Pumpkin Sensory Explorers!

22 Oct

Our Reception children enjoyed exploring pumpkins, scooping out the insides and discovering the seeds! Using their arms and hands to scoop, pull and scrape helped develop their gross motor skills and coordination.

The children then explored our spooky sensory tray filled with slimy spaghetti worms and creepy eyeballs! Squeezing, squishing and sorting the different textures supported their sensory development and fine motor skills.

We encouraged the children to use descriptive words such as slimy, squishy, sticky and slippery, helping to develop their communication and language skills.

A wonderfully messy, hands-on learning experience full of curiosity, exploration and fun!

Eastbrook School is an Ofsted rated Good, all-through school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and is part of the Barking Abbey family. Founded in 1933, Eastbrook has a well-established history of serving the local community, with many generations of families attending as students and even joining as staff. The primary school opened in 2016 and is growing in size year on year. The secondary school transferred into new, state of the art buildings in 2017, benefiting from purpose-built specialist learning environments with industry level resources and outstanding access to green outdoor spaces.

Eastbrook is a thriving and growing community school, welcoming students from a broad range of backgrounds, culturally, economically and in terms of need.

Eastbrook School: PROUD TO BE