Chinese New Year Celebrations

Last week Oak and Willow Class invited their grown-ups to join them to celebrate Chinese New Year. The children and their parents worked in small groups and tried a variety of different activities. The children put their cutting skills to the test to make a paper chain dragon. They then had an opportunity to colour a picture of the animal from the year they were born.

Next the children had a go at writing the numbers 0 through to 10 in Mandarin. It was very challenging but lots of fun, zero was very tricky! Then they got the opportunity to try some Chinese food, on offer was Chinese noodles, vegetable spring rolls and prawn crackers. The children talked about how the food tasted and which was their favourite. The prawn crackers the firm favourite from both classes and the children enjoyed finishing them off at snack time.

The final activity was to perform a dragon dance around the playground with the grown- ups using drums and triangles to create a beat for us to dance to. The children had lots of fun especially when it was the grown-ups turn to have a go!

There was a great turn out from parents and the children in both Oak and Willow class really enjoyed the morning and we hope you all did too!

Thank you for coming to celebrate with us and we look forward to sharing our work with you all again soon.

OUR FIRST WEEK.

This half term has definitely been the time of celebration.

We have enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Shrove Tuesday, Persian New Year, Mother's Day, Spring and Easter.

A huge thank you to all the parents that have been involved in all our celebrations. 

If that wasn't enough, Zog decided to build a nest in our garden - it created a lot of talk to start with as we didn't know who had made it.

Finally, we are loving the celebration that the sun has appeared and we are all enjoying the newly renovated outdoor area. Here's to a fantastic summer term!

Reception really enjoyed music day. They were able to experience different musical instruments, listen to different types of music (whilst writing a review), attend a Boomwacker workshop, made their own personalised instruments and finished the day with a celebration assembly of all the events.

The following day we continued the musical theme by using our own instruments that we had made, performed in a Boomwacker orchestra and showed our rhythmic side during circle time.

Reception were amazed at their class party this week with a special performance from a magician.

There were shrieks of laughter and surprise when he managed to connect metal circle together, changed socks in his magic washing machine and made balloon animals.

What a great end of term treat!

To promote the love of reading, we invited a special guest into our school. Imke from the Stevenage library came to visit Reception.

We were very lucky as she spent some time telling us about the library, showing us what a library card looks like and explained that you could borrow 30 books at a time over a 3 week period! She showed us different sorts of books as well including board books, books with big print and books with braille in.

She then read 2 stories. She was so impressed with our behaviour that she gave each child a book to take home to enjoy with their adults. Hope you all enjoy 'The Bumble Bear'.