessions as well as learn how to care for each other.
Sports day – Fun in the Sun
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- Group races
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- Team Work
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- Helping each other to cross the line
jumping and running
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- Limbo
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- Fun with Friends
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- Sports across the garden
Hill rolling is Super Fun!!!!
Sports Day 2021 was a very busy active day!! Well Done everyone … You all deserved your icecream!
Looking and Learning about the unusual!
Today Friday 2nd July we explored the New and Unusual... Papaya’s, Asparagus, Passion Fruit
Across the summer term we have been developing our observational drawing and painting skills. We have drawn insects, leaves, flowers and TODAY… due to lovely Jade from Asda we had new food items to draw, paint and TASTE!!
What can you see? What colours and textures will be inside?
“Its a Potato” – Passion fruit
“Its and avocado” – papaya
“I think it will be red or pink inside”
“They look like gummy balls”
“Its squishy”
“Its sour but yummy”
Haytor View Pizzeria
This was one of those afternoons that I will remember forever because we has SO much belly laughter.
We ALL children and adults laughed and laughed for two hours.
We did finally manage to make a pizza each, after spinning and stretching our own dough.
Fun in our amazing outdoor space
Our outdoor play is amazing!
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- A music house
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- Worms
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- snails
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- Bubble fun
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- Loving being in the rain
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- Obstacle course building and balancing
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- sand fun
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- Building a machine, adding oil so it will work!
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- Ice cream, ice cream come to our ice cream shop!
Haytor what a climb and how we loved to jump! Wednesday 23rd June 2021. Base 2 trip.
What a wonderful time we had at Haytor this morning!
We loved the coach journey and the climb to the top but especially jumping from the rocks!
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- Jump!
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- Jump!
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- Jump!
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- Jump!
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- Jump!
We enjoyed a lovely picnic! We found poo and bugs what more could you ask for?? Amazing children and parents of course!
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- Look at this beetle!
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- Our flag and our picnic
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- Poo!!
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- walking up!
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- Food!
What an amazing first time to think trip! Look out for our picture in the hub!
Flag Searching at Haytor Rocks
Our FIRST EVER Time to Think trip and it was ‘Brilliant’ and the sun shone for us!!
We ALL ‘everyone of us’ made it to the top….IN RECORD SPEED!!!
It was a perfect place to have our lunch and just take in the view..HAYTOR VIEW the other way round!!
Then some of you RAN…Yes ran down ..with such confidence! I could not catch you up…….
An amazing morning and wonderful work recreating our journey in the afternoon. We will display your detailed visual map in the hub for everyone to see.