Our final week of term has been full of festive fun. On Tuesday we visited Westmeston Church to see their nativity scene and enormous Christmas tree. Our friend Gary had hidden pictures of the nativity scene around the church for the children to find. He then told them the Christmas story as the children placed their pictures to make a stable scene. The children also had the opportunity to ring the church bells Throughout the week, we've had plenty of fun. We celebrated a bir

This week, our focus has been on writing. Over the past few weeks, Mrs Spencer has been running a number of activities to help develop the children’s finger strength and coordination for writing, including picking up pom-poms with tweezers and Dough Disco! This week, the activity was mark-making to music. On a large piece of paper, the children drew, wrote and scribbled in response to the music that was playing. It was interesting to see their actions change as the tempo of t

Welcome to our blog. This week's post may be a bit shorter than usual - this is because we don't want to give away too many clues about what we have been up to this week. The children have been busy crafting for Christmas and it would be lovely for you to see their artwork in person first rather than here on the blog. This week our focus has been Literacy – Writing. Whilst making our observations we note whether the children … Can give meaning to their marks as they draw or p

We hope you enjoy these photos from our week at Westmeston. Dough disco - to help make our fingers strong for writing. We used our gardening skills to clear up the raspberry bush garden.

Welcome to our blog post. This week our focus has been - Understanding the World - The World. We have been observing the children as they explore small world play sets this week such as the farm, garage, train set and castle. It is interesting to see how the children add a narrative to their play, offering cues for others to join them. They often recall their own past experiences throughout small world play and imitate scenarios that may be familiar to them. Christmas has of