Happy Halloween!

24th October 2025Chloe Smith

This week in Class 1, we have been enjoying lots of exciting Halloween activities!

Adding the legs onto the spider after the wicked witch’s spell took them all away!!

 

 

Pumpkin picking – read the words on the list and picking the graphemes for make the word

 

Wreath making

 

We have also been reading the book, Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. We focused on lots of different vocabulary including; broomstick, witch, cauldron and wand.

We then made our own spells! We chose one ingredient at a time from the witch’s cauldron and using our new spelling technique, wrote the word:
Say the word
Sound talk the word
Sound talk using segmenting fingers
Talk about how many sounds are in the word
Write it

Leaf Man

15th October 2025A Aldcroft

This week in Reception, we read Leaf Man, where we followed the journey of a leaf character through some very imaginative autumn scenes. We discussed the different leaf creatures, thinking about what might happen to Leaf Man. The children really loved talking about the changes in nature during autumn—how leaves fall, the cooler weather, and the changes in the natural world around

We then went outside for an autumn hunt where we searched for fallen leaves, twigs, and other autumn items. Class 2 used some wonderful vocabulary, such as ‘crunchy,’ ‘chilly,’ and ‘colourful,’ to describe their items.

Afterwards, we got created our own leaf creatures. The children came up with unique and imaginative stories to go along with their creatures. It was a lovely way to connect nature, creativity, and language skills in a fun way!

In My Heart

3rd October 2025Chloe Smith

This week we have been reading the story ‘In My Heart’ a book all about feelings! We discussed different feelings and times we have felt certain ways and used our Zones of Regulation to talk about how we could get ourselves back into the Green Zone.

We then created our own hearts, filled with things that make us happy and help us to feel calm, happy and regulated again

Supertato to the Rescue

2nd October 2025A Aldcroft

For the past two weeks our focus story has been Supertato!
We have retold key features of the story as well acted it out for our class assembly. We then designed and labelled our own super vegetable. We used our designs to create the super vegetable!

Zones of Regulation

16th September 2025Chloe Smith

This week Class 1 have been exploring our zones of regulation

We discussed the different zones (green, blue, yellow and red) and how we might feel when we’re in those zones. We shared ideas on different ways to regulate our emotions, to help get us back into the green zone.

Teaching self regulation to children is so important, so we introduced our ‘Zones of Regulation’ in the classroom, where each child can use their picture to show which zone they are in throughout the day, to help children recognise their feelings and respond in an appropriate way

First Week in Reception!

8th September 2025Chloe Smith

Class 1 have had an amazing first week in Reception – exploring our new classroom, making new friends and learning new routines. We are so excited for a super year ahead!!

Tiny Steps, Big Dreams! Our Early Years Graduates.

15th July 2025A Aldcroft

Our amazing, clever, wonderful, independent, fabulous Early Years graduates!

We are so unbelievable proud of the resilient, confident children you have all become and we can’t wait to see you continue to flourish next year! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Here is your children’s GORGEOUS individual photos from this morning

Thank you so much for coming this morning, I know you’ll all be just as proud as we are!

Gibside

8th July 2025Chloe Smith

Class 4 had a fantastic day on our trip to Gibside!
We spent the morning looking for minibeasts! We used a classification sheet to help us identify what we found️

We then spent the afternoon creating art using nature! We created our own artist palette using natural items before using mud as paint to create our own natural paintings️