EYFS | St. Mary's RC Primary and Nursery School

English, EYFS

Our Latest EYFS Library Visit

10th July 2023

The 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 and F2 shared our “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. The librarian commented on what amazing storytellers that we all are! We really enjoyed our story sessions and exploring...
EYFS, Science

Minibeast hunting in F2

7th July 2023

As 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 which minibeasts that we may find in our school environment and where they might be. Then we went on our hunt! We captured our findings using the camera on...
EYFS, RE, Religious Life

Our Church Visit

27th June 2023

After 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. Fr Joe spoke to our children about the altar, the lectern and the bible, the candles, the tabernacle, the font, the holy water and the statues in the church....
EYFS, PE, Sports

EYFS Sports Day

23rd June 2023

Wow, 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 and spoon race. After practising hard in PE lessons, the smiles and enthusiasm today were fantastic to see! We hope that you all enjoyed it too.
EYFS, Science

Making spider webs

23rd June 2023

The 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 spider webs, threading wool through holes to create the webs.
EYFS, Science

Planting and growing in F2

19th May 2023

The 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 up too. We know the names of the different parts of the plant, the job of the roots, and what plants need to grow. We have also made observational drawings...
EYFS

Timelines in F2

25th April 2023

In 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, starting when the grandfather is a young child, then when the girl is young, then finally when the girl grows into a grandmother. We made pictures of the changing...
EYFS, Science

Our EYFS caterpillars

25th April 2023

We 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 out about the life cycle of a butterfly and found out some interesting facts... Did you know that butterflies have no eyelids so cannot close their eyes? We also...
EYFS, RE, Religious Life

RE Through Art

31st March 2023

The 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 happiest day- Easter! The children understand our important symbol of the cross and it has been lovely to hear that many of our children have shared the Easter story...
EYFS, Science

EYFS Trip to the Farm

29th March 2023

As 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, meeting a range of animals, plus feeding goats and sheep. We talked about how baby animals are born in the Spring time and we got to meet a kid...
EYFS

Our PSCO visit

27th March 2023

As 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 helping job and showed us their uniform and special equipment. Then, we got to see the police car, get inside and try the siren! We had the chance to...
EYFS

We Are Firefighters!

10th March 2023

As 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 had to guess the job... and it was a firefighter's bag! We have been learning about the important work that firefighters do. We have been lucky enough to meet...
EYFS

People Who Help Us: our home learning challenge

3rd March 2023

This 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 talking about the different job roles and what they involve.
English, EYFS

Designing a boat for Noi's Dad

17th February 2023

As 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 predictions about different objects and testing them out. Then, we looked at photos of a variety of different boats and talked about their features. Next we designed our own...
EYFS, Science

F2 We are Scientists! Ice investigators

13th February 2023

The 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 was changing and what happened when we touched it with our hands. Then we received a letter from Stick Man: his three stick children were stuck in the ice! ...
English, EYFS, Y4

Preparation for our Celebration of Writing in 4P

8th February 2023

4P 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 our writing success criteria and made changes to their writing to make it entertaining for others.
English, EYFS

Talk for Writing in F2

31st January 2023

In 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 our small world table and look part in some creative Talk for Writing activities. We played freeze framing, where the children froze as various scenes in the story and...
English, EYFS, Nursery

EYFS Reading

30th January 2023

Booktrust Storytime Denton Library
EYFS

Chinese New Year in EYFS

24th January 2023

Our 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 cards, explored artefacts on our discovery table, role played the celebrations in our home corner, made Chinese lanterns, practised writing numbers in Chinese, sampled some delicious Chinese food at...
EYFS, News

F2 - Winter

10th January 2023

This 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 counties (we are doing a great job at learning this new vocabulary!). We talked about how it can be tricky for the remaining birds to find food in the...