Welcome to Reception!

Week Ending 19/04/2024

This week we have started our theme ‘tell me a story’.  The children have been sharing their knowledge of fairy tales by explaining about the different characters and what happens in the story.  The children painted or drew, and then labelled some super character pictures.

The class role play area has been turned into a castle and the children have been performing stories in it.  They have really impressed us with their imaginative language and perseverance when having a go at writing parts or all of a story.  

In Maths we have been deepening our understanding of numbers beyond 10 and having been using equipment to make the teen numbers such as unifix or base 10. In Phonics we have been learning to read longer words and enjoyed doing a tricky word hunt. Reception have worked really hard this week- well done!

Week Ending 22/03/2024

We have been continuing our topic 'growing'.  At the start of the week we thoroughly enjoyed acting out the story of 'the enormous topic'.  Next we read 'What the ladybird heard' and we were very good at using our phonics to independently write down what the animals say in the story.  In Maths we have been learning to name and recognise pyramids, cones, spheres, cubes and cuboids.  The highlight of our week was visiting the school pond- we were delighted to see a frog looking at us from the water!  We are going to be observing tadpoles next week.  Our caterpillars are now in cocoons so we are hoping to see some butterflies soon!

Week Ending 15/03/2024

This week, as part of our topic 'ready,steady grow' we have been reading 'Jasper's Beanstalk', 'The Tiny Seed', 'Oliver's vegetables and fruit salad'. The children have been amazing at writing parts of the story, lists for Oliver and also writing about their favourite fruits.  They were very excited to plant their own bean seed and are waiting patiently for it to grow.  To find out more about the conditions needed to grow seeds we have setup a seed investigation and will monitor it to see which seed grows the best.  Our caterpillars are also growing very big so we are looking forward to seeing what is going to happen next...

Week Ending 08/03/2024

This week our book of the week has been, 'the Girl and the Dinosaur'.  We wrote about what our wishes would be and we had fun exploring fossils and finding out how they were created.  Everybody looked wonderful on 'World Book Day' and were very enthusiastic to share their favourite books and take part in the activities. A highlight this week was performing in our class assembly- we are so proud of how hard the children worked and how confident they were.  Well done Reception!

Week Ending 01/03/2024

This week we have been learning about Minibeasts! We went on a mini beast hunt in our wild area and found slugs, snails, woodlice and spider webs. We made our own snails - inspired by Henri Matisse. Our books this week have been ‘Superworm’ and ‘the hungry caterpillar”- we have linked these stories to our  measuring topic in maths and have been measuring and comparing lengths.  In Phonics we are practising identifying digraphs and trigraphs in words.

Week Ending 16/02/2024

This week we have continued to think about our own well being - We thought about the things that made us proud and positive – we wrote these down and drew pictures.  On Shrove Tuesday we enjoyed reading Mr Wolf’s pancakes and especially tasting pancakes!  We used our phonics to successfully write pancake recipes. On Wednesday we had fun learning about Valentine's day and thought about the people who were special to us.  We worked hard consolidating our Phonics learning by using the books  ‘Duck in the truck’ and ‘Shark in the Park’. In Maths we have been learning all about doubles. Well done for working so hard this half term Reception!

Week Ending 26/01/2024

Our books of the week have been 'the tiger who came to tea'  and 'rumble in the jungle'.  The children have been very interested in learning about all the different animal in the rainforest and have amazed us with all the facts they have remembered and confidently shared with us.  The children wrote about their favourite part of the stories and created art work based on tigers.  This afternoon we enjoyed having Year 1 come in and read their fantastic reports on tigers to us. In Phonics we have been learning the digraphs 'ur', 'ow', 'oi' and the trigraph 'ear'.  In Maths we have been learning about 1 more, 1 less and ordering numbers.  

Week Ending 19/01/2024

We have enjoyed finding out more about animals this week!  We have been classifying and sorting animals into groups (mammals, reptiles and birds) and have also learnt what the words 'carnivore' and 'herbivore' mean. We have looked closely at the features of animals and created our own observational drawings.  In Phonics we have been learning the digraphs 'oo', 'oo', 'ar' and 'or'.  In Maths we have been subitising numbers 1-5 and have been sorting numbers into ‘5’ and ‘not 5’.  Great work Reception!

Week Ending 12/01/2024

Our topic this term is 'Amazing Animals'.  This week we have been focusing on pets.  We enjoyed reading 'the Perfect Pet' and 'the Great Pet Sale' and wrote about pets using our knowledge of phonics to help us.  We have loved using our new whiteboard especially when playing the pet game! The digraphs and trigraphs we have been learning in Phonics this week are 'ai, ee, igh and oa'.   

In PSHE we have been learning about Perseverance.  The children were provided with a range of challenges such as building a house of cards, building cup towers, placing dominoes on a train track and building towers from bricks.   They did not give up when things got difficult! Well done Reception!

Week Ending 15/12/2023

This week we have been continuing to learn all about winter. We have identified birds that we may see and made some feeders for them as we know it can be hard for them to find food in winter.  'The Snowman' was one of our books of the week; the children used their acting skills to recreate the story in the hall by pretending to be the characters from the story.  In Phonics we have been using our knowledge of sounds to write words and used this knowledge to help us write in our Christmas card.  Well done for working hard Reception!

Week Ending 07/12/2023

The highlight of this week was performing our Nativity!  The children sang and acted beautifully- thank you for coming to watch them and all your support. On Wednesday the children enjoyed watching the ‘Chicken Shed’ performance of ‘The Toymaker’s child’ and talked enthusiastically about what they had seen.   Their behaviour was exemplary and they were a credit to the school. This week we have also talked about the story of Hanukkah and how it is celebrated.

Week Ending 01/12/2023

This week we have been learning about Space! We started off by investigating what our Earth looks like from Space then we journeyed to the moon and finally we have been looking at planets.  We enjoyed designing space suits for astronauts and completing our ‘moon experiment’ with cornflour and marbles.  In Maths we have been learning about ‘more’ and ‘less’.  

In Phonics we have been looking at words that end in 's'.  Next week we will be learning all about the season 'winter'.  Great work Reception!

