Today Rainbows auditioned to be part of Park Street's Got Talent, held on the final day of term in the hall. Each class held auditions and voted for their favourite to go through to the final. The Rainbows were so brave to stand up in front of their friends and have a try. There was so much encouragement from their friends too, especially when they became a bit shy, and it was lovely to see their friends giving them a supportive thumbs up and shouting "you can do it!" We had singing, dancing and football skills and each Rainbow voted for their favourite.

Our class winner is Orynne who did some singing and dancing to Ariana Grande! Well done Orynne! We cant wait to see you perform on the day!

​Here are some of the Rainbows auditioning in front of their friends.

Picasso is a very famous painter from Spain. The Rainbows have been learning about "Cubism" and have looked at some of Picasso's cubist paintings as part of our Spanish day. They know that there are lots of shapes, angles and colours that make up cubist paintings. Rainbows had a go at creating their own paintings using a range of colours and shapes, and developed their cutting skills to create faces too!

​Here are some of their amazing creations!

Rainbows wore red and yellow to school today to match the colours of the Spanish flag. To begin the day they all took part in some Spanish dancing lead by a visitor in school! It was so fun to take part in something new and different and the Rainbows were really good!

In class the Rainbows learnt more about Spain and its geography, the culture and weather. Rainbows also learnt some Spanish! For the past few weeks we have been answering the register with "Hola" and now they have learnt some key phrases and colours. Rainbows sung some songs from Language Angels to help them learn.

They developed their motor skills by colouring some Spanish colouring pages, made and decorated some fans and learnt about Picasso, a famous artist.

Here they are hard at work!

Rainbows have loved learning about the seaside this week. Their provision activities included; mindfulness colouring to develop their motor skills, using their creative and physical skills to make some seaside puppets for a puppet show, designing and making ice creams in the dough area, creating a pier and seaside scene in the small world and construction area and mixing colours to create a seaside painting.

There were lots of other activities that were child initiated and the Rainbows had a lovely week learning about the seaside.

Rainbows have been practising their phonics skills to read independently this week. They had to segment and blend to read sentences about the seaside and match them to the correct picture. The words also included some Set 1 and Set 2 Special Friends.

Here are some of the Rainbows we have celebrated this week. We have our Golden Book Award, a Numbots Award for completing maths activities online at home, two reading awards and a lunchtime award for always using their manners!

​Well done Rainbows!

This week has been really hot as we are experiencing a heatwave. The Rainbows know that to keep cool and safe they must stay hydrated and drink lots of water throughout the day. They also know that staying in the shade is important, they must wear sun cream and they should wear a sunhat to protect themselves.

To help us keep cool we have been making fans! It was a bit tricky to begin with to make the concertina but we persevered and our fans really helped us keep cool.

Rainbows have been learning what it was like to visit the seaside a long time ago. They identified some similarities and differences and talked about these with their partner after looking at some photos.

Here are some of the differences they identified;

People had to be covered up on the beach and wore long dresses and trousers. They wore their smart clothes to the beach.

Bathing machines were for people to get changed in and taken out to sea where the visitors could get straight into the sea without showing their swimwear to other visitors.

There were no inflatables or lots of beach toys to play with.

People often sat on deckchairs rather than play with their families like they do now.


Some similarities they identified were;

Children still made sandcastles and played in the sand.

People still enjoyed having an ice cream (or gelato or a penny lick in the past).

It was still very busy at the seaside.

They still used to ride donkeys on the beach like they do now.


The Rainbows enjoyed learning about transport and looked at pictures of a steam train and a charabanc which took people to the seaside. They decided it would still have been fun to visit the seaside in the past, just like it is now.

In maths this week Rainbows were reviewing some of their learning from this year.

One of the games we played was called "Save the Whale" by ICT games. This helped the Rainbows to recall their number bonds by connecting two pieces of pipe together that had numbers on that made 5 altogether. If the numbers were correct, the pipe would fill the pool with water and the whale was free to jump into the sea!

​The Rainbows also practised recalling some of their number bonds to 10 to save the whale too.

Rainbows have been looking at the features of lighthouses this week and used the magnets in the construction area to build some by connecting the shapes together. They added a torch to be the light at the top and created some stories using fabric as the sea and small world characters. Here are their wonderful creations!