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Reception Chatter

26-06-2024
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Road Safety Walk

As part of our Whole School Road Safety Week, each class went on a Road Safety Walk around our local area to raise awareness in our community and share some important road safety messages.

To raise awareness of Road Safety during our Whole School Road Safety Week, each class took part in a walk in our local area to highlight some important safety messages to our local community.

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27-06-2024
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Rock Kidz Day

We invited the wonderful Rock Kidz into school for a fun filled PSHE day to let our hair down, get our rock gear on and focus on our mental health. This year’s focus was Perseverance and Resilience. We all had a ball whilst remembering to always keep in mind today’s key phrase… ‘YOU’RE AWESOME SO BE AWESOME!’

We invited the wonderful Rock Kidz into school for a fun filled PSHE day to let our hair down, get our rock gear on and focus on our mental health. This year’s focus was Perseverance and Resilience. We all had a ball whilst remembering to always keep in mind, today’s key phrase… ‘YOU’RE AWSOME SO BE AWSOME!’

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03-07-2024
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Making healthy fruit kebabs in Reception

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03-07-2024
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Creative/Imaginative play in Reception

As part of our Big Wide World topic we worked together to create our own sailing boat. We can’t wait to use it to travel around the world. Land Ahoy!!

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15-07-2024
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We invited our families to watch our end of year musical showcase! We sang a selection of songs we have learnt accompanied with percussion instruments.

827
16-07-2024
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Reception camping trip to the forest!

We had such a fun morning having a full camping experience in the forest. We sang songs and toasted marshmallows by the fire, built dens, enjoyed camping themed stories in the barn and even tested out the sleeping bags!

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13-09-2024
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Prayer and liturgy in Reception Class – Being thankful for our differences

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13-09-2024
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A fun filled first week in Reception Class

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19-09-2024
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Learning outdoors in Reception Class

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20-09-2024
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Reception Class – Exploring our New School

755
27-09-2024
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Reception – Creating new colours by holding hands with our friends

763
27-09-2024
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Reception – Exploring books

737
03-10-2024
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Exploring our garden in Reception

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03-10-2024
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Reception Class – We LOVE our physical and social development time on the bikes!

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10-10-2024
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Harvest themed Prayer and Liturgy in Reception Class

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10-10-2024
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Reception Class Role Play – People who help us in our community.

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10-10-2024
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Making Emergency Vehicles out of junk materials in Reception Class

830
11-10-2024
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Air Ambulance visit to Reception

798
18-10-2024
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Planting Spring bulbs in our outdoor garden

818
18-10-2024
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Maths party day in Reception Class

Exploring repeated patterns using signs of Autumn.

756
23-10-2024
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Reception and Year 6 buddies

Y6 visited reception today to get to know their buddies. They had a lovely time playing and making new friends.

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23-10-2024
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Reception dentist visit

We had a fun filled but informative visit from the dental team today. They taught us about the importance of brushing our teeth twice a day and keeping away from too much bad sugar. We were given a huge sticker for good listening and a toothbrush and toothpaste to take home!

785
08-11-2024
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Exploring signs of Autumn in Reception

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11-11-2024
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Remembrance day in Reception Class

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21-11-2024
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People who help us: Firefighters

We had a surprise visit from the firefighters today! We had such fun squinting the hose, having a close look at the fire engine inside and learning all about their important uniform.

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21-11-2024
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Reception Class: Making vegetable soup!

We carefully followed a set of instructions to make our very own healthy vegetable soup for snack. It tasted absolutely delicious!

803
01-12-2024
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Reception Class’ Nursery Rhyme Week performance for parents

732
17-12-2024
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Early Years Nativity – Reception Class

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19-12-2024
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Christmas party day in Reception!

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08-01-2025
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Reception’s Winter walk…

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15-01-2025
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Today we launched of our weekly ‘time to talk’ story bag sessions in Reception. What a super turn out from our wonderful families to support our drive in developing language and communication skills.

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16-01-2025
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Reception Class Ice Experiment

We carried out an ice investigation to find the best way to melt ice and how we could keep it frozen for longer.

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23-01-2025
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Practising our communication and language skills through Chatta

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30-01-2025
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Making bird cakes in Reception class

With the weather being so cold recently, we though we’d give the birds a treat by making them some yummy bird cakes.

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31-01-2025
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Celebrating Chinese New Year in Reception Class

759
07-02-2025
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Celebrating French day in Reception

A fun filled French day was had by all in Reception class today. As well as practicing our daily French phrases, we learnt some ones to impress our families. In addition, we made French flags and waved them as we listened to some traditional French music during our French themed snack time.

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13-02-2025
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Reception’s Nocturnal Animal hunt in the forest

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14-02-2025
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Celebrating and sharing love this Valentines day.

Today we talked people we love, sang and listened to songs about love and made some rose perfume and collage hearts to give to those we love in our families.

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18-02-2025
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We love to read in Reception class and are so proud of ourselves!

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16-05-2025
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Red Riding Hood fun in Reception Class

We made some delicious cakes for Grandma and decorated them with icing and yummy sprinkles.