Week Ending 24/11/2023

We have been learning all about nocturnal animals this week.  We read 'Owl Babies' and thought about their homes and our homes. We realised that mummy owl special to the owl babies so we thought about and wrote about special people in our lives and we wrote about the characters in the story. We learnt about owls and other animals that were nocturnal or diurnal. The children enjoyed creating their own owl baby paintings. In Maths we have been learning about positional language: through, under, over and around.  We used positional words to create an obstacle course outside.  In Phonics we have learnt the digraphs sh, th, ng, and nk.  Next week we will be learning about space.  Great work Reception!

Week Ending 17/11/2023

This week in Reception we have been celebrating 'World Nursery Rhyme week'.  The children have been wonderfully enthusiastic singers and musicians; they have thoroughly enjoyed the work based around the following rhymes:  Hickory Dickory Dock, Heads, shoulders, knees and toes, Jack and Jill, row, row, row your boat, and the wheels on the bus. A highlight this week has been making dream catchers- we used these when we were singing lullabies to try and get our role play babies to sleep.

In Phonics we have been learning the phoneme 'z' and the digraphs 'qu' and 'ch'.

For Anti-bullying week we talked about being kind and how to be a good friend.  We used our handprints to create a heart of kindness.  Well done Reception!

Next week we will be learning about nocturnal animals.

Week Ending 10/11/2023

This week the children have enjoyed reading the story of 'Rama and Sita' and learning about Diwali.  They wrote labels to go with pictures of the story, made playdough divas, made Rangoli patterns using loose parts and made puppets.  The children were able to retell parts of the story and some of them even acted out the story. Today we also learnt about why we wear poppies and painted our own poppies. In Maths we have looked at circles and triangles and we how we identify them.  For example, we say, 'this is a circle, I know this is a circle because it is round.  This is a triangle, I know it is a triangle because it has 3 straight sides and 3 corners'.  In Phonics we have learnt the sounds ‘v’w’x and y’.

Week Ending 3/11/2023

This week we have been reading ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy and ‘Night monkey, Day monkey’ by Julia Donaldson.  We enjoyed acting out both stories and using the big construction to make our own rocket.  We even enjoyed a picnic on the moon!  

Our adults have been really impressed with how we have been using our sounds to help us write words- we have written words to describe what we saw in the story and also to describe the sounds fireworks make.

In Maths we have been looking at and naming shapes - we created some super rocket pictures using shapes.  In Phonics we have been learning the digraphs ‘ff’, ‘ll’ and ‘ss’, we also learnt the sound ‘j’.  Well done for working hard Reception! 

Week Ending 13/10/2023

This week we have been learning about people who help us in our community.  We were very excited to have a visit by the Police and enjoyed looking at their car and hearing about all the work they do.  We also welcomed the Fireman and their fire engine to school.  We were amazed at all the equipment they had and listened very carefully when they explained what it was all for.  Thank you to the Police and the Firemen for coming to visit us!

In phonics this week we have been learning about h,b,f, and l.  A copy of our phonics presentation can be found at the top of our class page.

Week Ending 06/10/2023

We have had a wonderful week reading Autumn stories.  We read 'Pumpkin Soup' and then enjoyed creating and writing about our own 'silly soup'; we also looked at capacity and filled up containers using the language of capacity 'half full', 'nearly full' 'full' and 'empty'.  We also enjoyed reading 'leafman', we used lots of good describing words when looking at leaves and then had fun making our own 'leafman'.  Miss Reilly introduced us to our new art wall where we can display our work - we are looking forward to filling it up!  In phonics we have been learning ck, e, u and r.  Well done Reception!

Week Ending 29/09/2023

This week we have introduced 'zones of regulation' to the children.  We have learnt how to identify which zone we are in and the things we can do to help us get into the green zone.  We read ' How to fill your bucket up' and thought about what we could do to be a good friend to others.  In Maths we learnt about identifying when something is a match. We had great fun designing a pair of socks after reading the story Simon's Sock!

Week Ending 22/09/2023

This week a highlight of the week has been learning about Rosh Hashanah.  We listened very carefully to Miss Reilly explain all about it and then we enjoyed tasting apples dipped in honey. 

The children have also been learning all about our school in particular the people who work here and the children who learn here. 

In Phonics we have been learning about the sounds i,n,m,d.  The children have been fantastic at writing the sounds on their whiteboards- Great work Reception!

Week Ending 15/09/2023

We have had another wonderful week in Reception. The children have enjoyed staying for lunch; we have been impressed with how independent they have been with making their meal choices and eating their lunch- good work Reception!

The children have been brilliant at completing a full school day; an afternoon highlight was visiting our woodland area. We were fascinated with the bugs and conkers that we found!  Well done Reception for being so enthusiastic in your learning.

Week Ending 08/09/2023

Welcome to Newberries Year R!  We have been so impressed by how well you have settled into school.  This week we have been getting to know each other and our classroom.  The children have enjoyed using the resources in our learning environment and have participated enthusiastically in our 'getting to know you' games.  Well done Reception!

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Week Ending 14/07/2023

This week we have been reading 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' and 'The Train Journey'.  We have enjoyed finding out how lighthouses and trains work.  We have been busy writing items to go in a picnic basket, what we can see on a train journey, labelling a train and writing tickets! We loved seeing you on Celebration Afternoon and sharing our work with you.  A highlight of the week was visiting our new teacher and new classroom!  Well done for all your hard work this week Reception.

Week Ending 07/07/2023

We have been enjoying pirate stories and learning about maps and boats this week! Our pirate story was called ' The pirates next door'.  We drew and labelled pirates.  We learnt what a compass was and had fun making our own and also making star constellations - we learnt that these were what helped sailors to find their way when at sea.

We also read the story 'Come away from the water Shirley' and thought about the adventures we could have on the beach.  We looked at the different types of boat and then designed and made our own boat- we had fun testing them in our water tray!  In Maths we have been learning about subtraction and have created number sentences and stories about taking away.

Week Ending 30/06/2023

This week we have been learning about life in the ocean.  Our books of the week have been 'Hooray for fish' by Lucy Cousins and 'Surprising Sharks' by Nicola Davies.  The children have been interested to learn lots of facts about sharks and fish.  They have been labelling the parts of a fish and a shark and writing down information about these creatures.  In maths we have been looking at number bonds and used the maths equipment to investigate bonds to 10, we put our number sentences on fish to feed the hungry shark.  Reception did so brilliantly on their first sports day! They were enthusiastic to take part and showed good sportsmanship-Well done Reception, we are so proud of you!

