Lindon Bennett School

🔦 Spotlight 🔦on: Camels Class
Camels class has been working on our expressive art and design skills exploring different media and materials under the topic, Jungle. We are making choices of colour and materials, showing preferences using our core board to make a snake, lion and tiger. We are also focusing on understanding the world and learning that different things can be used in different ways. For example; a fork can be used eat with and to paint with to make our lions! Well done, Camels class

🔦 Spotlight 🔦on: Hawks Class
This is where the fun begins! We love our new 'Jungle' topic for the last half term of this school year. Today we were making animal masks, walking through the jungle, listening to the sounds of the animals, and finding them amongst the tree vines. We will be looking forward to some more Jungle related activities as the weeks go by.

🔦 Spotlight 🔦 on: Bumblebees Class 🐝

During the previous half term, we explored the ‘animals’ topic. 🐷🐶🦁We learnt about pets, farm and jungle animals. We looked at where we would find animals (habitats) and what they needed to live. The children matched the animals to their babies.

We were all very excited when the mobile farm to visit with various farm animals where we had opportunities to observe, pet and feed them.

We have started cooking sessions and have made toast, sandwiches and pizzas using wraps. 🍕🥪

We are looking forward to our next topic ‘The Sea’ where we will focus on sea creatures, seaside and even pirates! 🏖️🐠🏴‍☠️

🔦 Spotlight 🔦 on: Ladybirds Class 🐞

Ladybirds Class have had a busy, fun week full of a mix of structured activities and independent playtime and exploration. Our children are becoming more independent in following their daily routine and working on their self-help skills. 🐞

This week at nursery, the children have enjoyed the topic ‘I have a pet’. This has allowed them opportunities to learn about all the different types of animals’ people have at home as pets. 🐶🐱🐰
We have shared special times reading books together, fostering literacy skills and engagement. 📚The children explored and learned more about pets through a range of sensory experiences and activities including coping animal movements and sounds.🐈🐕They were painting and decorating pictures of their favourite pets and they explored sensory trays with different textures and materials. 🎨🖌️
Ladybirds class recently enjoyed participating in the special event in our school, the mini marathon.🏅It was an exciting event that supported the children to develop their confidence and physical activities whilst having fun! The children love outdoor play. We are hoping that the sunny days are on their way soon! ☀️

🔦 SPOTLIGHT 🔦 on: Cheetahs Class

Cheetahs have had a very exciting half term! They have learnt lots of new skills and demonstrated some amazing talents.

This half term, we have been exploring the story Handa’s Surprise. The children really enjoyed listening to the story and identifying which fruits were taken by the animals. In the final week, the children had the opportunity to taste the different fruits and were able to communicate what they liked and disliked. Bananas were a clear favourite, while the passion fruit was not very popular!

During our topic lessons, Everyone is an Artist, we have been learning about a range of famous artists. The children explored and created artwork inspired by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jackson Po***ck, and Yayoi Kusama. Our favourite was Jackson Po***ck, as the children thoroughly enjoyed getting messy with splashing and flicking paint.

In the final weeks of term, we will be learning about different UV artists as we prepare for our dance at the Upper School performance.

During our morning Daily Miles, we have been participating in a London Schools Mini Marathon. Today, staff & pupils at Danesbury Road and Main Street celebrated completing a 2-mile distance! We've had great fun getting together to walk, jog and scoot around our playgrounds 💪🥇🥳

🔦 SPOTLIGHT 🔦 on: Foxes Class

Foxes Class are having a fantastic time enjoying cooking activities as part of our Masterchef topic! We have been practicing important skills such as chopping, spreading, scooping, peeling and mixing, while following some simple recipes.
We are working on developing our communication skills by choosing our favourite ingredients and expressing our likes and dislikes.
We have loved engaging with the cooking role play equipment and getting creative by painting our very own little chef spatulas!