This week in Topic we have been learning all about animal habitats. Throughout the week, we have spent time looking at different animals that live in habitats such as, the forest, desert, ice, woodland, ocean and ponds. For our ‘Muddy Puddles Day’ today, we explored two different types of habitats to see which animals we …

This coming Wednesday (5.5.21) both Robins and Bluebirds will be taking part in their muddy puddle day. The day’s theme will be linked to outdoor learning looking at different animals within our environment. We have planned different activities such as, making binoculars to look at birds which is why we have requested your child to …

As part of our learning on how to keep safe when using a computer, tonight your child will bring home a ‘Legend Trophy’ kit. They will need to use their knowledge about how to use the web wisely and responsibly and work with you to build their trophy. All you need to do to get …

Today in Reception we have celebrated Earth Day. We began the day by chatting about some of our favourite places on Earth, such as the beach, our garden, the park and the sea! Then, we went on a nature hunt to see if we could find some of the beautiful creatures and plants that live …

Over the past week in RE we have learnt about the Easter story. We celebrated by tasting some hot cross buns and made our own Easter cards. We hope you all have a lovely Easter break with your families.  

This week we reached the end of our topic Changes. To begin the day, we had a big group discussion about all of the things we had learned. We shared our new knowledge on the life cycles of plants, humans and animals. We also chatted about other things that change, such as time, colours, feelings …

We have loved returning back to school and meeting all our friends again. To start our theme on ‘Mindfulness’ we talked about how we felt about coming back to school and shared our worries with each other. We recapped on our routines, school rules and the importance of keeping ourselves safe by washing our hands, …

We have had a great time this week getting outdoors and learning all about nature and we have created our own little gardens. We wrote of list of items we thought would be useful in a garden design, talked about how we could recreate these and drew different insects and animals that we thought might …

We just wanted to let you know that Robins and Bluebirds have had a fantastic first day back, and have all been keen to get straight into the classroom and see their friends. Today, we have talked about how our experiences over the past few weeks have been different, how we feel about being back …

Introducing…. ‘The Masked Reader!’ Coming Soon…

This December we have been working hard to complete our imoves Active Advent. We’ve danced along to hip-hop, bollywood and disco, learnt about our joints and muscles and completed some pretty tough HIIT sessions. We’re exhausted!!

This week we continued our celebrations around Christmas. We learnt about Christingle. We found out the Christingles are used in some Christian churches during the time of Advent. Each part of a Christingle represents something special for this time of year. The candle represents Jesus being the light of the world. The dried fruit and sweets represent …

Our Topic this half-term has been Celebrations. We have learned about Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day, birthdays, weddings and Christmas. To finish our Topic, we discussed different ways that we could ‘celebrate’ the end of term. We decided to have a CHRISTMAS PARTY! We came dressed in our party clothes, brought party food, made biscuits, decorated …

Reception have been celebrating Christmas jumper day today. We had Christmas dinner with crackers, danced to lots of Christmas songs and even took part in a Santa dash to help Santa get all of his toys delivered to the good girls and boys!

Reception have had a fantastic first week back this week and have settled back into school life well. They’ve had a lot of time to catch up with friends, share stories of what they did at home and complete some fantastic learning tasks. To top the week off it SNOWED today. Here they are having …

This week we have talked about remembrance day. In English we have been pretending to be soldiers writing letters to our families. We have made our own medals and designed own poppies, using different types of materials. This morning we paid our respects by taking part in a 2 minute silence at 11 ‘o’ clock. …

Please see attached letter regarding our Muddy Puddle day that will be taking place in school in the next few weeks. The aim of this day is to focus on our outdoor learning bringing nature to inspire the children’s learning.   Muddy puddle letter Nove 2020

Welcome back to a new term. The children have had a great first week back. Our new topic is all about different ‘Celebrations.’ This term also sees the start of us introducing homework. This can be found either on the school website or Google Classroom. Each week we will set an English or Maths task. These …

This term our new topic is Celebrations. Our topic has started with a bang, as we have celebrated Bonfire Night. We talked about why we have Bonfire Night, made our own breadstick sparklers, created our own rockets and fireworks. We have even launched our own rockets in the playground. What a blast!           

The children have had a fantastic half-term and have adjusted to the new rules and their new environment. They have played and shared many stories with us and have settled well. Thank you for all of your lovely comments and patience (in terms of pick-ups and drop-offs). We appreciate everybody working together on this. Over …

Over the past  few weeks we have started to spot letters in and around our classroom. We have loved looking at books and we are starting to recognise some letter sounds. We have also learnt that letters create meaning and they can make words to help us tell a story. During our phonic sessions we …

Today we listened to different types of music. We heard sounds that were loud and quiet. We also talked about how we could make with our voices load and quiet. We then looked at  sounds around the environment and sorted them into a set of  loud and quiet sounds. We made up some fantastic tunes …

Over this half term we have learnt a lot about ‘Ourselves.’ We have settled well in to our new school environment, made new friends, talked about our families and celebrated how unique we all are.  Today we made our own little faces talking about all the different features. We then used different types of media …

Tonight your child will bring home a library book for you to share with them over the weekend. In addition to this, your child will also bring home a reading scheme book. These are currently picture books to encourage you to talk about the stories. Within these books, there is a parent guide that enables …

This week we have looked and talked about the sense of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. We have completed little experiments to find out how some of these work. We tasted lots of different foods and found that some were sour, bitter, salty and sweet. We have also used our sense of touch. We …

What a day we have had in Bluebirds today. We’ve ‘baked’ Play-Doh cakes, made our own creations, coloured in with friends, read some stories, built some VERY tall towers, been to the shops for food, made some repairs to our home, stopped the baby from crying and tidied up…all before 2:45pm!

  We were all excited this morning as we went for a new adventure over to the hall for PE. We talked about why exercise is important and different ways we could stay healthy. To begin we did a quick warm up, then we ‘Went on a Bear Hunt’ using different yoga poses. We have …

Bluebirds and Robins have settled well into their new routines and are enjoying school life a Tranmere Park.

A big welcome back to all of our classes! Our teachers are all working hard updating their class pages for the new academic year and we are going to be including a lot of this information on here that would have previously been given out via our phase leaflets. Please bear with us whilst we …