Reception learnt about the Christian Festival of Shrove Tuesday today.  We talked about how the festival is a time when Christians eat pancakes in preparation for giving things up for Lent. We then mixed and cooked our own pancakes bef

On Thursday, the Altru touring company educated KS2 pupils about online safety and responsibility through their play 'Play, Post,Share, Repeat'. Afterwards, the pupils took part in workshops whereby they learnt more about gaming and the use of social media sites.

We explored: 

The Safety Values Group did a spectacular job in organising our Safer Internet Day this year. The pupils led KS1 and KS2 assemblies whereby they taught pupils how to be aware of 'scams' and 'phishing' tricks. Afterwards, each class did age-appropriate activities to explore these concepts further and the Safety Pupils were able to share their expert advice with their peers. Later in the day we were joined by PC Molly and PSCO Abigail. They were extremely impressed with the online safety knowledge of Abberley pupils. 
 

Here is a link for parents/carers if they would like to extend their own online safety knowledge. https://www.westmercia.police.uk/police-forces/west-mercia-police/areas/west-mercia/campaigns/campaigns/2024/exploitation-and-vulnerability-workshops

Reception have really enjoyed learning gymnastics this term in PE. They have learnt different ways of travelling, balancing, rolling and jumping and used their muscles to help their strength and stability. A particular highlight has been applying the

This week is Children's Mental Health Week. The theme this year is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.  At the beginning of the week, Wellbeing Values Group led an assembly about this year's theme, what mental health is and why it's

In PSHE today, Reception travelled through time and imagined what sort of job they would like to do in the future. The children had ambitions to do a wide range of careers, including a midwife, a chef, a gardener, a teacher, an astronaut and a r