Year R Luckwell stars!

We have had a really exciting week. After just two weeks rehearsal, we put on our fabulous Christmas show, Babushka. We were the angels, sheep, donkeys and cows. We remembered our words and sang beautifully for our families.



We also performed our stable dance. Joshkun and Lewis enjoyed singing 'We wish you a merry Christmas'. Mrs Thwaites was so impressed she gave us two marbles!

We are looking forward to meeting Santa tomorrow.

Diwali fun

This week we have been learning all about Diwali -
the Hindu festival of lights. We have looked at
Rangoli patterns and created lots of patterns of our own using sand, chalk and rice.

We have met Rama and Sita and

created a wonderful display of the ten headed

demon, Ravana. Come and see it in the cloakroom.
We have also made masks, tried on saris and made

traditional Indian sweets - yummy!

We shared all our newfound knowledge when Year

4 came to visit us. Some of us enjoyed being teachers!

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Only three more days before the chicks should start hatching. Fingers crossed we have at least one success. We will be setting up the pen in the corner behind the door tomorrow ready for Monday and hopefully will move the chicks into the pen by the middle of the week.

We have also been working hard on our 'Fountain Performance' which we hope you will enjoy seeing on Wednesday afternoon after our picnic.

We are all looking forward to an exciting week ahead as well as the School Fair on Saturday where we hope to see some of you.

We were lucky and lots of our caterpillars turned into butterflies, so on Tuesday we set them free We are now eagerly awaiting the hatching of our chicks. Only nine days to go!

We have had a great time playing with the tents and all the camping equipment that has been brought in. Many thanks for all the contributions They have been fantastic and a great success.

We are now busy working on our dance and song for the opening of the fountain.

Last Friday Mrs Marshall and I went to collect some eggs from Noah's Ark Farm and they are now in the incubator keeping warm. We are crossing fingers that at least one will hatch in 17 days time.

Our cocoons have been moved into a special container ready for our butterflies to emerge.We keep looking, but we have not seen any yet.

Enjoy the weekend and maybe there will be a surprise waiting for us on Monday morning!

The weather kept fine and we managed to have our 'Sports Day' on Wednesday. The children were really well behaved and had a great time, running in and watching the different races. We were very proud of them.

We also had some visitors this Thursday. Cieron who works as a vet came in to talk to us about his job and the sorts of animals he sees and looks after. He also brought in his friend's dog, called Rosie to meet the children. They were all allowed to talk to and touch Rosie and were very sensible and quiet while Rosie was in the classroom.

The children have been very excited to see that the caterpillars in the classroom are now beginning to turn into chrysalis and are looking forward to seeing them become butterflies. Fingers crossed!

We have had a great week. There has been lots going on during 'Sports Week'. The children have had a 'Wake and Shake' session which certainly got their hearts pumping! We also managed to enjoy our 'May Dancing' and remembered all the steps. We hope we will be able to play some playground games on Friday morning in our 'Mix up' session and are looking forward to 'Sports Day' next Wednesday.

We have also had our class trip to the zoo. The weather was kind and we had a lovely day. The children were really well behaved and were a pleasure to take round. They were so interested and excited at seeing some of the animals so close up. Thank you to all the parents who were able to join us. I'm sure you'll agree it was a great day out.

It is almost the holidays but we have still been really busy. Peter Humphries has been in the school working with all the children on our Fountaineer Project. Today he took groups of us out to see how we could use the fountain to make actions to go with our nursery rhymes. It was great fun.

We have been using the 'Quiet area' that some of you helped create in the Reception outdoor area. We have been finding and drawing minibeasts, making lists of them and digging around for more. We are looking forward to using it even more next term.

Hope you all have great holidays. Next term our topic is 'Animals', so if you have any books, links or information that could be shared with the children we would love to show this.

This week we have enjoyed getting creative! We have all made tiles out of clay in lots of different shapes and have almost finished painting them. Once they are dry we are going to decorate them and put them outside in our outdoor area to brighten up the wall.

We have also been looking at an artist's painting and making our own pictures. They will be displayed in the hall next week so come and have a look at them. They are really stunning.

Our flower pots are now painted and decorated and we have planted our flowers in them. Once they are varnished we will be bringing them home so you will be able to see them soon.

Hope you enjoy the weekend and that the sunshine might return again!

