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Acorn Class' Showing Assembly.

We have been practising for our showing assembles. Click on the videos to see our songs, even one in French which is the Hokey Cokey to you and me, and on the elephant to see our photos.
 
 
 
 
 
   

Acorn class have been planning their learning around the theme of Travel.

Acorn Class's picnic lunch.

Acorn Children's Physical Development.

Special visitors in Acorn Class.

Election Day in acorn class.

P.T.A Sponsored Bounce in Acorn Class.

Acorn class plan their learning around the theme of dinosaurs.

Eco Day in Acorn class.

Acorn class plan their learning around the theme of Growing.

Sherborne Tennis Club work with Acorn Class.

Sports Relief in Acorn class.

World Book Day in Acorn Class.

Acorn Class look for signs of Spring.

Acorn Class show off their work in our Showing Assembly.

Spring term, Acorn class plan their learning around the theme of Homes.

Acorn Class - We are turning our role play area into Fireman Fred's fire station.

Fun in the snow!

Christmas starts at St. Andrew's with the P.T.A Christmas Fair.

This term Acorn class have planned their learning around the theme of trains.

Acorn class have planned their own learning around the theme of pirates.

Acorn class in independent writing, practical maths and exploring materials in science.

We have been learning lots of new things in our first term in Acorn class.

Construction , small world play and developing gross motor skills in Acorn class.

Life Education van.

Acorn Class enjoying the MAGDALEN PROJECT

WE had a fantastic day out at the Maddalen Project, learning how to do outdoor cooking, bird watching and river dipping. Click on the links below for our videos.
 
 
 
 
 
   

Acorn Class on Eco day.

Outdoor play.

Induction.

Playing with the Small World Play toys.

Materials.

Sponsored bounce.

The PTA organised this fun activity to help raise money for the school.

2 Little Pigs.

The children enjoyed stroking and feeding the piglets.

OUR SHOWING ASSEMBLY

We gave a very successful Showing Assembly sharing our work and music to the rest of the school and our mums and dads. Click on the links below to enjoy our assembly.
Our Showing Assembly Part 1
Our Showing Assembly Part 2
Our Showing Assembly Part 3

OUR VICTORIAN DAY

We had a fabulous day learning how to be Victorian children. Click on the links below to see our min-Victorian films and the click on Alice to see our pics.
Victorian circle and playground games
Victorian indoor games
Our Victorian day including singing
Our Victorian slideshow
 
   

Pirate Williams leading his fellow pirates.

We really enjoyed dressing up as pirates for the opening of our new play trail.

Our trip to Yetminster park.

We have been learning about forces. We went to the park to look for examples of pushes and pulls.We had fun too!

Christmas in the Reception class.

We took it in turns to open the advent calendar and to put figures in the Nativity scene.
Christmas in Reception.

Independent reading and writing.

Making our clay hands.

Small World Play.

The Owl Babies.

Do you like my painting?

Our trip to Sherborne Library.

Children in Need.

Poor Mr Williams!

Unveiling the children's African mosaic.

We like making things.

Gardening equipment from Sainsbury's.

Using the language of measure.

Autumn.

Cooking.

The Life Education van.

Developing our gross motor skills.

Playing in the sand.

Construction.

Writing table.

We are always busy.

Role Play

The new Reception class are already enjoying our role play area.

AFRICAN ARTS WEEK - other exciting artwork

We have been learning about all the different countries that make up Africa and have based our art work on what we have found out.

AFRICAN ARTS WEEK - BATIK ART

In the run up to our exciting African Arts Week we have been making batik African animals using flour paste as the resist and fabric dyes. Enjoy looking at them.

OPPOSITES

We have been looking at opposites

Links with our pre-school.

World Book day.

Assemblies

In our SEALS assembly we talked about what we would like to be when we are older. Can you spot the firefighter and the Harry Potter star?

OUR NEW CHILDREN IN RECEPTION CELEBRATE AUTUMN

We have been learning how to take digital photos and put them into a photostory. Click on the link below; it may take a few seconds to load, but we hope you will enjoy it.
autumn-diary.wmv

Children from around the world.

Friendship Week.

Science Week fun!

Click on the photo to view more.

Messy play.

After listening to the story of 'The Little Red Hen' we thought it would be fun to make our own dough.

Small world play.

We are very good at re-telling favourite stories and making up our own.

Small world play.

I think my train has come off the rails!

I.C.T

We use a range of I.C.T equipment.

The children have decided on their own class rules.

Keeping healthy is really important in our class.

Class rules.

We are learning that walking is safest in our classroom.

Learning about other cultures.

We really enjoyed telling the story of Rama and Sita with our puppets. We were also really proud of our clay divas.

Class rules.

We keep our classroom tidy.

Role play.

The children help plan and make their role play area.

Our Underwater World.

We really enjoy role play in our Underwater World.

Let's go fly a kite!

Having spent a long time making their kites the children were delighted to be able to fly them outside on a windy day.

Role play in our outdoor classroom.

Here we are pretending to be Robot Red from Letterland.

All aboard!

The tape recorder has allowed the children to record the time of the next train.Mr Williams also recorded a message for us.

School trips

The Magdalen Project.

Our egg and spoon obstacle courses.

How many eggs will be intact by the end of the race?

Our outside classroom.

We help to plant and look after flowers and vegetables.

Our outside classroom.

Exploring capacity.

Sand

Here we are trying to find the dinosaurs hidden in the sand.

Duplo

Construction is always a favourite activity.

Cutting and sticking.

We are always busy in the Reception class.

Independent reading and writing.

We love reading and writing in our class.

Our outside area

We use our outside area as an extra classroom at all times of the year.

Challenge of the week.

How many pasta shapes can we lift out of the tub with a spoon in one minute?