In gymnastics this week we have practising our travelling skills.   Here we are trying out marching!
In music, we have been leading our class to try out our own  creations of African Drumming rhythms.

Elephants enjoyed starting our topic of Africa.   We made African beaded collars in the style of a traditional Maasai necklace.   We also created African animal print pastel pictures and tried out African dancing!!

​This week Lions class have started their music topic of African drumming. The children got the opportunity to play the drums. They experimented with banging different parts of the skin, playing loud and quietly and had a go at some listen and recall drumming patterns.

Lions class enjoyed an Africa engage day this week. The children learnt facts about Africa, made some traditional tribal collared necklaces, investigated animal prints using oil pastels and had a go at some traditional African dance moves!

​The children enjoyed learning some facts about Africa, making African collar necklaces and creating artwork of animal skin patterns.

Elephants enjoyed performing our Christmas play - Humph The Camel.    Here are a couple of the songs from the play.   Humph!!!

This week Lions started their maths unit on shape. The children enjoyed making their own Christmas wrapping paper by drawing around a range of 2D shapes. They children created pictures using the shapes and then labeled the shapes they used.

This week Elephants have been learning about Diwali in RE.   We visited the Plough Arts Centre in Torrington to watch a play about Diwali called Rhia and the Tree of Lights.   Back in the classroom we continued our learning of Diwali and we designed, drew and painted our own Mehndi  hand patterns, Rangoli patterns and Diva Lamps to celebrate 'The Festival of Lights'.

​Zebras enjoyed learning about the real life superhero Florence Nightingale. The children made soldier and nurses hats and then enjoyed the experience of being in a hospital ward from the Crimean War where they had to bandage and look after the injured soldiers as well as making sure it was clean.
This week we also enjoyed visiting Pip and Jim's church to look at the christmas trees and sing some of our Christmas songs.