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1 April 2021

Treat Everyone With Kindness

During this week we have talked and learnt about differences!  We remembered our work during Lockdown about how important it is to ‘be ourselves!’  We listened to The Ugly Duckling story and the children said how unkind the other ducklings were to him!  We watched the Ollie and Daisy video about…

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19 March 2021

Celebrating the Feast Day of St. Joseph

On 19th March the people of Italy honour and give thanks to St. Joseph, the patron Saint of Workers.  As 2021 has been declared the Year of St. Joseph, we too have celebrated St. Joseph.  We all wore red.  As he was a Carpenter, we have built with wood, dressed up as St. Joseph, made models with…

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13 March 2021

Fabulous Fun in Reception!

We came back to School and were so pleased and excited to see all our friends! To add to the excitement, we have new Outdoor equipment to help us to learn more through Outdoor Play, from bats and balls and our new Basketball Hoop, to planks and stumps of wood so we can create our own obstacle…

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13 March 2021

Spectacular Space Science

On our return to School, our Topic is ‘Whatever Next,’ the story about Little Bear that created a rocket out of a cardboard box and flew to the moon!  This coincided with Science Week so we decided to carry out some Space Science!  From fizzing planets, making moon craters and shining stars, we…

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8 March 2021

Sharing Stories on World Book Day

Our theme for this year’s World Book Day was Sharing Stories!  We dressed up or wore our pyjamas and shared stories with our Grown Ups and told stories which we recorded and sent via Class Dojo!  We love books and had a really exciting day, especially as we have learnt about the author Julia…

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9 February 2021

Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week

We had lots of fun this week! Our story was the Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson and we used this to think about our PSHE, particularly mental health.  We did lots of talking about emotions and what makes us happy! We know that we must talk about worries if we have them but we can also…

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2 February 2021

Magic from Our Reception Children

Along with their work on shape and number and following all their Speed Sound sessions, the Reception children talked about the Gruffalo’s friend, the kind witch, who invited all her animal friends to share her broom until it was too heavy and it snapped in two!  The children were challenged to…

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25 January 2021

Lovely Learning at home

Our Reception children are learning about The Gruffalo and his friends! We have introduced and talked about the author Julia Donaldson and all the super stories that she wrote!  The children have made, baked and created Gruffalo pictures, food, models and puppets.  We’ve looked at settings and…

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10 December 2020

Christmas Capers in Reception

We have been so excited to find magical visitors have been in our Classroom overnight!  The children have asked questions, used fabulous storytelling vocabulary to work out and find out what is happening!  Santa, the Elves and the Fairies have played an important part in our learning over the last…

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20 November 2020

Odd socks and rainbows

This week we started the week wearing odd socks! This was to kick start our learning about bullying for anti bullying week! The odd socks told us that it’s ok to be different and to be proud just to be ourselves! Mrs Bear celebrated her big birthday and we helped her to celebrate with lots of…

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13 November 2020

Remembering in Reception

We all wore red on 11th November to remember all the soldiers who have gone away to fight in wars so that we can live freely and safely! We have played with red sand, made poppies out of dough, completed observational paintings and painted on a large scale outside!  We noticed in Bear Hunt that…

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9 November 2020

Spooky fun in Reception

During this week we have enjoyed listening to lots of stories about pumpkins!  We made Cinderella’s Coach by melting wax crayons on it, we made and tasted pumpkin soup, we enjoyed sparklers on Bonfire Night and made up fantastic stories about broomsticks and magic!  
 

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