News Whitehorse Manor Infant School

As many of you will know, at Pegasus we organise the teaching of history, geography, DT and art within themes under the umbrella term of the ‘Thematic Curriculum’. 

Over the past few weeks, reception have been preparing for our very exciting ‘Museum Day’!

Whitehorse Infants have been working with the Children’s Book Project to provide free books for children to take home. 

Today – Tuesday, 6 February 2024 – is Safer Internet Day.

Year 2 were fortunate to visit Croydon Mosque and Islamic Centre to support their learning in RE about Islam.

Did you know there is a local pop-up sustainable living hub? 

The last two weeks in nursery we have been continuing with our theme of traditional tales and have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs.’

The Eco Schools team have had a busy week!   On Monday, they took part in the RSPB Big School Bird watch event where they took to the school field to record the different species of birds they observed. 

This week reception have been reading the story ‘Bog Baby’ by the author Jeanne Willis.

The snow is melting, flowers are blooming, and the days are getting warmer.

Before Christmas, we set the children a challenge to photograph themselves reading a wintery tale in their winter clothes.

For the past two weeks we have immersed ourselves in the story of ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson.

What a fun filled day reception had on Monday! We were fortunate enough to have a special visit from Professor Bubble Works who helped us make slime!

We have had a busy two weeks back at nursery. We have started our new topic for the term which is Traditional Tales.

To promote reading for pleasure, Whitehorse infant and junior schools have teamed up and created a ‘reading buddy’ session once a week.