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We started off the week by sharing our holiday news. It sounds like we have all had a well deserved break.

Our story this week has been "Mrs Armitage on Wheels" , linking to our topic "Zoom, Whoosh, Bang!". We learnt that Mrs Armitage had a bike and added a range of gadgets to make it better before crashing it! Activities this week to support our learning have been identifying and labelling parts of a bike, creating a shopping list for the different items Mrs Armitage would need for her bike )e.g horn, umbrella, radio), building a sentence about Mrs Armitage using colourful semantics and designing our own bikes.

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This week we have been learning about big / small and tall and short. Activities this week have included sorting two animals and natural materials into two groups, with some of us using tweezers to sort big and small pompoms . Some of us have also been learning about height and measured toys using the non standard units of unifix cubes.

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Linking to our topic and English text , we made some bicycle shaped biscuits in sensory baking . We all took turns to do some good mixing and pouring with the end product being delicious!

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Our topic this term is "Zoom, Whoosh , Bang!". This week we have been learning about the history of the bicycle. Activities this week have included sequencing pictures of bicycles through the ages , painting our own Penny Farthings using a big plate and little plate, as well as making some bikes out of pipe cleaners. We have particularly enjoyed rolling toy bikes in brown paint to make tyre tracks.

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This week we read another of Quentin Blake’s stories featuring Mrs Armitage, called Mrs Armitage: Queen of the Road. In the story, we learnt that Mrs Armitage received a car from her uncle, and after getting into a number of scrapes and bumps, she was eventually left with something that resembled a bike.

Our activities this week included recognising and labelling the parts of a car, creating sentences to describe what Mrs Armitage lost from her car after each incident, and retelling the story by putting photos in order. Some of us also matched sentences to the corresponding pictures.

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In Maths, we have continued learning about measure. Some of us have been distinguishing between big and small, developing our gross motor skills by throwing big and small balls into matching bins, as well as sorting toy cars into big and small groups. Some of us have been working on height, comparing the heights of our peers by drawing lines with chalk, ordering the heights of giraffes, and comparing the heights of different flowers. We have also been using comparative language such as tall, short, tallest, and shortest.

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Our topic work has linked to our story Mrs Armitage on Wheels and our Life Skills week in the curriculum. We have enjoyed exploring and painting with cars, rolling them through paint and then using soapy water and sponges to emulate a car wash. We had lots of fun, and the cars made beautiful patterns as they moved through the paint.

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This week we have been exploring Life Skills and Jobs. Green Class have been gardeners, exploring soil and tools in the tuff tray and creating their own grass heads, remembering to water them. On Tuesday, we were cleaners, and not only did we enjoy washing our toy cars, but we also had lots of fun with the soapy water, spray bottles, and cloths as we cleaned the windows. Green Class did a great job!

We have also been pizza chefs, using our choice boards to make delicious cheese and pepperoni pizza wraps. On Friday, we became customers at Silver’s Café, where we had to give the waiters our order and wait patiently for our choice of drink and snack.

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This week in topic we learned about the history of the motor car, from Victorian times to the modern day. We looked at and sequenced photographs to create a simple timeline showing how cars have changed over time.We then painted, designed, and made our own model cars. We used boxes, paper plates for the wheels, plastic cups for the lights, and tubes for the exhausts. Everyone worked really well during the activity, and we were all very proud of our finished models.

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During the latter part of the week, we explored weight. Some children handled different objects to decide whether they were heavy or light and sorted them into two groups. Others used balance scales and a variety of toys and objects to find out which were heavier or lighter. The children also enjoyed making the scales balance by counting items and using toy cars.

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We have been using the outdoor environment to consolidate our learning about measurement. The children went outside to find natural objects and decided whether they were long or short. They then sorted the objects into the two categories.

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This week, we loved showcasing our phonics learning by inviting parents and carers into school to join us. The children were so proud to show off what they’ve been learning and really enjoyed sharing their favourite activities.

Together, we explored a range of phonics activities that we use throughout the week. These included tracing letters and practising sounds in foam, building simple words using Post‑it notes, and taking part in fun listening games.

It was a lovely opportunity for families to see the children’s confidence growing and how much fun we have while learning phonics. Thank you to everyone who came along to support us!

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Sensory Baking – Car ThemeThis week in sensory baking, we linked our activity to our car theme and made biscuits. The children took turns to mix the ingredients, shape the dough, and use car-shaped cutters. Once the biscuits were cooked and cooled, we decorated them with icing pens.

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This week in English, we have been reading the story Mr Grumpy’s Motor Car, which links with our topic Zoom! Whoosh! Bang!

