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14th June 2024The children of EYFS had a brilliant time on their trip to Denton library. We listened to stories related to our "We are Explorers" theme, sang nursery rhymes and explored...
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3rd May 2024As part of our learning about growing this half term, the children of F2 have been doing lots of growing, including growing cress. We have written instructions out for how...
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3rd May 2024The children of EYFS all enjoyed our trip to the farm, to support our learning about Spring and growing.
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3rd May 2024F2 went on a local walk to find the places of work of different people who help us in our community in Denton. We used this information to make a...
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26th April 2024Our pupils in F1 and F2 were very excited to be visited by two PCSOs and a paramedic as part of their People Who Help Us topic. We got to...
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23rd February 2024Today in F2 we were lucky enough to have a visit from a science teacher. He talked to the children about science and we shared some amazing experiments. We have...
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19th February 2024After last week's floating and sinking experiments, where we found out that the shape of an object affected whether it can float or sink rather than just the weight, this...
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 have loved using our crates to create a cosy new home for Stick Man and his family.
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22nd January 2024After reading a non-fiction book about winter and finding out that food is scarce for birds, the children of F2 have been making bird feeders for our outdoor area.
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 are really enjoying retelling the Stick Man story on our small world tray.
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 have had an amazing time exploring the winter weather. We have been comparing it to the season of Autumn and painting our own beautiful winter trees.
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 did an amazing job getting creative around the theme of the Nativity. We are artists!
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19th January 2024The children of F2 loved our visit to Denton Library. We can't wait to go back again soon!
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19th January 2024The children of F2 learned that on Remembrance Day, we are remembering the soldiers who fought in the war a long time ago. We created out own poppy art in...
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19th January 2024Bill the owl came to visit us in our classroom! We asked him lots of questions. We found out that he was bored of eating mice, so we have helped...
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19th January 2024After going on an Autumn walk to explore the changes in our season, we created our own paintings of Autumn trees. We focused on our vocabulary words of roots, trunk...
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10th July 2023The children of EYFS all enjoyed a fabulous trip to the library today which tied into our Explorer theme. The children of F1 sharing their Walking Through the Jungle book...
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7th July 2023As part of our explorers theme, the children of F2 have been on a minibeast hunt! We have been learning about different minibeasts and their habitats- we made predictions about...
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27th June 2023After starting to learn about some of the features and artefacts in a church, today the children of F2 made a visit to our church to see them for ourselves....
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23rd June 2023Wow, what an amazing EYFS sports day we had this morning. Each child competed in a running race, a javelin throw, a bean bag pick up race and an egg...
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23rd June 2023The children of F2 have been practising their threading skills this week. Linked to our explorer topic and our work on minibeasts, we have been creating our own spiders and...
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19th May 2023The children of F2 have loved adding some new bedding plants into our outdoor environment this week. We have been excited to see some of our plants and bulbs sprouting...
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25th April 2023In F2, we have been creating simple timelines using our class text "The Girl Who Planted Trees". We looked at the how the mountain in the story changes over time,...
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25th April 2023We have some exciting new visitors in our classroom: five tiny caterpillars! They are living on our discovery table and we are excited to watch them grow. Today, we found...
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31st March 2023The children of F2 have been transfixed by the Easter story. This week, we talked about how Good Friday is the saddest day, but it is soon followed by the...
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29th March 2023As part of our new Spring and Growing theme, EYFS have had a fabulous morning down on the farm this week! We have been stroking rabbits, taking a tractor ride,...
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27th March 2023As part of our People Who Help Us topic in EYFS, this week we had a special visit from some PCSOs. They talked about what they do in their special...
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10th March 2023As part of our People Who Help Us topic, F2 have been learning about firefighters. This week, a mystery bag was left in our classroom full of equipment and we...
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3rd March 2023This half term, we started our new topic by sharing our home learning challenge: creating a junk model of a person who helps us. We loved sharing our models and...
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17th February 2023As part of our learning about The Storm Whale in Winter, we have been designing a new boat for Noi's Dad. We began with some floating and sinking experiments, making...
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13th February 2023The children of F2 have been doing some fantastic investigating about ice. First we observed melting ice in our classroom: what it looked like, felt like, talking about how it...
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8th February 20234P have peer revising and editing their writing before they share their journey stories with F2 this week as part of their celebration of writing. The children ensured they followed...
