The Reception and Year 1 children had a fantastic time being very creative at forest school today! Their focus today was weaving using natural materials. They used potato peelers to strip willow which they then used to practise their weaving skills. Look at those faces!

Today during child initiated time, the children learnt how meteors make craters on the moon. They collected stones and made craters in our cornflour moon. They then went outside, put wellies on and pretended to be meteors by jumping into piles of leaves. During free-play, the girls decided to make a stage using the wooden  blocks and made up a Space play!

Yesterday the year 1 and 2 children did some fantastic work to start their unit on programming on Scratch. They were all challenged to create a space theme background this week. They learnt to use the fill tool, the paintbrush and how to change the colour they were using. They also learnt some great mouse control!

Look at this fantasic painting the Reception children did in their child initiated time last week! They have been learning about space this term. They used lots of different techniques such as gluing, painting with a brush and printing. They even had to mix their own colours!

We started a new unit of work in English today. Someone had sent us a message that had been written in code! We talked about different ways of communicating such as using braille, British Sign Language and Semaphore. We then had a look at the key that we been sent. We had great fun using the key to crack the codes for the messages!