Our story will be: The Squirrels Who Squabbled by Rachel Bright
Our rhyme of the week will be: Old MacDonald
Our maths work will focus on: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
We will also be: Talking about autumn and hibernation, collaging and weaving.
This half term in Reception
Reception have had a wonderfully busy and exciting first half term at school! We’ve been reading the story of The Gingerbread Man: retelling it with our friends, creating our own story maps and creating new characters who run away! To top it off, we baked our very own gingerbread men and enjoyed eating them together.
In phonics, we’ve introduced Fred the frog and have been practising our ‘Fred Talk’ to help us blend sounds into words. The children have now learned all the single letter sounds and are beginning to read simple, 3-letter words using the ‘Fred talk, read the word’ strategy.
In maths, we’ve explored repeating patterns, compared sizes and lengths, and focused on understanding the numbers 1, 2, and 3 through hands-on activities and play.
As autumn arrived, we’ve been observing seasonal changes and getting stuck into sensory exploration with our autumn-themed tuff tray. We’ve painted pumpkins, played in crunchy autumn leaves and talked about how the weather is changing.
It’s been a fantastic start to the year and we can’t wait to see what the next half term brings!
Diwali
In Denmark Class, we have been learning about Hinduism in RE. With Diwali celebrations happening this week, we enjoyed a whole day of activities learning more about Hindu traditions. We made Diwali sweets, clay diya lamps, rangoli artwork and tried traditional dancing. We used all we had learnt to complete brilliant acrostic poems.
Music, Art and PE
A few pictures from the first few weeks of term – Music technology, close-up drawings in Art and tag-rugby games in PE. The children have been working hard on their artwork this term and are currently working on their final pieces of the units – self-portraits in the style of Frida Kahlo. Stay posted for their finished pictures!
Year 2 Dance
We have had a fantastic time in PE learning dance this half term. We have learnt about long, folded, moving and entwined shapes. We have listened carefully to different types of music and moved in time. Our routines were creative and we showed some super teamwork skills. It was great fun!
Nursery w/b 20.10.25
Our story will be: Goldilocks
Our rhyme of the week will be: Here we go round the mulberry bush
Our maths work will focus on: Counting 1,2,3
We will also be: making and tasting porridge, slicing and spreading to make ‘bear toast’ and learning about ‘old’ and ‘new’.
Forest School Autumn 2025
This term, our year group has had the chance to visit forest school! Each house has the opportunity to work with Jules Jackdaw and enjoy special activities they wouldn’t get to do anywhere else. This week it was Holkham’s turn. We began the session under the shelter where everyone introduced themselves using their forest school names. Then, the children were given the opportunity to go and explore the forest area. Some chose to work in the mud kitchen, some chose to build crossbows, some climbed trees and some chose to do a mixture of everything and anything! We had a lovely time and thoroughly enjoyed this amazing resource.
Reception wb 20.10.25
Our story will be: Pumpkin Soup
Our rhyme of the week will be: Baa Baa Black Sheep
Our maths work will focus on: It’s Me: 1, 2, 3
We will also be: talking about seasonal changes and printing.
Signs of Autumn
In Denmark Class, we have been learning about the seasons. Today we went on a science hunt to find signs of Autumn. The children were very observant and spotted lots of different signs, including colourful leaves, seeds, fungi and berries.
Science, PE and Art
In Science, we had some fun on experimenting on how long it takes a solute and a solvent to mix together to make a solution. It came out to be really fun.
In PE, we are starting a rugby unit. In these lessons we have had a lot of fun playing games of tag rugby. In the pictures, you can see some students are playing a friendly game.
In art, we learnt about Friedensreich Hundertwasser. He was born in 1925. While he was alive he did some amazing drawings that we did. One thing we found is that he doesn’t like using a ruler! We copied the picture with the view finders we made ourselves. And today, we enlarged and painted our abstract Hundertwasser inspired pictures.
Amelia and Seth
