Free Spirits Young Learners Group

It's been a fun start to the half-term at Free Spirits! Yesterday, the children baked bread for Real Bread Week. We talked about the difference between shop-bought and homemade bread, and they all enjoyed bread tasting!

The older children were also very happy with the new glockenspiels for music and enjoyed learning to play them.

Today, they were very excited to see their crystals that had been growing over the half-term holiday. We also started our Four Elements topic, learned about renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, and made movable diggers.

We're looking forward to next week already!

We've been very busy the past couple of months at Free Spirits, with lots of learning, fun and laughter!

We're looking forward to welcoming the children back tomorrow for our next half-term.

We've had a great time at Free Spirits this week. Yesterday, we read "The Scarecrow's Wedding", and the children made a scarecrow craft.

Today, we continued our Traditional Tales-themed STEM activities. We read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," and the children designed and constructed a bed for Goldilocks, considering how to strengthen joints.

We also presented the CREST Star Award certificates that the children had worked towards over the last half term, and it was lovely to see how proud they were of their achievement.

We'll be back again next week for more fun!

We had a lovely start to the half-term at Free Spirits.

On Thursday, we read "The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark" and the children made some gorgeous pine cone owls. They also enjoyed our autumn-themed yoga and mindfulness, had fun sharing their Halloween and Bonfire Night adventures in circle-time, and are continuing to make good progress in music, English and maths.

On Friday, we began our traditional tales-themed STEM. The children loved retelling the story of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and constructing bridges.

We had a wonderful week at Free Spirits!

On Thursday, the children learned about Helen Keller in our 'Inspirational People' topic, and attempted to paint a picture whilst blindfolded. They also took part in yoga, mindfulness, music, circle time, fun English and maths, and enjoyed free play in the garden.

Yesterday, in our STEM session, the children completed the next task working towards the CREST Star Award. There was lots of fun and laughter as they raced cars on different surfaces, investigating friction!

We've had a lovely week at Free Spirits! Yesterday, the children learned about Marcus Rashford and his work to help end child food poverty as part of our 'Inspirational People' theme.

Today, they continued working towards the CREST Star Award, investigating shadows. They had lots of fun experimenting with our shadow puppet theatre and made some shadow art.

It's been a busy couple of weeks at Free Spirits!

The children learned about Rosa Parks and Mozart, as we continued with our Inspirational People theme. They also enjoyed our regular yoga, mindfulness, circle time, music, fun English and maths, outdoor play, and eating lunch together.

In our STEM session, the children completed the next two tasks working towards the CREST Star Award, 'Useless Umbrella' exploring waterproof materials, and 'Be Seen Be Safe' exploring sources of light and reflective materials.

Lots of fun this week at Free Spirits!

We continued our Inspirational People theme learning about Jane Goodall, and the children made a chimpanzee craft.

They also completed the next task in our STEM session, working towards the CREST Star Award. This week's challenge was "A Peggy Problem" investigating which pegs had the strongest clamping pressure.

We had a wonderful start to the half-term. It was lovely to welcome the children back and see them all so excited!

On Thursday, we began looking at inspirational people, which is our theme for the half-term.

In our STEM session on Friday, the children investigated "muddy matters". The first task in working towards the nationally recognised CREST Star Award.

We're looking forward to more fun next week!

We were so busy at the end of term, we didn't get a chance to post any photos!

In the last three weeks of our Thursday sessions, the children painted Kandinsky concentric style circles, read Malala's Magic Pencil and did their own magic pencil drawings, and baked holiday-inspired buns.

Our STEM sessions saw the end of our "My Brilliant Body" topic, with the children learning about lungs and testing out their lung capacity, measuring out the length of their small intestines and making a model stomach, placing and labelling organs on a life size body, and learning about how germs are spread and the importance of thorough hand washing.

We've also had our annual Teddy Bears' Picnic while we've been on our summer break. This was a lovely day, with lots of very excited children!

We're looking forward to welcoming them all back for our new term starting Thursday 4th September 😊