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Reception have had a "toad-ally" awesome time in maths this week! Our classroom has been filled with the sound of music and splashing as we dived headfirst into the world of subtraction using one of our favourite nursery rhymes: Five Little Speckled Frogs.

Introducing the concept of "one less"…

In our French lesson today we have been learning to count from 1 to 12. We are careful to pronounce the words correct,after listening to Kapow.

We had fun matching pictures to numbers then counting in our groups.

Oak Class has officially shifted gears into the design phase for our Greenpower racing Goblin. 

The brief was simple: create a look for our racer that stands out on the track and represents the unique personality of our class. 

We saw a  range of inspiration during our brainstorming…

Oak and Maple class enjoyed some quality time reading together.

The reading buddies worked together to explore different books.

Whilst the children in Maple practised their fluency and phonics, Oak class were great mini teachers helping the younger children to understand and explore…

At St. Andrew’s CE Primary School, we are always excited to embrace new ways of learning, especially when it comes to technology and coding. Recently, Oak Class had a fantastic opportunity to dive into the world of coding using Microbits, thanks to our very own pupil expert who led the…

We have been learning how the string carries the sound waves, vibrates the cup and vibrates their ear drum for us to hear what our friends said.The string is a solid so the sound waves travel quickly.

After a discussion we recorded our findings in our books.

We’ve had a "number-tastic" week in Reception! Our current obsession with Numberblocks has taken our maths skills to new heights!

Building Up Our Skills

Inspired by their favourite blocky friends, the children set to work building number towers. We practised:

• Constructing towers from 1…

Willow class had a very enjoyable art lesson today, messy but fun.

We have been creating Papyrus paper using strips of sugar paper dipped into glue mixed with water, and layered over wax paper.

This week, our Reception history detectives hopped into a "time machine" to explore how we get from A to B! We’ve been comparing transport from the past with the vehicles and vessels we see in the present.

Spotting the Clues

The children turned into mini-investigators, looking closely at old…

 In Science we were experimenting with different ways to make sounds and recording which part was vibrating.

Oak class enjoyed their level 2 bikeability training. They developed their skills for cycling on single lane roads such as observing, communicating and maintaining safe riding positions.

The instructors were particularly impressed with the behaviour of all our children.

This week, Reception turned into a room full of programmers! We’ve been learning how to give clear commands to our robots to help them find their way.

Think Like a Robot

Before we even touched our paper robots, we had to become the robots! Working in pairs, the children took turns being the…