Summer 2 Medium Term Planning -  2022

Summer 2 Knowledge Organiser

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Thursday 21st July - 2022

Wow, what a fabulous day we have had today! We went to Victoria park and had a splash in the pool. We also had a picnic with our families and a play in the park. We have created some amazing memories to round off our first year at school!

Week beginning 4th July - 2022

We have really enjoyed reading the story of Hansel and Gretel this week. Robins did some amazing re-telling of the story. They worked in groups to act out the story deciding between them who would be which character! 

Week beginning 27th June - 2022
This week, we have been exploring the stories 'The Great Gran Plan' and 'Super Pigs'.  We enjoyed designing our own disguises and creating superhero capes and masks.  We has lots of fun retelling the story and acting it out.  

Thursday 23rd June 2022

We had a fabulous time at our sports day on Thursday.  We enjoyed completing all the races and showing our grown ups how great we are at sport. We were so lucky with the weather and had so much fun! Well done to all the children for showing such good sportsmanship and cheering on their friends!

Tuesday 14th June 2022

This week, we have been looking at the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and today we enjoyed trying some foods from the story.  We tasted cheese, salami, gherkins, strawberries, plums, apples, oranges and pears.  We talked about the food we liked and disliked and voted for our favourite.  We created a bar chart to show the most popular fruit in each class.

Wednesday the 8th of June

Today we were very excited about the Queen coming to visit us for our Jubilee Party! We made sandwiches, bagels and iced biscuits. We also wrote the Queen some cards and made ourselves some fancy crowns to wear!

Summer 1 Medium Term Planning -  2022

Summer 1 Knowledge Organiser

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Thursday 26th May 2022

We enjoyed a visit from our grown-ups today.  They came into the classrooms to explore some maths games and activities and we had lots of fun showing them all of our fabulous learning too!

Week beginning the 16th May - 2022

This week we have been exploring addition and subtraction in maths. We have been reading addition and subtraction stories and created some of our own! We enjoyed putting our skills into a context! 

Wednesday 11th May 2022

Today, we had a visit from Little Red Riding Hood's Granny.  She said she had spotted the wolf in school!  We went on a wolf hunt to find him and help Granny get her cakes back.  We found lots of clues but we didn't see the wolf.  We wrote to Granny to say thank you for her visit and to let her know we had a letter from the police to say the wolf had been caught red handed! 

Week beginning 2nd May-2022

This week, we have been exploring the story 'The Cloud Spotter'  We have enjoyed creating our own cloud designs and learning about different cloud formations.  We found out about the water cycle and created our own water cycle bags.

Week beginning 25th April - 2022

We have had a fabulous first week back at School. We have enjoyed seeing our friends and sharing our holiday news.  We even had a visit from the Easter Bunny who hid chocolate eggs for us to find!  We have also been exploring the story Jack and the Beanstalk, we thought about what we would like to find at the top of a beanstalk and came up with some really creative ideas. 

Spring 2 Medium Term Planning -  2022

Spring 2 Knowledge Organiser

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Week beginning 28th March - 2022

We read the little book of Greta Thunberg and found out how she protested about climate change every Friday instead of going to school. We discovered that children all over the world joined her protest. We decided to create our own protest signs and attached them to our dolls of the world. Some children created the building she sat outside of, which was full of important people. 

Thursday 31st March - 2022

We have had lots of fun exploring number pairs to 10 today at our 'Number Bonds Party'.  For our Math's Challenge this week, we made our own hats representing number pairs to 10 in different ways.  Today, we wore our creations and each had a number from 0 to 10. We danced to music and when the music stopped we found our partner to make 10.  We enjoyed singing our number pairs song to help us remember number pairs to make 10.

Week beginning the 21st March - 2022

We have been learning about addition and subtraction this week. We have been learning that subtraction is the inverse of addition. We have been using Numicon, number blocks, and tens frames to help us with solving addition and subtraction sums. Some of us had a go at creating and recording our own sums! 

