Greengate Greenfinches

Eating like an Ancient Roman today in the Greenfinches. We enjoyed bread, cheese, honey, olives, grapes and hummus. Well done everyone for trying (and finishing!) everything #nurture @GreengateJ

Excellent work on fact families this morning using practical equipment. Well done Greenfinches! #nurture @GreengateJ

We were joined by some of our friends from Ramsden Infant School to share a treasure hunt of places in school. We had a lot of fun using our team working skills #nurture @GreengateJ

Fantastic multi media art work today showing the animals in the Percy the Park Keeper stories #nurture @GreengateJ

Teamwork to make an edible Roman road #nurture #history #learningthroughplay @GreengateJ

Christmas jumper day and School Christmas dinner. Lots of fun and fabulous food #nurture @GreengateJ

Learning about Advent today and we made an Advent Crown and Christingles #lightfestivals #advent #nurture @GreengateJ we’ve really been working our fine motor skills this week!

We have been learning about light festivals this term and today we looked at Kwanzaa. We made some colourful adinkra symbols as part of our learning #kwanzaa #lightfestivals #nurture @GreengateJ

Regulating at the end of a busy day with #Calm meditation #nurture #emotionalregulation @GreengateJ

We learned about Diwali today and created Rangoli window decorations to join the celebrations #nurture #Diwali2023 #exploringtheworld @GreengateJ

Teamwork for our newest Greenfinches creating a beautiful garden #nurture @GreengateJ

Halloween collage work, making new friendships #nurture @GreengateJ

History comes alive when you recreate past buildings - Biscuithenge was a very popular activity #nurture @GreengateJ

Salt dough hedgehogs with essential oils for a sensory art experience- and some home corner hospital care has been our Tuesday afternoon #nurture #sensorytime @GreengateJ

Today in our History lesson we were learning about Skara Brae and what it was like to live there. We also managed to slip in a bit of Geography to find out where the Orkneys are and how long it would take to get there (we decided it was too far to walk!) #nurture @GreengateJ

If you came into the Greenfinches classroom this afternoon you would be forgiven for thinking we were having a nap! In fact we were experiencing what it was like to be a Stone Age cave artist #nurture #learningthroughplay @GreengateJ

Trip to Abbots Wood today to look at habitats of nocturnal animals and experience the environment of our current book #theowlwhowasafraidofthedark lots of teamwork and muddy hands! The hot chocolate was very popular #nurture #outdoorlearning @GreengateJ