Bears
- 21/02/24
Colour and Pattern with Aliens Love Underpants
Aliens who love stealing pants landed in our Bears class, as we explored the Aliens Love Underpants story written by Clare Freedman and Ben Cort. We took a small step into space to play and build our understanding through a space station role-play experience and our small world helped us to ret...Read Full Story - 11/02/24
Colour and Pattern with Elmer
A parade of patchwork elephants stomped into the Bears classroom to make it bright, colourful and elephant themed. On the creative table, we covered a milk bottle with tissue paper in a patchwork effect to create Elmer. We were encouraged to think about our patchwork design and make sure...Read Full Story - 28/01/24
Colour and Pattern with the Rainbow Fish
We started the spring term with a new Colour and Pattern theme and the shiny shimmering Rainbow Fish. The Rainbow Fish is a lovely story of sharing and the happiness that sharing can bring yourself and others. The story shows how difficult sharing can be and the impact that sharing can hav...Read Full Story - 07/01/24
Let's Celebrate Christmas
In the countdown to Christmas, our Christmas classroom experiences were based around the story of The Jolly Christmas Postman, written by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. On small world we retold the story of the Christmas postman as he delivered greetings to the fairy-tale characters. In rol...Read Full Story - 03/12/23
Let's Celebrate Weddings
This week we celebrated weddings with repetition and rhyme in The Scarecrows' Wedding story written by Julia Donaldson. The Bears re-enacted and adapted the scarecrows' wedding story with the characters, animals and props on small world. In role-play, we dressed to c...Read Full Story - 02/12/23
Let's Celebrate Birthdays
Another week and another celebration, with birthdays and the story Kipper's Birthday by Mick Inkpen. On small world we retold the story of Kipper's birthday. The day before Kipper's birthday, he prepares his party invitations and makes a cake. He invites everyone to his party tomorr...Read Full Story - 22/11/23
Let's Celebrate Diwali
The Bears celebrated Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Our role play area transformed into a bright Diwali home celebration, decorated with our colourful paper lanterns and rangoli patterns. We coloured and wrote Diwali cards for our friends, then took them to our Diwali...Read Full Story - 24/06/23
Our Trip to the Farm
On a hot sunny day, filled with excitement, the Bears boarded the coach to take us to Barleylands Farm. We were off on our first school trip. On arrival, we set down our packed lunches in the large Barleylands Barn where we would eat lunch. Then we began the general...Read Full Story - 13/05/23
Celebrating the King's Coronation
It is the King's coronation day and while the King is feeling rather nervous, Colin the king's dog, grabs the crown and runs away. The Bears have enjoyed learning about our coronation history and traditions, our royal family and the London landmarks, through the coronation caper - The K...Read Full Story - 05/03/23
World Book Day
On Monday, we received a visit from author and illustrator Emma Lazell. We started the day with an assembly. Emma shared her love for books, her journey to become an author and illustrator and the stories she has created. Later in the classroom, we watched, listened and drew along as Emma showe...Read Full Story - 30/05/22
Celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
This week, the Bears went on a London adventure with our story of the week, The Queen's Hat, written by Steve Antony. On our small world, the Queen, her guards and a corgi chased the Queen's hat around the London landmarks. In the Queen's Hat, the wind went swish and blew the Que...Read Full Story