EYFS - Wren

World Book Day - March 2026

Wren Class enjoyed World Book Day, dressed as our favourite book character. It was so exciting!

In the afternoon we went to visit other teachers and they read us their favourite story. We went to Mrs Leach in Year 1 and Mrs Hart in Year 2.

Our parents also came into school to "rock up and read" and share stories with us. It was lovely to have our parents and carers with us in school.

What a fantastic World Book Day!

 

Who had been in our classroom over half term! - February 2026

We arrived at school to discover a terrible mess in our classroom! Chairs had been moved, things were out of place, mysterious marks on the floor and scratches on the windows. We couldn’t believe our eyes — who could have been in our room?

We quickly put on our detective hats and began investigating. The children carefully inspected the clues, looking closely at the footprints, the scattered resources, and the strange signs that something (or someone!) had visited us. After lots of discussion and some fantastic predicting, we came to an exciting conclusion… we think a dinosaur has been in our school! What fantastic oracy we have used!

To help us solve the mystery, we wrote a list of clues and used them to check our predictions. We talked about what dinosaurs might leave behind, how big they are, and which dinosaur would be the most likely visitor. There were some wonderful ideas and great teamwork shown by everyone.

 

DT- Making our Gingerbred Man Puppets - February 2026

We have been making gingerbread man hand puppets. First we had to sew two pieces of felt together, threading in and out of the holes, leaving the bottom open so that our hand can fit inside. Once joined, we decorated our puppet using buttons, sequins and felt. They all look so unique! We will be able to retell the story using our puppet and toys from home.

 

We cordially invite you to the Royal Ball - February 2026

Today we held a very special Royal Ball and what a magical day it was! All of the children arrived looking incredibly smart in their wonderful prince and princess attire. We were so proud of how much effort everyone had put into getting ready – the classroom truly felt like a royal palace!

The excitement built as we made our grand entrance to a fanfare fit for kings and queens. A very special guest, Mrs Venning, joined us for the occasion. The children had great fun waving their pointy fingers and using their best “magic” to get her ready for the ball – there were lots of giggles and fantastic imaginative role play!

We enjoyed some fabulous dancing together, showing off our twirls, bows and royal waves. The celebration was followed by a delicious banquet, kindly donated by our wonderful parents – thank you so much for your generosity and support. The children loved sharing the feast together.
It was a truly magical experience filled with imagination, confidence building, cooperation and joy. We are so proud of our little princes and princesses! 👑✨

 

Science Week - February 2026

Wren class started the week off with  Mrs Leach, the children explored a fun science activity called the “Dancing Raisins” experiment. They added raisins to carbonated water and watched closely to see what would happen. At first, the experiment didn’t work very well, which led to a great learning moment—together they decided to cut the raisins into smaller pieces. This time, bubbles formed more easily, lifting the raisins up and down as they “danced.” The activity encouraged problem-solving, observation, and curiosity while introducing early science ideas like gas and buoyancy in a hands-on, engaging way.

We even made butter from cream as part of our perseverance story so we talked about liquids and solids, and if the cream would turn into butter. After alot of shaking it did! We were all amazed and surprised.

Then the  children worked with Mrs Hart. In this science activity, the children explored what happens when heat is applied to crayons. A hairdryer was used (with adult help) to gently heat a crayon placed in the center of their flower picture. As warm air blew on the crayon, the wax began to melt and spread, creating colorful patterns in the middle of the flower. This activity helped the children observe how heat can change a solid crayon into melted wax, while also encouraging creativity and curiosity about how things change.

Finally the children had so much fun designing a trap for the Gingerbread Man! They carefully thought about how he might try to escape and used lots of materials to catch him, building tunnels, slides and little barriers. The children adjusted their designs and spoke through their ideas with one another and the adult. They worked together, showing great imagination, problem-solving, and teamwork. This activity was full of creativity and excitement as they brought the story to life with their own clever ideas.

Then we invited our parents in to look at our wonderful traps we used our oracy skills to tell our parents what we have used and how it would catch the gingerbread man, what an exciting week as scientists!

 

Bible stories - Jesus heals the paralysed man - January 2026

As part of our RE we have been learning about stories with Jesus. We have been learning about how Jesus healed the paralysed man and in a cross curricular approach made stretchers in paper crafting. We tested these out and used the dolls house to lower our stretchers through the roof as in the story. We had to use our problem solving skills as sometimes our man fell off of his stretcher!

 

Forest School - The Thrre Billy Goats Gruff - January 2026

Wren class have had a wet, muddy but most of all fun afternoon at Forest school. This leearning began in class in our Oracy Station where we were role playing the three Billy Goats Gruff.

They began by building bridges for the three Billy goats 🐐 Gruff, working together as a team, sharing, supporting, taking turns and working to make their very own bridges.

The children were able to persevere and help each other out when it was needed.

All groups were able to make a bridge and were able to safely walk across them.

This activity gave the children the opportunity to re tell the story interactively and role play as the characters.

We had lots of fun and it is safe to say the children really got their hands dirty completing this task.

 

 

Numberblocks - January 2026

This week, the children enjoyed making their own Numberblocks from 1 to 5. As we built them, we talked about how each Numberblock is one more than the one before it, and how this creates a “staircase” pattern. This helped the children to see how numbers grow and relate to each other.

We then played a fun game in pairs where one Numberblock was taken away and children had to work out which one was missing. This supported their number recognition and understanding of one more and one less.

 

Paper Crafting - January 2026

Wren class have been introduced to paper crafting! I demonstrated how to fold, roll and join paper, manipulating it to achieve a desired effect. The children were very enthusiastic about trying out their own ideas and perfecting their own paper crafting skills!

 

Perseverance- January 2026

This half term our Christian value is ‘perseverance’. This means to keep trying, even when things are difficult. This week we have been learning about the story of Noah’s Ark and how God flooded the world. We thought about how Noah had to persevere to build such a large boat when people were laughing at him and being mean.

Who has been in our classroom and left clues? - January 2026

This morning, when we arrived at school, there were some unusual things left in the classroom. We inspected the clues and we think some fairy tale characters have visited us! Who do you think it could be?

 

Christmas has arrived in Wren Class - December 2025

The Christmas season has been a truly magical time in our EYFS Wren Class, filled with creativity, learning, and joyful moments that we are so excited to share.

The children have been incredibly busy using their imaginations and developing their fine motor skills through a wide range of festive crafts, all lovingly made to take home and share with their families. They created beautiful Christmas  keepsakes, and stunning christmas tree cards, carefully using a fork with great pride and attention to detail.

Wren Class also enjoyed making festive Christmas wreaths and learning about how Christians prepare for Christmas during the period of Advent.. Alongside these projects, there were a whole host of other festive surprises, keeping excitement high throughout the term.

Throughout all of these activities, the children have been learning about the true meaning of Christmas. Through stories, discussions, and reflection, they explored themes of kindness, generosity, and love, helping them to understand why Christmas is such a special time for so many people.

This learning came together beautifully in their Christmas production, Mary’s Knitting. The children performed an amazing account of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus, sharing the true meaning of Christmas with confidence and enthusiasm. Their singing and storytelling were a delight to watch, and they should be incredibly proud of their performance.

It was an absolute pleasure to welcome parents into make crafts with their children and the children were so proud to have you in their classroom.

It has been a wonderful festive season in Wren Class, full of creativity, learning, and celebration. We hope the children enjoy sharing their special creations at home and that their families feel the love and care that went into every single one.

 

Measuring our snowmen - December 2025

We had great fun making our own snowmen and using the cubes to measure them. We used our mathematical vocabularly of length and height. It was a lovely practical and festive maths activity.

 

Tool safety and useage at Forest School - December 2025

This week we learnt how to manipulate and use tools safely. We had to use our fine motor skills to whittle our sticks using potato peelers and we used hammers and nails safely! We all had great fun and learnt some new skills along the way.

 

Awe and Wonder with a frosty morning - November 2025

This morning, Wren Class headed outside with Mrs Curtis and Miss Weatherby to explore the frost. The children immediately noticed how cold it felt and enjoyed making marks in the frost, drawing patterns and leaving handprints—great opportunities for Early Years mark-making and creative expression.

As we walked across the grass, the children heard the “crunchy” sound under their feet. When we reached the trim-trail area, they observed how slippery it was, helping them understand how we keep ourselves safe in different weather conditions, linking to Personal, social and emotional development. 

Back in the classroom, Wren Class watched a time-lapse video showing how frost forms, supporting their Understanding of the World learning. We looked at "jewel webs" on the board. They then created their own frosty-inspired artwork, exploring texture and pattern.

A wonderful morning of awe, wonder and curiosity for Wren Class!

 

 

The Smartest Giant in Town - November 2025

Wren Class had a lovely time listening to The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson as part of our Christian value of kindness. We talked about all the kind acts the giant did and how we can show kindness too. The children enjoyed printing colourful ties and socks for the giant, learning how to lift the stamp carefully to make a neat shape. We also practised naming the shapes we used — square, circle, triangle, rectangle and star. It was a fun and thoughtful activity for everyone!

 

Remebrance - November 2025

This week, we have been learning a little about remembrance.
We watched a short animation about a little rabbit who had to hide when there was trouble and noise all around. When things became calm again, lots of beautiful flowers began to grow in the field — these were poppies.

Bing Videos

We also took a quiet moment to think about people in different countries who are facing difficult times and to reflect on how thankful we are to live in peace.

We participated in several independent activities, look at our wonderful and individual poppy paintings.

 

Art / PHSE - Fireworks and Firework Safety-November 2025

We all had a lovely time creating our forework pictures from different mediums. Some of us used our Oracy to talk about the fireworks we had seen. We made links with our fireworks we made in DT for the Carnival. We then talked about bonfire and firework safety,

 

Forest School - November 2025

This half term, our Forest School sessions have begun with sessions full of discovery, creativity, and sensory exploration!

In one session, the children went on a spider and spiderweb hunt 🕷️🕸️. Mrs Nurcombe showed everyone how to spot the delicate webs and make them easier to see using her special water spray. The webs were stunning — some were enormous! While we didn’t find many spiders, the children were fascinated by the variety and beauty of the webs. To finish the activity, they worked together to create a giant spider from autumn leaves on the school field, and their teamwork produced a truly impressive creation.

In another session, the focus turned to the children’s sense of smell. Mrs Nurcombe demonstrated how to gather different herbs and combine them to make a unique “smelly pot.” The children eagerly collected herbs, using sticks to crush and mix them so the natural scents were released. Adding a little water made the fragrances even stronger, and the children shared imaginative ideas about what the scents reminded them of.

These sessions have been a wonderful way for the children to engage with nature, work together, and explore their senses in a hands-on, creative way.

 

Celebrating Harvest - October 2025

Wren class have enjoyed learning about and celebrating all things "Harvest".

In our provision we have had lots of activities linked with Harvest and we consolidated all of our learning with our first church service which we were all superstars! Here are just a few pictures of our fun.

 

We are still life artists - October 2025

We were still life artists in Wren Class. We used our fine motor skills to carefully draw a still life scene. We were amazing artists!

 

Our School Carnival - October 2025

Bridgwater Carnival is such a special part of our community, and this year, we brought the celebration into our classroom! The children made carnival shakers that looked like rocket fireworks, filled with pasta or rice to make them rattle, and created their own firework headbands and crowns at home—each one unique and spectacular. Despite the weather, we still had a wonderful carnival celebration of our own. It was everything a carnival should be: bright, colourful, loud, musical, and above all, fun! While we’re sorry parents couldn’t join us this time, we had a fantastic time parading around to Katy Perry’s Firework and cheering on the other classes.

 

Art and DT - Our carnival firework shakers

Wren class have had amazing DT sessions designing, making and testing our own shakers for this years carnival procession. Our theme was fireworks so we all enjoyed making our rocket shakers! 

We cant wait to show you them for the carnival procession fingers crossed the weather is on our side.

 

Our wonderful Christmas/ Winter Cards - October 2025

As part of a special festive art activity, Children across the school have been designing their own Christmas cards.  Our children designed their very own Christmas cards featuring a charming snowman they used their fine motor skills to paint the snowman and made it unique by using our finger prints.

This creative project has been organised by our school OSCAR (PTA) as part of a fundraising initiative. The children’s wonderful snowman designs will be professionally printed and can also be made into a range of festive items, such as keyrings, gift tags, wrapping paper, and chocolate wrappers. Funds raised from these personalised creations will go directly towards supporting activities and resources that benefit all of our children.

 

Hello Yellow Day (World Mental Health Day) Cotober 2025

At the beginning of this week, we listened to the story ‘This is me’ by George Webster.  It is a book that celebrates diversity, friendship and self-acceptance, inspired by a poem and sharing the journey that George took as a child with Down syndrome.  It emphasizes how his unique traits make him special and we thought about how we are all special in our own way. 
Friday was mental health awareness day and we were able to wear yellow in support of raising awareness of mental health and reducing the stigma (yellow is a symbol of hope and optimism). We learnt that it is important to keep our brain healthy as well as our body and this is called our mental health. We practised some grounding techniques, using breathing to help calm ourselves and anchor our mind in the present. We created a collobarive piece of art using all things yellow the children loved the freeness of this piece of art.

We also thought about the different emotions that we might feel and how it is important to ask for help when our feelings are overwhelming and to keep ourselves calm. We listened to the story of ‘The color monster’ by Anna Llenas and then we decorated our own color monster, talking about how it was feeling and why this might be.

 

October 2025 - Making our friendship face biscuits

Wren class had a wonderful time decorating their face biscuits as part of our school value of "Friendship". We had a great time and we used our fine motor skills to decorate our biscuits. They were also yummy too!

Wrens - Our Face Biscuits.

 

September 2025 - Wrens have been learning about Kandinsky

We have been learning a little bit about the famous artist Kandinsky, who lived a long time ago. We looked at some of his paintings and learned the word ‘abstract’. This means that they do not look like ‘things’. We noticed that he liked to use bright colours and different shapes. We had a go at creating our own painting, in the style of Kandinsky’s concentric circles. We mixed our own colours of paint and made circles, starting from the centre and moving outwards. Here are some pictures to show our masterpieces!

Wren Class Kandinsky 2025

 

September 2025 - Our first Forest School Session

Today was our first Forest school session with Mrs Nurcombe 🍂🍁🌳We spent time exploring all of our forest school area’s looking at the different plants and wildlife that we could see. The children were very excited and really enjoyed exploring.
We went on a ‘treasure hunt’ and found conkers, conker shells, acorns and snail shells. The children were taking in all the information Mrs Nurcombe was sharing about the different types of snails, the. found it particularly amusing that there was such a thing as a Cheese Snail🐌.

The children also got the opportunity to look at all our fruit trees, pick fruit for themselves and even try it which they really liked, We tried pears, apples and cherry plums🍏🍐.

Mrs Nurcombe showed us how to be safe when visiting the school pond and we talked about what we may find once we start pond dipping.

What a fantastic Forest school session, we can't wait for the next one!

Wren Class - Our first Forest School

 

September 2025 - Marvellous Me - Look at our self portraits

September 2025 - Wren class in action

 

 

 

September 2025 - Welcome to Wren Class

Sports Day - June 2025

We had great fun today at our sports day. It was certainly a hot day and we needed our sun safety!

We began with a carousel of activities that our parents and carers watched us do. Bean bag toss, javelin, skipping and hockey all ably led by our year 6 helpers.

We also had a relay activity led by SASP. Mr Moore also ran a rugby stuck in the mud activity- we had a lovely time.

Then we ended with our traditional races.

A huge thank you for all your support, I hope you will agree how amazing Wren Class participated. I was so proud of them all.

Cross Curricualr carrot and growing activity

We followed some amazing activites from a local supermarket. Wren class talked about healthy eating. We looked at our plates and what makes a "healthy plate".

Then we looked at carrots and investigated them but the most exciting part was when Mr Butt said we could cut the tops off and to see if they grew in water? We are so excited to see what happens...

Sun Safety and Road Safety

Wren Class did lots of work this week on Sun Safety and my goodness didn't we need it! and we loved learning about road safety practically.

Our posters and our writing were brilliant! Well done Wrens.

Health and Sports Week - June 2025

What a busy week we have had. We have done so many exciting activities this week.

We have started the week with activities - 

Mr Butt - Parachute Games where we played popcorna and sharks!

Mrs Hart and her amazing skipping sesion we learnt some new skills, well done wrens some of us found this tricky.

Mrs Marriott did some calming yoga with us in the hall and we thought about how our bodies moved and the positons they were in.

Mrs Leach taught us all about tag rugby we had to try and get our tags from our opponents,

Mrs Edwards was great fun and we used balls to throw and catch.

We had such a great day!

 

Roll up, Roll up - Circus skills - June 2025

As part of our health and sport week we had a session learning circus skills with Steve. We tried activities such as balance beam, flower sticks, hoops, ribbons and steppers. We all persevered!

Mondrian tree painting - cross curricular art - June 2025

Following on from our learning about trees we have been looking at the artist Mondrian. Part of his work is that he painted trees so we tried to paint our own. We used paint and watercolours. Our fine motor skills are amazing! We definately have some great artists!

Deciduous and Evergreen Trees - In Art - June 2025

We have been learning about trees. We began by looking at the structure of a tree and noticing how similar or different it was to a plant.

We learnt that deciduous trees are seasonal and will loose their leaves at the end of their growing season. Evergreen trees will stay green all year round. 

Nature Ramble - June 2025

This afternoon we went for a nature ramble, trying to find colours in nature. We found some items that we took back to class. We even managed to attach pieces to our sheets! We had great fun!

Mass - May 2025

This week we have been investigation mass. We looked at how a balance works to make comparisons. We used the stem sentences -

"The ------- is heavier than the -----------"

"The ------ is lighter than the ------------"

We had great fun investigating with anomals and then classroom objects.

Computing open afternoon - May 2025

This afternoon we held our computing afternoon and welcomed parents in to do some coding.

Coding is about learning how to input instructionsto get a beebot to move. Today we practiced cosing with a table top game and we had to work collaboratively. First we set up some obstacles on a grid, Then we had to draw arroes on post it notes to make the route for our toy, from the start to a designated finishing square.

Our amazing flight to Africa! - May 2025

We went on an exciting trip to Africa! 

When we arrived at school, we had a look in our suitcases and talked about what was in there. Some us packed lightly others didn't!

In the afternoon we arrived at the airport. We were in security and looked at some suitcases that went through the scanner, we guessed what some of the items were.

Eventually we were called yo our gate for boarding. Our passports were checked and we put our luggage under the seat. We then watched our inflight safety video before taking off from Bristol Airport.

Then we had inflight mmovies and snacks, offered by the air stewards.

Finally we landed in Africa. We noticed how the landscape changed , with the ground being much browner. 

We had a great flight!

Easter fun!

Thank you to those of you who joined us for our Easter service and parade. It is always lovely to see so much parent support. Here are a few photographs for you to enjoy.

Museum of Somerset - March 2025

We have had a wonderful day visiting the museum, as a finale to our dinosaur topic. We found lots of different fossils as well as other artefacts such as old coins, swords, skeletons, stone sculptures from a church, an old fire engine and old bicycles, as well as much more! We also had the opportunity to take part in some workshops where we became palaeontologists, digging for fossils, and painted our own ammonite.

EYFS Museum trip

 

The Royal Ball - February 2025

Well, what can I say! We had a marvellous finale to our fairytale topic with a Royal ball in the ‘ballroom’. All of our Princesses looked so beautiful and the Princes were very smart! The children learned some ballroom dances and then had a delicious banquet! Thank you for all your kind donations and a special thank you to Miss Blackmore for preparing a mountain of balloons for each child!
Here are some photos for you to enjoy!

We hope you all have a very happy and safe half term
Mrs Legg, Mr Butt and the EYFS team 😊