As part of our provision we encourage the children to get involved in gardening. Over the year we have planted and looked after plants and vegetables.

This week our potatoes were ready to be harvested.

On Thursday we prepared, cooked and tasted our home grown potatoes.

They were a big hit in class.

We then carried out a survey of which potatoes everyone liked the best.

Butter was the clear winner.

To fill the space in the garden the Little J’s have been busy planting some pumpkin seeds and moving some of our herbs into pots. Some of the Reception children measured the planter to ensure it would be big enough to allow the pumpkins to grow.

 

 

Thank you to all the families that joined us for Sports Day, it was wonderful to see you all and the children had a fantastic time.

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Well done to Team Respect and Team Excellence on being our joint winners.

Today we celebrated the Queen’s Jubilee, dressed in red, white and blue we managed to get a photograph with the Queen and had a fantastic ‘street party’ style lunch.

“This is the best day ever.” Isla

“I love this dinner.” Phoebe

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After our visit to the building site it was great to see how this experience enhanced the play in Class 1.

When playing in the provision the children remembered their hi vis jackets.

They were observed imitating the brick laying process.

They worked together to create houses using books for inspiration.

 

 

 

Football fever has taken over Class 1 these past few weeks. The children have shown interest in the Premier League, Sunderland and their trip to Wembley and playing football themselves.

As a result of this we enhanced our provision:

• Football small world game
• Football maths challenges
• Equipment outside for children to play football and develop skills.

 

As our ducklings grow we can introduce them to water. We filled our water tray and made an island so that there was a space for them to take a break from the water if they wanted to.

We watched with excitement as the ducklings darted around the water tray.

 

As our tray is clear we were able to watch what was happening underneath the water as well as on top.

 

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This morning we got a lovely surprise as there were 2 ducklings and they were in the cage.

We watched with interest as the ducklings got used to their new environment. After dinner we got to have a hold or a stroke.

We were very lucky this afternoon to see a duckling hatch from an egg.

The children waited patiently and watched carefully for the duckling to make it’s way out of the egg.

 

We got a surprise this morning when one of our ducklings had hatched.

Meet Donald

The children have watched with interest, what Donald was up to and looking for clues to see if any other ducklings were ready to hatch.