Wednesday 16th March - 2022

We were so inspired by our trip to the beach. We have created a water colour of what we saw. We are going to paint them onto a canvas as we are so proud of them.

Week beginning the 14th of March - 2022

We have had a fabulous week reading the story Somebody Crunched Colin. We have been really interested to learn all about how the rubbish we drop impacts the wildlife around us. We decided to visit Westward Ho! Beach to clean up all the rubbish we find before it gets blown into the sea! We also went Rock pooling and found lots of creatures and interesting shells.

Week beginning the 7th March - 2022

We have had a wonderful week reading Somebody Swallowed Stanley and learning all about what happens to our rubbish in the sea. We have created posters to raise awareness about recycling, and written facts about different sea creatures. We really enjoyed exploring different fish, especially when we were able to cut them open and explore inside!

Week beginning 28th February - 2022

We have been reading the book fish. We found out that lots of the rubbish we see outside ends up in the sea and harms the wildlife. We decided that we should clean up our school and went on a hunt for litter! We collected bags of rubbish and we are going to put it to good use, by creating some amazing artwork! 

Spring 1 Medium Term Planning - 2022

Spring 1 Knowledge organiser

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Wednesday 16th February -2022

We have had another fabulous week exploring Space.  This week, we focused on the story "Goldilocks in Space."  We explored the knew planets in the book and talked about how they were both similar and different to Earth.  We looked at the aliens in the story and had fun discussing what aliens might look like.  We even had an alien visit our classrooms and write to us!  We designed our own aliens and made them out of clay. 

Week beginning the 7th February - 2022

This week we have been learning all about space. We thought about what we would like to do on the moon and what we would take with us. We have been busy designing and making rockets and aliens space ships and learning all about the planets. We have created a class fact book all about the planets! 

Week beginning 31st January - 2022

The children have really enjoyed learning all about China and the Chinese New Year. We found out that it was the largest country in the world and has the longest wall! We enjoyed looking at the Pandas and learning the story of the Chinese Zodiac. We then looked at how they celebrate their New Year and had a go at dragon dancing to music. We can't wait to try the food next! 

Week beginning 24th January -2022

This week, we have been looking at the book 'The Great Kapok Tree' and we have enjoyed learning about the four layers of the rainforest.  We found out which animals live on each layer and about why the rainforest is such an important place.  We worked together to create some amazing models to show each layer of the rainforest and used the facts we learned to make 'Save the Rainforest' posters.  

Thursday 27th January - 2022

We have had lots of fun exploring weight in Maths this week. First, we explored heavy and light using our hands and then we used balance scales.  We collected objects from around the classroom and made predictions about which of the objects we thought would be heavy and which objects we thought would be light.  We used the scales to find out if our predictions were correct.

Wednesday 19th January - 2022

The children have been learning all about the Rainforest. Today we learnt at Sloths and we found out that they are the slowest mammal, they live in trees and only go to the floor once a week! The three toed Sloths only eat leaves which is why the save their energy and that two toed Sloths eat leaves, insects and frogs! Some children decided to turn into Sloths for the afternoon. They made claws and moved slowly around. They even slept in the "trees"!

Week beginning 17th January - 2022

This week we have been challenging ourselves in maths. We have used objects and counters to help us to create some number sentences. We have even had ago at recording these. We have also been using the language or more, less and equal to describe amounts of objects. 

Week beginning the 10th January - 2022

The children have really enjoyed exploring Ancient Egypt this week. We have located Egypt on the map and have found out lots of information about pyramids, Pharaohs, mummies, the Nile and the animals of Egypt. We really enjoyed turning each other into mummies and were surprised to find that they used to take out peoples brains through their noses! 

Week beginning 3rd January - 2022

Parrot Class have had lots of fun learning to use the glue guns independently this week.  They decided what they wanted to make and drew their designs on paper before using junk modelling to bring them to life.  They used the glue guns to build their models and came up with some fabulous designs and creations.  Well done Parrots!

