Foundation Stage
Welcome to EYFS 2023 -2024
Reception Summer Term 1 Overview
Weaving
Spring 2 Nursery Overview
Spring Term 2 Reception Overview
Making Bird Food
Measuring capacity in the "Pop Factory"
Investigating mixing shades.
January Pantomime Cinderella.
Nursery Overview Spring 1 2024
Reception Topic Spring 1
Whinlatter Winter Visit
Having fun in Nursery
Christmas in Nursery
Maths in Nursery - AB patterns
Nursery Thankfulness Display
Art Day
Nursery Autumn 2 Overview
Autumn 2 Overview
Having fun outside!
Superheroes in Nursery!
Dress Like a Superhero Day
Planting Spring Bulbs
Signs of Autumn Walk
Nursery Class Paintings
Our class paintings
Reception Parent Meeting September 2023
New beginnings
Nursery Topic Web Autumn 1 2023
Nursery Yearly Overview 2023-2024
Reception Autumn 1 Topic web
Reception Yearly Overview
Welcome to EYFS
2022-2023
Summer 2 Reception Topic Web
Butterfly homes & release
Animal Habitats. The children loved the visit from Pet Encounters where they learnt about animal homes & habitats.
Painting houses in the style of James Rizzi
Reception Topic Web Summer 1 "Whose House is This?"
Easter Celebrations
Bring Your Bike to School Day
Visit From Whitehaven Fire Service
Signs of Spring forest school.
Reception Topic Web Spring Term 2 2023
Nursery Topic Web Spring 2 2023
One Snowy Day....
Traffic Survey. What type of vehicles travel past school?
Foundation Stage Topic Web Spring Term 1 2023
Christmas Trip To Whinlatter
Autumn 2 Topic Web
Talk for Writing - The Little Red Hen.
We went for a walk round the school to look for Autumn signs.
Starting Reception.
Autumn 1 Topic Web
Pirate treasure maps
Dress Like a Pirate Day.
Where Would You Bury Your Treasure? We visited the Pirate Exhibition at the Beacon Museum.
Summer 2 Topic Web
Summer Term 1 All about minibeasts! We have been thinking about why minibeasts are important.
Summer term in nursery, part one!
This half term we have been learning about mini beasts and life cycles, we had a visit from pet encounters with lots of crawlies. We have been exploring the very hungry caterpillar story and retelling it using actions. we have also been exploring how things and people change over time.
We have also been working hard learning makaton nursery rhymes.
Spring term in Nursery!
We had lots of fun discovering shapes, making obstacle courses and exploring the garden looking for signs of spring.
We are taking care of tadpoles and learning about their life cycle.
Stream Investigations
Spring 2 Reception Topic Web
How to Catch a Star.
Exploring Capacity in the pop factory.
Frozen Planet! We explored drawing with wax and covering with a blue wash to create Jack Frost pictures.
Spring 1 Nursery
Spring 1 Topic Web- What Happens in Other Worlds?
Christmas Trip to Whinlatter Forest
This week in reception we have been looking at items from the past. The children have enjoyed bringing in and talking about items that were precious to their family members in the past.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This week in Reception we received a letter from a troll! He warned use not to use the bridge in our garden. The children quickly set about looking for evidence that a troll was out and about and they closed the bridge with warning tape just in case........ The children went on to create trolls out of playdough, paint and other creative materials. On Wednesday the troll sent us a copy of a story that he actually doesn't like very much - The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have been busy learning the story and making up some actions to go with it.
Autumn Term 2021
Nursery Autumn 1
We have been sharing the story of "Room on the Broom." It has been a firm favourite with the children who have spent time flying on the broomstick, making spells, pretending to be the witch from the story and creating their own magic wands.
Autumn 2 Topic Web
Talk For Writing. The Little Red Hen
Reception Class
Exploring Our School
Useful Documents
Space Travel and Aliens
Tinkering! (Investigating the different parts of computers)
Spring has arrived
World Book Day. The children enjoyed reading a range of different books in a variety of usual places.
Parents' Meeting Sept 2020
Curriculum Overview
Welcome to our Foundation Stage.
This week we have been having lots of fun, exploring, settling into school and meeting new friends.
Celebrating World Book Day. Year 6 came to read stories to our Nursery children. They were enthralled with your story telling. Thank you. 😊
Our literacy focus at the moment is the book "We're Going On A Bear Hunt". This has led to super story mapping and discussion and soon we will write our own stories, following the same thread but changing some of the key components with our own ideas. In turn this has led to alot of play involving, bear hunts and caves.
Outside the children are pretending to be bears and have made their own bear den, numbered it number 2, have begun to record by writing a title and then have used numbers to note down the amount of people the bears have caught.
What super imaginative play everyone, well done. We cannot wait to read your own adapted stories.
Going on a bear hunt!
Christmas decorations with Mark from the National Trust
Gingerbread Men!
Sssssnake pit!
Today for PE we were practising the long jump, hurdles and javelin throwing.
We were taught a technique for each sporting event and had to try our best to put it into practise.
We may be using these skills on sports day so we will continue to perfect them.
Super effort everyone.
Celebrating Chinese New Year.
We have been learning all about goats following our "Talk for Writing" story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." We even had a couple of special visitors!
Christmas in Whinlatter
Sharing books with the Year 5 children.
This afternoon we expored our school grounds for any signs of Autumn. We also collected our finds and made an Autumn collage out of them. One of the children chose to peel the bark and add it to his collage. What a fantastic technique. Super learning through the seasons Reception.