St Marie's Catholic Primary School

This week, we have been exploring ice and discovering what happens as it warms up and melts into water. The children enjoyed observing these changes and learning that when water is placed back into the freezer, it freezes and turns back into solid ice. We have also created beautiful transient art using natural resources. Freddie Frog came to visit us during our Funbox Jo session, we were so excited!

This week we have dug up the potatoes that we planted back in April! We explored the roots and discussed what they needed to grow. The children said they're going to make "chips" "mashed potatoes" "wedges" "jacket potatoes." We have enoyed drawing our favourite place and have loved exploring in the garden.

Pre-school have enjoyed creating repeating patterns using famous landmarks in London.

A lovely first week back at pre-school! The children have enjoyed using their imagination when playing in our new 'ice cream parlour.' We have released our butterflies into nature and waved them farewell. We have explored alliteration in phonics, creating silly sentences with our names and have taken part in an observational drawing of a pineapple.

What a super day we had celebrating 'Elmer Day'. We tasted lots of yummy fruits, found Elmer in a fun game of hide and seek and had a bubble dance party!

Pre-school have had lots of fun creating Elmer patterns this week. They are thoroughly enjoying learning about the lifecycle of a caterpillar and have been very excited to see their caterpillars growing and evolving into chrysalides.

Another wonderful week in pre-school! The children have enjoyed exploring the areas and have especially loved singing and signing with CrazyJo in the garden!

We have had a super exciting week in pre-school. Our pet caterpillars arrived! The children have loved making their caterpillar a cosy home and have even given their caterpillar a name. We can't wait to watch them grow over the next couple of weeks. We are exploring animals this term, the children have matched the animals to their patterns. They have also created a beautiful piece of art work inspired by Henri Rosseau's 'Tiger in a tropical storm.'

It has been a wonderful first week back at pre-school. The children have enjoyed playing in the sunshine, celebrating the 60th anniversary and have took on roles in the new veterinary surgery. Robot group have also practiced their cutting skills in phonics, carefully snipping their rhyming robots.

This week, the children have enjoyed creating Easter cards, and welly planting. We have been on an Egg hunt around the garden, tasted yummy hot cross buns and enjoyed potato planting with Mr Keating.

This week, we have enjoyed welly planting in the garden, exploring Spring and the weather, and have developed our cutting skills!

It's been a busy week in pre-school this week! We have been sequencing the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk.' The children remembered the story so well! We have been vegetable printing and making 'birthday' cupcakes. We have also enjoyed playing outside in the spring sunshine!

The children have had lots of fun this week exploring our Spring activities. They have thoroughly enjoyed role playing in our new 'fruit and veg shop' and loved creating our Spring playdough.

It's been a very busy two weeks back in Pre-school! We have started our new topic 'Spring has Sprung' and have enjoyed taking part in an observational Daffodil painting. Astronauts have chosen their favourite nursery rhymes and have drawn a picture of what they chose. We are currently creating a fruit and vegetable shop in our role play area. The children created a shopping list of what they will buy when it opens.

We've had a busy week in pre-school! We have made egg box aliens, created yummy 'pizzas' and added our favourite toppings. We have been reading 'Whatever Next' and have made a list of what we would take on our trip to the moon!

Pre-school have thoroughly enjoyed creating artwork inspired by Jackson Pollock. They spent a long time carefully flicking and splattering the paint with their brushes. They have dressed up as firefighters and rescued their friends from dangerous situations (being stuck on a rock) and have enjoyed exploring items that float and sink in the water tray.