Our Journey through Spring 

The Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year)

The children enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year.  They learnt about the race of the animals and how this led each year being the year of one of the 12 animals.  This year is the year of the snake and the children found out that they were born in either the year of the pig or the year of the rat.  Our home corners became restaurants serving well known Chinese dishes, the children tried using chop sticks to move rice from one bowl to another and they wrote numerals in Mandarin. 

School of Noise

On Friday 13th January, Oliver from School of Noise delivered a fun and engaging workshop about sound.    The children learnt about the science of sound, played on unusual instruments such as a theremin, conducted an  orchestra of fruit and vegetables, used vibration to  create patterns in sand using  the  Chladni plates and watched how a tuning fork vibrates.

T4W - Mrs Gumpy’s Outing

To start our new text, the children received a message in a bottle from Mr Gumpy.  Mr Gumpy needed help to find his boat and the children were excited to go on a boat hunt.  The children then wrote messages back to him, made a large boat n Forest School and used junk modelling to build boats for the teddies.

T4W Hook Lesson

Aspirations

To start this term, we explored aspirations with an incredible day of learning and creativity. One child beautifully described it as “our dreams” before I could – and wow, their aspirations were truly inspiring! From vets and firefighters to astronauts, comedians, and teachers, the children’s dreams showcased their limitless potential.

To celebrate these aspirations, we united as a whole Reception cohort to create a beautiful Aspiration Tree (a big thank you to Miss McGuire for her brilliant creativity!). Each child and grown-up decorated a leaf with their aspirations, and we hung them on the tree.

Now displayed in our corridor, the Aspiration Tree continues to grow.