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Right Start Road Safety
Today we have talked about the importance of using our ears to listen out for traffic as we can't always see it coming when there is a bend in the road or lots of parked cars. We closed our eyes and tried to listen to which direction the traffic was coming from.
Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning Physical development Road safety
Creating vehicles on the iPads
We have been using 'Doodle Buddy' on the iPads to make our very own buses or trains. The children have been experimenting with drawing tools, stamps, stencils and different backgrounds.
Category: Ducklings
Romeo's visit
Mr Powell and Romeo came to visit us this afternoon. Mr Powell showed us how to approach and behave around Romeo and what we have to do to help keep Romeo safe and healthy. Mr Powell showed us some of the commands that Romeo has learnt and some new tricks he is learning like rolling…
Category: Little Chicks
Fire Engine Visit
Today the Ducklings enjoyed a visit from the Fire Brigade with their fire engine. They enjoyed looking at all the different equipment, sitting in the engine and squirting the hose!
Look at the photo gallery here...https://www.carletongreen.lancs.sch.uk/photo-galleries/fire-engine-visit-1
Category: Ducklings
A visit from the fire engine
We had such an exciting and amazing experience when the fire engine came to visit EYFS. The children loved learning about the engine, sitting in the back and front of the engine and using the fire hose. Myles described the experience as being 'the best day of my life'.
Category: Ducklings
Fire engine visit
Little Chicks and Ducklings were very lucky when Ethan's dad brought his work to school. The children had great fun sitting in the fire engine, squirting the hose, watching the firemen break a branch with the cutters and watching Mrs Catterall and Miss Hutchinson having a race to see who could put…
Category: Little Chicks
Problem Solving
The Ducklings were working cooperatively together to help solve the problem of helping the bus to travel across the river. They had to discuss their course of action, the materials that they would need and how they would carry out their plan.
Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning problem solving team work
Ding, ding! Hop on board!
The Ducklings have been pretending to be passengers on a bus. They have been solving different maths word problems, paying for their tickets and solving halving and doubling problems with passenger numbers.
maths outdoor learning problem solving
Roller fun!
Ducklings and Little Chicks have been exploring rolling paint with the different rollers.
Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning Creative learning
Busy week in Kestrels
We have had a very busy week in Kestrels!
This week we have been learning all about journeys. We started the week by looking at how far germs can travel when we sneeze. We recreated some different sneezes in the hall and measured how far they travelled using cm and m. We then used our Maths…
Category: Kestrels
Outdoor learning in Parrots
Parrots, please remember to bring appropriate clothing and footwear for outdoor learning next week (week beginning 18th March).
We will be out in the garden with Mrs Hicks for an hour every afternoon.
Outdoor clothing can be kept at school all week, in a labelled…
Category: Parrots
Visit from a train driver
Yesterday we were lucky to have a visit from Abigail and Jimmy's uncle to talkabout his job as a train driver.
look at the gallery....https://www.carletongreen.lancs.sch.uk/photo-galleries/visit-from-a-train-driver
Category: Ducklings