Otters (Reception): Gallery
Otters new topic 'Come Outside'
Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 3:55pm
Today Otters investigated our new topic title 'Come Outside' as they went on a hunt to see what they could see find in our woodland area. We saw trees, flowers, birds, squirrels, a spider and a dancing worm! We talked about the first few signs of spring that were showing and made sketches of our finds.
Date: 4th Jan 2023 @ 7:19pm
Otters class have been progressing their fine motor skills as artists today. We looked at the self portraits we had drawn at the beginning of Autumn Term and discussed how we could improve on them to make this terms self portraits even better. We thought about including more detail such as eye lashes and eyebrows and the types of shapes our features needed to be alongside sizing and placement of our key facial features.
After we had finished, we put our first picture next to our new one and decided on how our added details had improved our pictures.
Otters Wow starter Spring Term
Date: 4th Jan 2023 @ 7:14pm
Otters have had a wonderful start back to school. They were all very excited to share their Christmas news, then we had our wonderful ’Wow starter’ from Zoo2U. We learnt all about African land snails from the jungle. Tenrecs from Madagascar who are interestingly related to elephants not hedgehogs as we had first thought. Then we met Boris, a bearded dragon from Australia whose beard turns black when he’s scared. We also saw Herbert a horse field tortoise from Russia who has notches on his shells called scoots and learnt that they live for 50-60 years. Lastly, we met a northern striped skunk from North America who was very excited to meet us on his first school outing.
Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 5:00pm
To conclude our healthy eating topic in science, Otters made their own fruit kebabs for snack this afternoon. Over the week they have been designing them with play dough, talking about what foods are healthy and how important it is to eat healthily.
Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 2:15pm
Today Otters joined the rest of the school at church in marking Remembrance Day. They have been busy all week learning about the meaning of poppies and creating their own poppies for our class wreath alongside our beautiful poppy newspaper art.
Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 6:59pm
Otters have created some wonderful firework representations today using ‘magic rainbow paper’. We talked about the different colours, sounds and patterns fireworks make and how they can be used to mark different celebrations.
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 6:59am
Otters had a wonderful afternoon yesterday. After walking to church with their buddies, Rev. Paul gave them a guided tour of our beautiful church St Leonard’s. We also listened to an interactive story from the bible and joined together in some prayers before finally being presented with our very own children's bible. Thank you to Rev. Paul, Helan Isherwood and to those who joined us for this special service.
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 8:33am
Otters had a lovely experience yesterday when Miss Killilea brought her goats to school. They learnt all about them and enjoyed feeding them one cabbage.
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 6:31pm
It’s been a very busy day in Otters Class today, our ducklings have started hatching! We have been used lots of skills counting, discussing, observing and caring for our new additions by reading them stories.
Date: 21st Jun 2022 @ 11:27am
This week we are using Jack and the Beanstalk as our key text. We have planted our bean seeds and created our own castles for the top of our beanstalks.
The Big Story Labyrinth @ St Michael
Date: 14th Jun 2022 @ 7:49pm
Date: 14th Jun 2022 @ 11:31am
We were delighted to open our new outdoor prayer space for everyone to share yesterday, during a special outdoor collective worship.
Otters mystery reader and fantastic finish
Date: 24th May 2022 @ 3:41pm
What a fantastic finish to our term we have had today. Amelia’s Aunt and cousin are visiting from Australia and came to Otters today to be our mystery readers. They answered lots of questions about what Australia is like including how long it takes to get to England, what the weather is like and what animals are there. Thank you again to them both.
Date: 23rd May 2022 @ 12:59pm
We have had some wonderful homework pieces again this half term. Well done Otters!
Date: 16th May 2022 @ 6:56pm
Otters have had a wonderful afternoon today. We visited Hebden Green School and played with the children there, making some new friends and enjoying their resources. Thank you to all the staff and pupils for accommodating us and to Mrs Leech for offering this opportunity to us and being our bus driver!
Date: 6th May 2022 @ 2:42pm
Otters have been busy this week showing all their characteristics of learning with their teen numbers. We have been creating and thinking critically as we leant that they always start with a 1 when we write them. Then we have been playing and exploring when we played a number hunt game to find the Numicon that matches our number. Then we have been showing active learning as we used the Numicon pieces to create our own London buildings.
Date: 19th Apr 2022 @ 4:46pm
Date: 1st Apr 2022 @ 3:44pm
Ooooo argh me hearties! We have had a fantastic finish to our underwater adventures topic today. We have hunted for treasure, created maps and had lots of pirate fun! Have a wonderful Easter everone. Mrs Allen
Date: 22nd Mar 2022 @ 9:58pm
Over the last term, Mrs Finch has been working with each class in school to choreograph a series of dances for our Lion King production. The children were then given the opportunity to take on an acting role to join our dances together to retell the story of Lion King.
The key characters were taken on by two or three members of the school community. This allowed children from Reception through to Year 6 to take on leading roles.
The Cast
Rafiki ~ Lydia
Simba ~ Edward, Tiana & Ellourenne
Mufasa ~ Jenson & Bradley
Scar ~ Ivy, Ethan & Ashton
Sarabi ~ Amelia & Amelia
Nala ~ Lily, Eliza & Francesca
Zizi ~ Ella & Sophie
Zazu ~ Rupert& Oscar
Timon ~ Emily & Simon
Pumbaa ~ Isla & Morrison
Shenzi ~ Freddie & Millie
Banzai ~ Pati & Jenson
Ed ~ Thomas & Thomas
Hutchy ~ Alfie, Izzy & Sam
Jonsey ~ Frankie & Alfie
Vultures ~Dinah, Rosco, Tobin, Jemima, Jacob & Milo
The Animals of Pride Rock
Alice
Azalea
Caleb
Charlotte
Chloe
Dani
Elizabeth
Ellie
Elliott
Eoin
Imogen
Jack
James
Kaitlyn
Lewis
Lexi
Lilly
Lucas
Lucy
Mae
Maisie
Molly
Oliver
Oliver
Oliver
Poppy
Rogan
Seb
Zara
Technical Director
Alexander
Date: 17th Mar 2022 @ 10:12am
This week Otters have been using the text ’Someboday swallowed Stanley’ we have learned about jellyfish and the different oceans they swim in alongside how we can look after our oceans by recycling. We made our own jellyfish using plastic shower caps to look like Stanley. In our maths work we have been finding out about 3D shapes and which roll by testing them out on our ramps outside.
Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 11:08am
Otters week started off with a mystery arrival. A lost penguin and a message in a bottle. We had lots of lovely writing describing our new penguin friend and using atlas to find out where he might have come from. As part of our RE work we explored what an Easter Garden is and created our own garden using natural resources and the sand.
Date: 1st Mar 2022 @ 4:41pm
Otters have really enjoyed pancake day today. We have tasted a variety of pancake toppings, mastered pancake flipping and written some wonderful recounts about our day.
Date: 14th Feb 2022 @ 3:36pm
What a fantastic finish to our Marvellous Inventions topic. We had some amazing homework pieces and we even had our building artwork displayed in our own gallery! Otters also enjoyed looking round the other classes to see what they had been studying.
Otters enjoying their Learning Journals
Date: 7th Feb 2022 @ 5:22pm
Otters have enjoyed spending some time looking through their Learning Journals this afternoon.