<![CDATA[Beckers Green Primary School Blog Feed - Antelopes]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk%2Fnews%2Dand%2Devents%2Fblogs Juniper Education Content Management System (CMS) Version: 4.5 (junipereducation.org) Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:54:08 GMT Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:54:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Super Me, Supertato! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=973 We finished our 'All About Me' topic with a superhero theme, based on the book 'Supertato' where Supertato has to rescue various veggies from the Evil Pea! 

]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:54:08 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=973 <![CDATA[ Funnybones ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=961 See what fun the Antelopes had with the Janet and Allan Ahlberg book 'Funnybones!'

]]> Sun, 9 Nov 2025 19:30:54 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=961 <![CDATA[ ALL ABOUT ME! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=955 We are the Antelopes!

Read on to find out about the new herd that have joined Beckers Green!

]]> Sun, 2 Nov 2025 21:04:42 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=955 <![CDATA[ All About Me ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=774 We are the Antelopes! 

Read on to find out about the new herd that have joined Beckers Green!

]]> Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:49:33 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=774 <![CDATA[ Traditional Tales - Goldilocks and the Three Bears ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=737 Tue, 28 May 2024 14:41:03 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=737 <![CDATA[ Traditional Tales - The Three Little Pigs ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=736 We started our Traditional Tales topic by finding out that a traditional tale is an old story people had shared by telling each other, so there are different versions of the stories with many details the same, such as the characters and setting, but also differences. We collected together all the traditional tales we could find in our class book box to enjoy sharing with each other. Our first tale was 'The Three Little Pigs'.

]]> Mon, 27 May 2024 21:13:08 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=736 <![CDATA[ Colour and pattern - Aliens Love Underpants! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=711 Our final book in our Colour and Pattern topic was 'Aliens Love Underpants' by Claire Freedman and illustrated by Ben Cort - and as you can see - the aliens visited our classroom in their search for underpants!

]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:12:08 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=711 <![CDATA[ Colour and Pattern - Elmer ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=710 We continued our Colour and Pattern theme with the colourful patchwork elephant named Elmer in the series of books by David McKee. We listened to and watched lots of different Elmer stories and even watched the author himself reading his own book!

]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:08:43 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=710 <![CDATA[ Colour and Pattern - The Rainbow Fish ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=709 We started our Colour and Pattern topic with the book 'The Rainbow Fish' by Marcus Pfister, which has beautiful illustrations of scenes under the sea. We have created our own individual scenes based on the book, and have worked together as a class to create this Rainbow Fish display. 

]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:03:53 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=709 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate - Christmas! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=687 Stockings and cards, snowmen and jars, candy canes, wreaths and so much more - see how the Antelopes - or should that be reindeer - prepared for Christmas!

]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2024 01:33:22 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=687 <![CDATA[ Let's celebrate - Weddings! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=686 We continued our celebrations theme with Betty O'Barley and Harry O'Hay in 'The Scarecrows' Wedding' by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

]]> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:46:42 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=686 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate - Birthdays! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=685 The Antelopes enjoyed a week of fun birthday-themed activities based on the Mick Inkpen book 'Kipper's Birthday'.

]]> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:53:15 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=685 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate - Diwali ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=678 See how the Antelopes celebrated the colourful festival of Diwali - festival of lights!

]]> Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:25:31 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=678 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate - Fireworks! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=633 We started our 'Let's Celebrate' topic with a bang! And a pop, whizz, fizzle and lots of other fireworks sounds and sights!

]]> Sat, 2 Dec 2023 11:43:54 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=633 <![CDATA[ Super Me - SUPERTATO! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=631 We finished our 'All About Me' topic with a superhero theme, based on the book 'Supertato' where Supertato has to rescue various veggies from the Evil Pea! 

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:58:01 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=631 <![CDATA[ Funnybones! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=630 See what fun the Antelopes had  with the Janet and Allan Ahlberg book 'Funnybones!'

]]> Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:52:01 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=630 <![CDATA[ All About Me ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=609 We are the Antelopes!

]]> Sun, 5 Nov 2023 15:19:03 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=609 <![CDATA[ The Enormous Turnip! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=576 We enjoyed listening to the story of 'The Enormous Turnip' and had fun retelling and re-enacting it with our friends!

]]> Sat, 8 Jul 2023 19:38:05 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=576 <![CDATA[ Barleylands Farm! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=572 The Antelopes had a wonderful time at the farm!

]]> Mon, 3 Jul 2023 19:24:55 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=572 <![CDATA[ The Tiny Seed ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=570 The Antelopes loved learning all about flowers in our Tiny Seed topic.

]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:49:19 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=570 <![CDATA[ Coronation ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=555 The Antelopes had a wonderful time celebrating this very special occasion!

