Category: Pre-Prep

Mrs Everest was thrilled to receive some excellent poetry from her class this week. The task was to compose an Easter or Spring poem. The poem did not have to rhyme and could be an acrostic with the letters of a Spring word starting each new line, for example. Some ideas for topics suggested were…

Wonderful Wednesday continued this week and our Year 3s were as enthusiastic as ever! English, Maths and Science were tackled and one of the most popular tasks was to make a pyramid out of something at home, whether it was Lego, magnetic bricks, paper, boxes or sticks – anything they could lay their hands on….

This week, Ancient Egypt continued to unveil some of its many secrets to our  Year 3 classes. We read about the scarab beetle and the children then designed and painted their own creations. It was fantastic to see how they each engaged their imaginations to create something unique and wonderful!        

We have all been on a Bear Hunt this week and in fact, found the most amazing, friendly Bear down in the woods, who surprised us all! This lovely bear read, ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt!’ The children in Nursery, Kindergarten and Reception then came together to share an afternoon of fun bear-related activities,…

If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise!  We may be mixing our nursery rhymes, but today Reception went exploring in our woods and who did they find?  Little Red Riding Hood’s granny! Red Riding Hood had told us that her granny wasn’t feeling very well and she had…

Pre-Prep started World Book Day by listening to a story from Mrs Alderson, disguised as a shark with gleaming white teeth! The children were enthusiastic and proudly strolled back to their classrooms in their costumes. Nursery shared their favourite stories and then created their own books. Kindergarten explored the story boxes and saw what hidden…

Pre-Prep was full of excitement this morning when our children received a visit from Battle firefighters, Ben, John and the crew. Thankfully this was a planned visit as part of the children’s learning into “people who help us” The children all had the opportunity to climb up into the cab and see where the firefighters…

There was Bake-Off fever in Pre-Prep last week, as the children took part in baking delicious treats to share with each other. The children were encouraged to think about recipes and foods they like to eat and all the year groups worked incredibly hard to make their amazing creations. We were promoting the theme of…

Our Pre-Prep children thoroughly enjoyed their pancake races today.  They had to don a hat, run with the frying pan and toss the pancake, continue around a cone and then run back to pass the frying pan to the next child in their team. There was a great show of collaboration and teamwork with all…

On Friday, Year 6 visited Pre-Prep to see the Reception children perform The Billy Goats Gruff and to read fairy tales together afterwards.  Mrs Parkin and Mrs Garwood (Reception teachers) proudly presented the pupils’ performance to Year 6, who were enchanted by it. The children used Pre-Prep benches for the bridge and the goats and…