Reception, Year One and Year Two have visited the Sikh Gurdwara today.

We were welcomed in and shown where Sikhs pray, and we heard about what is important in a Sikh person’s life.

We had the opportunity to listen to a reading from the special Sikh book which we learnt is called the Guru Granth Sahib.

A few photographs of the children learning about each other’s characters yesterday.

How can we help Chicken Licken?!

The children worked in the classroom to make containers for the eggs so that it wouldn’t break when it fell from the sky.

Then they went out onto the playground and put it to the test!

Year One are working on number bonds to 10.

Yesterday the children worked in groups outside on the playground.  They each had a number and had to stand next to someone to make their number bond. This was a fun activity and really helped the children understand the number bonds.

Following on from that, today they are working in class to solve word problems using their knowledge of number bonds to 10.

The aims of the lesson are:

• To know that they must read the word problem first to work out what it is asking them to do.
• To understand what calculation must be done to solve the problem correctly.
• To correctly apply their knowledge of numbers bond to 10 to solve the problems.

It would be great if you could work on number bonds to 10 with the children at home to help them with their learning!

Children in Reception and KS1 at Moorfield regularly walk over to Buttercross Court in Newport to spend some time with the older members of our community.

Around once a month, the staff take a different group of children over to spend time with the residents.  We are not sure who likes it more, the children, the residents or the staff watching the fun that the children have!

This week they played Jenga, dominoes and draughts and were fascinated by the yoyo skills of one of the residents!

We are looking forward to the next visit already!

One of the most important jobs in Reception is to nurture a love of reading.

To this end, the children have been helping us to make new reading areas both inside and outside the classroom.

Inside, we have a reading garden with cushions and beanbags. The children are currently painting flowers which will also decorate the area.

Outdoors, we have our “Wild about Reading” Area – it is covered in camouflage and has  a bookcase made from a pallet to make it more exciting – take a look at the photographs!

The new areas are very popular and children are enjoying fiction and non-fiction books.

As well as encouraging children to read more, the new areas are also great for the their social development.  There is a noticeable impact during reading time when children have been sharing books with each other and talking about them with their friends.