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Curriculum Newsletters 2024-2025
Our butterflies have hatched!! We watched our butterflies grow from caterpillars to cacoons and now we got to let them go! We enjoyed learning about the life cycle of butterflies over Spring linking to our RE topic.
We had a lovely day celebrating Earth Day 2025. Our theme this year was 'Our Power, Our Planet'. We explored how we can look after our Earth and protect it through various activities and hands on fun learning.
St George's Day celebrations. In Rabbits we engaged in sensory activities, used our fine and gross motor skills, explored who St George was and why he was important alongside made our own flags and shields.
Spring walk. We enjoyed a Spring walk looking for signs of Spring.
Easter week. We had a fantastic time during the last week of term celebrating Easter. We enjoyed lots of sensory activites, tuff trays, tailored work relating to Easter for our English and Maths, Bunny Hop, egg hunts, Phonics games and lots of baking and arts and crafts.
Bunny Hop 2025. Rabbits class enjoyed hopping, jumping, running and walking around the woodland for our Pendleside Hospice charity 'bunny hop'.
We enjoyed looking at all the different classes hard work at the DT Exhibition
We went on a walk to explore the signs of Spring.
The next and final part of our story "Its a Good Day for a Hat". We enjoyed exploring the ocean sailing the sea through our English and Maths work - we went fishing, sang songs, engaged in tuff trays, shell cleaning, fine motor skills, writing and with our Phonics learning.
A Good Day For a Hat. Part of our learning story focuses on knights and dragons. We have enjoyed a sensory story with different sensory activities to engage us in our learning. We have used our fine motor skills, gross motor skills, hand eye coordination, phonics knowledge, Colourful Semantics and knowledge to engage in various activities in English
St Patrick's Day. We have a lovely day celebrating St Patrick's day with lots of sensory activities, baking, fine motor activities and sensory tuff trays.
Share our Learning. We had a lovely morning working with some of our parents from Rabbits Class. We all showed our super hard work we do in Rabbits.
Science Day 2025. Our focus for the day was change and adapt. We explored how flowers grow and change, how plants grow over time and how weather changes depending on the season.
We have been engaging in The Very Hungry Caterpillar story. Rabbits Class have our very own Caterpillars. We are going to watch our caterpillars grow.
World Book Day 2025 - The Tiger Who Came To Tea. We have enjoyed exploring our story through sensory activities, writing, fine motor skills and had our very own tea party.
Rabbits Class trip to Queen Street Mill. We had a fantastic time visiting Queen Street Mill for our topic of Fabric. We enjoyed exploring The Mill, looking at all the equipment such as the loom and weaving machinery. We got to experience the machines working and they were very loud. We then got to role play a life of a mill worker looking at their everyday life and dressed up as the workers would in that time. We had a fantastic day and learnt alot.
St David's Day. We have enjoyed celebrating St David's Day through sensory activities, baking and arts and crafts.
Valentines Day, we have enjoyed our valentines activities which included lots of sensory and creative aspects.
Super Maths! This term we have all worked super hard on our own individual targets within our Numbers, Measurement and 2D Shapes.
We have enjoyed our gymnastics focus in PE this term. We have learned new shapes including squat, pike, straddle, star and stretch. We have incorporated and learnt new basic jumps including stretch jump, star jump, tuck jump, half turn, full turn and bunny hop. Moving on from our movements and poses we engaged in balancing techniques including pushing and pulling along benches, balancing and walking on ramps and beams, crawling through tunnels and jumping off apparatus.
As part of our Superhero topic we looked at different powers Superheroes require to be super. We discovered Superheroes sometimes need to be able to fly. We made our own kites and practiced using our super speed to fly them outside.
Rabbits celebrated Chinese New Year on 29th January 2025. In Rabbits we engaged with mark making Chinese numbers with chop sticks, practiced our cutting and sticking to make a snake head, hand printed during Arts and Crafts, explored Chinese nursery rhymes, engaged in threading beads to make bright Chinese necklaces and even tasted Chinese food.
Evil Pea escaped the freezer and hid Supertato and the other vegetables around school. We were Superheroes for the morning and went to investigate and find our vegetable friends.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Fruit and Vegetable art
We made bird feeders for all the hungry birds to eat over Winter
Our new topic is Superheroes. This week we have enjoyed read our new story Supertato. We have engaged in different engaging activities and even made our own Supertato to help save the day. In topic we made our own superheroes with capes and tested how far they could fly.
End of Autumn and Christmas crafts and activities
Christmas Nativity Story
We have enjoyed our sensory story of Barnaby Bear goes to the North Pole. We enjoyed sensory trays linked to the story, tried mince pies and used symbols to express our likes and dislikes. We then followed steps to make our own hot chocolates. They were yummy.
Wriggly Nativity 2024
We followed instructions to make Gingerbread following our Gingerbread Man story
We read the story Stick Man. Following on from this we had lots of fun activities exploring the woodland for sticks, designing and making our own stick men, exploring the emotions happy and sad in the story along with engaging messy play.
Shape hunt around school
As part of PSHE we looked at road safety. We walked to Asda to collect snack, we wrote our own shopping list to follow, collected and found our items and made sure we followed our road safety knowledge when walking back to school.
We explored Dance skills in PE by copying and attempting to create short dance sequences.
Children in Need 2024 - We had lots of fun activities during our Children in Need day. We explored finger painting Pudsey's bandana so he had lots of spots. We used our Pudsey ears to explore animal sounds and found the sounds to match the animals. During Art we made our own Pudsey stained glass window. Everyone looked fantastic and we raised lots of money for charity. Well done Rabbits
To finish topic in English of Barnaby Bear goes to a Firework Display. We went outside and had our very own bonfire where we roasted marshmallows, sang camp songs and had a sensory story.
We found letters outside and used objects to write our class name.
Remembrance Day 2024
In Science we have been exploring what plants need to grow. We know they need water, sun, carbon dioxide from the air and soil. We explored this through sensory trays and art.
We have been exploring our emotions through a variety of practical and art activities.
In topic we have been looking at 'our school' we have been looking at different pictures of the different areas in our school and going on a hunt to find the places.
In Science we have been exploring plants. We have looked at different things that plants need to grow. We enjoyed exploring the different plants in our school and collecting them to make a collage.
Our topic this term is 'Our School'. We have been looking at our school uniform and we created a collage of ourselves wearing the school uniform. We also enjoyed finding all of our peers and adults in class.
