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Peter Rabbit inspired us to try eating some carrots in different ways! Raw carrots on Tuesday, carrot and pineapple juice on Wednesday, carrot soup on Thursday and the most delicious carrot cupcakes on Friday! I am happy to report that we have some new carrot enthusiasts 🥕 What a fabulous week!

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We finished our Flat Stanley suitcase. Inside you will find Flat Stanley ready to travel, his passport and a postcard with detailed instructions. Off into the world he goes!

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We’ve loved book week! Thank you for all the time and effort that went into the week and some magnificent costumes!!!

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What a fabulous Book Week we have had! Non stop fun & so many incredible activities! Our favourite must be the dress up of course!

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The children loved listening to the Year 6 students read to them. What a fun time spent reading outdoors with friends.

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We are LOVING Book Week so far! We had so much fun during the Story Hunt and we loved Hooked On Books! We’ve also been having a great time in our classroom 🥕

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In our class we have simply gone Julia Donaldson Crazy and it’s fabulous! There are toooo many stories to simply have just one favourite but if you pop into our class you can have a look at the wide selection. It is an incredible week so far where we are all simply excited by our love of reading. 🤩 We look forward to the next two days of Book week excitement.

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We used our iPads and researching skills to find and name various famous landmarks around the world.

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We decorated our own Flat Stanley cookie today. They look great and taste even better!

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Hooked on Books made some of our year 2s the British Navy! We’re excellent actors!

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Look at how our children are LOVING the hooked on books show!

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We have been reading Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree to get ready for Book Week! We finished the first book right on time and can't wait to walk into the Enchanted Forest on Monday! We're all so excited to see how our classroom will transform into a magical place!

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When the Nursery C children got back from assembly, they were very excited to see that someone had been in their classroom hanging up Book Week invitations!

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Josh is an animal lover. He has a head filled with interesting animal facts and a real passion to conserve the animals on our planet. He made a poster this week to highlight the potential extinction of black panthers. We’re so proud of him and his initiative! Let’s all be more like Josh and care for the animals and our planet.

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The Nursery C children spoke about chefs and bakers when learning about different occupations. They then baked a microwave chocolate cake together. It was delicious!

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Have you ever thought about how long a snake is? 🐍 We tried using non-standard units of measurement to find the answer. It was so much fun and there was fantastic team work along the way!

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We were very excited to welcome a new friend to our class this week. Luckily all the boys and girls have been so friendly and made her feel right at home.

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While learning about Animal Homes this week we enjoyed seeing some creative homes created especially for Show and Tell. From Lego to cardboard it was lovely listening to your homely facts. Well done.

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Look at who Miss Waggie spotted in the playground today, can you see him? The children all got to say hello before placing him carefully back in a safe spot.

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Giraffe House fun! 🦒

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Look how good we are getting at writing our letters!

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Oh my goodness! Giraffe House was amazing! 🦒

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We completed double and halving block tower challenges at our tables. This took some careful thinking and strategizing.

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We had a lot of  fun at the Wynberg Fire Station! We learned so much and even got to experience what it feels like at the station when ‘the bell rings!’ Firefighter Charles taught us so much and we even got to go for a ride in a real fire truck 🚒 What an outing!!

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We finally finished our folktales! The children created a sketch, a rough plan and a draft before writing the final product. Well done for persevering. I am very proud of these lovely stories.

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The Nursery F friends shopped up a storm this morning! They compiled a shopping list using pictures of various items and ticked them off as they found them in the "supermarket".

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We are learning about “Materials in Nature” this term. Inspired by this theme, Layla made this beautiful creation out of clay for Show & Tell. She told us all about clay and it’s properties. Very impressive, Layla!

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Loving our listening skill development and times table practise!
We made the most awesome quack quack fortune tellers and we’ve been happily practicing our 2, 5, and 10 x tables!

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My girls enjoying some time in the sun ☀️ They used teamwork to bury their legs to become beautiful mermaids 🧜‍♀️

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Reception M visited the Wynberg Fire station for the most exciting day ever!  We rode on a fire engine, had a tour of the station and learnt many cool new facts.  Importantly we also know that we would phone 107 in an emergency.  It was a lovely day out.

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The sun was (finally) shining and we were LOVING our time in the playground! At every turn someone was laughing, running, scoring goals, jumping sky high and having the best time! Come on, Spring 🤞🌞

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We love art and we had the best time decorating our hot air balloons today. We made our own choices about how we wanted to decorate and there were so many different materials to choose from. Look at our Nursery F busy bees at work!

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Today we explored animals and their habitats. These smart children knew exactly which animal belong in which habitat.

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We had great fun at the Peter Clark Art Centre today! We created some abstract art using items found in nature for inspiration. Check out our stunning creations!

