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Curriculum Newsletters
2025-2026
Chinese New year. We have been celebrating Chinese New Year in class. We have tasted some Chinese food, dressed in cultural clothing, wrote our names in Chinese, explored a sensory tray, made some horses and money wallets with chocolate coins to go inside.
Valentine's activities. We have been busy celebrating Valentine's. We have made cards, painted love bugs, explored a valentine's themed tuff tray, practiced our fine motor skills by cutting love hearts and have used a switch activated hair dryer to make a balloon circle spin and fly.
Winter week. We have been learning about Winter. We have read the story ' we're going on a bear hunt'. We have rescued arctic animals, explored snowy sensory trays, made white chocolate crispy cakes and have decorated biscuits with winter themed sprinkles.
The very hungry caterpillar- measuring fruits using the balance sclaes, answering simple questions using choose it maker and the very hungry caterpillar craft.
Crispy cakes and cupcake baking
We have been reading the story of the very hungry caterpillar. Some of our fine motor activities have been spreading paint on toast pictures, ice cream pipettes with coloured water, frozen berry painting, frozen berry sensory tray, pencil control, cutting skills, spaghetti play and playdough.
We used a blender which was switch activated to blend the left over vegetables from our story. Once we had blended them we used them to paint with. We also used textured mats and crayons to make textured vegetable pictures.
Oliver's vegetables week 2. We have been very busy this week scooping out the seeds from vegetables and using magnifying glasses to look at the seeds. We have made vegetables printings using paint.
This week in our cooking sessions we have made vanilla biscuits and flapjack.
As part of our topic of food glorious food we have made ginger biscuits and designed and made a pizza.
We have had a busy first week back. We have been reading the story of Oliver's vegetables. In our fine motor session we have been practicing our cutting skills by using scissors to cut up cabbage leaves, herbs and strips of paper. We have been using playdough to make vegetables using cutters and have been learning to roll the playdough into balls to make peas.
Party day! we have had an amazing party with lots of dancing. We played pass the parcel and corners. In the afternoon we have finished our Christmas arts and crafts and dressed up in Christmas costumes.
We have enjoyed a lovely Christmas dinner and have made some shortbread biscuits for parents.
We have been busy doing Christmas activities in class. We have decorated Christmas tree shaped biscuits, explored a hot chocolate sensory tray, made salt dough Christmas tree decorations, played musical instruments to Christmas songs, decorated chocolate biscuits to look like Christmas puddings and made ice cream cone Christmas trees.
We have been learning all about St Andrew and Scotland. We created handprint thistles, St Andrew's flags and oat cakes.
When celebrating Lancashire Day, we made Eccles Cakes, took a tour of Lancashire and created some of the most famous landmarks of the area.
Everyone had lots of fun on our second visit of the year to Space Centre. This time, we were in a new room with lots of different areas to explore, including a new climbing wall!
Butterflies Class have been learning about and supporting Children in Need. We explored Pudsey playdough, created masks using bingo dabbers to add spots to Pudsey's bandana and even made some yummy Pudsey biscuits.
We had some time to reflect whilst we were learning about Remembrance Day. We learned about poppies and what they represent, before making our own poppies in a variety of ways.
Look at our pretty firework and bonfire art! We have been learning all about Guy Fawkes and bonfire night; our favourite was making edible sparklers using breadsticks, icing and sprinkles.
During 'Autumn Week' we have been making yummy pumpkin rice crispy cakes, as well as exploring pumpkins and seasonal vegetables through sensory play.
In our local area, we have lots of people who help us. We thought about the fire brigade and explored shaving foam fires, putting them out with spray bottles, as well as creating edible bonfires using peppers!
Today we have had a lovely time visiting Towneley Garden Centre, as part of our exploration of the local community.
Butterflies have had the best time visiting Space Centre today! We enjoyed exploring the different soft play areas, especially the colour changing ball pool and giant slide.
Whizzing down the slide.
Weeee!
Fun on the swing.
This week's superstar has been cleaning up independently whenever he has spotted a mess or spillage in class!
Happy 6th Birthday! We hope you enjoyed celebrating with your friends.
When we were out on a community walk, we spotted lots of bakeries making yummy treats locally. Back in class, we had a go at making our own delicious iced cupcake before eating it too!
Happy 5th Birthday! We had so much fun celebrating in school for our classmates birthday.
It was a lovely crisp day at Towneley Park when we collected some autumn leaves for our artwork. We enjoyed some toast for snack in the garden centre café afterwards to warm up.
Today we have been learning about Jeans for Genes day. We created a jeans collage, used bingo dabbers to develop our fine motor skills whilst filling in the gaps on the jeans and even ordered the jeans on the washing line. What a busy day!
After reading the Three Little Pigs, we decorated our own pig biscuits, thinking about the characters in the story.
We have been creating houses and planting grass seeds to grow our own gardens!
This little superstar has shown fantastic perseverance, not giving up until he was able to independently use the scissors. Well done!
To learn more about the area around us, we have taken part in a scavenger hunt in the woodlands area. We had to find the symbols related to each of the classes in school.
Ready, Steady, Go!
This little superstar has been verbally requesting actions by saying 'ready, steady, go!'
Cause and effect is a big part of our learning; this week we have used items that we might find at home. It was lots of fun exploring the different equipment.
As part of our topic 'On Our Doorstep', we have started thinking about different places that are local to us. This week we have been using a range of media to create our homes.
Welcome back, Butterflies Class! This week we have been interacting with our friends and taking part in lots of fun activities while we get to know each other.
