What a week! We have had such a lovely week exploring outside and enjoying the summer sunshine. The children have been busy making mud pies, problem solving in the water area and exploring a range of learning around the story ‘Lucy and Tom at the Seaside’. We have been learning doubles in maths and the children have blown us away with their quick understanding of these numbers.

This week the children have been exploring under the sea and creating some beautiful writing to send to Polly the pirate! They explored different sea life that live in the ocean and the children created an underwater scene to inspire their independent writing.

The children had a wonderful Forest School experience yesterday and completed a range of activities such as making spinners, hammering leaves to make pictures and leaf pressing. We also had lots of fun playing games including tug of war and relaxing in the tree hammock!

Year R had a special delivery this week which sparked lots of excitement! We came to school on Monday to find a message in a bottle from Polly the Pirate! This has kickstarted our ‘Life on the Beach’ topic – the children have immersed themselves in a range of beach and ocean themed activities this week ready to write back to Polly. To mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day the Year R children watched a snippet of the live broadcast of the event held on Southsea Common. They loved watching the Red Arrows!