Reception - Wren

Trip to the park - November

This afternoon, we had a trip to the park! We spotted some familiar landmarks such as the zebra crossing, the tall Christmas tree and St Francis Church. Once at the park, we were able to play on the equipment, demonstrating how we could use our gross motor skills to climb, slide and balance. It was a little bit muddy! (apologies for muddy clothes and shoes but we had so much fun!).
Here are some photos of us enjoying ourselves.

EYFS park trip

Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Art - October 2024

Wren Class enjoyed looking at the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo especially at harvest time. We looked at his pictures carefully with Mr Butt before creating our own with a friend. We used our Oracy skills and negotiating skills to create our faces. What masterpieces they were!!!!

Harvest Festival Service - October 2024

Wren class joined the rest of KS1 at our Harvest Festival at St Francis of Assisi Church. We were welcomed by the Reverened Catherine. We enjoyed sharing the songs we had been learning. Wren Class favourite song was 'Harvest Hoedown'! It was so lovely to see the church full to bursting! Well done Wren's.

Carnival - October

This afternoon we had a special visitor, Mr Radford, who came to talk to us about the local tradition of carnival. He has been involved in carnival for 30 years and his family for much longer! This year is the 177th year of Bridgwater carnival! Mr Radford spoke to us about all the special jobs that people have to do, to get the carnival ready for us to watch. He showed us some of the props and costumes that have been used and we saw him and Miss Stacey on a video from last years carnival. At the end of Bridgwater carnival there is a special display called squibbing. We saw a cosh. This is the big stick that is used by the squibbers. It has a firework attached and this is set off and held up high, as we remember Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. Carnival is an important part of our local heritage and sees the community come together in celebration. Will you be going to watch the carnival this year?

EYFS Carnival Visitor

Hello Yellow - World Mental Health Day - October 2024

We celebrated world mental health day by wearing yellow to school. What better way than to reconnect with nature and enjoy a morning at forest school. We also learnt and participted in some minfulness and yoga! We also had some activities out in provision that we used our Oracy to describe what made us happy.

Signs of Autmn Nature Walk - October 2024

What a wonderful welly walk exploring all signs of Autumn!

Kandinsky Concentric Cirles - Art - October 2024

As Artists we have been learning about an artist called Wassily Kandinsky. We discovered he lived a long time ago. We looked at his paintings and we used our oracy skills to say if we liked them or not. We then learned that they were called 'abstract' and this meant that they do not look like 'things'. We also talked about how he used bright colours and different shapes. We then used paper plates to help us paint our own concentric circles. We looked at colour mixing and brush control.

Art - Our unique Christmas Cards - September 2024

Wow! Wren Class have been busy designing and making their Christmas cards to raise funds for our school. We used our Oracy skills to talk abbout how it felt to have our hands painted "Squishy", "Slimy" and "Cold" were some of the words we used. We also had to use our perseverance skills as they had to be painted in stages! Well done Wren Class I think you'll agree that they look amazing!

Day of Languages - Spain - September 2024

For our Day of Languages we have been learning about Spain. We were all dressed in red and yellow! Some of us knew that we had been there on our holidays and we needed to go on an aeroplane. We knew it was hot and there was a swimming pool, not to mention ice cream! We looked where it would be on our globe.

We also looked at spanish food and used our oracy to tell our friends if we would like it. Paella caused great converstaion!

We watched flamenco dancers and had a go ourselves. We made our own fans to keep cool and painted some flags. We also had a go at speaking spanish - what a great fun day!

Our first Forest School Session - September 2024

Wren class have had the best time at their first Forest School session. Mrs Nurcombe started off by introducing our rules and expectations, along with things to be mindful of such as stinging nettles. The children then went on for conkers to collect. We found lots!! We then moved over to a different area and found some acorns! The children were amazed and found some acorns complete with their hats! Next we found a very LARGE egg...the children thought it may belong to a dragon! Mrs Nurcombe then showed the children a rose hip bush and when we went to the pond area the butterflies were eating the brambles. After our break we went back out again but the highlight was when a little baby frog hopped on to Mrs Nurcombe's Welly! We all had a wonderful time exploring and can't wait to go again next week!!!

Our School value of Friendship - Gingerbread Friends!

We have been talking about our new school value of Friendship. We talked about what "ingredients" a good friend would have. We designed them first using a variety of materials and then the fun bit, we made them. We used our maths and our problem-solving skills to weigh the ingredients before being scientists as the mixture changed and made a dough!!!!! We carefully rolled them out and baked them before decorating them using our fine motor skills. We thought our frinds would have a "pinch of smiles" and "spoonful if being happy" and a "bucket of kindness". Well done Wren Class I hope they were yummy!!!

Our first week at school - September 2024

The children of Wren Class have had an amazing first week at school. They have all had fun, discovering all that the classrrom has to offer. They have loved playing inside and outside, making new friends along the way.

