
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...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – February 2024
In the Children’s Kitchen We have been confident chefs this term! The Children’s Kitchen deliveries have meant all sorts of weird and wonderful fresh produce has made its way to our pans and plates! We’ve been exploring, cooking and eating all sorts of vegetables from...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – December 2023
We are Curious! We are Scientists Developing scientific enquiry is part of Curriculum Promises and we have delighted in exploring the weird and wonderful world of snails and all things slimy in the garden! Careful observation of the snails’ head, tentacles and eyes,...

News from the Early Years 2 Room – October 2023
Belonging We have been welcoming lots of new children and families to Early Years 2. Our RESEARCH QUESTION is all about what we are observing and noticing about how children are connecting up with each other, empathising with each other, showing their reciprocity and...

News From the Early Years Room 2 – July 2023
Music! Music! Music! Children continue to explore, experiment, communicate and collaborate around music. We have been building on children’s singing and dancing, music making and instrument-exploration when developing our “music-rich” curriculum. From Tan Teddy...

News from the Early Years Room 2 – March 2023
Song and Music In Early Years 2 we love to dance, sing, move and play! We have been exploring sound, exploring pitch, exploring volume! (Loud! ) Piano, guitars, violin, and rain drum all make such different noises – such a delight of different sounds that we can...