Spring 2025

Patterns
It has has been a lovely week doing patterns.... everywhere! As well as preparing for our Space Assembly, parachute games, writing about the planets we would discover on a space adventure, Space Race fun, our well being hands for the whole school well being display and we introduced the Poetry Basket with Preschool. It was so impressive that as well as not only doing a fabulous performance for our assembly, by using the Poetry Basket we managed to learn a new space poem and perform it with preschool. This is going to be a wonderful way to develop our speaking and listening and develop all those core literacy skills like understanding rhyme, rhythm and word magic that performance poems can.
 

Chinese New Year...the beginning of the celebrations

This week we have begun to think about Chinese New Year. It is a great way to think about culture and beliefs so we know that lots of people believe and celebrate different things and events. Therefore, it is important to be respectful of everyone's ideas.

We came together as Alnwick Castle Class and Preschool to listen to the story of the 'The Great Race' and discovered that each year is named after a different animal. Later, we joined in with some Chinese Zodiac yoga where we created poses of the different animals.

We have lots more activities that we are participating in throughout the week but today we had great fun making a paper chain. We worked as team, developing our fine motor skills and measure a chain 5 meters long - good effort EYFS!