Stopsley EYFS

Squirrels loved their time on the Crazy Golf on Thursday. This was their reward for having the best attendance in EY and KS 1 the week before.

Reception had a fabulous Children in Charge day on Friday. They chose dressing up, sports on the field, parachute games, soft play and much more. Well done children! We hope all our children and families a happy half term ☺️

Reception children have loved learning about Sir David Attenborough this week and worked super hard on creating birthday cards for his 100th birthday 🎁

Reception have been having great fun discovering their role play skills by acting out our new focus story ‘The Very Busy Spider’ 🕷️

Reception had a wonderful time today for our Global Goals day.
They learnt all about life on land. Exploring habitats around, finding safe spaces for wildlife, making hedgehog hides, sorting leaves and learning about water permeability.
Here’s some photos of them mapping habitats around school

This week the children received a very special letter and lovely gift. They have been writing thank you cards and writing a note to Mr Fordham to tell him all about it 🦖🦕✉️📮

This Friday was our final week of our Herve Tullet inspired collaborative art Golden Time activity. How beautiful does it look?!
Well done Reception! 👏🏼🎨🖌️

This week children have been deepening their Oracy skills. Sharing ideas and listening to what others have to say and responding to their ideas is an important part of being an effective communicator. Children in Reception are adept at using these skills in pairs, Talk Partners. This week they have extended to practicing in 3’s, Talking Trios

A snippet of some of the learning through play children have been doing this week during Discover and Do in Reception
Access to open ended, carefully chosen activities children can explore through play is a key part of Early Years learning

One of our new Golden Time activities for Friday is collaborative art. The children had a wonderful time working together to create a masterpiece of circles inspired by the artist Herve Tullet