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Toby is very impressed with the art installation that was created during our Environmental Day last Friday. It’s not quite finished, as we need some more plastic bottle tops. If you have any black or yellow bottle tops, please could you bring them into school after our Easter break? I know that…

We have had a special visit from our local Lolly Pop lady this week, and she explained why it is important to be safe while crossing the road. Afterwards, we went outside and pretended we were crossing a busy road. The Lolly pop Lady showed us what we should do, and…

Today we used the apparatus during our P.E session. We used lots of different techniques including, climbing, balancing, shuffling, crawling and jumping. We had lots of fun moving in different ways.

We left a bingo game out on the carpet during get busy time and all of the children wanted to play. After showing them how to play, the children took it in turns to be the bingo caller. They had to recognise the number and shout it loudly. If they had the number, they needed to mark it…

During our ‘Street Detective’ topic this half term, we’ve been learning about our local community and how it has changed since our parents and grandparents were young.  We have been looking at old and modern houses as well as comparing how Great Ayton has grown and changed over the past 100…

Today, the children did their dress rehearsal for our production of the 'Pied Piper'. It was fantastic and we can't wait to share it with you next week!

Today we all took part in the dress rehearsal for our up and coming performance of 'Pied Piper' the children all looked amazing in their costumes and they are very excited about performing for the school and parents next week!

Today, the children worked extremely hard to create maps (using a key and symbols) for an imaginary zoo or wildlife park. The designs are fantastic - well done! 
 

After looking at textile designer, William Morris's work, the children carefully traced his designs and produced these beautiful creations.

Today, during our Time to Talk session, we looked at Traffic Jams. We talked about what it means when vehicles are stuck in a jam.

To see what a traffic jam looks like, we created a road map.  We cut out lots of different pieces of road and placed cars in a big queue.

The reason for this…

Today, we had a very special visitor, Eve our Lollipop Lady, who came to talk to us about Road Safety. We listened carefully to Eve talking about why she needs to do her job and how she helps to keep us safe. We went into our outdoor area and practised crossing the road, waiting for the car to…

In the story, the Naughty Bus whizzed past the line of people waiting at the bus stop.  We explored the words passenger and queue and talked about what these words mean.  We re-recreated this part of the story using lots of different toys to make a queue and the small wooden blocks to build the…