Week Ending 23/06/2023

Our focus this week has been learning about rockpools.  We have enjoyed learning facts about some of the creatures that can be found in these environments.  We found out about what happens if a starfish loses its arm and we found out that the largest crab is a Japanese Spider crab and it can grow up to 4metres long!  A highlight of the week was participating in the drumming workshop.  Our books of the week have been 'sharing a shell' and 'one is snail, 10 is a crab'.  We linked these to our maths this week and the children were able to create number stories and sentences using fantastic maths reasoning - well done Reception!  We also enjoyed learning outside and created some pictures using natural materials. 

Week Ending 16/06/2023

This week we have introduced the children to our topic 'on the Beach'.  We read 'Clem and Crab' and 'who's hiding at the seaside?'.  We wrote our own clues about these characters based on what we had read.  The children created observational drawings and also look at the rubbish found on the beach and how this impacts the environment.  We talked about how animals have to stay in their own habitats to stay healthy.  In Maths we have continued to look at doubling and have also moved onto sharing.  We have been using our phonics skills to write sentences about what we can see at the seaside.  We have also enjoyed cmpleting water investigations too!

Week Ending 09/06/2023

The highlight of this week has been our visit to the Zoo!  The children had a wonderful time and we were so proud of each and everyone of them for being so attentive and interested in what we saw, for being caring and kind and for their excellent behaviour- Well done Reception! Here are some of their thoughts of our visit…

‘I liked the penguins’  Mia

‘I liked the tigers and the penguins’  Chloe

‘I liked the meerkats’ Tate

‘I liked the dinosaurs’ Olivia

‘I liked having lunch!’ Zack

‘I Liked the penguins because they eat fish and I like fish!’ Clara B

‘I liked the dinosaurs squirting water!’ Blake

‘I liked the king of the dinosaurs!’ Luca

'I liked everything'! Clara C

Week Ending 26/05/2023

This week we have been reading the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ and the ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’.  We really enjoyed our Huff and Puff investigation which involved investigating whether or not objects were air resistant.

We worked together to build new houses for the three little pigs and  bridges for the Billy goats to cross over the river.

In Maths we read ‘Mr Gumpy’s outing’ and created our own number stories involving the boat and the animals.  We created some super number sentences to go with our story.

Today we said goodbye to our butterflies and tadpoles; the children have really enjoyed watching them develop, they wrote them goodbye cards and waved to the butterflies as they flew away.

Week Ending 19/05/2023

In Reception this week the children have continued their learning about Fairy tales with a focus on Goldilocks and The Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood.  The children started the week by reading Goldilocks and The Three Bears and Who’s Been Eating My Porridge? and then made their own porridge after reading and writing instructions.  This was a yummy way to end the day.  We then read Little Red Riding Hood and some children wrote wanted posters to help Little Red Riding Hood keep the Fairy tale land characters safe, and some decided to help The Big Bad Wolf design some new disguises.  We ended the week as authors as lots of us chose to write the story of Little Red Riding Hood.   The children have been working hard on their phonics and you can find further information on the words they have been learning to read and write in the red Phonics book.   In Maths the children have been continuing to deepen their knowledge and understanding of teen numbers and have been thinking about the composition of teen numbers for example “ten and two makes twelve” and thinking about the ordering these using the terms; first, next, then.  

Well done Reception 🙂

Week Ending 12/05/2023

Reception had a wonderful week learning all about the coronation!  We started off by reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday’. This introduced us to London.  We spoke about our experiences of London and looked at London landmarks.  We made maps and models of the landmarks.  Reception then learnt about King Charles and painted some super portraits of him.  They enjoyed dressing up on Friday and were enthusiastic to share the rules they would make if they were on the throne! Other highlights included making flags, bunting, a carriage for the king and planting flowers.  Great job Reception! 

Week Ending 28/04/2023

This week the children have been introduced to our caterpillars and tadpoles and are very excited to watch them grow!  We have also looked at the festival of Eid and learnt how our friends celebrate Eid.  We were motivated when learning about St George and were enthusiastic to start our new topic 'once upon a time'.  We talked about Earth day and thought of ways to help protect our earth.  Today we enjoyed meeting the athlete Adrian Patrick and were very good at participating in a work-out with him!

Week Ending 21/04/2023

The children have had a great start back to school following the spring break!  This week we have been learning about minibeasts. The children enjoyed exploring the grounds as part of a minibeast hunt and learnt about the features of different minibeasts.  Our books this week have been: 'Sammy Spider's first Passover', 'Tadpoles Promise', 'Superworm', ' The Bumblebear' and 'the bad tempered ladybird'. As part of their learning about Passover, Reception also looked at the Seder plate and enjoyed sampling Matzahs. In Phonics we have started learning Phase 4 and in Maths we have been looking at the composition of numbers beyond 10.

Week Ending 31/03/2023

This week we have been learning about the season Spring and also Easter traditions.  We have talked about Holy week and today we learnt about the Hindu festival of Holi .  We learnt that Holi is known as the 'festival of spring' or the 'festival of colours'.  Miss D showed us some Easter eggs that are used to decorate homes in Romania; we loved looking at the pretty patterns that had been painted onto the eggs.  Great work this term Reception-well done! We hope you all have wonderful spring break!

Week Ending 24/03/2023

Well done for a great performance in our assembly today Reception! We are all so proud of you.  The children have been singing the songs all week and enjoying learning related to 'what the ladybird heard'. They have been using their phonics brilliantly to create wanted posters, maps and to write about their favourite part of the story.  In Maths we have really enjoyed learning about patterns and have created lots of patterns using pegs, chalk, natural materials and Lego.  In Phonics we have been learning to write longer and compound words. Keep up the good work Reception!

Week Ending 17/03/2023

In Reception we have been continuing our topic of 'growing' and have linked it to Science Week.  We set up an experiment with four seeds - one was in a bag with no light, one was in bag with soil but no water, one was in a bag with cotton wool and water and the final seed was in a bag with soil and water.  All the bags were taped to the window.  The children have been so excited to see what happened to these seeds so please ask them! We have also been investigating wheels and cars and working out which cars go fastest and why this might be.  In Maths we have been adding seeds together and measuring the distance our cars went.  In Phonics we have been looking at words with two or more digraphs. Fantastic work Reception- well done!