]]> Sun, 4 Jun 2023 21:05:44 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=555 <![CDATA[ Come Outside - Jasper's Beanstalk ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=538 Our story for our beans focus has been 'Jasper's Beanstalk' by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen where Jasper the cat finds and plants a bean, but after a week he gets bored of waiting for it to grow and digs it up again!

]]> Fri, 5 May 2023 01:02:14 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=538 <![CDATA[ Spring Has Sprung! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=537 Spring has definitely sprung in the Antelopes class!

]]> Thu, 4 May 2023 20:46:16 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=537 <![CDATA[ Traditional Tales - Little Red Riding Hood ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=535 The Wolf came back to the Antelopes class for a second visit - this time trying to eat Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandma!

]]> Mon, 1 May 2023 13:47:24 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=535 <![CDATA[ Traditional Tales - Goldilocks and The Three Bears ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=532 The topic for the first half of the Spring term was Traditional Tales. Our second tale was 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'.

]]> Mon, 24 Apr 2023 07:36:58 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=532 <![CDATA[ Traditional Tales - The Three Little Pigs ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=531 The topic for the first half of the Spring term was Traditional Tales. We found out that a traditional tale is an old story people had shared by telling each other, so there are different versions of the stories with many details the same such as the characters, but also differences. We collected together all the traditional tales we could find in our class book box to enjoy sharing with each other. Our first tale was 'The Three Little Pigs'.

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2023 18:18:32 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=531 <![CDATA[ Colour and Pattern - Aliens Love Underpants! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=530 Aliens visited the Antelopes class in their search for underpants as in the book 'Aliens Love Underpants' by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort. 

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:54:17 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=530 <![CDATA[ Colour and Pattern - Elmer ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=507 'Elmer' by David McKee was our next story for our Colour and Pattern topic - as you can see from our herd of milk bottle elephants! We listened to lots of different Elmer stories and watched them on You Tube too - we even watched and listened as the author and illustrator David McKee read his own story!

]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 22:40:51 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=507 <![CDATA[ Colour and Pattern - The Rainbow Fish ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=506 We started off our Colour and Pattern topic with a book by Marcus Pfister - 'The Rainbow Fish', which has beautiful illustrations of scenes under the sea. This inspired us to create some underwater art of our own including this beautiful display we made as a class.  Everyone made a shimmering scale from pieces of shiny silver paper, and another one using shades of either blue, green, pink or purple tissue paper, just like the illustrations in the book.

]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:45:20 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=506 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate - Christmas! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=494 Cards and stockings, snowmen and jars - look at how the Antelopes celebrated Christmas.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:13:52 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=494 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate - Weddings! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=493 See how the Antelopes celebrated 'The Scarecrow's Wedding'!

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:51:56 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=493 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate - Birthdays! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=492 We certainly had a lot of birthdays in the Antelopes class this week as we all celebrated birthdays with a birthday themed role play area and activities. 

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 21:18:43 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=492 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate Diwali! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=491 The Antelopes had lots of fun with our next celebration, Diwali!

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:33:26 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=491 <![CDATA[ Let's Celebrate Fireworks! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=490 During the Autumn term the Antelopes enjoyed finding out about - and taking part in - different festivals and celebrations!

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:51:52 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=490 <![CDATA[ All about me ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=416 The first couple of weeks have flown by as the new herd of Antelopes start getting used to new places, and lots of new faces!

]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:25:29 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=416 <![CDATA[ Up The Beanstalk ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=369 This term our topic is, "Come Outside".

We started off by looking at the story "Jasper's Beanstalk", by Nick Butterworth.

]]> Tue, 24 May 2022 23:27:00 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=369 <![CDATA[ Little Red Riding Hood ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=368 We thought you might like to see what the Antelopes got up to when Little Red Riding Hood came to our class!

]]> Tue, 24 May 2022 21:43:38 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=368 <![CDATA[ Goldilocks and the 3 Bears ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=367 We thought you might like to see what the Antelopes did when Goldilocks and the 3 Bears came to our class!

]]> Tue, 24 May 2022 21:17:02 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=367 <![CDATA[ Weeks 1 and 2 - 22.2.22 - 4.3.22 - The 3 little pigs ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=299 This week we started a new topic – Traditional Tales. We talked about what Traditional Tales are and found that we could name lots of titles of the books in our class collection as we have heard of the stories before! We have enjoyed looking at these books this week, and especially our story of the week......The Three Little Pigs!

]]> Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:55:35 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=299 <![CDATA[ All About the Antelopes ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=195  

What an amazing start to school by the Antelopes class. In just a few short weeks everyone has got used to coming to school, has made friends and is busy having fun and learning!

]]> Tue, 5 Oct 2021 17:49:47 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=195 <![CDATA[ hello antelopes! ]]> https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=87 We have had a busy start to the year with our Colour and Pattern topic!

]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:58:48 GMT https://www.beckersgreen.essex.sch.uk/blog/?pid=41&nid=2&storyid=87