Welcome to the first blog post of the new academic year! Weekly information will be published here as well as reminders and general life in The Ark.

Next week we shall resume our Meet and Greet sessions, of which we are all very excited to meet you. Then we shall start...

This could be the last blog post for a while... I don't want to say 'Goodbye' but rather a 'See you soon'. Fingers crossed this precautionary measure will be over soon and we can all return to normal and be back to normal Ark life (Or that I wake up from all this!!!)

Th...

 This week has been another blooming lovely week ;)

We have been learning Mary, Mary Quite Contrary as our Nursery Rhyme of the Week, so Linked Provision has been to come in and draw a flower from the school grounds! It has been fabulous to see even our reluctant mark m...

This week has been a busy week (as always), but we did take time out to celebrate World Book Day by having fun with the story Aliens Love Underpants! We read the story and had Phonics Fairy read it to us too... We also decorated some pants and wore them like the aliens...

Welcome back after half term!

The little Arklets are back and raring to go...especially as our roleplay area is now a "Show". As we speak, the instruments are playing, voices are singing and the wigs and plastic clip-clop shoes are being worn! And that is just the boys...

It is now the end of the first half of the Spring term... this means we are 50% way through the year...eeek! But what a long way the little Arklets have all come! Thanks to everyone who was able to make Parents Evening this week, I hope you found it informative, useful...

Greetings from a yucky, windy and rainy Sunday! This week's blog post is not about the Nursery Rhyme Rain, Rain, Go Away... but actually Hey Diddle Diddle! I hope wherever you are reading this, you are all snuggled up, warm and out of Storm Ciara!

This week we have been...

Hmmm... I need to think of some more interesting blog openers, aside from..."Another busy week..."

AHHHHHHHHHHH Spider! Hello! This week has been spider week in The Ark, courtesy of Incy Wincy Spider! We have been singing one of our favourite nursery rhymes with Charang...

This week we have been learning about Miss Polly and her poorly dolly. We have had dollies with 'pox' on the small world table, with the Doctor's bag and some telephones... and lots of children taking on the role of Miss Polly or the Doctor!

In phonics we have been look...

Hi!

This week we have focused on Baa Baa Black Sheep...or as one member of the Ark has been heard singing at bedtime, "Blah Blah Black Sheep!" We have used Charanga music site to practise our singing of this nursery rhyme (with Charanga's funky take on it) and then Andy...