This week we have been involved in lots of 'plant' activities. We have finished off our 'Enormous ...' books which are lovely and have almost finished off all the fruit that you kindly sent in for our fruit salad last Friday. The children enjoyed helping cut up all the different fruits, but had an even better time when they came to eat them!

We have also been looking at the changes that have been happening in our school grounds and taking some photos as well as looking at what has been happening to our bean seeds. Some have grown so tall that they don't fit in their bags anymore.We will be bringing them home in a few days and hopefully some of children may be able to plant them in their gardens and enjoy some beans in early Autumn.

Enjoy the weekend. Let's hope the weather lasts a little longer.

sThe start of the new term has been hectic. We have been busy setting up a garden centre as part of our topic on'Plants' and Mrs Marshall, Mr Woodcock and some parents last Friday were working hard to clear another area in our outdoor area so that we could plant that up this week. It is looking lovely out there so a big thank you to all those involved.

We have beans growing in our classroom and the children have nearly finished making things for our 'Jack and the Beanstalk' display. We have had fun acting this and 'The Enormous Watermelon' story out and are looking forward to eating our fruit salad tomorrow!

Enjoy the long weekend.

We have had a great time outside this week, playing with our new dressing up clothes and using the CD player to make up dances and music to go with the songs.

We have also been making up sequences in PE putting three actions together using hoops, balls and the mats. The children did this really well and enjoyed showing each other their ideas.

The big excitment of the week though has been the placing of the time capsule under the fountain and switching the water on.

We hope you all have a lovely holiday and look forward to seeing you refreshed and relaxed on the 21st April.

Hope you all enjoyed the break. We were straight back in, having a 'Shape Day' on Tuesday. We were involved in lots of activities such as making patterns and using shapes to make pictures with. We have continued enjoying playing with the 3D shapes to make the tallest rocket and have had fun using the shape tiles outside.

We have also been playing some number games, counting on and back and have had a go at playing 'Bingo' using 'take away' problems.

If you haven't managed to fill in the sheet about the various ways the children travel now compared to how their grandparents travelled, please could you squeeze some time in over the weekend to do this. We will be spending more time on this next week. Many thanks.

This week we have been able to spend more time outside and have been making obstacle courses with some of the PE equipment. We have made up our own courses and tried them out, taking turns really well.

We have also been busy using the computer to draw our Easter pictures to go on our cards. They were brilliant. We hope you like them! We all enjoyed the Easter Parade and singing our songs to parents and the rest of the school in assembly. The Easter Egg Hunt was great fun too and we managed to finish it before it began to rain.

We hope you all have a lovely Easter break and that the Easter Bunny visits you all! Many thanks again for all the work that went into the fantastic hats.

Last week was another busy week. We were talking about space and enjoyed discussing what was out there! We made a 'space area' and had fun painting pictures of the planets and moving to space music as astronauts.



People were busy at home too. We have had some fantastic Easter hats arrive in the classroom. Thankyou very much for spending time with your child working on them. They look fantastic! Hope to see you this Thursday for the Easter Bonnet Parade.

We have really enjoyed bringing in our bikes and scooters this week. We followed trails and went in and around obstacles in the bottom playground. The weather was fine and we spent much of the day outside riding our scooters or bikes. It was fun.

We have also been weighing things with our hands and then with the balances. We were very good at explaining what would happen to the balances if something was heavier or lighter than something else.

We hope you enjoy your Mothers Day surprises! Have a lovely weekend.

We have been very busy this week learning more about Chinese New Year. Most of us loved tasting the Chinese food and even wanted more! We have also been making Chinese dragons and all had a go in the Chinese Parade and the Dragon Dance. It was great fun.

We were also thinking about longer and shorter and all of us managed to complete the challenge to make 3 snakes and order them to find the longest. We then measured them with multilink bricks to find the longest in the class. It measured 23 multilink bricks!

We are looking forward to our holiday now after working so hard this term. Hope everyone has a very happy one.

Don't forget our new topic next term is Travel and Transport and we are looking forward to seeing everyone's bike or scooter in the first week back.

This week

This week we have been finding out about the Chinese New Year. We have been using chopsticks and reading the story about how the Chinese New Year is named after different animals. We have also copied some Chinese writing. We will be learning more about the Chinese New Year next week. If you have any information about this topic please share it with us.

Chinese New Year

This week we have been making up a 'Dragon Dance.'