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Visitors in Burscott

This morning JJ brought in some new arrivals to meet us. They were very sweet and the children enjoyed their company.

Fun in the sun

Today the class explored the forest school area in the dry sunshine yes we actually had some sun for the first time for one of our session. They had fund den building and working together to explore different ways of building. Some then found fun with water and working out they can pour it down […]

Healthy eating.

Today in SCARF Cranford and Sunflowers joined together to learn about healthy eating. We talked about why we need to eat, what foods we eat, the different food groups and how that helps our bodies work. Then we made a banana smoothy, strawberry smoothy and a smoothy made with both strawberries and bananas. At the […]

Bugs, bugs and more bugs!

In forest school this week we went on a search for minibeasts. We made a list of the bugs we found for our writing. Today we started to design our own bug ready for us to find some interesting facts about it. Then hopefully we will be on the BBC like David Attenborough. Using our […]

A Fun Visit from Story Bears

Sunflowers enjoyed a fun visit from Story Bears. We joined in with singing and played musical instruments. We played the musical instruments slowly, fast, loudly and quietly. Sunflowers also performed the action song “Hop Little Bunnies Hop, Hop, Hop”. We then acted out the story – we moved fast like the hare and slowly like […]

Fossils

Today we learnt all about fossils.  Sir David loved to search out fossils in his younger days.  We found out animals and insects can make fossils but also plants can make fossils.  We learnt how they are formed.  The animal dies, they are then covered in mud and over 1000’s of years more mud/sand covers […]

A Super Start to the Summer Term

In continuous provision, we have had a great time playing to learn at the water tray. It has been fun filling jugs and watering cans with water and then pouring into tubes and down pipes. All these activities help develop our gross motor skills. We communicated with each other to find the best way to […]

Stroxworthy mark making

Using painting and sewing skills to create a piece of art on fabric, design inspired by Alice Kettle and Hannah Rae.

Sir David Attenborough

We are learning about David Attenborough as an inspirational person for our history.  We learnt that it was this dream to go and see the animals in their habitat rather than bringing them into the BBC production studio.   We found out that David grew up in Leicester with his two brothers.  HIs father was […]

Science in the Poly

Today we were planting and the children were discussing what makes plants grow. This led to a further discussion about what would happen if we gave plants different liquids. So they all decided to do an experiment with lettuce seeds. They broke off into four groups and each group have a different liquid to water […]

Spring time planting.

Today we were lucky to have Jack from Birch Farm come for a visit at school today. He helped the class plant up some beds with different vegetable like turnips, radishes and spinach. He discussed with the children what plants needs to grow, showed them how to sow, plant and water the seeds. He will […]

Woolsery Mini marathon

Today, we just about managed to dodge the wind and rain to take part in the London mini marathon. Before Easter all the classes were improving their fitness trying to run 12 laps a day which is equivalent to 2.6 miles a week, the equivalent of a mini marathon (a tenth of the distance of […]

Reading recommendations

During the past few weeks, we have been sharing ideas for good books linked to the letter A. Here are some of our suggestions: Lyla says Animal Tales by Michael Morpurgo is perfect for children aged 9-11, who like short stories and love animals. There are great pictures too! Leo recommends The Amazing Story of […]

S’mores and more

We had fun this week with our last session for the term. Sunflowers and Cranford were awesome and respected the fire. We talked about fire safety and how to behave safely around fire so that we can still enjoy it. They all.had fun cooking marshmallows and eating them. They also shared their craft skills helping […]

Cooking in forest school.

This week was our last session if forest school for a bit. Almonstone had fun in the mud kitchen, cooking Easter damper bread and pizzas with three cornered leek in them and of course s’mores. They worked on some craft as well helping each other with different tasks. We were so lucky with the weather […]

What does a plant look like?

In science this term we have been learning about plants and we have finished off our topic using our art to make a plant and label it. We know all the parts of the plant from our forest school sessions, so using that knowledge we used different materials to make our collage.  

Happy Easter!

In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed lots of Easter themed activities.

The Life Cycle of a Frog

In continuous provision we have had the opportunity to learn about the life cycle of a frog and we now understand the key features. It has been interesting to observe the changes in the frogspawn and watch closely the tadpoles and froglets as they move around the curiosity box or outside tuff tray. We enjoyed […]

Hunting Hinges

Experimenting with mechanisms such as hinges and catches. We are good at finding hinges in the classroom and outside.

Our edible woods

This week has been super exciting. After a lot of hard work and planning me and some children have been able to plant our first three beds in our synstropic system. Today we have had help from Jack and Josh from Birch farm with the planting, planning and donations of a lot of trees and […]

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