11.07.25

Party at the Park 🎉

We have had a lovely warm time at the park and field this morning. A huge thank you to our parent and grandparent volunteers who accompanied us today. It’s been an absolute pleasure to teach RS and a really lovely way to end this wonderful year together.

Mrs Gent ☀️

02.07.25

Healthy Teeth 🦷 🪥

Caroline our school nurse came to visit today. She talked to us all about how and why we need to keep our teeth healthy.

Mrs Gent 😊

 

 

20.06.25

Today we really enjoyed participating in a carousel of physical activities and it was lovely to see so many parents and family members that were able to join in with the fun too! 

 

11.06.25

Yoga! We are really enjoying our Yoga sessions with Karen every Wednesday!

 

09.06.25

Super start to a Monday morning! We met author Ian Bond who shared his new book with us - How the bat got its wings. We also enhanced our knowledge of bats learning about local bats to Middleton St George and others from around the world. We learnt that a bat is a mammal, due to three particular things - maybe your child can recall them tonight?

Mrs Gent 🦇

 

 

06.05.25

Spring Walk 2025 ☀️

 

06.05.25

When Chuck and Cheese came to visit! 🐑🍼

A huge thank you to Vinnie’s family for enabling this lovely experience for our Reception children. The children had a wonderful time observing and bottle feeding the lambs.

Mrs Gent 😊

 

01.05.25

 

A special delivery…🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

This week we have had a special delivery…5 caterpillars.

We are fascinated by them!

We have noticed a change in their length everyday this week and are rather excited about the changes that will occur.

We are monitoring the pot closely to see if any have changed into a chrysalis, the next step in the cycle.

Mrs Gent 🐛

 

 

01.05.25

Planting Sunflowers 🌻

At the beginning of the week we planted our own sunflower seed! We followed a set of instructions to guide our planting. We will be nurturing theses over the next few weeks and monitoring the changes that (hopefully 😅) will occur.

Mrs Gent 🌻

 

11.03.25

H O P E T O W N

A huge thank you to the children in RS and our volunteers for a wonderful trip to Hopetown, on the train!

Mrs Gent 🚂

 

 

05.03.25

 

New additions to the Early Years…Chicks! 🐥

This afternoon we have had been observing 5 newly hatched chicks!

This was a wonderful introduction to the life cycle of a chicken. We discovered what was inside the box and why it was there too.

We are looking forward to monitoring the chicks moving forward.

Mrs Gent 😊

 

03.02.25

Lunar New Year Dragon 🐉 - Super TEAM effort!

We have thoroughly enjoyed working as a team to create a Lunar New Year dragon. Today we have been learning about preparations for Lunar New Year and how it is celebrated. We will be continuing this learning throughout the week…but couldn’t resist sharing these photos that were captured.

Mrs Gent 😊

 

 

 

30.01.25

Winter Walk ❄️

We’ve had a wonderful time spotting seasonal changes. We found a variety of frozen items, watched the horses, felt ice and frost on leaves and sticks and saw as a plane circling the village ✈️.
We couldn’t have picked a better frosty morning!

Mrs Gent 😊

 

29.01.25

Railway Safety

Today we have had a visit from Jess from the Bishop Line to talk to the children about railway safety. The children enjoyed learning about level crossings, the yellow hazard line and the dangers of electric wires.
Inside their bag is a copy of the book that was used to explain the dangers and safety systems to use.

🚂 Mrs Gent

 

 

 

22.01.25

Naughty Bus‼️

This week we have introduced the story ‘Naughty Bus’ (this story can be found on You Tube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sqQ1BAEj1oE )and have made our own red bus using mixed media and materials - they look fantastic!
Our plan is to take our own bus on an adventure and learn about maps over the next couple of weeks!

Mrs Gent 😊

 

 16.01.25

Mathematics: Winter Patterns

To finish off our block of pattern work we have created some repeating patterns to check our understanding. They look lovely and we plan to display them in our classroom.

Mrs Gent

 

09.01.25

Selling Snacks & Drinks

One of the highlights of the week has been selling our snack and drinks for a quantity of tokens! This has proven to be a great way to apply addition and subtraction knowledge in a real life context. It was a perfect opportunity to teach the concept of “change” too. This activity proved so popular, that we have done it each day with different amounts to keep our mathematical brain ticking! Future plans are to have shopkeepers- so the children can take things into their own hands.

Mrs Gent 🧮

 

 

20.12.24

Christmas Party!

