In the Reception music lesson this term, children are introduced to the rudiments of music using the very child centred Tobin Music System. It is an exciting multisensory method of teaching, which makes music accessible to all abilities from a young age.
In 3V, the started the term by completing their Stone Age topic. The children used clay to create shapes like teeth, shells, and tusks—items that would have been used to make jewellery in the Stone Age. They then punched holes in them, and once they were dry, threaded string through…
On Wednesday 15 January, our Boys A and B teams played a friendly football fixture against our good friends Howe Green House School. After a long drive on the mini-bus, the boys had a lot of energy to burn and were raring to go! The A team had a very…
Upper Kindergarten were very excited to welcome Dr Patel to our class. First, Dr Patel asked the children a variety of questions such as “What is a Doctor?” and “Why would you go to a Doctor?”. The children showed some understanding by saying when their tummy hurts or if they…
As part of our PSHE curriculum, 5Z visited the Epping Forest Foodbank to learn more about the role of this charitable organisation in the community. They particularly enjoyed working in groups and getting involved by organising and packing food donations according to expiry dates. The children explored the warehouse and…
For their topic ‘Under the Sea’ Reception Woodpeckers have been looking at plastic pollution in the ocean. The children watched a demonstration of ocean pollution. A big tub was filled with water, shells, sea creatures etc and the class discussed how this was a good environment for the fish. Then…
The children in Upper Kindergarten have been learning how to keep their teeth healthy. The children watched a short educational video of a little girl called Ava and her first trip to the dentist. They learnt about milk teeth, what happens at a dentist appointment and how to brush our…
The children in Lower Kindergarten loved exploring our ice and shaving foam ‘snow’ sensory tray. It was a great opportunity to encourage the children to use descriptive language to describe the different textures. Some of the descriptions used by the children were “The ice is slippery” and “Polar Bears live…
For Cooking this week, Lower Kindergarten made Snowy Rocky Road. The children had to first take it in turns to break the biscuits, by using a rolling pin. They then helped to mix the biscuits, raisins and apricots, with the melted chocolate and golden syrup. Once all the ingredients were…
In a link to their topic of The Romans, and a pre-cursor to their volcanoes topic in Spring 2, 3C have read ‘Escape from Pompeii’ and the children have put themselves in the shoes of the characters Tranio and Livia on that fateful day in AD 79. The class have…
