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We have been learning about the Kingdom of Benin and today we discussed the hierarchy of jobs. We worked with our partner to decide which jobs we thought were considered more important and which were of less importance. Then we had the answers revealed. We were surprised that acrobats were…

The change in the weather has prompted the children to talk about Winter. In Nursery we have looked at some animals who live in very cold places. We have been developing our pincer grip to feed the animals during continuous provision.

Today we have combined history with our computing skills to work on creating slideshows on the topic of evacuation in WW2. We used Google Classroom to work in pairs on the same slideshow, but on different Chromebooks.

Today, we began our printing project, with the final product being our Christmas cards. The first stage involves making a simple print block and choosing the ink colour for the base of our design. It was really exciting to peel back and reveal our first print!

This morning, we were practising adding two two digit numbers with a fun activity outside. We had to add the numbers and then locate the answer around the playground. There was some great maths work going on!

As part of our history work on WW2, we have been investigating the experiences of children who were evacuated from the big cities to the countryside in September 1939. We took on the roles, and the real-life stories of evacuees, and shared them with the rest of our class. We rated the different…

We had the Teddy Bear Hospital come and visit us today. We learnt all about our feelings, how to be healthy and look after our bodies. We also learnt how to look after our teddies using plasters and bandages.

This afternoon we had four medical students from Lancaster University visiting our class. They told us about different aspects of keeping healthy, such as healthy eating, good sleep habits, exercise, personal hygiene and mental health. They also taught us what to do in an emergency and we had a go…

Today we remembered all people and animals killed or injured by war. We wanted to put our poppies outside but due to the bad weather we made an arch to walk under instead. 

We have been reading the story of Elmer and thinking about the wonderful things that make us unique and special.

This week we having been exploring different ways to make fireworks. We have also been learning how to stay super safe when around fireworks or a bonfire. 

After listening to the story of “Dogger” by Shirley Hughes we decided to find toys in Nursery that felt hard and soft.