Friday, 24 April 2026

27.04.26 - This week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

The children had a special "shout-out" in assembly today, as we are SO proud of them coming round to our gate by themselves. 

We have had a lovely week learning about ladybirds and the children made some beautiful ladybirds of their own.

This week has been lovely and sunny, but as the weather is warmer, please do send your child in with a sun hat and sun cream. Could we please ask that sun cream has been applied before the children come to school though, as it can take a very long time to help all the children apply it.

The children have brought home the next set of Rainbow words. We would be really grateful if you could reinforce these words at home as the children need to know them by sight, rather than trying to sound them out.

We are looking forward to next week, when we will be very busy again, we will be:


  • Sharing and discussing the story "The Very Busy Spider", which is another story by Eric Carle.
  • Reading and ordering instructions to make our own spiders.
  • Using non-fiction books to find out more about spiders and then writing some spider facts of our own.
  • Building numbers to 20, thinking about how many ones there are along with the ten.
  • Searching for webs and spiders in our garden and learning how and why spiders make webs.
  • Creating some spider fridge magnets and then using them to carry out a science experiment.
This week's drop in will be on FRIDAY.

Just a little reminder, the children will have their coloured book changed at the beginning of the week and their Anima Phonics book changed at the end of the week. Please ensure they have them in their bag. Many thanks!

Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Wakefield, Mrs Fincham and Miss Goddard