Last week we were lucky to have a special visitor! Arthur’s Dad, Dean, came in to talk to us about his job as a firefighter, he brought his uniform to show us how it protects him from fires and how he helps people. I think we have some future firefighters in the making here!

We learned about how to be safe online this week, Mr Quinn showed us a fun way to communicate so of course we had a go in class. We enjoyed our story ‘Smartie the penguin’, he helped us to remember an important message to keep safe!

We have enjoyed using charcoal to create our pictures of the volcanic rock Beri brought back for us from Italy. We found it very interesting to feel and investigate the textures and shapes. Wonderful work Reception!

During World Book Week, the children in reception looked at Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist who uses dots to create wonderful art. They enjoyed exploring different materials to create their own sea creatures and worked as a team to make a dotty octopus!

Today, reception took their beautiful poppies to be ‘planted’ in the church garden in readiness to celebrate the 80 year anniversary of VE Day.

Reception are poetry competition winners! Their poem ‘Our Octopus’ was wonderfully created by the children after being inspired by Yayoi Kusama and her dotty art work! Check it out here…we.tl/t-WzfhK2zgmk thank you @helicopterstories

Reception enjoyed their day at the farm, lots of fun on the tractor, giant pillow and meeting farm animals!

We even met Woody from Toy Story on the farm…

National Sports week! Today we had our EYFS sports day, hurdle, running, sack race, egg and spoon and obstacle. Every child took part and showed their sportsmanship towards each other in true team reception form! Great job 👏

In reception we’re always active, today we picked our favourite songs to get active and learn! Count to 100 in 10s and shake your sillies!

A wonderful opportunity to come and see the exciting EYFS department and meet the team!

Today we held our Making it Real - Christmas Cracker event in school for Nursery and Reception children and families. It was a great opportunity to take part in fun activities to support early literacy skills!

This week we created some pictures in the style of Piet Mondrian. We used our primary colours and tried to keep the paint in the lines without mixing.

This week in Kennedy’s we learned a Chinese dragon dance it was lots of fun!

We love using technology for learning!

We love our loose parts to make interesting small worlds. Lots of imagination and innovation happening at our tuff tray this week.

This week we had some wonderful talents in Reception, with our semi finalists, Arthur and Kanyinsola showing off their fabulous dancing and gymnastic skills.

For Safer Internet Day, we thought about what we use our devices for and how we can use them safely. We thought about the games we play and what we watch. We also thought about who we can talk to if something is not safe! Stop. Think. Tell someone!

Wonderful costumes for World Book Week!

We enjoyed the ‘Made for this Game’ session this morning with the coaches.