Lower I was very excited to be competing in the Maze Challenge. Many of the children had been studying it and trying to work out which way to go.

Which way shall we go?

There’s the middle. Let’s run quickly!

We made it! These children completed the challenge with very fast times and were, quite rightly, very proud of themselves.

Lower I went out into their beautiful school grounds to look for signs of autumn.

Here they are with leaf identification boards ready to be nature detectives.

‘Look, this one is the same. I’m a good detective’

These children found lots of beech leaves with lovely golden colours

‘We found some twigs and sticks, our favourite!’

‘This feels nice and soft,’ said one little girl.

‘I am pretending to be a granddad with a walking stick,’ said this imaginative little boy.

Lower I have been thinking about what it is like at the seaside. We talked about all the places we have visited. There are lots of interesting features at the seaside that inspire our creativity.

This little girl is making a colourful collage of a beautiful fish.

Making a lighthouse required lots of discussion and concentration.

We enjoy learning together and helping our friends.

These two little girls were fantastic at taking turns to build the number line.

Here we have two budding mathematicians.
The boys worked together to make a set of aeroplanes and then counted how many there were of each colour.

Look at our colourful number line. We helped each other with the teen numbers.

Some of the children in Lower I visited our wildlife garden to look at the runner beans. They watched with interest as they grew larger. They were very excited when finally they were able to pick them and deliver them to chef Lizzie who cooked them and served up the delicious produce for lunch!

Lower I have been learning about different forms of transport. We were very excited when one of our daddies brought his lorry to school.

This little boy explained to his friends what all the different parts were called and what they were used for. 

We could not believe how tall the wheels were and so we measured ourselves against them.

“I think I will deliver some shoes to London” said this little boy.

Lower I children have been busy making lighthouse models for our seaside display.

Look at this wonderful repeat pattern. This very clever little boy designed it all by himself and then counted out the number of each of the colour beads.

Dressing up for Divali. Do you like our Divali display?

Stan the lollipop man came to visit us at The Gleddings to tell us how to keep safe on the road and how to keep safe in the car. 

We all really enjoyed Stan’s talk and had lots of interesting ideas to share.