Camera, Lights, Action!
Over the last few weeks we have been practising story telling and have enjoyed added expression to our voices. In our Computing lessons, we have already learnt how to take a photograph, but this week, we looked at recording each other in a video. We loved it and became very professional, nodding…
Celebrating St. George’s Day
St. George is our Class Saint! We have celebrated today listening and learning about St. George. We loved the story about him slaying the dragon and rescuing the Princess. We thought about dragons and wrote lots of different adjectives to describe a dragon. We made crowns and St. George’s…
Holy Week activities in Reception
During Lent we have thought about how we can grow more like Jesus, so we have been even kinder to each other and more helpful.
This week we listened to the Story of Palm Sunday and The Last Supper. We cut out palm leaves and tried really hard to improve our cutlery skills! We have…
Moon Landing
We have had so much fun learning about Space and the Moon! It has been one of the most exciting Topics we have learnt about! As we came to an end, the children wanted to know more about Man on the Moon! We watched a video clip of the first Moon Walk and we talked a lot about gravity! We look…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…