01.05.23 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week has been all about Ladybirds (with a little sprinkling about Spiders too!). It was lovely to see so many of you at our drop in yesterday, we hope you enjoyed seeing the children's books and their Minibeast work.

Next week we are going to take a mini break away from our project in order to learn about the upcoming Coronation of King Charles III. On Friday everyone in school will be joining in with different activities to celebrate the coronation which takes place the following day. On Friday, the children can come to school in non-school uniform and we are asking that they dress in clothes that represent the colours red, white and/or blue in celebration of this National event.

So, next week we will be:

• Learning the National Anthem to sing on Friday.
• Taking part in our very own Coronation in front of the whole school.
• Creating a special chair "Fit for a King" which will then go on display at Holy Trinity Church in Rayleigh.
• Making flags and decorating crowns for our special events on Friday.

This week's drop in will be on Tuesday.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

24.04.23 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We have had a very busy first week back and the children are enjoying our new project "Minibeasts". We have spent this week learning about caterpillars and butterflies. The children all made their very own caterpillar and sequenced the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". A huge thank you to all of you who have helped your children complete their minibeast ideas sheet, we have loved looking through these and Mrs O'Connor has created a lovely display with some of the photos, pictures and work that has come in from the children. We will be adding to this display as the weeks progress, so do take a look on our next drop in.

On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Sharing another book by Eric Carle, this time it is all about a bad-tempered ladybird.
• Retelling the story "The Bad-Tempered Ladybird and thinking about how the ladybird behaved and whether this was the right thing to do, sharing our ideas during Circle Time.
• Watching a film showing the life cycle of a ladybird.
• Labelling the different parts of a ladybird.
• Learning about time, making different o'clock times, just like those in the story.
• Making ladybird pebbles to put into our garden.

Drop in sessions are starting back up again and this week it will take place on THURSDAY. 

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield

17.04.23 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We hope you have all had a lovely Easter break. We are looking forward to seeing the children again to start the Summer term. We would be really grateful if the children could bring in their sheets about our Minibeasts project this coming week. If you are unable to find them, then they can also be found here.

On to our new learning for this coming week:

• Sharing the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle.
• Watching a film version of the story and comparing it to the book.
• Sequencing the events in the story.
• Learning a song to help us remember the days of the week.
• Creating our own repeating pattern caterpillars, printing using corks.
• Playing a new game in Circle Time, trying to pass bells around the circle without them making a sound!

See you all on Monday!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley