After a lot of growing over the weekend, today the ducks moved into their bigger home in the travel cot. They also had their first swim in the water tray during fruit and milk time this morning. The children loved watching them splash around! We spoke about how ducks are born with the natural ability to swim and thought about how their webbed feet and waterproof coats help them. The children have been so confident and caring with the ducks- we will all be very sad to see them go back to the farm on Friday!

An exciting arrival!

On Monday, we noticed a little crack in one of the eggs in our incubator. Over the next couple of days, the crack started to get bigger and another egg cracked too!

During Tuesday night, the eggs hatched and out came 2 ducklings!!

Reception are so excited to welcome two new members to our class! We decided to call them Jemima and Bill.
Today, the children sang songs, made cards and read books to the ducks.

Here are some of the things we overheard the children saying to the ducklings today:
“This is London and you are in Cathedral School.”
“We are happy that you hatched!”
“Welcome to your new home!”
“We love you babies!”

International Week

Reception thoroughly enjoyed learning all about Thailand last week for International Week.

We had fun with lots of Thai themed activities around the classroom including…


Noodles in the water tray


Elephant Maths


Jungle Playdough


Decorating Buddhist Mandala patterns

As part of our learning on Buddhism, the children really enjoyed doing some meditation in the form of Cosmic Kids Yoga!

We also wrote letters to some Thai children to ask questions about how their lives are different to ours in London, learned about national emblems of Thailand, created Thai elephant pictures and decorated fans with the beautiful national flower of Thailand, the Ratchaphruek.

The children looked fantastic on Friday in their international costumes too!

What a busy week!