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World Book day in Benedict class!, by Miss Bohannon
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 5:52pm
We've had a fun filled day in Benedict class for world book day full of lots of exciting activities, the children all looked amazing!
World Book Day in Marsden Class, by Miss Ward
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 3:38pm
We've had a fabulous day celebrating World Book Day in Marsden class! We did some quizzes relating to books and authors and we wrote our own character descriptions.
A special visitor in EYFS, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:31pm
Today we had a special visitor in EYFS. It was PCSO Dave. PCSO Dave came into school to visit us and tell the children about his role in the community. The children listened really well and asked lots of questions.
Forces, by Ms Patel
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 2:31pm
The Feeding of the 5000, by Ms Patel
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 2:26pm
In R.E, Rigby class have been studying and comparing the stories of 'Manna in the Desert' and 'The Feeding of the 5000'. They role-played the story to help them understand the emotions the people would have been feeling when the miracle was performed.
Composition of numbers to 6, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 12:18pm
Number writing, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 12:16pm
The children have been using different media and materials to exploring mark making and forming the number 4.
Landscape Artwork inspired by Megan Coyle., by Mrs Burgess
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 12:10pm
Beesley class have been creating a landscape collage in the style of Megan Coyle. The children worked together to draw a landscape setting from our text of the week The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Once they had drawn the landscape the children the children decided what colours to search for to use to create their collage. The children explored using PVA to join the materials onto the paper.
Our visit from the Lancashire Library Service!, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 12:25pm
We had a special visitor into Beesley Class this morning~ Dawn and Georgie (the gorilla) from the Lancashire Library Service. Dawn brought some brand new books to read and share with us. The children listened really well and loved looking at the new stories. Dawn was very impressed with our listening skills and with us knowing the word ‘blurb’
Thank you to Dawn and Georgie for visiting us!
Painting & mixed media: Light and dark, by Ms Patel
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 7:09am
2D shapes, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:08pm
This week in maths the children have been exploring 2D shapes. The children have explored shapes in many different ways including mark making the shapes outside, making pictures with shapes, fishing the shapes out of the water tray, making shapes using shape cutters in the playdough and handling shapes. The children have explored the shapes around us on a 2D shape hunt around our classroom and environment.
Our Amazing Transient Artwork!, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:04pm
The children in Beesley Class have been creating unique collages and transient art through independent exploration of mixed media resources.
Painting in response to music, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 11:58am
The children in Beesley Class have been using paint to record emotional responses to different pieces of music, creating exciting and expressive paintings.
Number Day 2025, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 12:35pm
The children enjoyed dressing up for Number Day 2025! The children took part in lots of activities and games throughout the day including skittles to explore the composition of five using the stem sentence we have been learning. Some members from the school council came to explain where the money that we have raised today goes and what the NSPCC is.
We had lots of fun for Number Day!
Muddy artwork!, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 5th Feb 2025 @ 4:22pm
Today the children have been into Forest school to gather resources to create their own paintbrushes using objects such as feathers, grass and twigs. The children have also been mixing mud and water to make mud paint whilst exploring and talking about what happens to the consistency of the paint when they add more water or mud. Once the children had made their paint they used it to create muddy artwork and explored painting on paper, foil and the floor. We had lots of fun exploring how to make artwork using different materials!
Chinese Dragon Dance, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 8:34am
The children made their own dragon and used it for a Chinese Dragon Dance.
Lunar New Year, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 4:12pm
EYFS have been learning all about the festival of Lunar New Year. We discovered that some of the children in Beesley class were born in the year of the pig (children born in 2019) and some were born in the year of the rat (children born in 2020) Although this year is the year of the snake! The children have been creating snakes by threading materials onto string and developed their cutting skills to cut along the line of a snake. The children then used their fingers to create repeating patterns. The children have been learning how people get ready to celebrate Lunar New Year including cleaning and decorating their houses. The children have been making their own lantern to decorate the classroom. Outside the children have been mark marking using chalk to create their own snakes.
In Drawing Club we read The Great Race and the children have been designing a new character to join the race. The children used the puppets to role-play and act out the story.
Throughout the continuous provision the children have also been exploring mark making their age by copying their age and writing numerals 0-10 in Mandarin writing.
Counting, cardinality and ordinality up to 5., by Mrs Burgess
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 4:03pm
The children in Reception have been exploring representing numerals 1-5 and how they show a 'staircase pattern' using lots of different resources. The children have been ordering numerals 1-5 and creating their own numberlines using the same colours as Numberblocks.
EYFS explore the Book Bus, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 3:34pm
Book Bus, by Ms Patel
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 2:02pm
The children had the exciting opportunity to visit the book bus sent by the Lancashire School Library service and choose new books for their class.
Discovering tints and shades, by Ms Patel
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 6:32am
As part of their art topic the children learnt about tints and shades and experimented with colours.
Super Duper Penguin Slide, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 2:55pm
Today we read the story Super Duper Penguin Slide by Leonie Lord. The children explored working together to create their own slides in the water area using different parts of pipes and stands for the penguins to slide down or to move using their fronts called tobogganing (one of our new vocabulary words of the week)
The children then had a go at drawing their own Super Duper Slide and added on their own penguins. Some of the children had a go at moving along the slide like a penguin to develop their gross motor skills.
National Penguin Day, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:37pm
On Monday it was National Penguin Day. The children have been learning lots of facts about penguins including; how penguins move, where penguins live (using our class globes and Google Maps), the cycle of a penguin and how many different species of penguins there are. The children have taken parts in lots of different activities in the continuous provision throughout the week such as observational drawings of penguins, played feed the penguin subitising game, penguin bingo and created finger printed penguins. They have also been exploring moving like a penguin whilst learning new vocabulary such as 'tobogganing' and 'waddling'
In Drawing Club this week the children have been looking at the book Penguin by Polly Dunbar. The children have been trying to create a special hiding place for the penguin and Ben to keep them safe from the lion.
Recipe for a friend, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:24pm
In PSED this week the children in Beesley Class have been exploring the qualities that make a good friend. Ths children decided that a good friend is-loyal, patient, respectful, trusting and forgiving. The children had a go at showing these qualities whilst working in the continuous provision.
Tots on Tyres, by Mrs Burgess
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:18pm