Week Ending 10/03/2023

This week we had lots of fun learning more about dinosaurs! We loved taking part in the 'dinosaur dig' workshop. We met some dinosaurs- a baby triceratops, a baby velociraptor and a baby t-rex.  The children experienced being palaeontologists and completed their own dinosaur dig where they found dinosaur teeth, claws and bones.  They used these clues to work out if the dinosaurs were herbivores or carnivores.  We also explored fossils that belonged to other animals and plants that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. 

Week Ending 03/03/2023

As part of 'World Book Day' one of our books this week was 'Charlie Cook's Favourite Book' by Julia Donaldson.  We confidently spoke in front of the class to tell them our favourite book and on 'World Book Day' we confidently showed and explained our costumes to our friends.  We have also enjoyed reading 'The Barnabus Project' and thought carefully about what our pet would be.  In Maths we were fantastic at counting the treasure in the the treasure box and wrote some wonderful number sentences on our boards.  In Phonics we are practising identifying digraphs and trigraphs in words.  We have enjoyed all our learning on World Book Day- a highlight was creating characters out of spoons and then using these to make up our own stories!

Week Ending 24/02/2023

This week have introduced our dinosaur topic! The children have enjoyed learning about all the different dinosaurs and about the role of paleontologists.  A highlight of the week was discovering how volcanoes worked.  The children remembered all the parts of a volcano and were very enthusiastic when watching the volcano experiment!  In Phonics we have been practising reading words and sounds learnt so far- the children enjoyed playing phonics pancakes.   

Week Ending 10/02/2023

This week we have been learning about e-safety and enjoyed listening to Smartie the penguin telling us all about how to stay safe when we are using a computer or a tablet.  Our books of the week have been 'The Ugly Five' and 'The Koala who could'.  We talked about all the things we could do now and shared the things we are good at-which included hulu-hooping, making 22 links in a paper chain and domino maths! In Phonics we have been learning how to read longer words and in Maths we have been learning about 6 and 7.  After half term we will be learning about dinosaurs.  We hope you have a wonderful half term!

Week Ending 03/02/2023

Our book of the week has been 'the tiger who came to tea' which we linked to our work on endangered animals.  The children wrote about their favourite part of the story and created art work based on tigers.  In P.E we have enjoyed learning some new games.  In Maths the children have been investigating heavier and lighter objects; we have been really impressed at their explanations when comparing objects.  In Phonics we have been learning about 'air' and 'er' and words with double letters e.g. rabbit.

Week Ending 27/01/2023

This week the children have been very interested in our learning about Lunar New Year.  They listened carefully to the story of the Great Race and then acted it out.  We found out where China is on the map and worked together to create the Great Wall of China.  A highlight of the week was trying noodles!  The children have also enjoyed making lanterns, dragons and writing about dragons.  In Phonics we have been learning the digraphs 'ur', 'ow', 'oi' and the trigraph 'ear'.  In Maths we have been learning about ordering numbers.  Next week we will be learning about 'Animal Tales'.

Week Ending 20/01/2023

We have enjoyed finding out more about animals this week! We have learnt what the words 'carnivore' and 'herbivore' mean and sorted animals out into these categories.  We have looked closely at the features of animals and created our own observational drawings.  In Phonics we have been learning the digraphs 'oo', 'oo', 'ar' and 'or'.  In Maths we have learnt about 'equal' and 'not equal'.  Next week we will be learning about Lunar New Year.

Week Ending 13/01/2023

Our topic this term is 'Amazing Animals'.  This week we have been focusing on pets.  We enjoyed reading 'the Perfect Pet' and 'the Great Pet Sale' and wrote about pets using our knowledge of phonics to help us.  In Maths we chose pets from the shop and worked out how much money we needed to pay for them; we carefully recorded what we had done on our whiteboards.  The digraphs and trigraphs we have been learning in Phonics this week are 'ai, ee, igh and oa'.  Next week we will be learning about animals that have scales, fur and feathers.  

Week Ending 16/12/2022

This week we have been continuing to learn all about winter. We have identified birds that we may see and made some feeders for them as we know it can be hard for them to find food in winter.  Reception created some wonderful penguin pictures and enjoyed creating a winter bird card for their families.  'The Snowman' was one of our books of the week; the children used their acting skills to recreate the story in the hall by pretending to be the characters from the story.  We also enjoyed our visit to the pantomime on Tuesday!

Week Ending 09/12/2022

The highlight of this week was performing our Nativity!  The children sang and acted beautifully- thank you for coming to watch them and all your support. 

We have been learning all about 'winter' this week.  We started off by reading 'the Gruffalos child' and created our own observational drawings of what we may see in winter.  We enjoyed going on a frosty walk and used some fantastic vocabulary to discuss what we could see 'spiky frost' and 'glittering ice' were some of the words we were using.  In Phonics we have been consolidating the sounds we have learnt so far; we are so proud of how much we have learnt during our first term at Newberries- Well done Reception!

Week Ending 02/12/2022

This week we have been learning about Space! We started off by investigating what our Earth looks like from Space then we journeyed to the moon and finally we have been looking at planets.  We enjoyed listening to 'Jupiter' by Holst and talked about how the music made us feel.  The children have been amazing when learning all about our value of the month 'perseverance'.  We set them a variety of challenges and they kept going when it was tricky and were wonderful at encouraging each other, 'don't give up!' was what we heard them telling their friends! In Phonics we have been looking at words that end in 's'.  Next week we will be learning all about the season 'winter'.  Great work Reception!

Week Ending 25/11/2022

We have been learning all about nocturnal animals this week.  We read 'Owl Babies' and thought about their homes and our homes.  We learnt about owls and other animals that were nocturnal or diurnal.

The children enjoyed creating their own owl baby paintings.  In Maths we have been learning about positional language: through, under, over and around.  We used positional words to create an obstacle course outside.  In Phonics we have learnt the digraphs sh, th, ng, and nk.  Next week we will be learning about space.  Great work Reception!

Week Ending 18/11/2022

This week in Reception we have been celebrating 'World Nursery Rhyme week'.  The children have been wonderfully enthusiastic singers and musicians; they have thoroughly enjoyed the work based around the following rhymes:  1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive, The big ship sails on the Ally-Ally-O, five little speckled frogs, B.I.N.G.O the dog and twinkle twinkle little star.

