Harbour

Harbour 2026-2027

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Owl babies

Harbour enjoyed reading the book Owl Babies this week.
Through role-play and exploration, we retold and acted out our favourite parts of the story. We collected materials that owls and birds need to build cosy nests with. We used our fine motor skills to paint owls with pom poms. We sequenced the story with pictures and matched pictures to the illustrations in the book. At the end of the week we made Ow crumpets and most of us tasted them- YUM!

Hub 1 2025-2026

Winter Warmer

We had a fantastic day taking part in a 'Winter Warmer' with Sandra from Tides of Change.  She showed us how to use a flint and steel and we all had a turn.  She then lit the fire and we toasted marshmallows and made smores.  They were delicious.

Gibside

The Hub had an amazing day out at Gibside for a magical Christmas trail and festive fun day! We followed a cheeky elf through the woods and discovered all of the reindeers' hidden food bags.  We played games, sang Christmas songs and even made our own decoration to take home.  After enjoying our packed lunch we finished the day with lots of laughter and adventure in the park. 

Halloween Fun

We have been enjoying lots of Halloween activities. We have loved reading Christopher Pumpkin and Spider Sandwiches. The children have made their own playdough, shape monsters, salt dough spiders, paper mache pumpkins and painted a ghost.  We have played lots of games involving Halloween objects such as, Kim's game, matching pairs and I spy. We went on a spider hunt and made our own spider sandwiches. 

In our Sensory tray we have explored different textures- jelly, spaghetti, gloop and we even made our own pumpkin slime.  We have also practiced mark making using pumpkins sensory bags and rice.

Exploring Autumn

For the past two weeks, Hub 1 have been exploring Autumn.

In drawing club we watched the animation "Willow the Wisp" where the characters went on an Autumn walk and in forest school we went on our own Autumn walk and collected lots of natural items to paint with and make our own Autumn art.

We also looked at different creatures we may find in autumn like Hedgehogs and made our own from playdough and used our cutting skills to create the spikes.

This week we also practiced our counting skills using conkers!

For our second week Exploring Autumn we looked for signs of Autumn using view finders in Forest School. We Looked through the hole to find signs of Autumn around the school and matched them to the pictures.

We then made Autumn wands with different signs of Autumn.

In PE we practiced our ball skills with some throwing and catching! Some of us even attempted to throw the ball through the basketball hoops!

We have made lovely Autumn wreaths using the different materials and colours that reminded us of Autumn and finally we made a Autumn rainbow chart using natural items we have found on our walks.

Beach School

We had the best morning at beach school! We went rock pooling and found lots of sea creatures, we played games and rounded the trip off with an ice cream ��

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

What a busy week we have had in Hub 1! We have been reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

During the week we went to Forest School and found all the bears that were hidden in the woods and collected lots of natural objects to sort into "big" objects and "small" objects. 

In PE we moved our bodies like the different characters- big steps for Daddy Bears, skipping like Mammy Bear and running like Baby Bear. We also pretended we were Goldilocks and ran away from the three bears in different ways!

As a group we made oat dough. We all practiced taking turns and waiting for our go. We followed instructions and asked for help when we need it. We then worked our fine motor skills playing with the dough afterwards.

Finally we looked at "hard" and "soft" items and sorted different items from around the classroom.

Settling In

Hub 1 have had a fantastic first week back at school!

We have enjoyed exploring the different learning areas, making new friends and practicing new routines. It's going to be a great year!

We have been looking at the book "It's Okay to be Different." by Todd Parr.

We have created self portraits by looking at ourselves in the mirror. We have been finding different parts of the face and body and making pictures using different shapes and colours.

In Forest School we made faces with natural objects we collected and in PE we moved our bodies in different ways like crawling, hopping, skipping and running.

Hub 1 2024-2025

Science Week 2025

For Science Week, Hub 1 have been learning about the continent of Antarctica.

We have loved learning about the different animals that live there- did you know, an emperor penguin is around the same height as a 6 year old!

We have looked at climates and hot ad cold temperatures and tried different ways of melting ice to free the penguins!

We also packed a suitcase with the type of clothes we would take to a cold place such as Antarctica.

Little Red Riding Hood

This week we followed the map to Grandma's house. We used our map skills to find the landmarks that helped guide us to Grandma's house. We spotted all of the forest animals, ran away from the wolf, picked the flowers and crossed the river!

We then made our own maps by placing the landmarks in the correct order.

We also decorated biscuits and made our own baskets to take to "grandma".

Supertato!

Music

We have loved our music lessons with Mrs Abdullah!

We enjoy exploring different instruments and taking turns in a big group.

People Who Help Us.

This week we have been learning about different people who help us. We were so excited when 2 paramedics were able to meet us and show us around an ambulance and tell us about all the ways they help us with their equipment.

We were able to look around the ambulance, explore their equipment and try on the paramedic uniform. it was especially exciting when they turned on their lights and sirens.

The Gigantic Turnip-  Aleksei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey

Giraffes can't Dance - Giles Andreae

The Smartest Giant in Town - Julia Donaldson

Our class book this week was The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson. 

We were able to remember key points in the story and match the correct animals to their item of clothing.

We were able to match up and find two of all the Giant's socks.

We look at the number 2 this week in Ten Town and could identify the numeral and count out 2 of different objects.

We also started looking at Autumn and we made autumn tree art using cotton buds and paint. We spoke about how in Autumn the colours of the leaves change and they begin to fall to the ground.

Owl Babies - Martin Wadell

This week we read the story Owl Babies by Martin Wadell.

The children enjoyed exploring our sensory tray and making nests for the baby owls.

We practiced our fine motor and practiced following instructions by using pegs and pom poms to paint our own owls.

We began our daily Squiggle While you Wiggle sessions and we were all able to join in with  squiggling and wiggling.

We explored numicon and and practiced our counting skills.

Welcome to Turtle Class (hub 1)

What a fantastic couple of weeks we have had settling in after the summer holidays.

We have been reading The Colour Monster and learning about our feelings and emotions.

We have had lots of fun exploring all the resources in the classroom and learning about our new routines.

We played lots of matching games to recognise our feelings, we made sensory bottles, we made our own colour monsters and we spoke about how they felt.

The Tiger Who Came To Tea- Judith Kerr.

This week we have been reading the Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

The children enjoyed listening to the story and have completed lots of activities to go along with it:

• we gave the tiger a hair cut using scissors, to practice our fine motor skills
• the children created their own tiger using arts and craft supplies
• we drew the tiger by following adults instructions
• we played Bingo, the children were able to match all the correct food that the Tiger ate items to the images on their bingo cards
• we listened for and identified initial sounds of the food that the tiger ate in the story and then we practiced our letter formation by writing a list
• we had a tea party like Sophie and her Mummy in the book but this time the Tiger wasn't invited