Foundation News
This week has been all about butterflies. We have learned about the butterfly life cycle from egg, to caterpillar, to chrysalis and butterfly and made some super playdough models to show each stage. We have been very creative with symmetrical patterns on butterfly wings, using painting, drawing and even peg boards! We were very [...]
This week we have been learning all about caterpillars. We learnt the knowledge that caterpillars are insects with six legs and other prolegs. We learnt that they eat leaves and spin cocoons. We know that they then change into butterflies. We have some caterpillars in Reception. They are getting big and we are waiting [...]
We hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. The children have returned refreshed and raring to go! Our learning this week is based around the story of 'The Bad Tempered Ladybird' written by Eric Carle. We were impressed that some of the children recognised the author and knew he had also written 'The Very [...]
This week we have been learning lots of key knowledge about snails. We learnt that they are not insects, they have a foot, tentacles to smell and feel, a shell and eyes on stalks. We learnt that they live in cold, damp places and eat, leaves, animal poo and each other. We [...]
It's been a fun first week of the summer term. The children have all come back to school full of energy and enthusiasm and have got stuck in to our minibeasts topic. This week has been all about spiders and we have enjoyed lots of different spider themed activities. [...]
Summer Term Minibeasts Topic Letter
Happy Easter Everyone. We have been busy learning and acting out the Easter story this week. We have made lovely chick printing Easter cards. We also created some art work in the style of Jackson Pollock, it was so messy and so much fun. We had [...]
We have had a fun week this week learning all about firefighters. The week started off with a visit from the firefighters. They showed us their uniforms and the equipment they use - some of us even got to try them on! We also got to sit in the fire truck and use the [...]
We have had another busy week in Reception. Thank you to Dr Ali (Noah's Mum) who came into school last Friday to show us how to work as doctors in a team and get the babies better. We enjoyed using the stethoscopes to listen to their hearts and giving them oxygen and medicine to [...]
Another exciting week in Reception at Abbey Road. We are learning so many life skills through our People who help us topic. This week we had a visit from Mike the Paramedic.The children experienced putting each other into the recovery position, simple bandaging and using blood pressure monitors and stethoscopes! We also practised making [...]
