The perfect weather for some shadow drawing today ☀️👍🏽

It was amazing to meet and listen to a man whose books have been inspiring my practice since embarking on my teaching career Dr Alistair Bryce-Clegg today. So many incredible resources to explore and inspire Childcare & Education Expo and we could not resist some new books for the classroom Kestrel Mead Primary Academy

What a busy week! We loved acting out our gingerbread man story, created a play park, found a good use for the conkers I had collected and made some daring obstacle courses. The conversation, creativity and problem solving has been incredible to observe. @kestrelmead

Conversation, imagination and curiosity have been flowing this week. Teaching friends to skip, launching rockets that landed all over the world, collecting rain water to paint with and working in a car wash are only a few of the places our play has taken us to @kestrelmead

This week I have been treated to a makeover in a salon, given a phonics lesson by a fantastic teacher and taken to Africa on board a plane, luckily we had plenty of snacks for the long journey✈️ @kestrelmead

We love our Friday afternoon golden time. Bubbles, duck, duck, goose and parachute games are our current favourites. The laughter and togetherness never fails to end our week on a high 🤩💪🏽👍🏽

Reading room on the broom inspired us to make our own potions this week. We could become ten times bigger, grow wings or turn into a witch, a frog or even a dragon 🪄@kestrelmead

Feeling festive in class 3 this week. We have been enjoying a wake up shake up in the morning before rehearsing our nativity 💫We were transfixed watching Aladdin and loved every minute of our families being in our classroom making Christmas crafts with us 🎄🌟@kestrelmead

It has been magical watching the children’s joy and confidence as they performed our nativity to their parents this week. #makingmemories Made possible by all the infants staff flexibility and support the last few weeks. Thanks all, What a team. ⭐️👍🏽💫@MrsLongmanKMPA @kestrelmead

Class 3 could not believe we were lucky enough to have some real snow to explore on our last week of term ☃️🌨. We then decided to try making our own! Santa visited, gifts made and Christmas songs sung. Happy, glittery children all ready for their break 😊🎄👍🏽💫 @kestrelmead

2023 is off to a fantastic start. So excited about our new compost bin, sparking an investigation into the process which we can’t wait to continue. New cars inspired us to make a car mat, we enjoyed some phonics games and finished off with a parachute golden time🌟@kestrelmead

It’s wonderful observing the progress the children are making and the rightful pride they are feeling for all their hard work. We are engaging with challenging, independent and compassionate play, reading whole books and writing sentences 💪🏽 very proud class 3 🌟 @kestrelmead

This week we created a bus, made tickets and planned our stops, before going on our journey, created delicious dishes with many different ingredients in our cafe, filled our outdoor sandpit up and experimented with creating and dissolving ice #curiosity #lovetoplay @kestrelmead

Its wonderful observing the engagement our animals & their habitats topic has created. The children have enjoyed sharing their knowledge with each other while completing jigsaws, performing veterinary operations, making ocean animals and creating a forest. @kestrelmead

This week we made a flying car to go to Morocco via Butlins, challenged ourselves with a tricky obstacle course (avoiding the crocodiles and tigers), created a “th th theatre” and “th th theme park” and finished off with a golden time of bubbles, games and laughter @kestrelmead

We had the best day out at Windmill farm park this week. We met, fed and learnt about lots of animals, including trying to catch a mischievous sheep who had escaped from her field! 🐑 We enjoyed a tractor ride and of course, plenty of time to play 😊 #MakingMemories @kestrelmead

We love playing HFW bingo, this week we challenged ourselves to write the words as well as read them 💪🏽. Reading whatever next has inspired our play, we found our own rockets indoor and out and blasted off to see if we could get to the moon in time for the picnic 🚀 @kestrelmead

We had a fantastic #WorldBookDay2023 in class 3, the children loved having Winnie the Witch read her own stories and enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other. Great to observe the teamwork and curiosity preparing our veg patch created.🧑🏽‍🌾@kestrelmead

Awe and curiosity filled our day when we visited the Botanical Gardens as part of our how things grow topic this week. From cacti and fruit plants in the the glass houses to creating art with nature. We loved exploring the giant Redwood tree, friendly fish and hills @kestrelmead

Class 3 have been enjoying reading “all are welcome here” and making our 2 pages worth of art. It was magical seeing their pride at the finished product and the excitement discovering all the other pages around school 📖👩🏽‍🎨🌟@kestrelmead