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31st January 2023In the first part of our Winter topic, the children of F2 loved engaging in our class text of Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. The children re-enacted the text on...
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24th January 2023Our children have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about lots of different traditions, shared a Chinese New Year story, made Chinese New Year celebration...
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10th January 2023This week we have found out about winter from information books. We have been thinking about how some animals hibernate in the winter months and some birds migrate to warmer...
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3rd January 2023F2 children spread so much joy delivering their Christmas cards to the local community.
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16th December 2022F2 performed an amazing musical version of the story of the nativity this week, singing and dancing beautifully. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and reminded us of the importance of...
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2nd December 2022In the final week of our Autumn topic in F2 , the children reflected on what they know about that changes that the season brings. They used natural objects to...
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25th November 2022In F2 we are concluding our Autumn theme. We have found out lots of interesting facts about Autumn and this week, we explored Autumn in our local environment. We observed...
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24th November 2022We have been busy learning all about Autumn Animals in F1. We talked about the names of the animals and looked at photographs as well as learning a special new...
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1st November 2022In F2, we have been learning about the festival of Diwali through videos, photos and books. We learned that Diwali is the festival of lights and is a very special...
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1st November 2022The children of F2 had a fantastic first half term: we have been becoming familiar with our school rules and routines... and most importantly, getting to know each other and...
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1st November 2022In our first half term, we focused on God's wonderful world. We learned that God made the whole world and everything in it, including us! We explored how God made...
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24th June 2022In F2 we are learning all about minibeasts! We have talked about different minibeasts, observing the details in photos and making pictures of them. We have been solving minibeast "What am...
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5th November 2021Throughout the first half term in EYFS we have thought about the topic of "Ourselves". We began by thinking about how we are all different and special through the story...
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12th March 2021As part of our People Who Help Us topic in F2, we have been learning all about the police. We have used the computer and non-fiction books to find out...
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4th March 2021As part of our People Who Help Us topic, we have been thinking about the people and jobs in our community and the different ways that they help us. We...
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26th February 2021We are Super Friends! In PSHE this week we have been thinking all about friendship: we are Super Friends at St Mary's School! First we thought about the superheroes that we...
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24th February 2021The children in EYFS have started our new topic: People Who Help Us. In F2, we have begun by thinking about the people who help us both at home and...
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16th November 2020In EYFS we have been learning all about the festival of Diwali. We have watched a video on CBeebies about how a little girl celebrates this special time with her...
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13th November 2020The children in F1 and F2 have been learning about Remembrance Day this week. We found out about the soldiers who fought in the war over 100 years ago to...
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8th October 2020What a fun and positive start to the year it has been for F2. We have spent the first few weeks getting to know each other and familiarising ourselves with...
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12th May 2020Before school closed children in F1 took home a seed and planted it. Ellen has sent in this photo of hers which is now 45cm high! Each morning she is... -
1st May 2020More brilliant work has been sent in this time a wonderful lego rainbow to thank all of the key workers and brilliant lego work to go along with F1's story...
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21st April 2020Home learning for all year groups is now available on the class pages. Some of the work may need downloaded to look at but the majority should be able to...
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6th March 2020The children of F2 have had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day, what a fantastic array of characters! The children loved sharing their costumes and favourite stories. We have had...
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28th February 2020This week in F2 we had a phonics "stay and learn" session. The children were focusing on the 'oa' sound. We played some games to practise reading 'oa' words and...
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14th February 2020As part of our winter topic, the children of EYFS have been investigating ice. In nursery the children have enjoyed playing with ice in the water trays and the small...
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24th January 2020Today we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about the different ways that Chinese people celebrate the New Year and listened to the story...
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24th January 2020Today our class had a wonderful visit to Denton library. We listened to stories and had a chance to look at their fantastic selection of picture books. We learnt about...
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24th January 2020Our current topic in F2 is winter. We have been reading a non-fiction book about winter and also used the internet to find winter facts. We have been looking for...
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17th January 2020In maths we have been looking at splitting 5 in different ways using objects. The two key words that we have been using are "whole" and "part". To begin with,...
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20th December 2019Here in F2 we have had an exciting present in our classroom from Santa himself - a special book called The Christmas Bear by Ian Whybrow. In the story, The...