We have taken our learning from expedition and continued it through into provision. We love playing with the trucks and diggers and noticed that when we play with them in the sand, their wheels make a pattern. We wondered what the patterns would look like if we used paint so we attached a roll of paper to our slide, added our paint and let them go! We loved the patterns the different colours made.

Max and Kingsley have been using their imagination by pretending that our pallet is a boat. They were both relaxing and apparently they were going to try and catch some fish! Max told me that they didn’t need to row and get tired because their boat has a motor – happy fishing! 🎣

Since we looked at different journeys, we have been thinking about the journeys our emergency vehicle toys might make. We’ve worked together to create a road map, adding other vehicles that might be on the road, as well as buildings that they might pass on their route. We used the blocks from our construction area to help us build the local area around our road. Hunter even made a police station where the policeman was having a nap before he started his next shift! 👮🏻‍♂️We worked so hard as a team and we showed great resilience when it came to building – great work!

As part of our expedition we have been observing the types of vehicles that drive past our school, as well as what buildings surround us. We used our problem solving skills to make a platform to stand on so that we could see over the wall.

Once we were on our platform we looked at the different buildings around us – we could see houses, bungalows, shops and a scout hut. There were lots of different vehicles that drove down Owston Road too – we saw lots of cars, buses, vans, bikes and even a lorry! We tried to think of reasons why those people were out and about and where they could be going. We thought lots of people might be going to the shops and we even said that some people might have been going to the seaside! We really enjoyed watching what we happening outside our school and we worked really hard to make sure that everyone was safe whilst using our platform.

In crew, we have been using our listening skills, as well as our socialising skills to play parachute games! We have absolutely LOVED our parachute crew sessions and can’t wait to play even more games when we next get the parachute out.

Since we have come back to school, we have been super busy getting hooked into our new expedition, as well as catching up with our friends.

We have LOVED being able to get outside, although we wish the weather would make it’s mind up – especially if it picks to be nice and sunny all the time!

We’ve enjoyed playing with the water tray and we have worked hard as a team to create a ramp for the boats to move from one tray to another. Using water to paint our climbing frame has also been something we have had lots of fun doing – we even worked together to make a platform to stand on so that we could reach the top of the frame.

Our new expedition is ’We’re on the move – Would you travel by wheels, wings or other things?’ and so we have been building our own buses and pretending to drive them as well as asking asking for tickets to our chosen destinations. We have also been carrying on some of our learning from our last expedition by checking in with our plants and making sure they are getting enough water. We have also really enjoyed using the new toys and jigsaws we have out in provision – the big helicopter is definitely a firm favourite!