Through the story, we discovered how two children and a range of animals all climbed into Mr Grumpy’s car. However, when it began to rain and the car became stuck in the mud, none of them wanted to help push it out. We discussed how this might have made Mr Grumpy feel and explored emotions by choosing widget symbols, with some children being encouraged to copy the symbols underneath.

We also took part in a variety of creative activities linked to the story. The children made masks to help them act out Mr Grumpy’s Motor Car and then worked together to retell the story through role play.

In addition, we explored the story in the tuff tray and enjoyed painting Mr Grumpy’s car and different animals from the story.

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This week, we concluded our book “Oi! Get Off Our Train” linked to our topic Zoom, Whoosh, Bang. Our activities have included making our own masks to help retell the story, using the animal masks to act out key events, sequencing the story with picture prompts, and creating and describing the animals’ habitats using paper plates, paint, cotton wool, and other materials.

In continuous provision, the children have been using a toy train and animals to retell the story independently. They have also enjoyed using a net to clean the “dirty” water for the seal by removing pieces of pretend rubbish. Some of the children have been confidently repeating the story’s well-known phrase, “Oi! Get off our train!”

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This week, we have continued developing our understanding of weight. The children have enjoyed exploring a range of fruit and deciding whether each one was heavy or light, successfully sorting the fruit into the correct piles. Everyone has been investigating how balance scales work and discovering which fruit was the heaviest or lightest. Some children have used their estimation and counting skills to predict which fruit would be heaviest or lightest and to estimate how many cubes would be needed to balance a chosen fruit before checking their predictions.

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Our History focus this week linked to our topic Zoom, Whoosh, Bang has been on bridges and the work of Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The children took part in an activity where they selected symbols that matched key facts about his life, such as mathematician, clever, and Victorian. They also explored a model steam train and used a variety of materials—including wooden blocks, Lego, cubes, cardboard tubes, and card—to design and build their own bridges for the train to travel across. We had lots of fun!

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This week in Life Skills, the children have been tasting a variety of fruits and designing their own fruit smoothies. They used symbol cards to show their preferences before making and then tasting their own smoothies.

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On Friday, we celebrated Number Day, and all of our activities were linked to number. The children enjoyed singing number songs, exploring and finding numbers in the tuff tray, and taking part in data-handling activities by sorting and counting jelly babies by colour. They also had fun building their own cube “cities” by counting and stacking cubes. We had a great day exploring numbers in lots of different ways.

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This week in English, we linked our learning to our exciting Kingsbury Experience.

At thr beginning of the week, we learned about the story of St Valentine. We used colourful semantics to help us break down and understanding of the story, thinking carefully about who was involved and why it was important.

Later in the week, we explored the story of the Chinese New Year race. We had lots of fun retelling the story using toy animals and water play to recreate the river. We also made our own animal masks inspired by zodiac animals,

To finish the week we acted out the story together using blue material to represent the river and a spray bottle to create splashing water effects.

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This week some of us have continued to explore environmental sounds , listening carefully to the world around us and identifying different noises.

Some of us have been using visuals and post-it notes to help us build CVC words before moving on to tracing and writing sounds from Set 1 RWI and practising reading and writing green words.

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We have linked our Maths learning to our Kingsbury Experiences, focusing on themes from Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year.

During our outdoor learning, we went on a treasure hunt where we had to find the corresponding half heart with the quantities and arrays. We used our counting skills carefully to make sure we found the correct pairs.

We also explored capacity using comparative language such as full, empty, half full, nearly full and nearly empty depending on our level of understanding. We measured using rice to fill different containers and compare amounts. We also created our own "love potions" using coloured water, pipettes and flower petals, carefully measuring , pouring and observing how the amounts changed.

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Our Topic learning has focused on our Kingsbury Experience. exploring Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year and Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday)

On Tuesday, we made our own Valentine's Day cards and collaged hearts using pieces of pink and red paper. We also created heart shapes by painting our hands and printing them on paper. During our sensory baking session , we made Valentine's heart shaped biscuits, practicing our mixing , shaping and turn taking skills.

For Chinese New Year, we watched a clip showing a Chinese family celebrating the tradition. We learned about about the importance of cleaning and preparing for the New Year , so we tidied and cleaned the classroom. We listened to Chinese music and then sat down together to enjoy some Chinese food, each receiving a red envelope to bring us good luck. We used communication boards to request rice, Chinese curry, spring rolls, prawn crackers and fortune cookies. Some of us even tried using chopsticks!

On Friday , we learned about Shrove Tuesday and linked this to our PSHCE lesson on what makes us happy. We designed happy faces on our pancakes and used a choice board to select toppings such as fruit, jam and syrup.

We have had a wonderful week celebrating different traditions and experiences together!