 

 

05.11.24

5th of November Fun

From camp fire songs, salt painting, firework dancing to loose part firework pictures…we really enjoyed our first day back! 🔥🎆🎇

 

24.10.24

Autumn Walk 🍁

We’ve had a wonderful time spotting seasonal changes. We found a variety of berries, leaves, acorns and conkers as well as sticks shaped like letters!
We couldn’t have picked a better morning.
Mrs Gent 😊

 

23.10.24

 

Kneading the dough and cutting the veg!

We have had lots of finger skill fun over the past two days and as a consequence made a loaf of bread and some vegetable soup.

🌾🥣

 

 

17.10.24

 

Harvest Festival

 

 

16.10.24

Autumn Tree 🍁

Using paint, cotton wool and a pipette we created our own autumn inspired leaves.

 

08.10.24

Autumn Artwork

We have been looking very closely at our collection of squash and pumpkins. Using a mixture of pen, pastel and wax crayon we have created some wonderful artwork for our door.

Mrs Gent 🎃

04.10.24

Sounds~Write

Only week 4 and we are all getting used to our daily routine in RS.
First thing on a morning we take part in a 25 minute phonic session.
We have introduced the sounds a, i, m, s, t, n, o & p so far, we are starting to read and write with these sounds too!

Keep the super work up RS! 🌟

 

26.09.24

All About Me

The children have really enjoyed sharing their boxes this week. We have shared them with friends and realised we have many common interests. The language has been flowing as the children have described their family members, friendships, likes and dislikes and we have captured this along the way for our display. Each child has had the opportunity to share these 1:1 too. It’s been lovely to learn a little bit more about each of the children individually.

Together we have used some of the photos and placed them in order, thinking about what we could do as a baby, toddler and now - making those first links between past and present.

Mrs Gent 💫

 

25.09.24

Matching, Sorting and Comparing

In Maths we have been learning how to match, sort and compare objects. This has included identifying sets of objects in our everyday play (very useful at tidy up time!), exploring the different ways of sorting and creating rules, as well as comparing amounts.

Mrs Gent 😊

 

 

 

20.09.24

There’s Only One YOU 💫

Another wonderful week of settling in and getting to know one another through talking about our families, likes and dislikes.

Next week we will spend time looking through our All About Me boxes, thank you for your support with this.

Mrs Gent 😊

 

12.09.24

🎨 RS Self-Portraits

This week each child has independently created their own self-portrait. Using a mirror, they looked closely at their features and drew the shape in pen. They then added colour using pastel and paint.

This was a really lovely experience because the children were really keen to produce their portrait - at one point there was a queue at the creative table!

Mrs Gent 😊

 

 

 

06.09.24

Stars of the Week 🌟

Today we were invited to the whole school praise assembly.

Each week one of our children will receive a certificate for something that has really impressed the teachers that week.
However….this week I couldn’t just pick one star when I have 23! 🌟

Therefore congratulations to the whole of RS for adapting to your new learning environment and adults with enthusiasm and ease! We have a very exciting year ahead - well done!

Mrs Gent 💫

 

 

 

 02.09.24

 

Hello Everyone!

Just two more sleeps to go until our exciting learning journey in RS is ready to commence…and we are so looking forward to welcoming you all!

The team will welcome the children into school from 8:45am on Wednesday 4th September. For the first few days you are welcome to come and drop your child off at the classroom door then from the following Monday (9th) staff members will meet your child at the blue gates.

For the first couple of weeks we will be getting to know your child. The best way to do that is to play together, spend time talking and interacting. This will set the foundations that we can continue to build upon and introduce our Literacy and Mathematics learning programmes.

Towards the end of the week we should see some warmer weather which will be nice. When we last met I asked for wellies (they will still be welcomed and will stay on our class trolley) but looks like you will need a sun hat/glasses too! Please could I request that sun cream is applied before school and kept in your child’s bag.

If your child has a medical need please ensure that all of their medication is dropped into school office on Wednesday morning.

The team will be taking some photographs of our first days together to share with you. We can do this once all permissions are sought - so when I get the go ahead from admin I will share them with you.

I do like to be as paperless as possible, but please do look out for a few letters that will be placed inside your child’s bag this week which detail our curriculum plans, homework, reading book and record.

I hope that everyone is as excited as our Early Years team are.

Enjoy your last day tomorrow and we will see you Wednesday!

With best wishes,
Mrs Gent 😊