In Phonics we have been learning the phoneme 'z' and the digraphs 'qu' and 'ch'.

For Anti-bullying week we talked about being kind and how to be a good friend.  We used our handprints to create a heart of kindness.  Well done Reception!

Next week we will be learning about nocturnal animals.

Week Ending 11/11/2022

This week in Reception we have been learning about night time. We have talked about people who work at night, our bedtime routine and the importance of brushing our teeth.  For World Science Day we soaked eggs (representing our teeth) into different liquids and then talked about what had happened to the eggs.  The children made some thoughtful observations and used scientific vocabulary ('predict' and 'observe'). We also completed the STEM cup challenge which was to build a tall tower using only 20 cups.  In phonics we learnt to read and write w,x,y,z and are using our segmenting and blending to read lots of words.  Next week is world nursery rhyme week so we will be basing our learning around nursery rhymes.

Today we learnt about Remembrance day and why we wear poppies.  We created our own poppy pictures and were able to explain about Remembrance day.  

Week Ending 04/11/2022

The children have settled back into school really well following half term.  This week we have enjoyed reading 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy.  We made a list of all the things baby bear could take to the moon.  We participated enthusiastically in our PE lesson and have been learning a variety of positions including 'pencil' and 'star'.  In Phonics we have learnt the digraphs 'll' 'ss' 'ff' and the sound 'j'. We have also been learning about the story of Guy Fawkes and created our own poem and pictures.  Next week we will be continuing to learn about night time. Well done Reception!

Week Ending 21/10/2022

This week we have been learning about Divali.  We learnt all about how Divali is the festival of light and we found out how it is  celebrated; we also had fun making Rangoli patterns and Diva lamps.  We have continued to enjoy exploring Autumn and a highlight of this week was investigating pumpkins and what they look like inside.   We finished the week by reading 'Room on the Broom' and used our knowledge of sounds to create ingredients for the witch so that she could have a new 'truly magnificent broom'. 

We hope you all have a wonderful half term and look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 1st November.

Week Ending 14/10/2022

Autumn has been our focus this week.  We enjoyed sharing our treasures that we had collected over the weekend and used some fantastic describing words.  In Maths we had fun investigating capacity and making 'silly soup'. We have also enjoyed reading stories relating to Autumn and created some fantastic pictures.  Well done for working hard Reception!

Week Ending 7/10/2022

This week we have been learning about people who help us.  We really enjoyed having a visit from the police and  paramedics!  Reception have also been working really hard on their phonics this week and are recognising lots of sounds and words - Great work Reception!

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Week Ending 15/7/2022

This week we have been learning about people who help us.  We read ‘Snail and the Whale’ and ‘Zog and the Flying Doctors’.  We enjoyed finding out about all the roles within the rescue services.

We have done much of our learning outside this week enjoying the shade of the oak tree and the meadow! We have been sharing story books and helping each other to find tricky words; digraphs and trigraphs.  We have either read the story books or told a story from the pictures.  We have worked with our talk partners to gather pieces of nature to create our own pictures.  We worked carefully and shared our work confidently with the class.  We also used nature to make 3 sets of repeating patterns with our talk partner.

In phonics we have been reviewing words with long vowel sounds and practising reading and writing all the digraphs and trigraphs we have been learning about this year.

In Maths we have been playing ‘mystery number’ and have been giving our friends clues so that they could guess our number.  We have also been practising our adding and subtracting skills and played games with dice and skittles to practise counting.

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 8/7/2022

The highlight of the week has been sports day! The children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in all the races.  They were determined, perseverant and displayed great sportsmanship - well done Reception!

In PSHE we have been reflecting on our time in Reception and written about what we are looking forward to in Year 1.

In Phonics we have been reviewing words with long vowel sounds in them and revising digraphs.  

Our books of the week have been ‘The Pirates Next door’ and ‘Come away from the Water, Shirley’.  We have enjoyed finding out more about pirates, creating our own compasses and maps and also designing our own boats.  We have written about the adventures we might have if we were on the beach for a day.

In Maths we have been creating subtraction number stories and also investigating different ways of making the same number. 

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 1/7/2022

This week we have been learning about life in the ocean.  We have been finding out more about fish and sharks and have been labelling diagrams using the new vocabulary that we have learnt.  We have also been continuing to write facts about the sea life we have been exploring.

In PSHE we have been looking at how we have changed since we were babies.  We have enjoyed looking at our own photos and sharing these with the class and talking about what we can do now compared to what we could do when we were younger.

In phonics we have been reviewing words with long vowel sounds and practising reading and writing all the digraphs and trigraphs we have been learning about this year.

In Maths we have been acting out and recording our own number stories based on the story ‘Mr Gumpy’s boat’.  We had to choose a number and then create the boat crew with the same amount of legs. So for example if we chose the number 8 we could then choose a duck, a cow, and a person because their legs added together would make 8.  We challenged ourselves to find lots of different ways of creating the same number. 

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 24/6/2022

‘Sharing a shell’ and ‘One is a snail, two is crab’  have been our books of the week as this week we have been learning all about rockpools and the creatures that live in them, particularly starfish and crabs.

The children have been fascinated by the new facts they have been learning and have shared these enthusiastically throughout their learning through play.

‘Crabs communicate by drumming their claws’ Nia.

‘A pea crab is 2cm long’ Eddie.

‘Starfish have legs that grow back’ Joe

‘A crab has a hard shell’ Asterix .

A Japanese Spider crab can grow up to 4m long’ William.

‘Once a crab has grown out of its shell, it gets in order with other crabs and they swap shells’. Lilly

‘Starfish move around using their suckers’ Millie.

We have been writing facts, drawing pictures and making models to represent the creatures we have been learning about.

In PSHE we have been learning all about healthy eating and really enjoyed making a fruit salad! The children apples, banana, apple juice and pineapple.  Everyone said their fruity salad was delicious!

In PE we have been practising for sports day and have been perfecting our long jump and egg and spoon skills.

In Maths we have been remembering how to count in 2s and 10s and have used this information to add numbers.  In our story ‘One is a Snail, two is a crab’ we have been counting how many legs we can see on the seashore and then creating our own number stories.

Well done for working hard this week Reception; we are impressed with how much you have remembered!

Week Ending 17/6/2022

This week we have completed some follow up work from our zoo visit and we have started our new topic ‘on the beach’.