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We really enjoy station rotations on Reception H! We had some time to play some games and work on our adding skills at our different tables. A fun way to end our busy week!

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After learning about the importance of lighthouses for water vehicles, the Nursery F friends made their own using long toilet rolls for the towers and gold tissue paper and glitter for the lamps. They even added grass, rocks or waves crashing at the bottom of each lighthouse.

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We had a blast exploring measure and using paper clips to predict and measure various items.

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We have been learning about 3D shapes this week. We went on a shape hunt around the school and then we made our own shapes out of paper. This lead to an interesting discussion on our shapes and their properties!

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We have been having so much fun learning new number concepts during some Numeracy games. Take a look at some of our activities we got up to today in RM.

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We've made the most of the rainy weather this week by keeping ourselves busy inside with awesome Lego creations and fun fantasy play! The sun poked out just at the right time yesterday and the Year 1s worked together to build a bridge through a very big puddle in the playground. Teamwork rocks!

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We have lift off into Term 3! We began our term learning about Air Transport and the children have had so much fun making, drawing and playing with different things that fly!

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I am so proud of our children - look at their magnificent Victorian style portraits.

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After a lovely long holiday the children were excited to be back to write all about their news. This term we are learning how dictionaries can help us with our sentence writing. Good job Receptions!

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The Year 1s have been learning about what it means to be unique. We read the story of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and discussed why being different is fun! We've created our own Elmer Elephants and made sure that each of them are one of a kind. We think that they are stunning!

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Wow, Kahoot is such a quick thinking fun game. The children paired up and enjoyed playing a Kahoot game identifying collective nouns. Well done and congratulations to “team tiger” for winning.

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We practised ordering numbers in 2s, 5s and 10s. There were a few tricky curve balls but they were too clever and excelled with ease!

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We are loving learning about measuring things! We’ve measured Ms L’s car, doorways, ladders, and fire hoses. Check us out working together to estimate and measure.

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We said goodbye to our amazing Minibeast theme by decorating the friendship bench with our painted bug rocks. We had such fun painting the rocks in different designs. We hope that the other Key Stage 1 children will enjoy them as much as we do!

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It’s been a cuddly, cosy day in our pyjamas!! What a way to end an incredible term!!
Happy holidays from Reception H!

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The children have worked extremely hard to add beans to our community jar and all the hard work paid off as they reached their first reward. We had a blast icing and decorating cookies. Well done everyone 😊

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Pizza 🍕 Party 🎉
Thank you PTA for spoiling us! And a big thank you to the parents for your contributions to the Big Walk ❤️

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Today we learnt about following instructions, or more specifically following a recipe. If you follow it carefully then the end results can be pretty tasty. We would agree that the cupcake recipe definitely created yummy results.

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We loved our visit to the toy museum today! Here we are in our groups ready to explore the Victorian era toys. Thank you to the amazing team at the Stellenbosch Toy Museum for sharing in our learning.

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We had fun measuring various objects around the class using cubes!

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Exhausted from an awesome day of learning...

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The Nursery children learnt about the Water Cycle this week and when they went outside to play and it started to rain, they were running about excitedly saying, “It’s the water cycle, it’s the water cycle!” Very sweet!

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What a lot of wonderful wet fun we had this week learning about water. Here are some of the Nursery F children exploring water through painting ice!

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We had some more exciting Show and Tell  brought in this week! Calvin showed us an experiment to make rain in a jar, and Ruhi made an informative poster of all the ways she uses water at home! Thank you for all your effort!!

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Sight words can be so much fun!  Breyten enjoyed a scientific approach this week with the use of a magnifying glass to find the words he needed.  Keep up the great job Breyten.

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It’s wonderful to see when our classroom learning extends to the playground. Our boys have been so busy at break times! They’re building the most wonderful structures using the wood rounds - I’m loving the creative problem solving!

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It’s a thumbs up for place value from our class! We had fun making place value dice and then using them to form 2 digit numbers. They are a bunch of geniuses I tell you!!!!

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Our reading corner is always bright and sunny but our dragonfly art has made it even better! We took our time with these beautiful creations. First we cut out the delicate outline, then we moved on to filling the wings with tiny squares of cellophane. The end result is stunning!

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The Nursery children learnt about sharks and just love the “Baby Shark” song!

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Pinkies up!
Thank you to the parents who helped put together our Victorian high tea! It was a really special occasion

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Look at these beautiful Victorian children! We’ll be using these pictures to paint portraits in art - can’t wait to see how the children interpret the task!

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What a wonderful Victorian Day! We loved celebrating Queen Victoria’s (belated) birthday with high tea and games.

