We have been selecting shapes for a purpose this morning in Maths. With a partner we made pictures of people, cars and rockets and then compared which shapes we had used Great Coates Primary #gcpmaths #gcpearlyyears

Today in maths we’ve been looking at tangram puzzles, we worked together to make shape pictures. We explored how shapes stay the same even when we rotate it. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears #gcpmaths

The children in reception showed a really good understanding of healthy and unhealthy foods today by sorting them. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears #gcpunderstandingtheworld

I’m so impressed with my footballers, their confidence and control has grown so much already in a few weeks. Keep up the hard work girls! Great Coates Primary #gcpdelightandjoy

We’ve been making and eating fruit kebabs today to support our learning on healthy eating. We tried pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, bananas and grapes! Yum yum 😋 Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears

We started our EmpathyLabUK week reading our story Troll. The children talked about the character's feelings and how Trev the Troll became a kind friend to the other animals. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears The children made their Trev Trolls practising their cutting skills too.

We have been continuing our learning about feelings for EmpathyLabUK in music today. The children enjoyed learning the song and actions. Great Coates Primary #gcpmusic #gcpearlyyears

Today we have been talking about feelings and colouring our Empathy Glasses as part of EmpathyLabUK our PSHE learning. #gcppshe #gcpearlyyears #empathydayfestival Great Coates Primary

In the mornings the children come in, find their book and write about the funny picture on the board. Today it was some fluffy chicks and look at this fabulous, totally independent writing from our reception children. We’re getting ready for GCPYear1 . Great Coates Primary #gcpwriting

Reception like to keep cool in the sun! We made tin foil boats, lemonade and a water run - all finished off with an ice pop! Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears #gcpdelightandjoy

Reception like to keep cool in the sun! We made tin foil boats, lemonade and a water run - all finished off with an ice pop! Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears #gcpdelightandjoy

We have been exploring maps - we used Google Earth to explore the Arctic, Antarctica, African desert and the South American Rain Forests. We then explored Grimsby and our school and some of us tried creating their own maps. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears

In SRE this week we’ve been talking about daily routine and the things we do to stay clean. We knew all about brushing our teeth and had a practise in class! Great Coates Primary #gcppshe

Chalk painting in the sun today, we’ve been practising letter formation and making patterns. We’ve also been looking watering our garden after all the warm weather. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears

We are reading The Snail and the Whale this week. The children have enjoyed telling ocean stories with each other using the sea creatures. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears

Our Graduation Celebration day. The children presented their work from throughout the year and made their families proud with their fantastic singing. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears #gcpdelightandjoy

The children in FS2 enjoyed watching the talent show yesterday and even got to see our special guest Davina McDeans! Well done to all the children that participated you were brilliant! Great Coates Primary #gcpDANCE

We enjoyed ourselves at the French cafe as part of Bastille Day celebrations. Then we practised our fine motor skills by colouring in the dots to create the French flag. We also learnt how to sing the numbers in French up to 10. Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears #gcpdelightandjoy

Look what we’ve grown! Mr Wardle even tried one of our onions - yum yum! Great Coates Primary #gcpearlyyears #gcpscience

A bit of a bitter sweet teddy bears picnic today as we also said goodbye to the amazing Miss Waters today who has taught so many at Great Coates Primary over the last 17 years! She’ll be very missed but we wish her all the best! FS1 GCPFS2