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Transition EYFS

"We're going on a bear hunt!" 

This week in Robins, we have been learning all about bears who hide! We were a bit shocked to see that our biscuits had been taken by Big-Brown Bear, who had been sniffing in our bags for a delicious birthday treat to eat! We decided to plan a…

Some snapshots of the fun filled day our Swifts class had yesterday at Hardwick Park in Sedgefield.

The children were able to explore the park identifying, naming and classifying plants using a range of skills. It looks like you all had a fabulous time as scientists, carrying out your…

What writers we have in Larks class! The children are thoroughly enjoying their Seaside topic and using this as a theme to write a range of poetry this term. So far we have explored rhyming poetry, acrostic poetry and repeated poetry. One of our Year 2 pupils made me smile when she came up to me…

Another week of forest adventures for our Wrens and Robins. This week the theme was pollinators and as always the Robins had a garlic tea and apple juice cafe; unfortunately today they weren't taking card, just cash!

Larks class have enjoyed linking lots of learning across the curriculum…

This week has been all about Oliver’s vegetables. On Monday we read the story and wondered what spinach tasted like as lots of us had never tasted it before. This prompted us to write shopping lists on Tuesday, ready for our market stall visit on Wednesday. We took our shopping lists and visited…

Another busy week at St Mary's. Seaside's, SATs and Water Cycles!

Here is a selection of photographs from across school. I hope the children can tell you all about their learning!

Larks have been doing all things measurement this week! The children have loved  learning about volume, capacity and temperature. They have been recording the temperature each day outside so we can look at patterns. The children have been using water to explain if something is full, half full or…

Another busy week in school and around our local area. Wrens were off to the market this week and thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the local butcher shop too.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our Wrens and Robins could have their own market stall... a day in the life of Barny Markets! Watch this…

How great it is to be back at school with all of our St Mary's family. This term Larks class are on our travels and learning all about holidays and the seaside. We have fully embraced our new topic, packed our bags and we have been off to the beach!  We have small world seaside holiday set up,…

A special visitor this week for our EYFS children, during their forest school session this week. Terrible tusks, and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws!!

This week in science we have been learning about how plants reproduce. We learnt about pollination and fertilisation…

Swifts had a fantastic day at Beamish on Friday to support their learning and experiences of Victorian Life! They were able to experience the Victorian school, explore typical homes and shops and also transport on the trams.

I wonder how the typical school day compares to today and which, if…

What a magical week we have have this week. We celebrated World Book day and as the children love to get messy we decided to make George's Marvellous Medicine. We got a large pan and started adding things we could find around school and I am so glad to report it did not explode! What a mess they…