Category: Beech
Trip to Paradise Wildlife Park
The children and staff had a wonderful time on our trip to the zoo this week. The children made us all so proud with thier excellent behaviour and brilliant knowledge about animals and dinosaurs! Also a big thank you to our wonderful parent helpers and to everyone who volunteered.
Super behaviour from Reception!
Reception were very enthusiastic about going to watch ‘Tanners Wood’s got Talent’ this morning. They enjoyed watching the acts and were all very proud of a certain young man from Beech who confidently performed his magic act to the whole school! Their impeccable behaviour was commented on by lots of staff so well done to all. This afternoon Reception were treated to a fabulous performance of ‘The Jungle Book’. Once again lots of fun was had by all and all of Reception watched very sensibly.
The Jungle Book comes to Tanners Wood
The whole school enjoyed watching a drama production of the Jungle Book this afternoon. 
Smile!
We had the nurses come to visit us this week to talk about how to keep our teeth and mouths healthy. The children got to learn about which foods are good for our teeth and which ones are not. 
The children also learned how to clean their teeth correctly using the giant set of teeth and the enormous toothbrush
The Early Years Team would just like to thank all the amazing parents who have given up thier time and donated plants, seeds and pots to help us develop our vegetable garden. It’s looking great and we have planted our radish, spring onion and runner bean crop. We still need donations such as herbs, compost, ceramic planters and any other plants and gardening supplies. Thank you again!
Our First Sports Day!
A huge well done to Reception for a fantastic Sports Day. You were enthusiastic, very well behaved and showed great sportsmanship. Here are some highlights of the day…
Standing Longjump
Speed Stacking
Javelin
Egg and Spoon Race
Obstacle Course
Key Stage 2 Sports Day Winners-Wilson House
Art Exhibition
The children enjoyed seeing everyone’s artwork on display in our own Art Exhibition today. We have some very talented artists at Tanners Wood! Well done everyone. The Exhibition will be open again tomorrow so please come along to the school hall from 3.20pm if you can.
Tanners Wood enjoys a royal picnic!
Children enjoyed eating a specially prepared royal lunch with their friends on the field today.
Exploring Shadows
For our science lesson this week we explored shadows. The children started by drawing around the shadows of some small word animals. 
We then drew around each other shadows and wrote the time (9:30). 
Later, during our morning Child Initiated Learning session we went outside to see if our shadows had changed. The children made some really good observations and it sparked a great conversation about how shadows are formed and why they change at different times of the day.
Henry- “the shadows have got shorter because in the earlier the sun burns a little bit of it, it’s true. ”
Phoebe- “the shadows moved because the sun is higher in the sky.”
Isabel – “the shadows have gone abit lighter coz it’s sunny.”
Zac – “mine got smaller and it’s starting to disappear.”
Why don’t you try to discover more about shadows at home?