Sheep Class
Welcome to our Reception/Year 1 class
We are called Sheep class, after the parable of the Lost Sheep, and every child matters to us, just as every sheep mattered to Jesus. But don’t let our name fool you..we may start off in Reception as lambs, but through our first two years at school we learn to be independent, inquisitive and imaginative young learners! We have a lovely classroom, filled with quality resources and inspiring activities to get stuck into, plus a brand new domestic role-play room (complete with kitchen, lounge and bedroom areas!). We are also very lucky to have a huge, wooded outdoor area where children can get cooking in our mud-kitchen, get building in our large construction area, or simply curl up and listen to our teacher, Mrs Gkikopoulos, read us a great book in our cosy reading shack. There really is something for every kind of sheep in our class!
Curriculum Planning
Fabulous frog!
This morning, we found a frog in our outdoor area. We discussed if it was a frog or a toad and how we know the difference. We researched what they needed to survive and made it a little home! We wrote signs and captions to let others know what we had found. We were really … Read more
Early Years Yoga
We like to start our school day with yoga!
The Dirty Great Dinosaur
We have been retelling our story using drama and working together to draw a large-scale story map this week! A great team effort!
Nature Sculptures – Art Topic Work
In our Art this half term, we have been developing a range of art techniques in the context of Nature Sculptures. We learnt about the difference between Natural and Man-made, created observational drawings of natural objects, large scale natural Land Art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy and finally created our own Mini Sculptures using … Read more
Early Years Discovery Cafe
Max the dog and Mrs Graves returned to share another story! We shared The Great Big, Enormous, Gigantic Cardboard Box and then went on to enjoy lots of activities with our grownups! A huge thank you to Debbie and Dawn, our local childminders and all of the Parents and Carers who supported it!
Designing and making a vehicle
We have been learning all about vehicles and how they move. We met an engineer, who answered lots of our questions and inspired us to learn even more! As we created our vehicle designs, we learnt new vocabulary such as chassis and axle. We also discussed the safety rules when using equipment. We are very … Read more
Our local environment
We have been learning all about our local environment and what better way to do this than to go for a walk in our village! We went to the local shop and bought a milkshake and then enjoyed the sunshine at The Ruins.
Grow your own potatoes
A brilliant start to our week, we received our Grow Your Own Potatoes in the post so we excitedly started to prepare them! We can’t wait to see what happens!
Science Day
To celebrate British Science Week, Sheep class had a busy day experimenting! We predicted, asked lots of questions and then observed what happened! Firstly, we observed what happened when we added drops of water to skittles. We were amazed when we saw a colourful rainbow! We then tried to make gummy bears dance and were … Read more
World Book Day
Sheep Class loved dressing up to celebrate World Book Day. We performed poems, created blow-paint aliens and even wrote our own space poetry!