Chinese New Year Videos

Chinese New Year

The Lower Foundation Phase children came to our Chinese feast. We had to prepare lots of things just like Chinese people do. We helped to clean, organise and decorate the hall. We made our own menus of things we would like to eat, we made Chinese dragons and made music to dance our dragons to through the playground. Lilly even challenged Mrs Ward to make a dragon so she had to make a big dragon and got the children to help her decorate it. We also made special drums and Chinese red envelopes with chocolate money in them.

We learnt a lot about how Chinese New Year is celebrated and had a delicious feast provided for us by The Oriental Buffet.  Many many thanks to Mr and Mrs Zhang for preparing such lovely food and helping us to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Our trip to the library

This week the children from Mrs Ward’s class and the children from Mr Hall’s class found themselves on a school visit to the same place. Very unusual except that the visit was to the Library a great place for all ages.

Both classes were very excited for different reasons .The children in Mrs Ward’s class were returning books from their last visit and looking for new books for our topic “Where in the World”. Mr Hall’s class were on a quest to find books of their own personal choice.

The best part of the visit was the way the children interacted with each other. Mr Hall’s children were fantastic reading stories to the younger children and talking about the books and the younger children loved listening to the story and spending time with the older children. Mr Hall’s class were also very patient as we walked back to school as some of the younger children were tired and needed encouragement up the hill back to school.

I think that all staff present were very proud of all of the children and the care and respect they showed each other. Congratulations to them all.

Reception Christmas Party

We had a great time at our Christmas party. We all looked fantastic in our party clothes and were very excited. We wore the special party hats we had made and the tables were decorated with the Christmas Trees we had made.

First we went into the middle block .We played different games including pass the parcel, musical statues and musical bumps .We danced to all our favourite songs until we were exhausted and won prizes for being the best dancers.

Then we had delicious party food including jelly and cream. Take a look at the photos to see how much fun we had.

Open morning

It was great to see our mums, dads and grandparents enjoy our Christmas open morning. We started by getting dressed into our costumes for our Christmas play. Thank you mums and dads for helping us.

Because we were the last class to share our Christmas play we began the activities. We decorated Christmas snowmen biscuits and made snowmen cakes using icing and marshmallows. As usual the best part of these activities was the food tasting and we all agreed they were delicious.

We also made Christmas pictures and cards for our friends. Very soon it was time for us to share our Christmas celebration. It soon became obvious that not only had the children [and parents] spent a long time learning words and sorting out costumes but they spoke, sang and played their bells brilliantly. Best of all the children showed how talented they were and also how much they enjoyed performing for everyone. Well done to all of you. It was a real celebration of Christmas.

Enjoy some of the photos of us during the open morning.

Welly Walk Wednesday

As part of our Welly Walk Wednesday this week we went on a visit to the Library.

When we arrived Mrs Ward read us the story of “The Gruffalo Child” which we really enjoyed,  lots of us had heard the story before but we all agreed it was definitely one of our favourites. Then we chose our own books .We love looking at books and reading stories and we were able to find lots of books to share with our friends. Some of the books we brought back to school. We could not believe how quickly the time went. Before we left we listened to another story this time about dinosaurs and Mrs Ward reminded us that we can borrow books from the library when we want if we go with our mum and dads.

We enjoyed it so much we are planning to go again and swap our books for some more. But first we want to enjoy the books we have borrowed. Take a look at us reading lots of books in the library.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We have been learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We turned the home corner into the bears cottage, painted pictures of our favourite character and wrote descriptions of them. We have sorted bears, bowls, chairs and beds into different sizes and ordered them. We made and tasted different types of porridge and made a simple chart of our favourite one. Baby Bear’s honey porridge was our favourite.

We have really enjoyed learning about the story of Goldilocks but cant wait to find out about the story of the Gingerbread man.