We have talked about our school rules and being Ready, Respectful and Safe. We explored the school environment on Mr Butt's walk around the school grounds.

Gingerbread Man Experiment - January 2024

We listened to the story of the gingerbread man again and thought about why he couldn’t get across the river. We then conducted some experiments. First we wanted to know if he would have made it across if the water wasn’t so deep. We put a gingerbread biscuit in different sized bowls, each with a different capacity (linked to our maths) and filled them with water to see what happened. The one in the least water wasn’t so crumbly and the one in the most turned to mush! We then thought about the length of time in the water so we put gingerbread biscuits in water and timed them using a sand timer. The one that was in the longest changed the colour of the water and we couldn’t scoop it out! Finally we thought about whether it would be different if the river was not made of water. We placed one gingerbread man in water, one in juice and the third in milk. Although they all went mushy, we could see that the one in milk wasn’t quite so mushy. He still had his legs!

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the Royal Ball - February 2024

Well, what a fabulous morning was had by all at our Royal Ball! Each Prince chose their princess and escorted them to the Ball where they were met by the King and Queen and a royal fanfare. There was a photo opportunity, followed by some ballroom dancing, including a waltz and the cha cha cha! Our royal guests were then wined and dined as the banquet began. We finally finished the morning with a little more dancing before finally our ball came to an end.

Here are some photos to show you our action packed morning. I’m sure you’ll agree that they all look fantastic!

EYFS fencing - February 2024

We were very lucky today to have the chance to have a go at 'fencing'. What an amazing experience! We learnt how to hold our foil and to move sideways to prod our opponent’s tummy!

Our Paleontolgist visit - The Museum of Somerset -March 2024

What an amazing time we had today at the museum. First we had a look around the museum at the artefacts. We spotted some dinosaur fossils as well as lots of other curiosities.
We then had a circuit of activities including being palaeontologists, digging for fossils and carefully brushing them clean, painting ammonites and making our own dinosaur stick puppets or colouring.
We were all very well behaved and respectful of the other adults at the museum, and the museum curator was very impressed with our knowledge of dinosaurs, in fact she was amazed!!!!!

Come Fly Away - Our flight to Africa - April 2024

Last week, we all received a very special ticket for a flight to Africa! We packed our cases and brought them into school, ready for our exciting adventure! First, we all had the opportunity to share our cases with our friends. We spoke about the things we had put in and the reason for taking them. Nkosana and Layla packed some African currency so that they could buy themselves a meal or a present in Africa, and George packed a rope as he would like to climb a mountain! Then this afternoon we went to the airport and waited for our flight to be ready.
We learnt that the planes are directed from a flight tower. (Perhaps you could look out for one next time you are near an airport). We watched a suitcase going through a scanner and tried to identify the things inside. Our teachers explained that there are some things that we can not take on an aeroplane.
We then went through the body scanner. It beeped if we had something we shouldn’t! 😂

Finally, we were called to board our plane. It took a while to get everyone on, but we were soon settled. We did up our seatbelts and watched the safety demonstration before our flight took off. We could see the fields below and even spotted some vehicles moving along the road. We then flew over Bristol. There were lots of buildings!
During our flight, we had a movie and an inflight snack. Before we knew it, it was time to begin our descent into Africa. We passed through the clouds and watched as the wing of the plane changed, to slow us down. Africa looked quite different from Bristol, with land of a single colour and quite a lot of buildings. It was a very smooth flight and we clapped as we landed!

Everyone was ready to go to their hotels and very excited about what they might see! Let’s hope they’re all 5 star resorts!

Wren Class are amazing at their Oracy - May 2024

Roll Up Roll Up! Circus Skills - July 2024

What a fantastic fun afternoon!
We practised our circus skills! Our instructor was called Steve and he showed us what to do, we all had great fun with activities like
Flower sticks
Ribbons
Plate spinning
Pedals
Type rope
We were all amazing! 😊😊😊😊😊 it was lovely to see you if you managed to come ar 2.30 for our showcase.What a fantastic fun afternoon!

Planting - July 2024

Magdalen Farm Superstars! - July 2024

Hello
Wow wow wow what an amazing day we have all had! 😊👍
The children were amazing and I was very proud of all of them!
First we went out to do some sowing, harvesting and tasting. We first tasted lots of things, things we might not usually taste. We tasted basil, nasturtium flowers and borage flowers. We then tasted cucumbers that Rhi picked freshly.
We then went on to pick blackcurrants to help Magdalen make jam! We had to look carefully and use our fine motor skills. We then planted mange touts and this helped us as we wrote about planting a seed this week in English.
After lunch we were very excited to feed all the animals we had pigs and piglets, chickens, goats but the cows were shy!
After that we all made potions which was fun as it used all our senses!
A really super day and a very proud teacher 😊😊