Gymnastics with apparatus in Reception
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’s party day 2021
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!
Reception Christmas jumper and craft day 2021
On Christmas jumper day Reception took part in some Christmas crafts and also had a special visit from Santa.
Reception’s Nativity 2021
Our Reception’s Nativity of Little Blue Star. We are so proud of all of our Reception children.
Super potato and friends
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!
Maths week in Reception
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 bonfire celebrations
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.
Reception Move Up Day
Reception class enjoyed a lovely morning trying out their new Year 1 classroom. We made England flags, paper chains and sang football songs. We enjoyed working on some art work that will be in our class when we return in September. Our favourite part was playing on the new castle. Mrs Robson…
A Rumpus in Reception!
Our topic of Where the Wild Things Are has come to an end! We have used Story Telling Language to improve the words we use when we tell and write stories. We have created environments that included islands and seaweed for magical creatures and had lots of fun thinking about Wild Things! We…
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…
Nursery and Reception learning about Crab Fair
Nursery and Reception have been learning about Crab Fair. We made some apple cakes using Crab apples in Nursery. Then the children went to Reception and we had champion gurner, Claire Spedding Lister come in to teach the children how to gurn. They all had a turn at gurning if they wanted to using…