We welcomed the Pioneers into their classroom this week and everything was ready. They have filled the space with curiosity and questions. They have moved everything to combine dominoes and train track, buttons and magnets, dough and acorns. They have been dressing...

[ngg src="galleries" ids="927" display="basic_slideshow" maximum_entity_count="500"] The Pioneers love to write and to draw and it is at this time of the year that we can look back and see just how far we have come. The desire to write is there. The desire to...

We continue to be delighted by collage. This week we added our painted paper to our willow lanterns and onto wet strength tissue paper. We had additional single colour paper to combine in our collage. The Pioneers used cutting,ripping and crumpling to add a variety of...

The atmosphere in Pioneers was wonderful as we explored new building materials, how to join them and make strong and stable structures. Using dry willow, we made tripods joined with paper tape. One of the Pioneers recognised that this was a similar structure to the...

[ngg src="galleries" ids="918" display="basic_slideshow" maximum_entity_count="500"] The Pioneers have shown perseverance and tenacity in their approach to music this week. It is very tricky not to bang on your woodblock  or play your new  chime bar while...

Maths happens all over the place in Pioneers and always involves stuff-things to subitise, count, compare, move around and measure. It is a noisy process with lots of chat and articulation of thinking. There's lots of comparing and repeating how you did it and if...

In geography, fieldwork is obviously a priority and when making maps we have to do the research. To begin with we looked at how we would represent our environment on a map. We identified items on a prepared map before drawing a map of our own, very familiar classroom....