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We created the most creative (&delicious) habitats for a polar bear.   If you were looking for a home which one would you like to live in? Well done environmentalists on helping an endangered animal.

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We had a lot of fun during our ‘CVC Olympic Relay’ in the playground today! We took turns to choose a CVC picture card, sound it out, and write it on the chalkboard! It was great to have our team mates cheering us on!

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The Years 1s enjoyed teaching each other about interesting animals in our first ever Jigsaw! Each child had to learn about an animal, then come back and teach their group members about it. Jigsaws make us realise how much we can learn from each other if we work together! They also teach us the importance of speaking clearly and listening carefully.

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Today we learnt about the wind. We learnt how tornadoes are formed and then made our very own ‘tornadoes in a jar’!!!

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Teamwork makes the dream work! We planned our Science week poster and everyone had a part to create. The final product is magnificent!

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Just look at these scientists! You all look amazing. Thank you!!!

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What an incredible opportunity to engage with science! The Year 2s really enjoyed the exhibits from the mobile science centre.

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Reptiles are soooooo cool. We enjoyed learning some interesting facts and meeting a few new friends.

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We are scientists!

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Oh such gooey goodness, poor Mrs Daniel!

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'What do you want?' - 'Change!'When do you want it? - 'NOW!'  Well done little environmental activists, you were amazing out there today.  Even little people can make a difference and the Receptions are going to show us exactly what

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It was a great day for a protest! Our Reception classes had a great time spreading messages of saving the planet 🌍 Well done to our environmental activists!

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What a spectacular Science Week we have had this week! The photos below show Mrs Daniel being slimed, the building of a toothpick and jelly sweet bridge for our Octonauts mission, our visit from the Snake Man and our scavenger hunt on the playground. 🔍

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Today we went on a scavenger hunt in the playground. We are learning to capture data in different ways. We had to take photos, find various objects and even make bark rubbings! We worked in teams of two.

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We excavated a chocolate chip cookie!!! These palaeontologists did a phenomenal job excavating and recording their data. What a delicious task.

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What a good sliming! Thanks to Mrs Daniel for being such a good sport! It was deliciously disgusting and lots of silly fun🤪

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We are so excited for our STEM challenge later today! We’ve spent days designing and testing our own parachutes and have chosen our contester for the big drop...

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Cloud gazing... What a relaxing activity! We learnt all about the different types of clouds and how they are formed. Then we made some awesome clouds in a jar using water, shaving cream and blue dye! We followed that up with some binocular construction and put them to good use on the balcony.

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The Octonauts gave us a tricky challenge today BUT we managed to build an amazing bridge with toothpicks and jelly sweets. I spot some future engineers.

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My goodness! Being a paleontologist requires so much patience! Look at Slade carefully excavating and cleaning the fossil he found. He’s given it a fossil reference and will record all his information.

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The children are exploring assigned palaeontology books on the iPad. Their knowledge is growing by the minute.

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Ethan made a very profound comment during his Show and Tell about orangutans. He explained why they are in trouble. He then made a very profound statement. He said, “Orangutan means ‘people of the forest’ and how can orangutans be the people of the forest if they have no forest?” Thank you for caring for the creatures of the world, Ethan! 🌲🌲

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Today's focus has been on clouds! Our first experiment was 'cloud in a jar'. The water represents the sky, the shaving foam is our cloud and the food colouring is the rain. We dropped the food colouring in drop by drop to show how during condensation the droplets get heavier and heavier, eventually falling through the sky as precipitation occurs. This was messy and fun- warning: we will have blue fingers for a while :)

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Oh no! Jack is stuck at the top of the beanstalk and needs our help to get down! Key Stage 1 to the rescue! We have been building parachutes to help get Jack back down safely. Here's how Year 1W are doing so far... Watch this space to see who builds the best parachute!

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These palaeontologists focussed and excavated their dinosaurs from the oobleck. They were so precise and took their time using special tools.

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Today we conducted an experiment to see how climate change affects the polar regions and the animals that live there. We created a box of ‘global warming conditions’ using blankets and hot water bottles and observed that the polar habitat subjected to these conditions melted faster and caused the water levels to rise to dangerous levels.

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Today we learnt all about rainbows 🌈 Here are some pictures of our ‘walking rainbow’ experiment.

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We met some wonderful creatures from the Reptile Garden today!

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What an amazing reptile show! The children found the special visitors fascinating. Some were very brave, well done!

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Lexi brought in some real fossils for us to explore today! We looked at petrified wood, fossilized bones, and imprints of organic life - how fascinating to paleontologists!

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It’s Science Week! The environmental scientists in Rec. H started off the week discussing some of the serious challenges facing our planet! This week we’ll be thinking of ways that WE can save the planet we love so much!