756
11-06-2025
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Reception trip to Crosby beach

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12-06-2025
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Holidays: How do we travel? Making transport using junk materials

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20-06-2025
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Celebrating Eid in Reception Class

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27-06-2025
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Reception Class Musical Performance

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01-07-2025
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Practising our gymnastic skills in Reception Class

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06-07-2025
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A fun filled camping experience in the forest for Reception Class

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11-09-2025
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Reception Class Charter

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17-09-2025
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Exploring God’s creation in Reception Class

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19-09-2025
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A fun filled first couple of weeks in Reception Class

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30-09-2025
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Reception’s Friendship Rainbow

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03-10-2025
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Brightening up our outdoor area with some beautiful flowers

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08-10-2025
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Reception’s visit from our local community police officer.

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08-10-2025
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Early map skills in Reception Class

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09-10-2025
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Reception Class Harvest Trail

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10-10-2025
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We’ve had an exciting addition to our Early Years outdoor area this week…

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10-10-2025
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Supporting ‘Mary’s Meals’ in Reception Class

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17-10-2025
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Maths Party day in Reception Class

We had a fun filled maths party day in Reception Class today; including making maths party hats, playing maths games and singing interactive number songs. We then laid out enough plates, cups and biscuits for each group of ten and used number bonds to help us.

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19-10-2025
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Meeting our buddies

Y6 spent time in Reception today meeting their new buddies. They read maths stories and learned lots about each other. They’re already asking when the next meet up will be!

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22-10-2025
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What makes a good friend?

in Reception class we have been taking about what makes a good friend. We came up with a class agreement and signed it by adding our thumb print.

We then talked about how important it was to be caring and sharing when playing together.

If someone is feeling under the weather we are kind and caring.

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24-10-2025
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Baptism role play in Reception Class

We leant that we join God’s family through the Sacrament of Baptism.

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24-10-2025
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Today we went into our new outdoor Prayer Space for our daily Prayer and Liturgy

167
10-11-2025
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Reception Class have been busy spotting changes during the season of Autumn

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04-12-2025
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Shape spotting in Reception Class

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12-12-2025
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Reception Class Nativity

We are so proud of our wonderful Reception Class for such a fantastic performance today!

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16-12-2025
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Advent Trail

Year 5 and Reception class took part in a wonderful, imersive Advent trail. Year 6 did a fantastic job leading it and it and it really brought this important liturgical season alive for all the children involved.

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17-12-2025
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Embedding learning at home…

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17-12-2025
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Christmas card making in Reception Class

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18-12-2025
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Y6 and Reception elf walk

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18-12-2025
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Christmas Celebrations in Reception Class!

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06-01-2026
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Exploring changes during the season of Winter in Reception class.

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07-01-2026
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Celebrating the Epiphany feast day in Reception Class when the magi (3 wise men) came to visit Jesus.

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22-01-2026
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Developing our ‘green fingers’ in Reception Class

Reception Class have been lucky to take part in a series of ‘grow with us’ sessions led by the Food for Thought initiative. This week we grew our own bean plants and are looking forward to developing the school gardens over the coming weeks.

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01-02-2026
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Completing the final week of our Winter Wonderland topic in Reception class by focusing on the birds all around us.

We made bird cakes, went bird spotting in our school grounds and experimented with bird themed collage and observational drawings.

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02-02-2026
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A visit from the charity Mary’s Meals

We leant about how the money we raised during our porridge day helped to deliver life-changing school meals to children living in some of the world’s poorest communities.

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05-02-2026
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We love to practise our travelling skills in PE

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06-02-2026
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We explored constellations during our Starry Night topic

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09-02-2026
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Supporting our mental health in Reception class

We took part in lots of activities to mark Children’s Mental Health week. These included, circle time, mindfulness, role play and peer massage.

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10-02-2026
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10-02-2026
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Exploring nocturnal animals in Reception class

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11-02-2026
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We shared our love by inviting our friends to share food with us, just like Jesus did.

171
13-02-2026
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Marking Internet Safety Day in Reception Class

We listened to a story about Smartie the penguin and learnt a song to help keep us safe online.

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15-02-2026
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We’re loving our new Chinese Restaurant Role Play

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06-03-2026
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Celebrating World Book Day in Reception Class

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13-03-2026
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Reception Class have been spotting signs of Spring and produced some beautiful observational drawings of Spring daffodils.

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15-03-2026
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Celebrating Mothers Day in Reception Class

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20-03-2026
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Making Easter cards for our families to celebrate the symbol of new life.

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21-03-2026
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We learnt all about Easter traditions in Poland

Today with invited one of our Polish parents into Reception class to teach us all about Polish Easter traditions. We loved the beautifully colourful Polish palms and learnt all about what goes into a polish Easter basket.

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24-03-2026
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Enjoying a traditional Easter treat for our snack

We have been learning all about the Easter Story in Reception class and enjoyed sampling some traditional Hot Cross Buns for snack today.

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25-03-2026
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Observational fruit drawings using pastels

We have been learning all about healthy eating in Reception class and used some of our fruit collection to create observational drawings using pastels.

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27-03-2026
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Reception Class Easter Prayer & Liturgy

Today Reception class led the final whole school Easter Prayer and Liturgy session in the hall. We invited parents to join us as we completed the Easter Story with the theme ‘Easter Sunday’.

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28-03-2026
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Reception Easter Egg Hunt

We had such fun searching for Easter Eggs in our outdoor area.

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