McIntyre Terrace, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, DL14 6HW
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Due to current circumstances and COVID-19 restrictions, schools within Bishop Auckland are currently unable to welcome prospective parents into school. If this changes, an announcement will be made on our school website and facebook page.
Clicking on the links below with give you a virtual tour of our Early Years settings.
Nursery Class
Reception Class
By andrewgraham
Dear parents, we have attached to this post the homework tasks that we have set for each year group including nursery. If you have any questions on this please email your teacher (email addresses) are available on the letter. Thank you.
Nursery Home Learning Grid
Reception Home Learning Grid
Year 1 Home Learning Grid
Year 2 home learning grid
By andrewgraham
After lots of activities and learning in the classroom about the book ‘Naughty Bus’ we had our own exciting adventure on a real double decker bus! This was an excellent experience for our children going out on to a service bus and taking a trip up to Wolsingham. Next week we will be writing our own Naughty Bus book with brand new, exciting adventures.
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As part of National Storytelling Week we have enjoyed a visit to our local library. The children have learnt about what a library is and enjoyed exploring all the fantastic books in the children’s area. They also sat beautifully and listened to a story read by the librarian. Thank you to all the parents who joined us on this visit and thank you to the library. Lots of our children who had parents with them signed up and received their own membership card! This is wonderful!
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The children have all had a wonderful week learning about Chinese New Year and how and why it is celebrated. As part of this we have learnt about the Chinese Zodiac race between the animals and we have listened to the story of the Chinese ghost lion and watched a special lion dance. The children were so captivated by this story that they made their own lion and performed their own lion dance! We’ve listened to Chinese music and sampled some Chinese food.
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In Reception the children are making fantastic progress with their understanding of number, particularly with the numberblocks programmes. This week we worked as a team to make our own number book which we have laminated and put together so we can read it in the classroom.
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This week in Reception we have been learning about Diwali – the Hindu festival of light. Throughout the week the children have tried special foods, dressed up and danced to Indian music. The children have listened to the story of Rama, Sita and The Demon King. The children can confidently retell the story remembering that Ravana, the Demon King, had 10 heads, 10 arms and 20 eyes! We compared this story to a non-fiction book called ‘Diwali’ and noticed the differences. We have used chalk and powder paints mixed with water to brush fireworks onto the yard. The children have painted rangoli patterns and made them on the light table with loose parts with superb attention to detail. In the malleable area the children have used clay to make diva lamps. A very busy week!
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We’ve been very busy in Reception this week! The children are beginning to get excited about Halloween and have been very interested in the pumpkins and ‘munchkins’ in the classroom. We wondered what we could do with the pumpkins and decided we could make pumpkin soup. We began by finding a recipe and we read through this together. From this we wrote a shopping list for all of the ingredients and the children were very keen to write their own lists during continuous provision time. We counted some of our left over snack money ready to take to ASDA and we checked the weather forecast to see which day would be best. On Tuesday we all walked to ASDA armed with our shopping lists and bags. The children’s behaviour was excellent and they were very good at finding all of the items on the shopping list. One of the children asked if we could put some pennies in the guide dog charity box so we used our change from the shopping to help. Back at school there was lots of peeling and chopping to be done which was hard work but the children were able to do this, showing lots of perseverance. When it was finally cooked we all enjoyed dipping our bread into the soup and the children thought it was delicious. There were lots of hands up for more! We sat around in a circle together and listened to the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’. What an exciting week!
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In Reception our children have many opportunites over the week to develop their physical skills. Today they have been negotiating space very well, adjusting their speed and changing direction to avoid obstacles. They have shown that they can travel with confidence on a range of apparatus whilst keeping themselves safe.
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Autumn time is a wonderful time of year which we love learning about in Reception. Our children helped to look for signs of autumn in the environment and we brought what we found back into our classroom. The conker tray has been very popular and there were so many mathematical opportunities for the children to explore. The children were very keen to help build our dark tent and they worked excellently as a team to do this. In the tent they have explored light and dark using the torches and glow in the dark items. Of course the children have enjoyed all of our Halloween items to explore as they are very excited for Halloween!
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