Reception
On Friday 14th March there is a significant Hindu Festival called the ‘Holi Festival’. Holi is a popular Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring. During this celebration, people gather in the streets, singing, dancing, and throwing powdered colours in the air. The more colours you have on your body, the more blessings you will receive in the new year. As one of our school values is ‘Inclusion’, the Early Years decided to celebrate the Holi Festival on Friday by using powder paint to cover themselves in different colours and spent the day learning about the special festival! 🎨
World Book Day 2025 - Reception Class had a wonderful World Book Day yesterday! When they arrived in the morning they had a surprise as their home corner had been left in a big mess and there were gingerbread crumbs everywhere!! They watched a video to see that it was a gang of cheeky gingerbread men! The children were happy though, as they all got to decorate and eat their own gingerbread men 😋 They then spent some of their afternoon outside in the lovely sunshine, enjoying sharing books together 📚☀️
Who made this mess??????
Shrove Tuesday 2025 - Shrove Tuesday was a hit with Reception Class! They started the day learning all about why we celebrate pancake day and the importance of Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. They then sequenced and wrote instructions about how to make pancakes and took part in lots of pancake based activities. In the afternoon, they then helped to make some pancake batter, watched the pancakes being made, and then, more importantly, tasted them with their favourite toppings!! 😋🥞
28.02.25 - On Monday morning, Reception Class has a very special delivery which Ms Dowd brought to the classroom, addressed specifically for Reception Class! Inside, there was an enormous egg, with a note asking the children to look after the egg until it hatched! The children had great fun thinking about and writing what they thought could be in the egg. On Wednesday, the children then came into the classroom to a very exciting discovery. The egg had hatched and Miss Rees had managed to catch on camera that there had been a dragon inside!! The classroom had also been transformed into a Fairytale land for their topic 'Once Upon a Time', with dressing up clothes, castles and fairytale characters. The children also drew and described dragons and took part in other dragon based activities. Lots of engaging and exciting learning opportunities! 🐲🤴👸🏰
What happened when the egg hatched ....mp4
06.02.25 - Reception Class had a very special delivery on Monday - ten chicken eggs! The class have been looking after them in an incubator, waiting very patiently for them to hatch. Yesterday, four hatched and during the night, the other six have hatched. We now have ten very cute and fluffy chicks to look after for the next week! There are six girls and four boys, and Reception Class will be voting for their names later today. What an amazing opportunity to watch! 🐣🐤🐥
16.12.24 - Reception Class had a big surprise when they arrived at school yesterday! After posting their letters to Santa last week, Santa decided to come to the Reception classroom to deliver a letter to the children to say he had received them! We had lots of excited children!! How wonderful 😁🎅
03.12.24 - Reception Class had a surprise outside yesterday with a cardboard castle that they had to build. They then decided to extend the castle, so some children got notepads and pens to draw and write down their designs, whilst others worked on the building. There was brilliant teamwork, physical development skills, literacy and communication skills, as well as using their imagination and understanding of the world! A couple of the children then decided to use their maths and problem solving skills to make some balance scales, counting how many blocks they had on each side, seeing what happened if they added more on one side than the other and then explaining why. What a lot of fantastic learning! Mr Marshall and Ms Dowd came over to have a look too! Well done Reception!'
15.11.24 - Reception Class enjoyed a range of activities for Children in Need today including making their own Pudsey ear bands, chalking Pudsey's outside and making Pudsey lunch boxes!'
06.11.24 - Reception Class have a new topic this term called 'Let's Celebrate!' and the children will be learning all about different celebrations, who they are celebrated by and why. On Tuesday, they learnt about the importance of Bonfire Night! They learnt about Guy Fawkes and then took part in a range of firework based activities, and some even decided to make their own bonfire with the large construction materials outside! Yesterday, the children learnt about Diwali! They made their own Rangoli patterns as well as Diwali cards and created large firework pictures using large paper and chalk outside. Well done Reception 🎆🎇
18.10.24 - Reception Class have been learning about the autumn vegetable pumpkin this week! The children have learnt about the life cycle and the different parts of a pumpkin, drawn and labelled pumpkins using a variety of arts and craft materials, hammered wooden pins into pumpkins to help develop their fine motor skills, and scooped out the insides and taken the seeds out with tweezers! They then used the empty pumpkins to make their own pumpkin soup outside and, more importantly, they helped to make and taste some real pumpkin soup using the scooped out insides! There were some mixed reviews but Mr Marshall said it was delicious when he was invited to come and try and some!'
