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One Potato, Two Potato
In Gold Class this half term, we have been exploring food songs and rhymes as part of our 'You are what you eat' food topic.
Gold Class Food Stall
Gold Class combined Topic and Maths this morning, using their knowledge of all of of the food names and their money counting skills to take it in turns to role play as shop keepers and customers.
Building Shapes in Gold Class
In Gold Class, we combined all our shape knowledge and our fine motor skills to create 2D shape outlines and 3D shape nets with cocktail sticks and marshmallows!
3D Shape in Gold
Gold Class loved exploring 3D shapes for the first time, they each had a turn choosing a mystery shape from the box and identified it using the vocabulary mats.
Gold Class go to the Museum
As part of our food topic, Gold Class visited the Winter Gardens museum to explore food through the ages.
Exploring Food
Gold Class explored lots of different sensory food trays as part of forest school this week, alongside their KS1 friends.
Food I Like
Gold Class have started their first week back exploring food they like, what looks yummy, and what looks yucky!
Target Practice in Gold Class
Gold Class have been practicing their throwing skills this half term and have worked their way up to throwing bean bags inside hoops!
Toy Shop in Gold Class
In the first day of exploring the money topic in Maths, Gold Class enjoyed the Toy Shop role play where they swapped coins for toys with price tags on.
Music in Gold Class
Gold Class loved music this week, they experimented with playing instruments softly along to a familiar song.
Plant Hunt
Gold Class participated in a plant hunt alongside their KS1 peers in forest school, as well as exploring soil and plants.
Terrariums in Gold Class
Gold Class have loved exploring plants this week, especially when creating their very own miniature garden called a terrarium!
Seed Patterns in Gold Class
Gold Class have been exploring seeds and what happens when a seed grows.
Butterfly Printing in Gold Class
Gold Class loved printing butterflies as part of their exploration of Minibeasts.
Bug Hunt in Gold Class
Gold Class were amazing at sorting through a range of Minibeasts and using their PE skills to run to each part of the sports hall to place them in the correct spots.
KS1 Easter Forest School
All of Key Stage One children (and staff) thoroughly enjoyed exploring shaving foam eggs and hunting for numbered eggs around their forest school area this morning.
Habitats in Gold Class
As an end to an amazing topic, Gold Class were able to sort animals into the habitats they belong to.
Easter Baking in Gold Class
Gold Class loved combining ingredients to create Easter nest cakes to start off their Easter crafts!
Snake Creations
Gold Class used bubble wrap and their favourite colours of paint to create snake scales on their paper plates.
Dear Zoo in Gold Class
Gold Class have had an amazing morning exploring the sensory story for Dear Zoo.
Growth in Gold Class
Gold Class loved exploring the topic of growth as part of British Science Week in forest school.
Animal Antics
To start our animal antics topic this half term, Gold Class used a range of animals dipped in paint to stomp across a page.
Pancake Day in Gold Class
Gold Class loved decorating pancakes, they loved selecting toppings and counting them out one by one.
Fishing for Numbers
Gold Class put their number knowledge (and fishing skills) to the test in this active Maths session, which required them to fish out numbers and match them.
Fabulous Finger Painting
Gold Class have been working really hard on developing our counting skills this week.
Hot and Cold in Gold Class
Gold Class loved investigating hot and cold materials, such as a hot water bottle and knights trapped in ice.
Gold Class Sensory Story
Gold Class enjoyed a sensory story of 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and explored a range of textures, temperatures, and smells.

Biscuits in Gold Class
Gold Class loved decorating biscuits and counting out the sprinkles to help their maths skills!