What have we been getting up to in Dosbarth Derbyn?

W/C 05.05.25

This week, Reception were thrilled to receive a special fruit delivery inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar! The children enjoyed tasting a variety of fruits and used some fantastic adjectives to describe how each one looked, felt, and tasted. We then put our super safe cooking skills to the test by creating our very own colourful and tasty fruit salads—what a delicious treat!  In Maths, we’ve been busy role-playing in our flower shop. The children have loved choosing bunches of flowers and using their counting skills to find the total cost—great real-life maths in action.  In Forest School, our focus turned to nature. We’ve been sorting minibeasts into different groups and exploring the different parts of a flower through hands-on investigation. A wonderful week of sensory learning, creativity, and curiosity!

W/C 28.04.25

This week, we had a fantastic topic immersion day to launch our new theme: Where Does Green Come From? The children enjoyed a creative art day where they made spider webs by threading, painted spiders, and explored symmetry by creating beautiful butterfly paintings. As part of our literacy focus, we wrote about minibeasts, using descriptive language and full sentences to bring our writing to life. In maths, we have been busy sorting British coins and developing our understanding of their value through fun, hands-on activities. As well as, using imaginations to make bug hotels, using different criteria to sort minibeasts and creating a tally on a minibeast hunt!