Year 5 came over to the Reception Class last Thursday afternoon for their first Reading Buddy session of the academic year. Every Thursday afternoon, Year 5 will visit to Buddy up with the Reception children to read them books of their choosing. What a great experience for both classes to enjoy looking at books together! They cannot wait for the next one this week! 📚'
04.10.24 - On Friday, Reception Class spent the majority of the day in their outdoor learning environment. All the children were fully engaged in a variety of activities, including role playing in the outdoor cafe, making their own creations with the construction materials and cardboard boxes, and having lots of fun with their new pipe and guttering set. They built their own course and then tested it with balls and then water. They had to use their communication skills as well as brilliant team work and problem solving skills! We also saw lots of children using the clipboards and writing materials to draw their designs and take orders in the cafe. So many wonderful learning opportunities!Well done Reception Class!
02.10.24 - Reception Class have been taking part in lots of autumn based learning opportunities this week, including using cotton buds to make autumn trees, making faces using autumn items, writing on autumn leaf boards and using their fine motor skills to place autumn coloured stickers around autumn leaves. Well done Reception!
23.09.24 - Reception Class have been taking part in lots of physical development skill activities in the outdoor learning environment. They have taken part in fine motor skills by placing different items on a variety of line patterns using their fingers and tweezers. They have been using their gross motor skills by throwing bean bags into numbered hoops to gain points. We had a new sand pit delivery where they have been showing their sand castle skills as well as using a wide range of tools and techniques. They also decided that the caravan needed cleaning and so got themselves some water and cloths and gave it a good scrub! Lots of great teamwork as well as a range of skills being used! They have asked to clean Mr Marshall's car next but we're not sure if he would agree! 🤣💧
20.09.24 -Reception Class have been really engaged during their outdoor learning this week! They have been using the water wall with great discussions about what containers to use, how the water will travel and who will catch the water at the end. They then decided to see how the water will travel down from one end of the playground to the other. They wanted it to travel faster so they retrieved a ramp from the construction area and timed how many seconds the water took to reach the bottom, even making a tunnel with the crates for the water to travel through. This then turned into using the bikes on the ramp to see if this would make them travel faster. Lots of teamwork, fantastic discussions and questioning, and lots of problem solving! Well done Reception!
13.09.24 - Reception Class started full time from Friday 6th September after two days of part time and they have settled incredibly well! In Reception Class, each term they base their learning around a topic. This term, their topic is called ‘Marvellous Me’ and they have been learning about each other, their similarities and differences, their families and how to be a good friend. This has linked well with the children learning about the school values of ‘Thoughtfulness, Knowledge and Inclusion’. The children have been showing kindness, teamwork and learning and demonstrating a range of skills, including taking part in our onsite Forest School. Well done Reception Class, an amazing start to the school year!'
16.07.24 - Reception Class enjoyed their trip to the beach yesterday, even with the down pour just before they headed back to school. They were all fantastic and made us very proud, well done Reception 👏 😁🏖
21.06.24 - Reception Class have a new topic this term - 'On the Beach'! They have taken part in lots of learning opportunities so far such as making their own seaside in a bottle, creating their own beach scenes outside and then writing about them, making pirate ships, as well producing some amazing writing about what they can see on the beach and under the sea! Well done Reception Class!
15th May 2024 - Reception Class have been continuing with their Ready Steady Grow topic and have been learning about fruit and vegetables and where they come from. They have written about their favourite fruit and vegetables, sequenced and written instructions to make vegetable soup and then helped to prepare, make and (more importantly), taste the vegetable soup!
