Mrs McInroy and the School Council launched Anti Bullying Week at assembly as the children explained this year's theme 'One Kind Word - or phrase'.
All children will be engaged in doing lots of kind acts next week and hopefully beyond.
Children have been asked to wear odd socks to school on Monday to celebrate their individuality.

Remembrance Day
This week also we have been remembering the soldiers who died in the war. We made poppies out of tissue paper and playdough.  

This week we have been learning all about Diwali, the Festival of Light. We have listened to the story of ‘Rama and Sita’ and acted it out together. We made Rangoli patterns and diva lamps from salt dough and decorated them with beautiful sequins, glitter and stickers. We hung lights everywhere in the classroom and explored with different sources of light. We loved looking at the light shadows and jumping on them.  

In Nursery this week we have been learning lots of information about Africa, it was so much fun. We explored African artefacts, fabrics and danced to African songs. We looked at power point and different photograph of Africa and learnt the names of the animals you would find on Safari. Look at all our fantastic learning.  

​On Thursday morning Mrs Bracken tried to make some cookies. She tried and tried but she couldn’t make them, she poured flour all over herself and needed help urgently. Luckily a chef was nearby and she invited him to help her make cookies. He showed the ingredients and the kitchen utensils to the children, explained how to make the cookies and then made them with the children. The children loved eating them. They were delicious! 

​On Wednesday we had our first reading morning. It was a great success and both children and parents thoroughly enjoyed themselves. 

This week in Nursery we followed children’s interests in buses.  We have learnt the song ‘The wheels on the bus’ and made a fantastic red bus. We explored with ICT equipment such as megaphone, bells and lights. We also learnt what the bus driver’s job is and then pretended to be drivers and passengers while singing our own made up version of ‘The wheels on the bus’ song. We are proud to tell you that we have made the longest bus ever outside and that we were very well-behaved drivers and passengers. 

This week we have also prepared for Harvest. We explored different fruit and vegetables, looked at books about Harvest and picked the apples from the tree in the garden. We then washed the apples together and ate them, they were delicious!  

​We have had another wonderful week in nursery exploring different activities indoors and outdoors. We talked about feelings and we have learnt new vocabulary to describe our emotions such as happy, joyful, sad, shocked, frustrated and angry. We drew pictures and played the game “Guess how I feel” where we guessed the emotion that someone had shown.
We continued our learning about the season of autumn, we learnt autumn song and painted pictures using autumn colours. The children are very proud of their hard work and would love to share our classroom displays with you.