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The Good Shepherd
Catholic Primary School
“I am the Good Shepherd; I know my own and my own know me”. John 10:14"
Year 1 - St Raphael the Archangel
Show and Tell Spring
Knowledge Organisers
Geography
In our Geography lessons we are learning about Spatial Sense. We have spent time looking at maps, and today, we drew our own Treasure Map! For Golden Time, we followed a treasure map of the school until we reached the hidden treasure! We enjoyed eating the hidden treasure we found!
Cooking
Year 1 have really enjoyed cooking with our specialist cookery teacher! They are learning many new skills.
Gymnastics
During this term, Year 1 are focusing on developing their fundamental movement skills. This includes, balancing, climbing, jumping, running and walking skills. They are really enjoying using our apparatus in the school hall every week!
Maths fun!
Here are some pictures of Year 1 enjoying the maths activities we do in addition to their Maths No Problem workbooks!
School Parliament Letter
Curriculum Evening Presentation
Hello parents,
Please see below the Knowledge Organisers for our topics this term in Year 1! They outline the different things we will be learning about in the upcoming weeks. :)
Knowledge Organisers
Our last week in Reception together! Beach day, cricket, sock puppets, reading with Rocket and generally being creative, productive and happy!
It's harvest and tasting time in Reception! The radishes grew super fast and the children noticed they were poking out of the soil ready to be pulled up, trimmed, washed and eaten!
Growing our own food is teaching us about healthy eating but also what plants need to grow and how we can care for them. We're comparing our plants as they grow and measuring them using standard (rulers) and non-standard methods (cubes).
Summer cricket warm-up with Jonathan
Shopping trip to the Co-op and then back to school to make boat sandwiches.
Our first topic of spring has provided us with lots of opportunities to explore how things move on land, water and in the air. The children have made moving objects, learning about forces and pushes and pulls, and renewable energy like wind power! Writing (letters, words, numbers, names, etc) and painting is becoming increasingly clear and detailed. We've also learned some rudimentary coding using Beebots.
Nursery and Reception joined together in the hall for a fascinating workshop on how to have a healthy body. They were so busy exploring all the materials and learning about the importance of a healthy diet including plenty of water, exercise, keeping clean and brushing teeth regularly.
Our starry, starry night theme saw us making flitter jars, experimenting with light and coloured filters. We also acted out scenes from the Nativity, had a visit from Santa and enjoyed a lovely Christmas lunch!
The first snow of the year!
KITE STUDIOS - AN EXPLORATION OF FACES, MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: SESSION 1 - COLLABORATION
The children learned about the process of working collaboratively together, each adding a feature to the paper plate and passing it on. They found it difficult at first to work with what they were given rather than stick with their own creation but as time went on they went with it and enjoyed watching a wonderful new face materialise!
KITE STUDIOS: SESSION 2 - MAKING FACES FROM A RECTANGLE AND USING CLAY
In this session, the children learned to cut a face shape by snipping the corners off a recycled, rectangular piece of card. They practised their fine motor skills, but also learned and used new mathematical language. Once they'd snipped the 4 corners off the rectangle, they'd made an octagonal shape. If they snipped those corners off, the got an almost perfect face-shaped oval. They added details to the face using other recycled and found objects and soon had a puppet. They then used clay, rolling it and flattening it out and using bottle tops, sticks and straws to make the features.
KITE STUDIOS: SESSION 3 - USING THE ETCHING PRESS
In our last session, the children used all the techniques they'd learned to make relief faces and coat them in ink in order to make prints using the large, mechanical etching press. Every child had the opportunity to turn the handle and see the end result. They are looking forward to a visit from their parents to show them the new skills they have learned.
Welcome to Reception 2022/23
Our curriculum map for the first half of this autumn term explains how we're developing the children's skills and knowledge across the early years curriculum. Our first topic is 'Who am I?'. We find out about each other, investigate what we need to have healthy teeth and bodies.
Our workshops at Kite Studios, looking at artists' portraits and making our own, has been a fantastic launch for this topic.