8th May 2024 - The children in Reception Class have been learning about May being the month of Mary! They wrote 'thank you' on flowers to say thank to Mary for giving us Jesus and then put them on our altar with Mary and said a special prayer to her. 🙏
7th May 2024 - Yesterday, Reception class carried on with learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. They had a letter from The Giant asking the children to help him to measure his footprints to help him buy some new shoes! The children used different items to measure the footprints, showing great teamwork! They also listened to a different version of Jack and the Beanstalk called Jack and the Baked Beanstalk. The children then came up with their own versions of the story and wrote/drew what they could find at the top of the beanstalk instead of a castle. Lots of wonderful imaginative ideas! The children also enjoyed the sunshine, using lots of maths resources from their new maths shed outside and planting some seeds in their Understanding the World area. A brilliant sunny day with lots of learning 😀 🌱☀️
3rd May 2024 - Reception Class have been continuing their Ready Steady Grow topic this week by using the story Jack and the Beanstalk. They have been learning about measuring in different ways in maths, including measuring beanstalks with cubes. They have been using their gross motor skills, as well as teamwork and communication and language skills to make a castle for the giant. They have been improving their fine motor skills and expressive arts to cut out and create their own story scene for Jack, as well making their own beanstalks with a range of materials and tools. They have also been improving their reading and writing skills to write words, captions and character descriptions from the story using their phonic knowledge. Lots of learning opportunities! Well done Reception Class!
17th April 2024 - Reception Class have started a new topic this term - Ready Steady Grow! They are starting the topic by looking at life cycles and they have their very own caterpillars to look after and watch transform into butterflies in their Curiosity Corner! They have been learning about the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar and learning the different stages of a butterfly life cycle. They also received a letter from the butterfly, asking to write down the foods the Hungry Caterpillar ate, we had some amazing pieces of writing! Well done Reception Class!'
20th March 2024 - Reception and Nursery made the most of the beautiful weather this afternoon and took part in lots of learning activities outside! They were exploring with water, showing great teamwork in the construction area, using a range of resources to write and draw in the literacy area, looking at books in the reading area, being creative in the mud kitchen, as well as a variety of other activities. We look forward to more sunny learning opportunities outside ☀️📚✏️🛠🧽'
18th March 2024 - Reception Class really enjoyed their Road Safety Talk this week and learnt how to ensure they Stop, Look, Listen, Think, and Hold Hands with a grown up when crossing the road
12th March 2024 - As part of British Science Week, Reception Class took part in an experiment sent to them by Humpty Dumpty! He wanted their help to find him something to put under his wall incase he fell again so that he would not break! The children looked at different items made from a range of materials, predicted whether Humpty Dumpty would crack if he fell on the different materials, and then tested them with hard boiled eggs! Their results showed that it was only the pillow and bubble wrap that would stop Humpty Dumpty from cracking! They all had great fun with their EGGperiment! 😁🤭🥚'
Around The World Day - 8th February 2024 - Reception Class enjoyed learning about Poland for our Around the World Day today. They were able to try some traditional Polish food as well as decorate eggs which is a Polish tradition. They then enjoyed an afternoon of celebrating the end of their topic 'Wonderful World' for Share the Learning and had a table of activities for each country that they have learnt about this term!
8th February 2024 - For Children's Mental Health Week this week Reception Class spent the day thinking about different emotions using 'The Colour Monster' book. They made their own colour monsters and wrote what emotions they show. Then, in the afternoon they turned their classroom into a spa! They started with calming stretches and giving each other back massages and they all said something good about themselves. They then had calming music on whilst reading books, taking part in more Colour Monster activities and soaking their feet in foot baths! They all felt very relaxed! 😌
6th February 2024 - The children in Reception Class have been learning all about Chinese New Year! They started off by learning lots of facts about how people celebrate Chinese New Year and about the story of the Chinese calendar and that this year is the year of the Dragon! The children learnt about the lucky red envelopes that people receive on New Year's Day, and they had to hunt for these envelopes in the playground to find a word inside to read! They then wrote captions for Chinese New Year pictures. In the afternoon they had lots of Chinese New Year based activities too including writing Chinese numbers in sand and writing their own notes to put in red lucky envelopes!'
1st February 2024 - Reception Class had a very special delivery on Monday - nine chicken eggs! Yesterday and today they have been hatching! Reception and Nursery were able to take it in turns to hold a chick this afternoon! The rest of the classes will also have the opportunity to come and look at and hold the chicks next week - how EGGciting!!'
