Oak & Ash – Reception

Last half term our Artist’s spotlight was on Paul Horton. Horton is a British artist that lives in Birmingham. He is regarded as one of the most popular British artists of his generation. We used his to art to inspire our work using watercolours and mixing shades of green. I’m sure you will agree the … Read more

This week in our lesson time we have looked at freezing and melting. Mrs Kholodenko and Mrs Gunn had a visit from the Evil Pea and discovered Supertato in their freezer. It was down to Ash and Oak to free him! We talked about how things become frozen and then we discussed how we could … Read more

It’s fantastic to be back. We’ve had so much fun reading Supertato this week and doing lots of activities associated with it. Here are a selection of photos from the children’s Discover & Do time… Lots of learning outdoors, we had the construction of planes and rockets, an obstacle course to develop gross motor skills … Read more

On Monday, in preparation for the start of Chinese New Year on Tuesday, we learnt some facts about China and its culture. The children have really enjoyed learning about how the lunar new year is celebrated in China and have used this as inspiration for lots of independent learning in Discover & Do. Learning continued … Read more

It’s been so much fun this week and there’s been so much learning going on, both during carpet and group time and in independent learning time in Discover & Do. Some days have felt positively warmer this week and we’ve seen lots of children wanting to be outdoors more. We can’t wait for this to … Read more

This afternoon Oak class were lucky enough to carry out some “in the moment” planning. This is a wonderful aspect of the EYFS framework that enables us to capture the interests of the children in the present moment, so literally being led by something that sparks their curiosity. In this case, a member of Oak … Read more