Mar 18
On Tuesday 18th March we completed a PE parent activity. Miss Burrough worked alongside Coach Jack from Mini Athletics to complete different physical activities with the children and their grown-ups. They had so much fun being active, using their gross motor skills alongside their listening skills when following instructions. They played a variety of games, …
Mar 18
On Tuesday 18th March we had Safari Stu’s Animal Party come and visit us! In school, the children had been learning all about worms, caterpillars, and many other mini beasts and animals. Stu bought in many of his wonderful animals to show them. They were able to listen to some factual information about the animals …
Mar 11
On Tuesday 11th March we visited St Etheldreda’s Church. We walked to and from the church and during the walk we looked at the different buildings and how they looked different due to being built many years ago. We used good communication and language skills when explaining the similarities and differences from past houses to …
Feb 13
On Thursday 13th February 2025 Reception had another fun forest school parent activity. The children were very excited to show their grown-ups around the Dell area which is located next to the school grounds. They carried out a check list, spotting different trees and signs of spring before using some litter pickers to collect any …
Feb 11
On Tuesday 11th February Reception had a special visit from Hatfield’s new PCSO called Thomas Martin. Thomas come to introduce himself to the children to make them aware of who he was and that they might see him around Hatfield outside of school. The children were very enthusiastic with their questioning and were eager to …
Jan 31
On Friday 31st January, Reception had a special visit from a parent called Jenny. We have been learning about Chinese New Year and the story that explains how the year of the animals came to be. We discussed as a class and explored the zodiac wheel which led us to finding 2025 is the year …
Jan 13
On Monday 13th January 2025 Reception carried out a design and technology activity by prepping and creating fruit kebabs. Our focus text was Handa’s Surprise and we had been exploring the different fruits from the story and where they come from around the World. We used fine motor skills when controlling and using our knives …
Dec 05
At the end of Autumn term parents and carers joined the class for a creative activity using card with dried seed heads, petals, evergreen leaves and wood slices to create their own calendar for 2025 and campfire with smores. Here are some photos of the session.
Nov 25
On Monday 25th November 2024, Reception carried out a design and technology activity by prepping and baking some gingerbread men, linking to our literacy focus text ‘The Gingerbread Man’. We used our expressive language skills to retell the story, remembering the order of the characters and events that took place. We used fine motor skills …
Nov 14
We had a special visit from a local Hedgehog lady, called Pat. Our focus text in literacy is ‘The Prickly Hedgehog’ and we have become hedgehog experts completing lots of research about them. We discussed different ways of finding information out, such as online and in books. As a class we produced some questions to …