Horbury Bridge CE J&I Academy

INSET Days

We will be closed for 2 INSET (staff training) days on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26 July. This means that school will close to children on Friday 22nd July.

Lower Nursery

The children have had a fantastic time in Forest Schools this week. They did lots of exploring throughout the morning and used their imagination in the mud kitchen to make soup and chocolate cake. Everybody had a try at walking the tightrope and Mrs Stearne made the children a log slice threader. The children had to really concentrate and use their coordination skills to get the log slices onto the sticks.

Upper Nursery & Reception

Horbury Bridge Garden Centre opened its doors this week, welcoming lots of eager customers into the store. Before the grand opening, Reception discussed what roles would be needed after their visit to a real garden centre last week. They decided that we would need customers, shelf stackers, staff to water the plants and a cashier. Our older Reception children were fantastic role models, explaining and showing the Nursery children how to interact with each other and what jobs needed doing.

Class 1

In Class 1 this week, we have explored some ideas about how we could make a snake-repellent hat. These were our first designs and we are going to transfer them carefully to some design paper, labelling what materials and equipment we will need. Next week, we will make them. We know we are going to need perseverance as the process may get tricky! We can't wait to show you them.

As there has been a full moon this week, we have started some Winter art work, exploring light and dark to create a January full moon image.

Year 1 enjoyed listening to the story of the Three Little Pigs, then thought about how they could build a house in the classroom and what they could use. When they had built it they took a picture on the i-pad.