Hilton Spencer Academy

Nursery have started their last half term with their new topic 'Big Adventures'. This week the children have been learning about dinosaurs - naming them, finding out what they eat, discovering where they lived and completing many different and fun activities.

✨ Reception’s Half Term Highlights! ✨
Wow... the terms really do seem to fly by!

This half term, Reception have been learning all about ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. We have enjoyed lots of fun and engaging activities throughout the term. We finished with a visit to the adventure farm on Thursday, where the children loved meeting the animals and exploring the farm. 🐑🐐🚜

Have a wonderful half term break and enjoy the sunshine! 🌞

It was the final week for nursery's 'All creatures great and small' topic and the children enjoyed learning about different sea creatures. Today we had a fun 'crazy hair' day and the children looked amazing. We hope you all have a lovely half term break!

Nursery are still busy and enjoying the topic of 'All creatures great and small' and their learning this week focussing on jungle animals. The children have matched animals to their patterns, painted different animal patterns, been moving like different jungle animals and used their strong fingers to rescue the different animals too.

We have continued learning about 'All creatures great and small' in nursery, focusing on farm animals this week. The children have enjoyed lots of painting activities, they have been digging like farmers, they have made food for the animals in the mud kitchen and they have also matched adult animals to their young.

Nursery continued with the topic of 'All creatures great and small' this week, focusing on animals we can keep as pets. It was lovely to see the children's photographs of their own pets and the children spoke in clear sentences when telling the class all about them.

This half term nursery's topic is 'All creatures great and small' and this week we started learning about very small creatures - Minibeasts. The children have loved hunting high and low to find as many minibeasts as they can and it has been lovely to see them work so well together.

The learning in nursery has been all about Spring this week. The children have made their own daffodils and used collage techniques to create their own colourful rainbows. They loved our jelly 'frogspawn' and were very curious when exploring the exciting Spring objects tray.

✨ Reception’s Half Term Highlights! ✨
Reception have had another busy and exciting half term.
We enjoyed the stories The Enormous Turnip and Oliver’s Vegetables, which inspired our learning around the topic ‘How does your garden grow?’ 🌱 We linked this to our Harvest learning in the Autumn, understanding how food is grown and the difference between fruits and vegetables. We also explored how to care for plants, learnt about the life cycle of a bean, and planted our own.
We celebrated Easter and loved welcoming our grown-ups for our open day. Take One Book Week was an added bonus this term as part of our World Book Day preparations.

Nursery have been learning all about why we celebrate Easter this week. They have been very busy completing lots of different activities including painting with carrots, egg and spoon races, making chocolate easter nests, creating fluffy easter chicks and hunting for Easter eggs. We hope you all have a lovely Easter break.