This week we continued our printing. We used items pressed in dough to make prints. It was so exciting to see our final prints on the paper. Some children swopped and changed colours, then layered their prints. Others repeated their own print across the page. In Science we looked at materials used for beds. We talked about our own beds; made from metal, plastic and wood. In ICT we are looking at digital painting. This week we looked at Matisse and recreate one of his masterpi

As an early years provision we have been lucky to have an Educational thinker and author passionate about childhood Greg Bottrill to work with us. He loved coming into Kindi and looking at how our children learn! He also ran a course for early years practitioners across Liverpool at the end of his visit to Blackmoor. Staff from other schools attended to our setting to hear all his inspirational thoughts. After Greg visiting he gave us many ideas of how to inspire our Kindi ch

Pine have been busy exploring photography and using devices to take different types of photographs, including group photographs, portraits, photographing a still subject and selfies. We will continue to learn about landscape and portrait photographs, correct framing and the importance of light. Remember to ask the permission of the person you wish to take a photograph of before doing so.

This week we have been on lots of adventures in our classrooms. We have been privileged to join the children on their magical adventures as play companions. It has been great fun exploring our imaginary worlds and following the children's interests. In Olive Class the children have been on a space adventure. They explored writing mystery notes in strange alien script which the other children had to find. In Cherry Class the children have been to the moon and to a music fest

This term in PE we focused on developing our social skills. Our learning goals are: I can play with others and take turns and share with help. I can work sensibly with others, taking turns and sharing. I can help, praise and encourage others. We start every PE lesson by spreading positivity. The children do this by, sharing kind words, hugs, smiles, hi-5's, and thumbs up! For the first three weeks our theme was 'The Moon Adventure'. The children travelled in their spaceships

Talks of the nativity are upon us in Year 1 - we can feel the excitement. We are busy singing the songs and listening to our friends say their parts. This week in Art we have been looking at sketch pencils. We know that H stands for hard and B stands for black. We noticed that our writing pencils have HB on them, these types of pencils sit in the middle of the H and B pencils. We've been Scientists, looking at transparent and opaque materials suitable or not suitable for wind

This week we introduced the story 'Aliens love underpants' the children have really enjoyed creating, counting, singing and learning all about aliens, underpants and spaceships... We have started our 'Read Write Inc' phonics this week! All the children have been introduced to the sound 'm'. We have listened carefully to the sound 'm' and 'Fred the frog' has helped us to listen for the sound at the beginning of words. Can your child tell you the sound m and any words that beg

This week we have been creating our own story based on our topic book. We have invented new characters and new settings for our new story adventure. We have been fantastic pre-coders this week and have created a route for us to travel through to explore the new settings. We have enjoyed exploring salt dough to make our new characters and we have also created stick puppets. Despite the rain we have had lots of fun learning! Have a great weekend! The Reception Team

Last term in PE we focused on developing our personal skills. Our learning goals were: I can follow instructions and practise safely. I can work on simple tasks by myself. I try several times if at first I don’t succeed and I ask for help when appropriate. We start every PE lesson by spreading positivity. The children do this by, sharing kind words, hugs, smiles, hi-5's, and thumbs up! For the first 3 weeks of our theme was 'going on a bike ride'. Our focus was developing our

This week has been fun packed with fun and learning! Our story this week was all about baby bear wanting to go to the moon he gathers a few things together and 'Whoosh' off he goes to the moon! Our story was called 'Whatever Next?' After such a busy week so far we were super excited to receive a letter from baby bear from our story... On Friday baby bear landed in our kindi garden in his box ready to come and see all our lovely creative work... All of the children have worked