The children thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the zoo last week and were able to remember lots about it!  We talked about what had happened and the order that it happened; then using the language of ‘first, next, then, finally’ the children wrote fantastic recounts about the day.

Our books of the week have been ‘Clem and Crab’  and ‘Lucy and Tom at the Seaside’.  We have been learning about how to look after our beaches and wrote posters to tell others what they could do to help.  The children have enjoyed finding out what creatures live on the seashore and have completed some wonderful pictures with captions during Learning Through Play.

In Phonics we have been reading words that end in -ing (swimming, twisting, snapping) and -est (strongest, freshest) and -ed (smashed, bumped, trusted, melted).  The children work so hard to blend, segment and write these words - Well done Reception!

In Maths we have been working on halving and sharing.  We know that when we share amounts they have to be equal.  Reception enjoyed working outside to use natural materials (such as sticks and stones) to practise halving and sharing quantities.

Week Ending 26/5/2022

We have had a fantastic Jubilee themed week! We read the story ‘What the Ladybird heard on Holiday’ and we enjoyed learning about London.  We drew maps of London landmarks and used the construction to build our own.  We wrote mini books with pictures and labels of what you can see in London.  We have been learning about the Queen and really enjoyed making crowns and creating portraits.  We learnt the National Anthem and sang it brilliantly after the picnic today.  At the picnic we enjoyed playing croquet and pin the tail on the corgi!

Well done Reception for all your hard work this week and over this half of term.  We would like to wish you all a very happy half term and look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 7th June.

Week Ending 20/5/2022

This week the King of Story Land requested that we give him some stories!  So we have been busy creating and making our own characters.  We wrote a list of the good and bad characters that we knew and then wrote character descriptions; we also drew the homes that they lived in.  We made a fairytale map to show where everybody lives.  One of our favourite learning experiences this week was designing and making our own spoon characters!  We used our characters and worked together to act out a story to the class. Our adults were so impressed with our confidence and the story telling language we used that we all got a head teachers award!!

The King of Story Land loved the book of stories that we created for him - the children told him that stories have a beginning, middle and end and reminded him that sentences have a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.  The King was very impressed with the stories that the children wrote.

In Maths we have been working on understanding what ‘less’ means and creating our own take away number stories.  The children were fantastic at using the tens frames to show their understanding of taking away.

Well done for working hard Reception!

Week Ending 13/5/2022

This week we have enjoyed our work on ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Rapunzel’. On Tuesday we received a letter from Rapunzel asking for our help to make new rules for a kingdom.  We confidently shared and explained our ideas on the carpet.  We also had to write a spell to make the dragon sleepy and were able to use our phonics successfully to write our ideas down.

We have been looking at pictures of kings and queens in the past.  The children were very interested in the clothes that were worn by royalty and noticed that in most pictures the king or queen was holding a sceptre and orb.  They used fantastic words to write a description of the pictures and then enjoyed creating a picture of themselves as a future king or queen. 

In Maths we have continued to look at the composition of numbers beyond 10 and have also been explaining the properties of 2d shapes.  We went on a shape hunt outside and discovered that circles were the most popular shape in our environment. 

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 6/5/2022

This week in Reception children have been continuing their ‘Once Upon a Time..’ topic and have been focussing on ‘Animal Tales’.  We have been reading ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’.  The children have been enjoying retelling these stories through role play and have been considering the thoughts and feelings of the different characters and using the repeated phrases from the stories such as ‘I’ll huff and I'll puff and I’ll blow your house down’. They have helped The Three Little Pigs design and build strong houses and helped The Three Billy Goats Gruff build new strong bridges to help them cross the river after investigating the materials used.  Some children also investigated air as a force while taking part in our Huff and Puff investigation.  They ended the week by creating a variety of story maps and story writing using their phonics.

Week Ending 29/4/2022

Our books of the week this week have been ‘Golilocks and the Three Bears’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.  The children have participated enthusiastically in all learning experiences.  A highlight of the week was tasting porridge! We talked about the importance of having a healthy breakfast and discussed the healthy options we could have.

In Phonics Reception have been consolidating reading and writing phase 3 sounds.  We have also been continuing to read longer words and enjoyed playing a woodland themed game where we had to read words and then move along the spaces.  Lots of children enjoyed writing baby bear a sorry letter from Goldilocks, they are trying very hard to write sentences and remember capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

In Maths we are deepening our understanding of number bonds.  Using Numicom and marbles we have created number sentences to show that we can find all of 10’s friends!

Finally we have learnt and performed two songs related to our ‘once upon a time’ topic.  We hope you enjoy watching them!

Week Ending 22/4/2022

This week we have started our theme ‘tell me a story’.  The children have been sharing their knowledge of fairy tales by explaining about the different characters and what happens in the story.  We have been using adjectives to describe characters and then used questions to guess which character our friends had.  

The class role play area has been turned into a castle and the children have been imaginative when performing stories in it.  The children then turned their performances into written stories and really impressed us with their imaginative language and perseverance when having a go at writing parts or all of a story.  

In Maths we have been deepening our understanding of addition and subtraction and have played games to consolidate this.

In Phonics we have been learning to read longer words and to look carefully at words ending in -ing.

Reception have worked really hard this week- well done!

Week Ending 1/4/2022

We have been learning about Spring this week.  We looked at and discussed Spring poems and then had a go at composing our own poems using our phonics knowledge.

We loved reading ‘bog babies’ and painted some amazing ‘bog babies; of our own.

We were interested to find out how people celebrate Easter and were attentive when listening to the Easter story.   We enjoyed being outside, working in our groups to create mini spring gardens.

The highlight of the week was seeing that our caterpillars have turned into butterflies!  We were so pleased when we came in on Friday morning to discover the butterflies.  The children were very knowledgeable about the lifecycle of a caterpillar and were delighted to watch this process.  Today we also said goodbye to our tadpoles as they have been put back in the pond.  The children decided on a goodbye message to the tadpoles and then wrote goodbye cards to them ‘To Tadpoles, we hope you had  a nice time with us’.

We have had a wonderful Spring term with your children and hope you all have a lovely break over the holidays.

Week Ending 25/3/2022

We have had a wonderful week learning all about growing!  We have enjoyed reading ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and ‘Jasper’s beanstalk’.  Miss Reilly showed us how to plant a bean and then we planted our own.  We made a castle to go with it so that when our beanstalk has grown, Jack will be able to climb it to reach the castle.

