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2025 - 2026
Red Nose Day 2026. We enjoyed exploring our local environment on a walk and park visit in the morning. In the afternoon, we focused on the colour red and faces; we designed our own biscuits making faces, engaged with sensory trays and made our own faces using our fine motor skills.
For our pen disco this week with the weather being nice we used our outdoor space. We used our fine motor movements to make circles. We warmed up our hands and practiced to music. We then went outside and practiced drawing with chunky chalks, we then used water and paintbrushes to make brush strokes to clean the board.
St Patricks Day. We celebrated St Patricks Day with lots of creative and engaging activities. We made our own shamrocks, practiced our fine motor skills, watched a rainbow form during Science, printed using peppers alongside lots of tuff trays.
Science Day. The focus for Science Day this year is children thinking about what they are most eager to discover about the world and how we would go about finding those questions. We explored float or sink? how do boats float?, soak away germs - why do we use soap?, human body - what impact this has on our bodies.
World Book Day. Our theme and story this year was Goldilocks and the Three Bears. All our teachers dressed up in character to retell the story. We enjoyed sensory tuff trays, exploring parts of the story, some children made wanted posters for Goldilocks, we enjoyed exploring filling, pouring and tipping with porridge. We made our own porridge and added ingredients we wanted to make it super yummy. We also made toast that looked like bears. We had a fantastic World Book Day and we all looked great.
As part of our From Seed to Flower topic we have been exploring flowers in Science. We used petals and leaves of flowers to make our own flowers.
St David's Day. We enjoyed celebrating St David's Day with lots of fun and exciting activities relating to Wales. We made our own flags using leeks as paint brushes, designed and made our own daffodils, enjoyed sensory activities, made our own sheep and enjoyed arts and crafts.
Spring Week. We have been celebrating the season change to Spring with lots of sensory activities, songs, dancing, fine motor and arts & crafts
PML Day 2026. We have enjoyed exploring French. We have made our own croissants, we matched symbols in English to French symbols, made our own rainbow with our new knowledge of colours. This afternoon we went to Paris and enjoyed buying vegetables from our shop keeper, we also had a special French hot chocolate and marshmallows.
We enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We explored sensory trays, used symbols to match and identify the different animals in the Chinese New Year. We made our own lanterns and enjoyed using different materials and resources to make different Chinese activities.
As part of out topic of Materials this term we have explored different materials including junk modeling. Using different equipment and resources with a focus on PSHE we have made our own bird feeders using junk modeling.
We have enjoyed using our gross motor skills during PE this term. We have used our bodies in different ways to focus on our gymnastic skills. we explored different positions, rolls, movements and jumps.
We had a special letter from Penny Pig who asked us to make our own portraits of her children the pigs from our shared story.
During our daily doodle and pen disco we explored swirls which we made into pigs following our shared story. We made choices for colours and equipment through choosing boards and followed the direction and the rhythm make the swirls using our fine motor skills.
We enjoyed hands on learning exploring Capacity. We explored filling, lifting, pouring alongside full, empty, half full and half empty.
Winter Week! We enjoyed a variety of activities involving all our own targets and development goals. We enjoyed snowy arts and crafts in art, making sledges during DT, focused counting opportunities in Maths, using colourful semantics and exploring symbols in English alongside lots of hands on learning opportunities and sensory trays.
Our Christmas Party! We had a fantastic Christmas Party with all our friends; we enjoyed dancing, game of corners and pass the parcel.
Father Christmas came to wish us Merry Christmas!
Our Christmas Dinner celebrations. We made our own placemats, hats and table center piece to celebrate Christmas. We have had a lovely day with festive activities. We have baked gingerbread men, engaged in fine motor activities, enjoyed arts and crafts alongside focusing on our communication skills.
We followed the steps to make our own mince pies and they were delicious!!
We have enjoyed exploring the Christmas Nativity Story in our RE learning. We have engaged in sensory trays, cutting and sticking activities, fine motor activities, copy writing opportunities and exploring artefacts alongside our sensory story.
