Dinosaur Adventure

Our Foundation Stage team led by Miss Derbyshire wrote an exciting Learning to Learn adventure with a dinosaur theme. The main aims of the adventure were to develop speaking and listening skills and provide lots of purposeful writing opportunities.

At the start of our Dinosaur Adventure we met Professor Potts, a dinosaur expert, who had received a letter stating that dinosaurs may have been spotted on a remote island. We then embarked on a journey with the Professor over 5 weeks experiencing a range of adventures on the way. Highlights included ‘Set Sail Day’ with the children checking in for their cruise on Shelton Cruise Lines and setting sail on the ship. We then set up camp together on the remote island and went on expeditions to explore the area and search for dinosaurs. The nursery was transformed into the island for a day and the children explored it in bare feet using all their senses. We finally spotted dinosaurs and the dinosaur eggs which Professor Potts so wished for.

The adventure gave us lots of writing opportunities including: making lists for the journey, labeling maps and pictures, writing in our passports and working together to create a report for a newspaper.

Our adventure has been complimented throughout by dance sessions with our dance teacher, Jenny Hinton. Children created a dinosaur dance and will shortly perform this to parents. Tan Draig, creative practitioner, worked alongside staff to create dinosaur models and prehistoric plants and trees. The children also made individual rucksacks and explorer’s kits, including binoculars, with Tan to take on their adventure.

Children worked hard with parents at home to produce a wide variety of fabulous dinosaur egg carriers. Some high quality writing was produced by the children because they were immersed in their adventure. At the end of our adventure we held our very successful Gallery Day. The children became tour guides for both older children in school and parents as they took them on tours of the classrooms and nursery.