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2025 - 2026
Our trip to Blackpool Zoo was amazing and the weather stayed nice for us too. We say lots of different animals in their habitats and even watched the sealion show. A great day had by all.
What an amazing day we have had at Martin Mere today! Everyone has had a great time and been very well behaved.
During maths we have been looking at directions and positional language and have had fun programming the Beebots and remote control cars to move in the correct directions and also moving ourselves in different directions.
During our Earth Day celebrations we created posters all about recycling, made bug hotels and planted our herbs and plants in the school bedding box along with our broad beans and pea plants to take home. What a great day we have had.
In our computing lesson some of us have been doing some research creating a fact file and others have been using switches to explore adaptable toys and programs.
Saint Patrick's day! We have been celebrating Saint Patrick's day!
Music - This half term the children have been learning how to link Music to expressive Art. The children had to listen to various pieces of Music with different styles, tempos and rhythms whilst painting onto a large piece of paper. Did the change in Music change the way the children used the paint and the brushes?
History - This half term the topics is the Victorians. This week the focus was toys. The children explored traditional Victorian toys including a Jack in the Box, Spinning Top and Diablo. They also played with modern day toys using switches to activate them. Some children sorted pictures of toys to show toys from the past or present day
Chinese New year- Year of the horse- we have been learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year!
In geography we have been focusing on recycling and reusing as part of sustainability.
During our phonics sessions we have been matching letter sounds to objects, matching rhyming words and writing our own words using the same rhyming sounds.
We have been looking at different winter poems and exploring sensory trays to go with the different sensory elements of our poems. As a class we looked at different rhyming words that can be used in our poems.
We have been looking at recycling in Hedgehogs class - we have introduced the book 'How to save the Earth' and have been exploring categorising and sorting recycled materials. We wrote a class letter to Mrs Clayton to find out more about how we recycle at our school!
Last week we were looking at electrical items around school - first we identified some electrical items and then we explore building circuits to see how electricity works.
We have enjoyed our Christmas party and Christmas dinner this week - we had such a fun time celebrating with our peers and creating lots of crafts to help decorate our table!
We are sure you all had a blast watching our Christmas Nativity 'The Very Hopeless Camel' - we all made fantastic stars and twinkled beautifully during our dance.
St.Andrew's Day Activities. We have explored the colours blue and white, looked and recreated the Scottish flag, made our own thistles and kilts, tasted some shortbread biscuits and even did some highland dancing.
Lancashire Day Activities. We look at various places in Lancashire, made some Chorley cakes, recreated the Lancashire Rose and much more.
Today we took part in lots of remembrance day crafts and activities. We collaged some poppies and did poppy printing. We also explored a tuff tray and went for a poppy hunt!
We taken part in lots of fun and creative activities relating to bonfire day and fireworks - creating lots of brilliant, bright and sparkly artwork and even some delicious treats to taste!
This week we introduced the topic of the digestive system - we looked at how food travels down form our mouth down to our stomachs. We posted balls labelled with different food items in the mouth and they landed into the stomach (bucket) at the bottom. We also made some gel zippy pouches and modelled this same concept using pompoms pushing them down the esophagus into the stomach.
This week we have been looking at the parts of the mouth - we explored our teeth and what they are used for, breaking down bits of food with the big teeth and then seeing how we need to brush them to keep them clean. We also used playdough to make different parts of the mouth, looking at teeth, tongue and lips. Finally we explored mark making with toothbrushes and toothpaste on picture of healthy and unhealthy teeth and sorted these.
We have had a fantastic first week in Hedgehogs class and have already been so busy! This week we have had an introduction to our sensory story Handa's surprise and have had the opportunity to explore different activities around this. We have also begun to look at number through counting trays which we linked to watermelons, started looking at some class rules in RE and an introduction to farming in Geography! A massive well done to all of Hedgehogs class for such a wonderful first week.
