Image of Christmas Capers in Reception
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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16 October 2020

Traction Men

This week we have listened to and retold our own version of Traction Man.  We loved the descriptions of the ‘evil pillows’ and the ‘poisonous dish cloth.’  We have made superheroes out of 2D shapes and weighed and measured pictures of superheroes.  We have learning through play outside using every…

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9 October 2020

Reception celebrates World Mental Health Day

Today we have thought about mental health.  We talked about not being able to put a plaster on it when we are sad, worried or scared.  We learnt about talking and some more mindfulness activities like mindful eating.  We thought about how amazing we all are and have made some Marvellous…

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19 May 2020

Mental Health Awareness Week

Random Acts of Kindness

The children in Reception have risen to the challenge of carrying out a random act of kindness each day!  They have prepared celebrations for their pets, made cups of tea for their parents, cooked food, made cards, written letters and helped with the house work.  They…

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8 May 2020

Victorious in celebrating VE Day in Lockdown

Reception Children create VE Day Bunting

Throughout School Closure the children have maintained strong links with school on a daily basis!  We were keen to make sure we were able to celebrate this very special historical event and so the challenge set for the Reception children was to create…

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6 March 2020

Fun with our new resources!

We are so lucky to have completely new furniture in our classroom.  We also have lots of new toys to help us with our learning.  We are having lots of fun and enjoying ourselves!  Thank you!

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4 February 2020

Shapes

We have had lots of fun going on shape treasure hunts.  We then made shapes out of pasta and marshmallows - it was a sticky, tricky business but we really enjoyed it and we learnt all the shape names.  We even tried to make a circle from the pasta but soon realised the pasta needed to be soft to…

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21 January 2020

The Gruffalo

We have had lots of fun learning about the Julia Donaldson stories.  We looked at the Gruffalo and made some Gruffalo crumble.  Some of us thought it was delicious, some of us didn’t like it at all!  We acted out the rhyme about the big bad mouse too!
 

 

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9 December 2019

Reception Nativity Play

Our Reception class did two performances of their play ‘The Bossy King’. Their families thoroughly enjoyed the show. There are certainly some stars for the future in this class.

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