Upcoming dates and events: 

Monday 24th February - First day back to school Spring term 

Thursday 6th March - World Book Day Dress up 

Friday 14th March - Comic Relief Dress up 

Thursday 27th March - Parent Evening 1

Thursday 3rd April - Parent Evening 2

 

Spring 2 

This half-term, our topic is Growing. We will be looking at 3 stories in particular :

Errol's Garden  The Little Red Hen  The Enormous Turnip 

New Topic - Growing 

This term, we will be learning all about Growing. This topic will include how plants grow, where our food comes from, how to keep healthy and how to look after our environment. We will be engaging in activities which include planing flowers and vegetables, cooking healthy meals and making habitats for bugs in our environment. 

World Book Day

We had some wonderful characters show up to school on World Book Day. The children in Cuckoo class love listening to stories being read to them, and have the use of a lovely reading corner where they can read books independently. Reading is a very important skill so we encourage all of our families to engage in various reading activities outside of the school. This could be reading a bedtime book together, reading street signs, food labels, shop signs, newspapers and much more! 

STEAM WEEK 

We had our annual STEAM week this year. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. We were off the timetable so that our pupils could be fully involved in a range of activities throughout the week. This year, our challenge was to create a GIANT Snakes and Ladders game. Reception decided to work together and focus on the ARTS element of STEAM since it was a new subject to our usual STEM week. Alongside working on our game, we also engaged in various science experiments, maths challenges, team-building games and art activities. 

  

We made stacking cup bridges, explore magnets and made a marble run out of toilet tubes 

        

We made colourful paper sculptures, mixed skittles colours and made built a bridge over the Thames. 

         

We made marshmallow habitats for wild animals, drew intricate patterns and made rainbow flowers!

        

We played Tetris, planted our own Bean seeds and experimented with rainbow milk. 

       

We did an amazing experiment with Elephant's Toothpaste, coded Beebots and designed our own robots. 

   

We made our own paper marble runs and ended the week with a cool bubble show!

We ended this exciting week with a Parent Day, where we saw parents come into the classroom to experience some of the activities we had on for Cuckoo class. 

  

More photos can be found in our gallery on the right hand side of this page. 

Once again, thank you to all of our wonderful parents for your continual support!