We read ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ and created a shopping list and a recipe to make soup.  We carefully peeled and chopped some vegetables and have made our own vegetable soup.  It was delicious!

In Phonics we have been reading words with double letters and have continued to practice reading and writing longer words. In Maths we have continued to practise counting on from any number and finding the total of a group of objects.  We counted different arrangements of vegetables and talked about if there are eight carrots and eight potatoes then there is an equal amount of vegetables.

We have really been enjoying watching the tadpoles grow bigger and are excited that our caterpillars are now in cocoons! 

We finished the week with a science workshop! It was great fun, we learnt about even though we can’t see air we know it is there- we did an experiment using balls and a hairdrier and then a very big ball and a very big drier.   We also learnt about forces and gravity; and did an experiment where we popped lids out of pots and they fell back down.  We had such a wonderful time!

Week Ending 18/3/2022

This week we have been reading ‘what the ladybird heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks.  The children have been very motivated to write and have enjoyed making wanted posters, speech bubbles and writing a sentence about their favourite part of the story.

In PSHE we have been learning about the importance of getting a good night’s sleep and we have talked about and written about our bedtime routines.

To mark Science week we have continued to observe our tadpoles and have been on a tree walk around the grounds.  On Thursday we worked with our Year 6 friends; we learnt lots of interesting facts about worms and then we really enjoyed going on a worm hunt – we found lots of worms!  We learnt that worms have 5 pairs of hearts and that they have strong muscles to move around the soil.  We learnt that being a worm can be dangerous as so many creatures like eating them.

In Phonics we are getting very confident at recognising digraphs and trigraphs within words and are using our knowledge to help us read and write words.

In Maths we have been counting on from any number.  We can look at an arrangement of dots and without counting them we can say how many there are.

Week Ending 11/3/2022

This week we have been learning Chinese New Year. We collaged chinese lanterns and coloured flags. We learnt that noodles were hard and then they turned soft.  We tried using chopsticks! We really enjoyed trying the noodles, they were delicious!

We learnt that each Chinese new year is named after an animal.  This year is the year of the tiger.  We found out that we could have been born in the year of the monkey or rooster.

In Phonics we have been learning about the sounds ‘oo, ar, and or’, the children are getting very good at blending new digraphs for reading and segmenting for spelling and are gaining confidence when writing independently.

In Maths we have been learning about ordering numbers and being able to say the numbers that come before and after a number.

Keep up the good work Reception!

Week Ending 4/3/2022

We have been very busy learning this week!  We have continued to find out more about dinosaurs and this week we learnt that palaeontologists have to work carefully to find bones and fossils in the ground.  We explored our own dinosaur dig and found out about Mary Anning.  We discovered some dinosaurs were herbivores and others were carnivores; we looked at clues such as coprolites (fossilised dinosaur poo) and teeth to help us sort the dinosaurs.  On pancake day we enjoyed reading Mr Wolf’s pancakes and especially tasting pancakes!

For World Book Day we had fun showing our outfits to our friends!  We were motivated to complete all the reading challenges that Year 6 set us which included decorating a potato and creating a book cover.  A highlight of the day was when Year 6 came to read stories to us.

Please make sure the reading books and records are in school everyday so we can hear your child read.

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 25/2/2022

Welcome back after the half term break!  The children have had a wonderful week learning all about dinosaurs! Our books of the week have been ‘Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs’ and ‘Dinosaur Roar’.  We have been learning that adjectives are describing words and using these words to make sentences about dinosaurs.  A highlight of the week was going out onto the playground and measuring how long dinosaurs were – we couldn’t believe that they were so long!  In Maths we have been working together to measure and weigh our small world dinosaurs.  In our shared reading sessions we have enjoyed reading our books and have started to take these books home to share with our families.  Please make sure the reading books and records are in school everyday so we can hear your child read.

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 11/2/2022

This week we have been learning about well-being and E-safety.  We started the week by reading ‘The Ugly Five’ by Julia Donaldson.  We found out that the animals were not afraid to be themselves and they were proud and positive about who they were. We thought about the things that made us proud and positive – we wrote these down and drew pictures. 

We also thought about what activities made us feel good.  We have been very creative at the art table and have enjoyed performing songs using the musical instruments and scarves.

Reception have also learnt about how to be safe when using the computer or tablets. They listened to the story of ‘Smartie the Penguin’ and talked about the scenarios  ‘Smartie’ encountered. 

Here are some of the thoughts of the children about their week:

‘We keep safe on the computer by checking with an adult before we click’.  Millie

‘We don’t use our tablet or computer on our own; we make sure an adult is nearby’. Noah

‘Always ask an adult before we go on our tablet.’ Georgia

‘Playing with my friends helps me to feel good.’ Annabelle

‘Remember to be grateful for what we have’.  Freddie

‘Be happy and smile’.  Morgan

Keep up the good work Reception!

Week Ending 4/2/2022

This week we have been learning Chinese New Year. We collaged chinese lanterns and coloured flags. We learnt that noodles were hard and then they turned soft.  We tried using chopsticks! We really enjoyed trying the noodles, they were delicious!  

We learnt that each Chinese new year is named after an animal.  This year is the year of the tiger.  We found out that we could have been born in the year of the monkey or rooster. 

In Phonics we have been learning about the sounds ‘oo, ar, and or’, the children are getting very good at blending new digraphs for reading and segmenting for spelling and are gaining confidence when writing independently.

In Maths we have been learning about ordering numbers and being able to say the numbers that come before and after a number.

Keep up the good work Reception!

Week Ending 28/1/2022

We have really enjoyed reading ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr.  The children have written shopping lists, mini books and also written about their favourite part of the story.  We had fun creating a tea party in our outside classroom and some of us turned our role play area into a cafe and wrote menus and messages to go inside. The children created some wonderful tigers which we have hung up in our Art area.

In Phonics we have been learning about the sounds ‘ai, ee, igh and oa’, the children have been very motivated to read and write words with these sounds in.

In Maths we have been learning about directional and positional language, we drew maps of our walk from home to school and explained our routes carefully.

Well done Reception!

