Welcome to Early Years (Nursery and Reception), the class teacher is Mrs Marsden and the class are supported by Mrs Manners (Monday-Wednesday) and Miss Forrest (Thursday and Friday). Mrs Athey teaches RE and PE on a Thursday afternoon.

We are delighted to welcome you and your child to our class community. This page is a space where we will share highlights of the wonderful learning experiences taking place in our classroom.

In Early Years and Reception, we focus on creating a warm, safe, and nurturing environment where children feel happy, confident, and ready to learn. Through play, exploration, and hands-on activities, we support each child as they develop their curiosity, independence, and love for learning.

Throughout the year, we will be exploring exciting themes, building new skills, and celebrating every child’s achievements—big and small. We look forward to working in partnership with you to support your child’s growth and development.

Please check this page regularly for our updates.

Thank you for being part of our learning journey!

We had a wonderful first week back welcoming all the children. We had a big focus on the big frieze in RE and understanding that the big book which shares the story of God's love with us is the Bible and it has many stories that create one big story. The children enjoyed creating their own big frieze pictures and talking about them as they drew their own interpretations. 

Look at us! We had so much fun painting our self portraits, we used mirrors to look at the colour of our eyes, hair, skin and we mixed the colours too.

We have started learning our sounds in our Read, Write Inc sessions and have been having fun practising to write them.

Our value we are thinking about most this term is - kindness. We had the opportunity to reflect in our reflection area about what being kind means, when we have been kind and perhaps when someone has been kind to us. We then shared when we had been kind or received kindness and wrote these on hearts for our kindness tree.

At Forest School we picked some apples from our apple tree and the next day we made apple crumble. All reception had a go at peeling an apple and chopping it up. Super work! Mrs Wardropper cooked it in her oven and in the afternoon we all tried it! Super teamwork. We had a whole crumble left and so to be kind we donated it to someone in our village community, we hope they enjoyed it too!

Early Years and Key Stage One travelled to Alnwick Playhouse to see the performance of 'Hay' all about a scarecrow. A wonderful experience for us all, it was very entertaining!

We invited our families to an open morning with a history focus. We recapped the significance of the poppy and how it is a symbol of remembrance. We then had the opportunity to explore a real evacuees suitcase and looked at what they had packed and how some things were different to what they are like today. We made clay poppies and packed what we would pack in our evacuee suitcase too. 

Computing in Early Years - we have all had good fun investigating the beebots and inputting instructions and learning how to clear the beebots. We have all logged onto school 360 on the iPad with help. We played the create a builder game where we had to drag and drop to dress the builder and then we chose our favourite busy things game to play, we use these games daily on our interactive class board so it was nice to see we can play the same games on our own and at home if we wish.