Week beginning 3rd January - 2022

We have had a wonderful week settling back into Reception and beginning our theme of becoming explorers with some pirate activities!  We have been really busy in our continuous provision and have enjoyed seeing our friends again and sharing our holiday news.   

Autumn 2 Term Medium Term Planning - 2021

Autumn 2 Knowledge organiser

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14th December - 2021

We had a fabulous Polar Express Day.  We came to school in our Pyjamas and had our tickets ready to board the train. We enjoyed the journey and even had some hot chocolate and marshmallows while we travelled!

Week beginning 6th December -2021

This week, in Maths, we have been exploring 4 sided shapes.  We focused on squares and rectangles and enjoyed going on a shape hunt to see what square and rectangle objects we could find in school.  We found lots!
We also had fun completing the matchstick challenge; making squares and rectangles using matchsticks.  We explored shapes of all different sizes and found ways to turn our squares into rectangles.  It was lots of fun!  We made sure we counted the number of matchsticks we used to see who had used the most or the least.

Week beginning 29th November - 2021

This week, we have enjoyed exploring the story 'The High Street."  We looked through the shops in the story and compared them to our local area.  We talked about the shops we know in Bideford and discussed our favourite places to visit.  We looked at the music shop page and explored different instruments, using them to create music and experiment with different sounds. We used junk modelling to make our own instruments as well as making instruments using things we found in the classroom.

Week beginning 22nd November - 2021

We have had another fabulous week learning about dinosaurs.  This week, we focussed on the story "Dear Dinosaur"  We had a letter from the T-Rex who lived at the museum and he even visited our classrooms to drop off his letter!  We though of questions we would like to ask him and wrote back. 

This week, we also found out about Paleontologist's and created our own dinosaur fossils using salt dough.

Week beginning 15th November - 2021

This week, we have been exploring the story The Dinosaur Department Store. We have had a wonderful time talking about which dinosaur we would choose for a pet and finding out even more amazing dinosaur facts.  We have also been really busy making our own dinosaur models out of junk modelling and modroc to create our own dinosaur store.

11th November - 2021

Today we thought about why we wear our poppies. We talked about the soldiers and their families. We made some poppies to wear and created some fabulous pieces of art to display to show our respect. 

Week beginning the 8th November- 2021

This wee we have been reading Mad about Dinosaurs. We have remembered lots of amazing facts and started to create our own dinosaur books. We talked about our trip to the Dinosaur Park and wrote about our favourite part of the day. In maths we have been using positional language. We used dinosaurs to help us use this language in our play. We have had a really fun week! 

Friday 5th November - 2021

We have enjoyed learning all about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We set the the children a home learning challenge of making their own Guys. We had some amazing interpretations and they were all very different and extremely creative! We decided to build our own bonfire and create our own fireworks to make our own display to music. We put our Guys on the bonfire and even toasted some marshmallows. We ended our day with firework biscuits and sparkler breadsticks! 

Wednesday 3rd November - 2021

We have been exploring Diwali, the festival of light. We looked at India on the map and found out lots of information. We read the story of Rama and Sita and discussed the importance of light for the festival. We made our own Diva lamps to light the way for Rama and Sita, to help find their way home. 

Tuesday 2nd November - 2021

We had a wonderful trip to the Dinosaur Park today. We were all very excited to travel by coach and couldn't wait to get there. We went on a Dinosaur hunt and found lots of dinosaurs around the park. We took lots of photos and can't wait to find out more about them. We also got to see lots of different animals around the park, and even got to go in with the Meerkats at feeding time! Our favourite part of the day was getting sprayed with water by the Dinosaurs! 

Autumn 1 Term Medium Term planning - 2021

Week beginning 18th October - 2021

This week we have be focussing on the story, Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn.  We have had lots of fun exploring and comparing seasons and creating art work using the illustrations from the book.