Otters (Reception): Gallery
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.
Date: 21st Jan 2022 @ 11:00am
This week as artists we have drawn our buildings in readiness to start building them next week. To add additional detail we used charcoal, we agreed they all looked amazing.
In our maths work, we have been looking at the composition of 5 and learning our number bonds. We used a part-part-whole model to represent the different ways of making 5.
As scientists, we have been trying to free the penguins from the ice using tweezers and watching the different states of ice as it turned to water slowly throughout the day. We also enjoyed exploring our new light box an creating snowflakes using the gems.
In our phonics and written work we have started looking at the set 2 sounds 'ay''ee' 'igh' 'ow' 'oo' and 'oo' and using these sounds to write our Fred sentences. We have also used our amazing building pictures and written a description of what our building looks like.
This weeks poetry basket poem was 'Let's put on our mittens' ask your child to see if they can recite it for you.
Mrs Allen
Date: 7th Jan 2022 @ 3:23pm
Otters have been very productive designing and making their own snacks today following a simple recipe. They then washed and dried up their equipment for their friend to use.
Date: 4th Jan 2022 @ 4:18pm
What an amazing start to our new topic we have had today. We all really enjoyed our WOW starter which consisted of us becoming inventors and designing something that could help us at school. Otters worked really hard and created their own designs for a robot before building it as a group together. They then formed part of a whole school machine to create a final WOW!
Date: 14th Dec 2021 @ 3:34pm
Well what an exciting day we have had today! Christmas jumper day, a wonderful Christmas dinner then to finish off a special visitor came to see us!
Date: 30th Nov 2021 @ 7:35pm
KS1 have been busy creating their Christingles today. We have learnt that:
The orange represents the world;
The ribbon represents God's love;
The four sticks represent the four seasons;
and the sweets represent God's creations.
Date: 26th Nov 2021 @ 3:45pm
Otters have enjoyed a celebration tea party today making their own jam sandwiches and creating some tiger themed party hats. What a great end to all their hard work.
Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 9:33am
It’s been another busy week in Otters Class. We have been learning the story ’The tiger who came to tea’ as part of pur celebration topic. We have created invitations inviting him to our class and then used the magnifying glasses to hunt for clues that he had visited.
Date: 16th Nov 2021 @ 3:34pm
Otters and Hedgehogs have been working hard in PE today. We focussed on jumping skills using the right starting and finishing movement and landing with two feet.
