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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!’

818
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!!

941
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.

901
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!

851
13-09-2024
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Prayer and liturgy in Reception Class – Being thankful for our differences

883
13-09-2024
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A fun filled first week in Reception Class

141
19-09-2024
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Learning outdoors in Reception Class

836
20-09-2024
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Reception Class – Exploring our New School

810
27-09-2024
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Reception – Creating new colours by holding hands with our friends

820
27-09-2024
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Reception – Exploring books

805
03-10-2024
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Exploring our garden in Reception

824
03-10-2024
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Reception Class – We LOVE our physical and social development time on the bikes!

825
10-10-2024
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Harvest themed Prayer and Liturgy in Reception Class

881
10-10-2024
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Reception Class Role Play – People who help us in our community.

822
10-10-2024
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Making Emergency Vehicles out of junk materials in Reception Class

888
11-10-2024
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Air Ambulance visit to Reception

859
18-10-2024
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Planting Spring bulbs in our outdoor garden

864
18-10-2024
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Maths party day in Reception Class

Exploring repeated patterns using signs of Autumn.

831
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.

828
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!

858
08-11-2024
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Exploring signs of Autumn in Reception

836
11-11-2024
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Remembrance day in Reception Class

849
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.

817
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!

831
01-12-2024
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Reception Class’ Nursery Rhyme Week performance for parents

788
17-12-2024
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Early Years Nativity – Reception Class

833
19-12-2024
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Christmas party day in Reception!

799
08-01-2025
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Reception’s Winter walk…

783
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.

775
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.

783
23-01-2025
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Practising our communication and language skills through Chatta

100
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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857
31-01-2025
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Celebrating Chinese New Year in Reception Class

822
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!

88
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.

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11-06-2025
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Reception trip to Crosby beach

822
12-06-2025
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Holidays: How do we travel? Making transport using junk materials

809
20-06-2025
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Celebrating Eid in Reception Class

847
27-06-2025
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Reception Class Musical Performance

806
01-07-2025
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Practising our gymnastic skills in Reception Class

858
06-07-2025
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A fun filled camping experience in the forest for Reception Class

788
11-09-2025
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Reception Class Charter

123
17-09-2025
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Exploring God’s creation in Reception Class

176
19-09-2025
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A fun filled first couple of weeks in Reception Class

532
30-09-2025
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Reception’s Friendship Rainbow

501
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

503
09-10-2025
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Reception Class Harvest Trail

562
10-10-2025
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We’ve had an exciting addition to our Early Years outdoor area this week…

502
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.

532
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!

558
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.

520
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.

539
24-10-2025
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Today we went into our new outdoor Prayer Space for our daily Prayer and Liturgy

184
10-11-2025
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Reception Class have been busy spotting changes during the season of Autumn

503
04-12-2025
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Shape spotting in Reception Class

59
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!

326
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…

85
17-12-2025
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Christmas card making in Reception Class

340
18-12-2025
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Y6 and Reception elf walk

380
18-12-2025
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Christmas Celebrations in Reception Class!

336
06-01-2026
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Exploring changes during the season of Winter in Reception class.

327
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.

251
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.

249
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.

266
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.

255
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

55
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.

249
10-02-2026
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10-02-2026
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Exploring nocturnal animals in Reception class

247
11-02-2026
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We shared our love by inviting our friends to share food with us, just like Jesus did.

249
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.

231
15-02-2026
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We’re loving our new Chinese Restaurant Role Play

46
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.

170
15-03-2026
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Celebrating Mothers Day in Reception Class

179
20-03-2026
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Making Easter cards for our families to celebrate the symbol of new life.

163
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.

166
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.

47
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.

165
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’.

138
28-03-2026
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Reception Easter Egg Hunt

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

21
29-04-2026
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Exploring the coming of the Holy Spirit in Reception Class

We took bubbles, streamers and kites outside to explore the feeling of the Holy Spirit. Although we can’t see it, we can feel it’s effects. It makes us feel awake!

133
07-05-2026
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Reception class have been immersing themselves in this week’s traditional tale

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14-05-2026
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Reception Class have been learning about the NSPCC PANTS campain.

99
15-05-2026
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Reception Class have been busy designing and building castles using a variety of construction materials.

110
23-05-2026
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Reception Pentecost Party

87
19-06-2026
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Reception trip to Crosby beach

63
03-07-2026
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Reception are building their confidence every week with their balance bike skills

28
03-07-2026
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A very welcome visitor came to school today!

28
09-07-2026
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Reception Class – camping experience in the forest

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