Foundation Stage
An amazing start to the year in the Nursey
In foundation we have had an amazing start to the year! Welcoming back our lovely nursery children and settling in our new starters into the foundation setting. Our core books: Dear zoo, Brown bear, Where's spot. ...
So much learning and fun!
We are continuing to enjoy so many activities with many learning opportunities and chances to wonder together whilst talking about our thoughts in both our nursery and reception classes. The reception children are developing their phonic skills ,writing skills and...
Hollow Blocks Play September 2023
A wonderful start to the school year.
National Story telling week 29th January -2nd February
During this week we promoted lots of opportunities to tell and create stories. In the Foundation Unit we used tough trays to enable children to make up story narratives. We promoted role play scenarios and encouraged children to retell well known stories with props....
Foundation Stage Fun Autumn 1!
This half term has flown by! We have been settling new children into our foundation stage unit. We have been getting to know each other and enjoying exploring our environment inside and outside. [gallery...
Shadow Puppets Talking Turns Project
What a WORLD BOOK DAY! We had the pleasure of watching and creating our own Shadow Puppets Show. The shadow puppet show was based on the story , 'The Man who Cuts the Clouds'. It's a simple story about a grandad who has an amazing...
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.
May in Foundation Stage Reception Base 1
We LOVE… PE on a Tuesday and Forest School on a Thursday
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- Hammack Happiness
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- Mud sliding
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- Painitng flowers in the rain
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- Catching water for painting
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- Strong arms!
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- Climbing high
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- Tricky Balancing
We have been developing our observational drawing skills and designing skills through the use of oil pastels and woodwork. JUST LOOK at our skills.
Woodwork has developed perseverance, confidence, resilience and social skills such as the ability to wait as others complete a sustained piece of work.
We have also extended our skills in other ways ..
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AMAZING Unit Block constructions
3D Star Wars sculptures
Reading the class story at the end of the day.
May in Foundation Stage / Nursery
Having Fun in May in both the rain and the sun!
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- RELAXING!
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- Helping others
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- GREAT WET FUN
Building friendships has been very important across the first half of this term.
You can see that playing and learning with our friends makes us very happy.
We have started to further develop our skills …Just look what we can do now!
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- Numeral to quantity counting
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- Observational oil pastel drawing
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- 3D designing
Wednesday 22nd July 10 Things to do this Summer
HELLO EVERYONE A HUGE THANK YOU
I would like to express my THANKS and PRIDE in the work and commitment EVERY family has shown across the last 4 months. During the last week, at work with my F2 class, watching the F1’s children on our Zoom calls and observing the reactions when children have been able to return into the setting for our ‘Get together’, it has been ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.
The smiles, joy, confidence, friendship and laughter that we always shared together in class has continued to shine and blossom as we have experienced learning in different forms. Each Zoom was different and a thrilling new learning journey for myself and my team, children singing five current buns, or five little monkeys, retelling their own favourite story, building their own playdough characters or even leading the Zoom memory game session,
The last two days watching your children bounce with joy as they entered the outside area during our get together has been priceless. You all have such amazing children and they truly make me smile.
ENJOY Every single moment of your summer holidays. Make precious memories, playing together and sharing hours of free fun having picnics in the garden, walking in the sun or rain, time to be silly together and laugh your list will be so LONG. DO whatever makes you all happy and you enjoy yourselves.
September will be a new start for everyone within the familiar groups we know. I am extremely pleased to be able to share even more time with your children because they truly are a pleasure to teach. The F1 children and parents! returning will start a new journey for us as we introduce Forest School Sessions as part of our transition. this new venture makes me excited and I know the sessions will bring HUGE smiles to your children’s faces.
10 THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER
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SMILE and HAVE DEEP BELLY Laughs!
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Enjoy making things
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Enjoy getting messy with paint, sand or MUD!
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Continue to bake and explore new recipes
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Keep HUNTING for bugs and insects
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Keep setting yourself Physical challenges
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Take pleasure in quiet beaches and the beauty of the coast.
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Enjoy fresh ice cream…YUM!
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Try something NEW or take a different approach to something familiar
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JUMP FOR JOY and Enjoy Every Moment.
I look forward to seeing you all again in September when we all have had time to rest and enjoy time together with family on holiday. A holiday which might be different than usual but will still build important memories for life. Make those memories very SPECIAL.
Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell.