Morpeth All Saints Church of England Aided First School

Week 3

Nursery Gardening club

Week 3 Orange Class

Outside Learning

Week 2

Indigo Gardening Club

Today we toured the school gardens raised beds and helped Mrs Roberts weed the nursery wild flower bed.  We put all the weeds in the compost bins.

Week 2

Red class Outdoor Learning

Wk6 Summer 1 2024

Purple Class Outdoor Learning

Week 6

Summer 1 2024

Blue Sea and Blue Sky have been finding different shaped leaves in their Muddy Monday lessons.

Reception Class Muddy Mondays

Week 5 Summer 1 2024

Pond dipping in preparation for our trip to Gosforth Nature Reserve.

Yellow Class Outdoor Learning

Week 4

Using charcoal to make our own observational drawings of natural objects.

Summer 1 Week 4

Gardening club today planted flowers seeds.  They selected their own seeds (rudbeckia, poached egg plants, cosmos …). Each member had their own tray and filled them with soil, preparing the bed for the seeds to be scattered on.  They then spread their chosen seeds thinly and covered them with more soil and gave them some water.
To help them germinate we popped them in the greenhouse, where they will be warm and get lots of light.

Summer 1 2024

Reception Muddy Mondays

Today all the children recorded what we had planted last week and made a little book that they took home and shared with their family. 

We related our talk to the idea of:

* The past

* The present

* The future
 

Summer 1 2024

Week 2

Week 5

Spring 2 2024

Week 5

Spring 2 2024

This afternoon Reception class have planted beans. We are planning to make a giant beanstalk. Who or what might we find at the top?  Lots of discussion and ideas. Today we talked about what might happen to the bean as it grows. We used words such as root, stalk, stem, leaves …

Week 3

Spring 2024

Week 2

Spring 2 2024

Orange class outdoor learning focused on building ‘free standing’ bird hides.  Super team work and cooperation shown.

Week 2

Spring 2 2024

Muddy Mondays in Blue Sea & Blue Sky

Week 1 

Spring 2 2024

Red class have been using their knowledge of birds to answer Mrs Roberts questions- which bird has a different coloured male and female?  Which colour cap does a Great Tit have?  Which bird has the same name as the Newcastle football team?
The children were challenged to build bird hides to watch the birds at our feeders.  They had to build structures that were free standing.

They also helped with starting off our fire pit area and making looms to weave with and their own ‘stick men’.

Week 6

Spring 1 2024

Jade Class have been using their knowledge from previous Outdoor Learning to draw birds we might find in our school grounds.  They used their ‘sketching’ skills and techniques learnt in drawing such as hatching.  Can you name any of the birds?

Week 3

Spring 1 2024

Yellow and Green class gardening club members made ‘Idea Boards’ to think about what we might plan later this spring.  The flower cosmos was a firm favourite!

Week 2

Spring 1 2024

Reception class - Blue Sea & Blue Sky

Week 2

Spring 2 2024

Yellow class gardening club this term.  The ground was frozen solid so we helped Mrs Roberts move some donations of wood slices and wood chip to the Early Years yard.  We also added some new bird spotting posters to the Quiet area / gazebo.

Week 2

Spring 1 2024

Orange Class  sketching in Outside Learning today.  We used these sketches to inspire our own collages of buildings.  The children designed hotels, water parks, houses, sky scrapers …

Week 2

Spring 2 2024

HOT CHOCOLATE TO END OUR MUDDY MONDAY SESSION TODAY

Week 1

Spring 2 2024

MUDDY MONDAYS in Blue Sea and Blue Sky class. 

SPRING 2024

Week 7

Autumn 2

The last week of Gardening club for Orange class members.  THANK YOU for all your help.

Today we finished weeding the flower bed in the School Raised Beds and then we enjoyed a short play in the EYFS yard.

Week 5

Orange Class Outdoor Learning

Land Art inspired by the artist Richard Long.  Orange class collected leaves from the raised beds to make group art work based on his concentric circles.

Week 5

Autumn 2 - Gardening Club Red & Orange Class

Today we finished planting some last minute donations of daffodil and red onion bulbs.  We hid the daffodils in the EYFS yard.  They will bring lots of lovely colour in the Spring.

Autumn 2

Week 4

Autumn 2

Week 3

Yellow class outside learning - looking at our different school habitats and making our own Land Art

Autumn 2

Week 2

Purple class Outdoor Learning today involved making our own Andy Goldsworthy inspired rainbows.

Autumn 2

Week 2

Red and Orange classes turn for gardening club this term.  Orange class conducted a litter pitch and we are  pleased to say that we at Morpeth All Saints are good at using the bins as we found very little.  Great job!
Red class carried on planting the bulbs for our BLOOMING BULB initiative.  Where have they’re planted them? 

Autumn 2 Week 1

Red Class Outdoor Learning

Taking inspiration from the artist Richard Long and his land art.

Autumn 2 Week 1

ECO Committee have been planting your donated bulbs.  THANK YOU

Autumn 2 

Week 1

Muddy Mondays in Blue Sea and Blue Sky

Autumn 1 2023

Week 8

Gardening club with Blue Sea

We planted some of the donated bulbs today outside Jade class.  We cannot wait until they grow in the spring.

Autumn 1 2023

Week 7

Jade class had an inside Outside Learning.  We combined learning about trees and completing our Art topic this term on drawing.  The children added texture to their pine cones, beech, sycamore and red oak leaves.

Autumn 1 2023

Week 7

Blue Sea & Blue Sky

Autumn 1 2023

Week 6

Blue sea Gardening Club

Autumn 1

Week 6

Blue Sea & Blue Sky

Today we found out about our sense of TOUCH.

We started off by talking about two opposite textures - rough and smooth.  Other words were suggested such as bumpy, knobbly, soft …

The children had to find something to go in both the sorting hoops.  One rough and one smooth.

We then used Mrs Roberts FEELY BAG to sort other objects - wood, metal, plastic, material …
 

Autumn 1 Week 5

Blue Sea & Blue Sky

This week we explored the sense of TASTE.  We had to decide which fruit we liked the best.  Would it be blackcurrants (jam and crackers), strawberries (in strawberry yogurt) and homegrown cucumbers.
We used our maths vocabulary to describe which was the most popular in our class.

Autumn 1 Week 4

Blue Sea Gardening club

Clearing and tidying the EYFS yard garden today.  We found mini cucumbers hiding and lots of worms under the old wood we moved.

Autumn 1 2023

Week 4

Autumn 1 2023

Week 3

Autumn 1 2023

Week 2

Red class explored using identification charts to identify trees, leaves and herbs.  With the rain, some children decided to build their own shelters.  Co-operation, sharing and compromise were very evident.  We also had the chance to see a toad, up close.

Autumn 1 2023

Week 2

Gardening club for Blue Sea.  The children planted a new corner of the EYFS yard.  They planted Jasmine, Californian Lilac, a dwarf fruit tree and Ox- Eye daisies.  Next year we will hopefully have lots of beautiful flowers.

Autumn 1 2023

Week 2

2023 - 2024

Week 6

Summer 2 2023

CLIMATE WEEK 3RLT 2023

Week 6

Summer 2 2023

Week 5

Summer 2 2023

Today we hunted for mini beasts and creatures in the outside learning area. This learning followed the interests of one of our morning children the previous week.  We found different ways of collecting the creatures. We laid a white cloth under the tree canopy and shook the leaves. We found, caterpillars, spiders, shield bugs, moths …

we also looked under logs, in the long grass …

Week 4

Summer 2 2023

Blue class outside learning today involved a challenge. Mrs Roberts asked the children to draw a map of the EYFS yard. Look at their fantastic maps.

Week 4

Summer 2 2023

Orange class year 3’s really impressed Mrs Roberts with their knot tying this afternoon. They showed perseverance and lots of patience. 
 

Week 4

Summer 2 2023

Yellow class outside learning today involved lots of team games. The children then practised their knots, making their own natural materials mobile.  They used a range of different objects, some collected from the OL area and others from the OL store.

Week 5

Summer 2 2023

Orange class gardening club weeded one of the raised beds to make way for some leeks.  They also help clear some of the weeds that had grown in the pumpkin patch and in the Three Sisters bed.

Week 4

Summer 2 2023

Week 3

Summer 2 2023

Week 1

Summer 2 2023

Blue Sea and Blue Sky

The children were given two tasks.  The first was to use their knot tying skills learnt a few weeks ago.  The second was to make their own dens, using tarps and clips.  The children were very inventive. They made tunnels on the trench, used branches up against a tree and the fence to hell make their own structures.

Week 6

Summer 1 2023

Week 6

Summer 1 2023

Jade class outdoor learning. We played the ‘Is this a stick game?’  Sticks became an electrical guitar, handle bars on a bike, a sword, a dancing cane …

pother activities involved bird watching (WE HAVE TWO LOTS OF NESTING BLUE TITS), crafting, tug of war, balancing, cinema building, mini beast spotting …

Week 6

Summer 1 2023

ECO Committee had their Summer 1 meeting today. Red class members shared their achievements on the THINK BIG challenge.  They told us all about the compost bins and how we could help on the playground by telling everyone not to put their food waste in the bin but in the compost bin instead.

They helped plant the THREE SISTERS in the raised beds. They are sweetcorn, pumpkins and beans.

Mrs Roberts also explained about the up and coming CLIMATE FESTIVAL in July and asked them to make posters for the Toy and Book sale.

Week 6

Summer 1 2023

Week 5

Summer 2023

Week 5

Summer 1 2023

Green class gardening club today planted some new climbing plants on the trellis behind the shed on the playground.  They planted the perennial sweet pea and a clematis.

Will they grow as tall as our gardening group members?

Week 5

Summer 1 2023

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

GREEN CLASS OUTDOOR LEARNING

Today the children had a chance to find out about the creatures they might find in our Outdoor Learning area habitat.  They had to find to try and find all the mini beasts on the Woodland Trust spotter sheets.

They followed the rules about keeping both themselves and the mini beats safe.

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

Mrs Steeles class have been planting pepper seeds. They have popped them into the EYFS greenhouse to start off their growth. They will stay warm and cosy and hopefully grow big and strong.

they are joining our cucumbers and tomatoes.

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

Jade class were very keen to show Mrs Roberts their 5 butterflies.  Tomorrow they are going to release them into the wild. What a great job they have done and what a super, first hand experience, watching the changes that have happened.

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

Green class gardening club started to weed the raised beds ready to plant out all the vegetables that we are currently ‘hardening off’ in the EYFS yard.

They also moved the leaves into our new LEAF LITTER composter and did some GORILLA GARDENING.  They have hidden some nasturtium seeds - let’s hope that they start to grow soon.

Week 3

Summer 1 2023

Today was our first Outside Learning lesson and Blue class did a FABULOUS job helping Mrs Roberts plant a new hedge in the EYFS yard.  We have added a real selection of plants from Holly to Beech and Buddlejia to Forget me nots.
The children also extended their learning about the very hungry caterpillar by finding lots of new ‘signs of Spring’.  They could choose a spotter sheet and fill it in.  They spotted blossom, bees, birds, new leaves …
Next week we will be using tools and learning how to safely work with spades, forks and trowels.  We are also hoping to work in the school garden and maybe plant some vegetables.

Week 2

Summer 1 2023

RED CLASS are well on the way with their THINK BIG CHALLENGE.

Week 1 

Summer 1 2023

Finally we had our Spring term ECO Committee meeting today.  
Jade class explained how they had finished their part of the Think Big challenge and had built a SUPER bug hotel (palace!) in our outside learning area.

It gave everyone else a prompt to start / finish their challenge.

For our next meeting each class will explain how far they have come and what they are doing to complete their class challenge.

Week 1

Summer 1 2023

Today the nursery children helped Mrs Roberts dig over and plant new seeds in the wildlife raised bed.  This can be found in the school garden.  Please do ask your children to take you there and tell you what they have done.

Week 5

Spring 2 2023

The boys from Blue class today helped spring clean / tidy the EYFS tyre beds. They also planted some bulbs and corms so we will have some lovely summer flowers.

Week 5

Spring 2

Nursery children have been making bird hides today and filling up the bird feeding station. We even noticed that we had new residents in one of our bird boxes - a pair of blue tits.

Some children helped fill the top layer of the bug hotel with suitable materials and others made trains, found dinosaur footprints, planted shrubs and even made their own sculptures.

We had a visitor to the nursery bird house today. Can you spot the robin?

Week 4

Spring 2

Week 3

Spring 2

In the nursery we have been planting lots of different vegetable seeds. We set up a little experiment to see if seeds would grow without light / sun or water.

Week 3

Spring 2

Week 2

Spring 2

Jade class have been very busy this afternoon. They helped Mrs Baker plant some new saplings.  They also built their own slides for transporting confers, made balancing beams and found ways to stop them moving, built dens and made their own wands! Busy children! We are working on our listening skills and trying to promote ‘fair’ play in our games and activities.

Week 1

Spring 2

The start of a new term and a new science topic in Jade class.

Week 6

Spring 1 2023

WELL DONE JADE CLASS

The first class to complete our THINK BIG CHALLENGE. Never mind it being a bug hotel, I think we should call it the bug palace! Well done.

Week 6

Spring 1 2023

Jade enjoyed working outside with Mrs Baker and Mr O’Halloran today. Lots of new games, fun and laughter.

Week 5

Spring 1 2023

The boys in Blue class added a little bit of colour to our outside planters today. They also spotted lots of bulbs peaking their heads out of the soil.

Week 5

Spring 1 2023

CAN YOU SPOT A ROBIN? Today we learnt all about the bird called a robin. We even had one visit the bird table during our outside learning session.

Week 3

Spring 1 2023

GARDENING CLUB

Today the boys helped Mrs Roberts plant the conkers that the nursery children found yesterday.  They also helped weed the planters in the EYFS yard and entrance.

REMEMBER

A weed is a plant but just in the wrong place!

We were making room for the bulbs to grow.

Week 3

Spring 1 2023

NURSERY experienced PUSHES and PULLS this week.  We started off with the story of the Enormous Turnip, pretending to pull it out of the ground. In outside learning we remembered how to move heavy logs - by pushing them and making them roll.  We used our brand new wheelbarrows and pushed materials around the site.  Mrs Roberts and Miss Cameron even played 'Tug of War'.

MORNING NURSERY

Whilst moving some conkers the girls noticed that some of them had split open.  Mrs Roberts told us that they are shoots.  We kept some to plant.  Do you think we can grow a Horse chestnut tree?

AFTERNOON CHILDREN

Our first session outside.  Lots to explore and lots of new routines to learn.

Week 2

Spring 1 2023

Blue Sky have GARDENING CLUB this half term.  Today the boys helped move the equipment from the old outside storage box to the new shed in the EYFS yard.  We used the wheel barrow and our BIG muscles!

Week 2

Spring 1

Orange class outdoor learning produced some lovely art work in the snow!

Week 7

Autumn 2

Blue Sea gardening group today thought about what they would like grow in the early years raised beds next year.
They talked about what they might like to grow and where they would go. We have a fruit, flower and herb tyre and a super new, oblong raised bed.

Week 6

Autumn 2

Blue Class Gardening club 
Today we took cuttings of geraniums and brought them into our new potting shed. Thus will hopefully mean than we have new plants for our tubs next year.

Week 6

Autumn 2

Yellow class have been investigating their THINK BIG CHALLENGE. They have been making posters to explain what it means and also seeing the difference 1 person, 25 people (our class) and 233 (our school ) could make if we went MEAT FREE on a Monday.

Week 5

Autumn 2

In nursery today we were challenged to follow the arrows and find red squirrel. He was hiding in the habitat pile. We also made trails to follow by scattering porridge oats. 

Week 5

Autumn 2

Today Blue Sea and Blue Sky had a busy outdoor session. They thought of lots of activities to do. Filling and making trails, building dens, bridges and pirate ships, making Xmas decorations and stars. What a busy time they had.  Can you spot the hedgehog who was hiding from us?

Week 4

Autumn 2

Blue Sea started gardening club this week. They helped plant some saplings in the nursery bed. They planted hazel, rowan, crab apple and elder.

Week 3

Autumn 2

Today with bad weather forecast we planned to involve the children on some Commando Joe activities. They were based around the event THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. The activities promoted communication, listening, team work …

THEY HAD SO MUCH FUN!

Week 3

Autumn 2

ECO COMMITTEE

THINK BIG!

Week 3

Autumn 2

Today we looked at what the wind had done to our trees. The children helped make their own leaf kebabs. They collected leaves in a range of different colours and shapes and skewered them onto their own stick.

Week 1

Autumn 2

Children in Blue class have been using natural materials to make their own art work.

Autumn 2

Week 1

Today in their new Science topic the children were asked to observe and find out about mini beasts in three different habitats in our school grounds. They found, earthworms, caterpillars, beetles, spiders, slugs, snails …

Conkers Bonkers - Fabulous Art Work

We used just conkers to make our pictures. Each class was tasked with making their own work of art. What can you see?

Week 6

Autumn 1

YELLOW CLASS Gardening Club

Clearing pots and beds, dead heading, finding mini beasts.  We also added some of our cuttings to the Habitat pile in the OL area.

Autumn 1

Week 5 ORANGE CLASS

This week Orange class were FANTASTIC. They stood out with their listening skills and had very interesting ideas for their own play.  We had sculptures that moved, dinner tables set with furniture, crockery and food ...

Mrs Baker set a challenge - to find and name three different leaves and lots of people persevered to make their own God's eye.

Autumn 1

Week 5

In the Early Years this week we have been focusing on talking about the natural world around us. What colours can we see and how are things changing around us at this time of year. Autumn has been what we have been looking for.

NEW SIGNS FOR OUR OUTSIDE LEARNING AREA

Autumn 1

Week 4 Yellow Class

Today we explored the trees in our Outside Learning area. We met some trees - the acer, rowan, beech and white beam. The children were asked to look carefully at the leaves and draw what they could see.  Some added their seeds and fruit.  We talked about adding tone and some hatching.

The children also had the chance to make God’s eyes (a simple weaving craft) and select their own activity. We had very imaginative den building - even adding security cameras!

Autumn 1 2022

Week 4

Blue Sea and Blue Sky

Today we met the tree called the ‘Acer’. We found it’s 🍁 leaves (shaped like a hand with five fingers) and it’s seeds.

Our learning today involved thinking about how to keep fit and looking after our bodies.  We took part in an obstacle course laid out by Mrs Roberts. We had to go over, under, around etc.  Mrs Roberts encouraged us to make our own courses.

Autumn 1 Week 3

Green Class: Today we met lots of different trees.  The red oak, lime, rowan and acer.  We found their leaves and some of their seeds / fruit.  The children made some wonderful observational drawings and took part in other activities of their own choosing.

Autumn 1 Week 2

Purple Class: In Key Stage one this term we are talking about God's beautiful Creation and making 'God's Eyes'.  These take lots of concentration and perseverance.

We are also using our drawing skills from art to undertake observational drawings of leaves.  We have looked at the red oak, lime, beech, rowan and whitebeam.

Autumn 1 Week 2

Outside Learning with nursery and reception class. We were introduced to a beech tree and made bridges for the goats and ourselves to climb over.

Welcome Back to our new school year 2022 - 2023