A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

John 13:34-35​​​​​​​

Welcome to the Foundation Stage

Welcome to all of our children and families. We have been having so much fun during our first few weeks: making new friends, settling in, working hard and most importantly having fun!

Don't forget to keep checking this page to see some of the many fun learning opportunties we take part in.

Wednesday Word

Please find the link below to Sunday's Gospel. Share the gospel together enjoy completing one or two of the activities.

Fun at the Farm

We had a brilliant time at Smithills Farm. The busy fun filled day included donkey rides, animal feeding, learning about cow milking, going on a tractor ride, holding some baby chicks and much more! We were that busy that some us had a nap on the bus on the way home.

May is the Month of Mary

Today the children gathered around Our Lady's Garden to sing songs, say prayers and present our lady with flowers to mark the beginning of her special month.

Jesus' Last Supper

This morning the children took part in a special assembly about Jesus' Last Supper. They explored this important event through role play, prayer and song. The older children (in F2) helped the younger children (F1) learn about the key moments from this evening including  Jesus washing the disciples feet, the breaking and eating of the bread and the drinking of the wine.

Shrove Tuesday

The children in  EYFS have had a lovely time today making pancakes, eating pancakes, reciting the pancake poem with actions, sharing the story Mr Wolf's Pancakes and having pancake races. It was certainly a busy day!

Break the Rules Day!

The children in EYFS thoroughly enjoyed participating in Break the Rules Day 2025! It started with a 'Break the Rules Fashion Show' - the children particularly enjoyed striking a break the rules pose. The children enjoyed playing with each other and sharing their toys - it was lovely to see the look of pure joy on their faces! The children also enjoyed decorating their own cake or biscuit for snack time. It was definitely a fun filled day - one to be remembered!

Our Beautiful Stay and Pray

The children enjoyed inviting their parents, grandparents and families to join us for our collective worship. The theme was love. The children sang beautifully, prayed reverently, shared their thoughts on love and shared some wonderful art work inspired by the theme of love. 

Children's Mental Health Week

For this year's Children's Mental Health Week, we have been exploring some of the different emotions we feel; what causes these different feelings and what they feel like.

We enjoyed using the book Glad Monster Sad Monster to help us. We even had the opportunity to make our own feelings monsters.

Modern British Artists: BANKSY

The children have enjoyed looking at some of Banksy's famous art including: Girl With Balloon, Flower Thrower and Man  in the Rain. They enjoyed using some of Banksy's techniques including stencilling and spray painting (EYFS friendly spray painting of course).

Magical Maths!

Who knew Maths was this much fun? The children in EYFS  did! We all really enjoyed today's special day. The children took part in a wide range of fun maths based games and activities. 

Chinese New Year 2025

We have had so much fun celebrating this Chinese New Year - the year of the snake. We enjoyed listening to the story of The Great Race, learning about some of the customs and traditions, creating our own snakes and shakers but most of all we LOVED sampling some food!

2023 - 2024

Holy Week

The children have been learning about the events that happened during this special week.

They took part in a special Palm Sunday assembly led by the children in Year 5 where they waved their palm leaves just like the crowd did as Jesus entered Jerusalem. 

They participated in an assembly about Jesus' Last Supper, during which some of the children in Reception re-enacted this momentous  occasion.

They then  participated in a simple collective worship about the Stations of the Cross.

Finally, we shared the special story of Easter Sunday and Jesus' Resurrection. The children then created oil pastel crosses to remember this special occasion.

Snow!

We all had a wonderful time enjoying the snow. We made patterns and footprints in the snow,  played, built snowmen, threw snowballs as high as we could and as far as we could and had snow much fun!

Ice Ornaments

We have had so much fun creating our own ornaments using water and glitter. We then thought about how we could turn these into ice ornaments. We decided to put some outside in the cold and some into the freezer. 

Once the ornaments had frozen, we had so much fun observing our ice ornaments throughout the day. We noticed that the smaller ornaments melted faster and the larger ones took much longer to melt. We also noticed that the ornaments melted quicker in our warm hands.

WOW Week - Ancient Egypt - Heroes and Villains

What a busy week! The children have been learning about some aspects of Ancient Egypt. Particularly, King Tutankhamun, the pyramids, tombs, mummies and the archeologists that have helped us to learn so much about the Ancient Eyptians. As part of their learning they have tried to make pyramids, pretended to be archeologists on an important dig, designed a mask fit for a pharoah and tried to create a mummy.

Room on the Broom

The children in EYFS have thoroughly enjoyed sharing this well known rhyming story.  They have acted out parts of the story,  designed a broom for all the characters using Lego and made their own paper witch.

Autumn

The children enjoyed learning about Autumn. We had a wonderful walk looking for signs of Autumn, collecting lots of Autumn objects and using them in our learning. 

Harvest

The children in EYFS thoroughly enjoyed participating in this year's Harvest Festival. The children brought in a wide range of fruits and vegetables to the Harvest table. The children enjoyed joining in with the special assembly, singing the Harvest Samba, making Harvest wreaths and even enjoying delicious vegetable soup.

October - Black History Month

The theme of this year's Black History Month is Saluting our Sisters. We have been learning about a very special lady: Rosa Parks. She wanted to make sure everybody had a seat on the bus no matter what their skin colour was. We have enjoyed learning about Rosa Parks as well as sharing some special books including: The Colours of Us and All are Welcome!

WOW Week: Which Place Would You Like to Live In?

For our first WOW week of the year we compared Kenya to England. We learnt about Kenya, enjoyed the story Handa's Surprise, carried out lots of work linked to both the book and the country before we compared Kenya to England. We then asked the children where they would like to live. All of the children wished to visit Kenya but chose to live in England.

First School Days

The children in the Foundation Stage have been busy getting to know us and each other. They have settled in wonderfully and are  really working hard to learn the rules and follow the routines of the day. They seem to be having lots of fun whilst doing so. It's going to be a fun filled year!