
News from the Early Years 2 Room – July 2025
Look Closely! Change is Happening! Have you seen the amazing butterflies? Have you seen the video on our Instagram of how the caterpillars slowly but spectacularly transformed? Our children have been observing this incredible metamorphosis up close, using magnifiers...

Summer Celebrations!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Thank you to ALL the children, families, practitioners, musicians, cooks and chefs who made our Summer Picnics so delightful! A summer celebration full of love and laughter food and family dance and music song and smiles! … and a...

Clay Day, We Played with Clay!
Clay is like magic! It transforms and changes in your hands. You can bend and twist it, smooth and shape it. You can make anything from it. And then change it back again! What an intelligent material… so full of endless possibilities. Rhea our Clay Artist has been...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – May 2025
Researching Children Researching the World! Here at St. Paul’s we are fascinated by children’s fascinations! Their curiosity is compelling! Their explorations exciting! A significant part of our thinking, learning and teaching here is REFLECTIVE NOTICING. This means...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – April 2025
The Big Adventure! We have been OUT and ABOUT! We have been walking in woods and getting stuck in the mud – “slip slop!” We have been loving our many worlds, our many communities, our many spaces and places – the brilliance of Bristol! The woods have been giving...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – February 2025
Mark Making Matters We have been giving children rich opportunities to explore making marks. Our Promise is “I can use marks to communicate meaning”. Our RESEARCH QUESTION is helping us reflect on how our encouraging emotional environment is supporting children to...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – December 2024
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? We are readers! We are storytellers! We love books! Our Core Stories help the children be confident readers and storytellers. Our Core Stories are revisited again and again and again… So children can wallow in the rhythms and...

News from the Early Years Room 2 – October 2024
I belong, I connect to the wider world Our Curriculum Promise “I belong and can contribute to a group” means we have been supporting children to feel really safe and secure in their new room. For some children these changes take time to feel comfortable with, don’t...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – May 2024
Maths is Everywhere We love mathematics. Mathematics is often described as the search for relationships and patterns. And shape-and-pattern-play have a significant impact on later maths achievement. The children have been so absorbed in using shapes to build and...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – March 2024
I connect with the Wider World Go outside! We love our adventures in our community. The children’s passion for animals and the farm has really supported them to notice and comment, remember, and recall, make links, and talk about experiences, thoughts, and ideas. And...