Week Ending 21/1/2022

This week we have continued to focus our learning around the ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell.  We have learnt about the life cycle of owls and made little books to sequence this cycle.  A highlight of the week was making playdough on Wednesday and then edible rice crispy nests.  We used our phonics to write a shopping list for all the ingredients we would need and then had fun making!  We also used our phonics to write a book review and wrote about our favourite part of the story.

In Maths we have been looking at ‘more and less’ and then comparing groups of objects to work out how many ‘more or less’ are in each group.

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 14/1/2022

Our book of the week is ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell.  We have enjoyed a variety of learning activities related to the story.  At the beginning of the week the children looked at the home of the owl babies (which we learnt are known as owlets)  and then had a go at describing the home that they as children live in.   We then found out about homes around the world including mud houses and igloos.  In PCSHE we have been working on perseverance, resilience and challenge so Miss Reilly challenged us to build homes using a variety of materials- for example we used sugar lumps to create igloos and lolly sticks to create houses.   In Literacy we discussed how Mummy Owl makes the babies feel and we decided they felt loved and safe.  We talked about and wrote about who our favourite people are and why they are special to us.  Reception also enjoyed looking at owl feathers and drawing their own owls.

Great work Reception!

Week Ending 10/12/2021

This week we have been learning about the season ‘Winter’.  We have enjoyed reading winter stories and labelling winter pictures.  The children were very interested in learning about animals that hibernate; they made lists of what they thought the animals would need for hibernation and then created animal homes for hibernating creatures.  Today we talked about Christmas jumper day and thought about all the things we were thankful for.

A highlight of the week was performing our Nativity play to you; the children were confident to act and sing and were so proud of themselves!  We have uploaded a photograph of your child in costume to Tapestry.

Well done Reception!

Week Ending 3/12/2021

Our theme this week has been bears’.  The children enthusiastically joined in with ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, and ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? By Bill Martin jnr and Eric Carle. The class are continuing to use their knowledge of phonics to write mini books and lists and are proud to share these with their friends.  In PSHE we have been looking at what makes a good friend and have been making friendship potions. We have been practising acting and singing for our Nativity and are looking forward to showing it to you next week.

Reception have also enjoyed reading a variety of space stories- they have been reading ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy, ‘Here come the Aliens’ by Colin Mcnaughton and ‘Aliens love underpants’ by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort. The children have engaged well with all the learning opportunities this week. They enthusiastically acted out the story, they discovered how craters are formed by taking part in a science experiment, they used their imagination to invent their own aliens and learnt how to do a tally chart to find out which alien was our favourite.  Reception have been using their knowledge of phonics to write lists and label pictures.  Well done for all your hard work this week Reception!

Week Ending 19/11/2021

This week children in Reception have enjoyed participating in World Nursery Rhyme Week 2021.   Children focused on a different nursery rhyme each day including; Incy Wincy Spider, Sleeping Bunnies, Wind The Bobbin, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, and Down In The Jungle and participated in lots of different activities throughout the week and had lots of fun! They enjoyed acting out each nursery rhyme and using their knowledge of phonics to write some words to go with each rhyme. We have been really impressed with how hard the children are working on segmenting and blending words for both reading and writing.  

As part of Anti-Bullying week we have been focussing on kindness and how we can show kindness to other children. We linked our learning to ‘Have you filled your bucket today’ by Susan McCloud and have been thinking of ways that we can fill other children’s buckets up.

Miss Reilly, Mrs Baxter, Ms Hanns and Mrs Wren

Week Ending 12/11/2021

This week in Reception Children have been taking part in Children’s Book Week and World Science Day. 

For Children’s Book Week children were introduced to ‘Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book’ and then used this stimulus to understand that a book is an adventure and that by reading you can go anywhere through your imagination. Children visited a treasure island, a castle and space with Charlie Cook. They then shared their favourite stories and discussed their favourite part of the story.

Stories are an important part of Education and we want every child to be a reader. For more information please visit https://everychildareader.net/cbw/ 

Children have also been sent home with a book from the book trust called ‘I am a Tiger’. 

For World Science Day we linked our investigation to our book of the week.  We talked about what might happen to a ‘leaky pirate ship’  and then investigated objects which could float or sink in water.

Children’s stories provide a great context for learning science. There are lots of books that help children to develop their understanding and vocabulary of Science, such as Peace at last which focuses on sound, The Gruffalo’s Child which introduces shadows as part of light understanding and Oliver’s Vegetables which focuses on growing and being healthy. There are also lots of information books available to develop understanding of Space, Minibeasts and lots more etc.

Week Ending 1/10/2021

This week in Reception children have been reading ‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers. The story looks at where we are and shows us how we belong. Children have been thinking about what makes their world wonderful and particularly enjoyed an introduction to Sir David Attenbrough. In Phonics we have been practising reading and writing using the sounds ‘s, a and t’. The children really enjoyed making toast as part of their learning!  We have been practising counting by making sure we point carefully to objects as we count them; the children enjoyed arranging and counting natural objects from the woods.

Week Ending 24/09/2021

This week we have been learning about the stories that are associated with our group names so we have enjoyed reading Elmer, The Hungry Caterpillar, Kipper, Rainbow Fish and The Gruffalo.  We have been impressed with the children’s listening skills and how they are able to retell the stories they have heard.  Reception have been very motivated to complete the challenges we have set them relating to each story- keep up the good work Reception!  We have also been continuing to enjoy our time in the grounds and have been looking at conker shells, conkers and talking about all the creatures and seeds that we have been finding. 

Week Ending 17/09/2021

We have had another wonderful week in Reception. The children have enjoyed staying for lunch; we have been impressed with how independent they have been with making their meal choices and eating their lunch- good work Reception!

Even though we had a very rainy start to the week the children enjoyed singing in the rain and were very motivated in their first PE lesson.

The children have been brilliant at completing a full school day; an afternoon highlight was visiting our meadow. We found a baby frog (and learnt it was called a froglet), we also looked at the different types of leaves on the meadow floor and made some pictures using what we had found.  Well done Reception for being so enthusiastic in your learning.

Week Ending 10/09/2021

Reception have had a wonderful start to school this week! The children have settled well into routines and expectations and have started to develop lots of positive relationships. They have really enjoyed getting to know each other (and we have really enjoyed getting to know them!)  and they have become familiar with their classroom. Highlights this week have included playing in our role play area, enjoying the outside area, exploring the castle and playing games in our circle on the carpet.