Author: Sarada Vicknathasan

15 Dec

Chestnut Class looked amazing in their animal costumes for the Nativity play. They danced brilliantly and enjoyed joining in with the singing. You can watch our nativity on Google classroom.[gallery ids="24863,24864,24865,24866,24867,24868,24869,24870"] ...

11:01 / News Archive / Reception
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03 Dec

Chestnut Class marked the arrival of winter by painting penguins for our winter display board. We painted their bodies and then cut out an orange beak and drew on some eyes.[gallery ids="24818,24830,24819,24827,24821,24822,24823,24824,24826,24828,24820,24817"] ...

16:07 / News Archive / Reception
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24 Nov

Chestnut Class have really enjoyed learning about 'The Jigaree'.  The Jigaree is a wonderful early emergent book by author Joy Cowley. It is both warm and exciting for early reading skills in reception. We have been reading the story together, and learning focus words from...

10:49 / News Archive / Reception
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24 Nov

Our topic this half term is colour. We have been having lots of fun exploring colour mixing with our hands. We painted our palms with 2 different colours and then rubbed our palms together to mix up the paint and see which new colour was...

08:14 / News Archive / Reception
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11 Nov

We used oil pastels to colour and make our own poppies for Remembrance Day. We observed a minutes silence at 11 o'clock and said a special prayer.[gallery ids="24752,24755,24754,24756,24753,24757"] ...

16:01 / News Archive / Reception
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03 Nov

We walked to St Peter in Chains church for the baptism of our baby doll, Gabriel. We were all very excited and each had an important part to play. Father Sean spoke to us about how we welcome  baby Gabriel in to God’s family. Father...

10:34 / News Archive / Reception
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18 Oct

[gallery ids="24679,24678,24681,24682,24680"]As part of our work on Black History Month, Chestnut Class have been creating artwork inspired by Alma Woodsey Thomas, who was an African-American artist and teacher....

16:54 / News Archive / Reception
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14 Oct

Chestnut Class have been busy learning about shapes. We built models with shapes, completed shape puzzles and made pictures with triangles, rectangles, circle and squares. We learnt the names of the shapes we used and started to talk about[gallery ids="24657,24651,24661,24652,24659,24655,24663,24654,24665,24653,24664,24656,24658,24662,24660,24666,24635"]their properties....

08:12 / News Archive / Reception
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