Reception

In Reception we celebrated World Book day by reading our favourite stories and dressing up as our favourite character. The children had a story while drinking some hot chocolate and Year 3 even came into our class and shared some stories with us. 
 

In Reception we were learning about St Bridget on her feast day on the 1st February. The children found out that she was very kind and that she helped others and she was also known as St Bridget from Ireland. They then created her special cloak making their own piece of patchwork art. What a…

In Maths we have been learning about how to find different ways to make numbers. We made different numbers with objects, dots and using dominoes. The children then made their own ladybirds and added a number of dots to each one. 
 

Our topic in Reception at the moment is Space. We have been making rockets and tissue paper planets and we made our own aliens out of the clay. The children rolled the clay and then used their hands and mark making tools to make their aliens. We left them to air dry and then painted them our…

In Reception we have started our gymnastics sessions using the apparatus. We have been developing our skills in jumping, climbing, balancing and rolling. We also had to use our skills of taking turns and waiting our turn. The children have made lots of progress and built up their confidence…

Reception had a party to celebrate Christmas. We had an afternoon tea of party food and played party games such as musical chairs, bumps, statues and pin the nose on Santa. What a great party! 
 

On Christmas jumper day Reception took part in some Christmas crafts and also had a special visit from Santa. 
 

Our Reception’s Nativity of Little Blue Star. We are so proud of all of our Reception children. 
 

In Reception we have been reading the story of Supertato and his other adventures. The children have been drawing and labelling their own characters and we then got to make them with real vegetables. Super veggies to the rescue! 
 

For anti bullying week Reception looked at examples of how to be kind online on Project Evolve. We then created a class poster of how to be kind online and to others. 
 

For Maths week Reception played lots of games with dice. We used a games sheet and added our own counters and characters to play the game and matched our dice to dominoes. Maths in Reception is lots of fun!
 

Reception and Nursery celebrated Bonfire night with some fireworks and sparklers and even a hot chocolate. In the afternoon Reception also made their own chocolate apples. Happy Bonfire night.