Robins
London Day Robins and Kingfishers enjoyed a brilliant virtual day in London! The children began their adventure at Eynsham train station, tickets in hand, before “travelling” to Paddington Station where their tour guides were ready to greet them. Throughout the day, the children explored some of London’s most famous landmarks through creative, hands‐on activities. Highlights included: Making crowns at the Tower of London, Designing flags at Buckingham Palace, Building boats for the River Thames, Enjoying Afternoon Tea with Paddington Bear. The experience sparked wonderful conversations about real visits to London, helped the children learn new facts about the city, and encouraged imaginative play linked to the world around them.
Paddington’s Marmalade Sandwiches – 4th March On Tuesday 4th March, the children had a very exciting surprise. Paddington Bear sent us the ingredients to make his favourite snack—marmalade sandwiches! The children carefully followed the instructions to put their sandwiches together, showing wonderful focus and independence. They spread the marmalade onto their bread all by themselves and then chose how to cut their sandwiches, deciding between triangles or squares. It was lovely to see them using their fine‐motor skills so confidently and making their own choices. The children brought their sandwiches home at the end of the day, ready to share their Paddington‐inspired treat.
Maths Learning This Term This term, the children have been developing their early number understanding through lots of practical, hands‐on exploration—an important part of the EYFS approach to building deep, meaningful mathematical knowledge. We have been focusing on doubles, odds and evens, and the children have really enjoyed using manipulatives to bring these ideas to life. When investigating odd and even numbers, they built cube towers and used the language of “even tops” and “odd tops” to describe what they could see. This simple visual check—whether the cubes made a neat pair or had one sticking up—helped them reason about number patterns and compare quantities with growing confidence. To explore doubling, the children created their own doubling butterflies. Instead of using paint, they carefully drew matching dots on each wing, making sure both sides showed the same amount. This supported their understanding that doubling means “the same again,” and encouraged lots of mathematical talk about how numbers are made and how they grow.
Term 3 People Who Help Us - This term we have been learning about the 'Superheroes' in real life, the people in our community and lives who support us everyday and when we need help. Both classes have explored the emergency services and we had a visit from a Police Cadet who told us all about how the Police look after us and we had fun dressing up, taking finger prints and role playing scenarios.
Christmas Fun and Stickman - We have had a lot of fun exploring the story of Stickman and made our own Stickman and acted out the story. We have been preparing for Christmas and we have been creative and enjoyed our visits from Elf on the Shelf.
Light and Dark. The children have been exploring what happens when light is blocked by using torches and different toys, their hands and shadow puppets. We have also drawn around our shadows outside using chalk. We have enjoyed looking at the book 'Little Glow' and how light is used and celebrated.
Cogges Farm - We had a lovely time on our trip to Cogges Farm, this was based all around our story The Little Red Hen. We found eggs, planted wheat, ground wheat to flour, made bread and had a surprise puppet show at the end. The children were brilliant through the whole trip and did the school proud with their amazing behaviour. The children were all excited to go home with a bread roll and their planted wheat.
Learning in Continuous Provision - We have had lots of fun in Robins using our creative, maths and fine motor skills in our tuff trays and tables. Here are a few of the activities we have been doing in September.
Welcome to Robins!
we have had a wonderful start to the year! The children have all settled brilliantly and learnt the new class room routines and expectations so quickly. This week we introduced our first core text The Colour Monster. Through this book we have explored the different emotions and the colours we link to these. We have done many circle times and talked about our emotions. The children have also taken part in yoga and a focused activity of drawing self portraits. Please see our weekly news letter to read more.