Wagtail Class (Reception) and Little Chicks (Preschool)
Welcome to the Wagtails and Little Chicks class page!
Your Class Teacher is Mrs Heather Geraghty
and your Preschool Assistant is Mrs Lucy Proudfoot
Our Early Years Unit has been affectionately named 'The Nest'
Curriculum 2024-2025
How do we celebrate?
We started our new learning by celebrating the arrival of Autumn and had our very own fireworks display.
Autumn 2 2024-2025
I hope you all had a wonderful half-term. We are going to have such a wonderful half-term learning all about celebrations from different cultures and faiths as well as getting excited about our Christmas show and the build up to our Christian holiday of Christmas.
Autumn Term 2 Medium term plan
Autumn Term 1 2024-2025
Welcome back to our new year of learning, fun and exploration! Please find below the Medium Term plan for Autumn 1 and our welcome back letter. Please note this is a snapshot of what we get up to in the week!
Autumn Term 1 Medium term plan
Spring term 2024
What we are learning - Spring term 2024
Dangerous Dinosaurs Spring 2024
Puddles and Rainbows Spring 2024
Looking back at our learning in the Nest: 2023-2024
Exploring how the sun casts shadows on objects...in this case, our dinosaurs at Forest School!
Claude Monet
After learning about Monet we enjoyed a mindful morning painting with watercolours.
Our waterlilies look even more beautiful than the real thing!
Our first Beach trip of the year!
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World Book Day 2023
Children and staff in the Nest have had so much fun recreating their favourite characters.
Friday afternoon in The Nest
A beautiful winters afternoon down at Forest school.
The Nest learning about 2d shapes
Remembrance Art 11th November 2022
This week, 'The Nest' made a wonderful painting to display at Burton Bradstock St Mary’s church over the Remembrance weekend.
The children worked from left to right using rollers to paint the background, grass and sky, in one long motion. They then used rulers to stamp the blades of grass before using their thumb and index finger to print the poppies. The local community enjoyed having it for the Sunday service of Rememberence..
Welly Walk
Every Wednesday we go Welly Walking. Each week we take different routes, enjoy our local community and the fabulous natural environment around us. We often visit our forest school area and after Christmas will also be having a Forest School session every Friday.
On Tuesdays we Bake!
Cooking with the children provides so many opportunities for developing skills and knowledge.
Reading recipes, measuring ingredients using our Mathematics, following instructions, collaborating, listening, problem solving to name just a few! Not forgetting that we have such fun and enjoy the experience.
We often share our goods together at snack time and if the grownups are lucky, some gets to come home.
Our very first Welly Walk of the year!
The rain did not dampen our enjoyment and we even took our class pet 'Patty' the pig.