Lancashire Day 2025. We celebrated Lancashire day with lots of exciting activities. We listened to Lancashire Hot Pots and preformed with our own drums alongside their music, we baked Chorley cakes, engaged in arts and craft opportunities and used our gross motor skills to play football.
Some of our children enjoyed going to Acorns in Preston where they joined other local schools in the area to use their fine and gross motor skills to engage in dance and opportunities for movement.
During our English learning we have been following Barnaby Bear on his adventures. Barnaby has been visiting the UK. He has been to Blackpool and London. He has been really busy and we have been really busy in class.
We enjoyed fundraising for Children in Need Day. We engaged in baking, sensory activities, fine motor activities, arts and crafts. We engaged in lots of group work.
Celebrating Remembrance Day 2025. We engaged in lots of sensory activities, fine motor, hands on learning and arts and crafts. We had our minute silence at 11am where we laid our poppies we made one by one, we had a moment of silence.
Celebrating Bonfire Night. We explored different activities during our day celebrating. We engaged in themed hands on learning across the curriculum. We made our own edible sparklers, enjoyed our sensory story "Barnaby Bear went to a bonfire", we had an attention grabbing bonfire of our own where we roasted marshmallows and drank hot chocolate. We engaged in lots of arts and crafts opportunities and communication experiences. We ended our day with a sensory light disco.
Autumn Week. We engaged in lots of opportunities relating to Autumn. We explored the differenet weather we will experience alongside explored the different things autumn will give us like conkers and pumpkins.
As part of our English learning we used school visual maps to identify different parts of school. The children really engaged with following their maps and finding the different animal classrooms around school.
Part of our RE learning this term we focused on Hindu. During our learning we explored music, dressing up, colours, arts and crafts alongside trying religious food and engaged in learning about the culture.
We have enjoyed looking at Animals in Science. This week we engaged in a science experiment where we helped the polar animals escape from the ice by making it fizzy with special vinegar solution. We enjoyed watching the snow fizz.
As part of our class story we have explored "Our Class is a Family". This week we have explored our school. We have followed maps around school to find different parts of school. We then came back to class and used symbols identify the different areas and classes within school.
Part of our Measurement targets in Maths we have been using different equipment to measure different objects. We have enjoyed sensory tuff trays with a measuring focus, using bricks and our counting skills to measure how many bricks, made towers which we measured and even explored long and short tubes where we watched conkers falls.
We have been really busy exploring 2D shapes in Rabbits.
During PE we have explored balancing and movement. We have focused on specific movements to move our body and balance. We are developing our gross motor skills and social skills / friendships during PE.
Continuing our story during English. We explored bedroom - with this we engaged in practical experience such as brushing our teeth before bed, used arts and crafts to design our own pyjamas, enjoyed sensory aspects of lights in the dark tents alongside engaging with fine motor activities. We made our own stars to play alongside twinkle twinkle.
During our English starter we have been focusing on our fine motor skills. We have introduced a pen disco for our class where we follow number rhythms and direction to make marks that convey meaning. This week we used our choosing board to pick our choice of equipment and focused on circles.
As part of our English learning we have been exploring the story "On every Street, In Every House" We have enjoyed working through the story looking at different parts of the house. This week we focused on bathroom. We have enjoyed following steps to wash our hands, brushing our teeth and identifying different items in the bathroom. All our learning has been focused on our own individual targets with a sensory focus.
Jeans for Genes - we have enjoyed our Jeans for Genes day by exploring ourselves, designing jeans with puffy paint, using our fine motor skills with cutting and made our own DNA out of sweets.
Our new story "In every House, on every Street". We followed steps and symbols to make our own pizzas. We followed the steps to make the pizzas and got to try these when they were cooked. We designed and made our own pizza boxes along with using symbols to order our instructions.
Our first week in Rabbits. We had a fantastic first week settling into Rabbits Class.
