It may have been the wettest, windiest day of the year, but Nursery and Lower I children had the most exciting day of the year on Thursday 8^th December, when they visited Father Christmas at Eureka Children’s Museum.

Great anticipation surrounded the trip as we boarded the yellow bus, warmly wrapped up to guard us against the torrential weather.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once inside the museum we soon forgot the rain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This group of children headed straight to the garage where vehicles were repaired before being driven off to a variety of destinations.

 

 

 

 

 

This young driver said that he was driving to London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Away we go!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marks and Spencer had their busiest shopping day of the season as The Gleddings’ children shopped until they dropped!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After all that spending, several trips to the bank became necessary.

 

Not one, but two bank managers were called in to thoroughly check the accounts!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before visiting Father Christmas, we explored the exciting play areas.  There was so much to see and do that the time rushed by very quickly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our own wonderful Chef Lizzie kindly prepared us our delicious packed lunches.  Eating on board a train carriage was great fun and all the running around the museum had given everyone a huge appetite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After lunch we returned to the museum for the highlight of our visit – our journey to the North Pole.  We were met by Santa’s elves and listened to a Christmas story before meeting Father Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Winter wonderland journey was amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santa was waiting for us, with a gift for everyone.

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU FATHER CHRISTMAS!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our exciting day ended at 2.00 p.m. when, thoroughly exhausted but happy, we boarded the yellow bus to return to school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs Armstrong has already asked Mrs Wilson if we may please go to Eureka again next year.  She, of course, said yes, so we will all look forward to December 2012!

Mr Walker came to talk to Lower I last Friday about road safety.

We all listened carefully so that we know how to keep our mummies and daddies safe whilst crossing the road.

 

 

 

Our very polite boys and girls always remember to say ‘thank you’ to the crossing patrol person.

 

 

 

These clever little boys and girls made good choices about where to cross the road.

 

 

 

We had great fun learning and will now always remember to

 STOP, LOOK, LISTEN and THINK!

Here are the Lower I children. They are really excited to be in a new classroom with lots of exciting resources to explore.

 

 

This little girl is having fun pretending to be a princess. She is developing her imagination and creativity.

 

 

 

 

‘I am Sleeping Beauty. I am going to prick my finger and sleep for 100 years.’

 

 

 

 

These two clever little boys are working together to build a castle for their knights. They are developing their language skills as they explain the features of the castle to each other.

 

‘You have to go round and round like this,’ explains this little girl to her friend.

 

 

In Lower I we enjoy taking turns and learning together.

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?