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2021 - 2022 ARCHIVE NURSERY
Learning is fun
Music in the Garden
Splish, Splash, Splosh Summer 2022
Our Common Home Summer 2022
Goodbye Mr. Davis!
Where did this sand come from?
On Thursday we noticed a layer of sand all over the nursery garden. We learned that it had come all the way from Africa, having blown across the sea and Europe. We had noticed the sky looked unusual on Wednesday just before we went home.
We helped clear it up. It was very very fine like dust.
Science Week 2022 with Professor Dynamite
Professor Dynamite told us about how explosions happen. We found out that they need fuel, oxygen and heat.
We loved watching Professor Dynamite and our friends making explosions happen. We were a great audience and he was a great professor.
Science Week 2022 - Growing
We have learnt about growing plants. We know that they need water and sunshine to thrive. We have planted potatoes in the garden and hope to harvest them in the summer. We put beans in to jars and we can see them growing already. Soon we will plant them in the garden. Our cress is less successful. We need to plant some more perhaps. The rocket we planted looks delicious already. We can't believe it grows so quickly.
World Book Day
We had great fun sharing our books with our
friends and guessing who everyone was dressed up as.
St David's Day
Living and Growing Spring Term 2022
New Year Activities
Spring 2022 Curriculum Map Nursery
Welcome Back
Spring Term 2022
Christmas 2021
November 2021
We enjoyed the chance to get outside in November before the really cold weather set in. We used the garden to the full. Running, climbing, using nature for our number work and playing really well with our friends. It was also Road Safety Week so we made a zebra crossing for our busy bike area.
All Saints Day
We dressed up as our favourite saint for All Saints Day. Can you guess who we are?
Pumpkin Time
Pumpkins have provided us with lots of fun and food. We practised our hammering skills and our counting with them. Then we scooped them out and ate the delicious soup that we helped to make. We have also been counting leaves and conkers and sticks.
Sweeping clean
Since half term we have been learning all about Autumn. We have been battling the leaves and the wind in the garden.
Curriculum Map Autumn 2
Pizza Faces
We had lots of fun this week making individual pizza face. We talked about the parts of our faces and then used vegetables to decorate our pizzas with a mouth, eyes and a nose.
Performing Poetry
During this half term we have been listening to and performing lots of poetry from our favourite Michael Rosen. His book "A Great Big Cuddle" has really inspired us to find rhymes and to explore and play with language. We've even been trying to make up our own poems.
Here is a link to one of the poems we have enjoyed the most:
Oh Dear https://youtu.be/TdDWvgX4q0I
Black History Month
This week in RE we have been learning about all the wonderful animals that God has given us. We have painted and drawn animals, looking at photos and models of them very closely.
We continued to find out about our senses. We have been smelling and talking about different aromas, trying to identify the mystery foods.
We have also been finding out about our teeth and how to look after them. We used mirrors to look at our own teeth and to count them. Then we made paper mouths and teeth. We have been practising brushing some model teeth and we have been given a toothbrush and some toothpaste to take home.
Have a look at the photos below.
What's that smell?
Looking after our teeth
This week has been all about fruit. We tasted different fruits and then we did observational paintings of them. The home corner became a greengrocer’s shop for the week. We read Oliver’s Fruit Salad, Handa’s Surprise and Oliver’s Milkshake. On Friday we finished off by making delicious strawberry and banana milk shakes. Everyone thought they were very tasty.
Marvellous milkshakes
As promised here are some photos of us enjoying our first two weeks in Nursery. Here we are eating lunch in our nursery classroom. We are looked after at lunch by Leanne and Anna every day.
Below these, you will see our first baking activity. We made fairy cakes last week with Miss Backshall. They were yummy. This week we baked with Jenny. We enjoyed those too.
Lovely lunches
Culinary Capers
We have had a busy first week, meeting our new friends, finding our way around the nursery classroom and exploring the garden. You will soon be able to see photos of us on this page.
Watch this space!
Autumn 1 Curriculum Map
Welcome to our Nursery!
