Reception

Health and fitness week

Nursery and Reception had lots of fun taking part in the daily mile. We completed three laps of jogging, walking and jumping. It was tiring but very fun. We are looking forward to doing it all again tomorrow!

Fruit tasting in nursery

Nursery class enjoyed tasting lots of delicious fruits this morning including strawberries, grapes, apples and blueberries. The most popular fruit in nursery is strawberries! Yum yum!

🦋 Butterflies 🦋

This morning in Nursery we said goodbye to our butterflies. We have thoroughly enjoyed watching them grow from tiny hungry caterpillars to beautiful butterflies. We managed to hold one of the butterflies before it flew away. What an exciting morning!

Reception PE – Using apparatus

This week in PE we explored different ways of travelling across benches. We also practised how to jump off and land safely.

Making music in Reception

In today’s music lesson we all took turns to play our instruments to accompany the song ‘Musical Parade’.

Making sensory playdough in Reception

Constructing fairytale castles in Reception Class

Nursery – (R.E) The Holy Spirit

In Nursery we are learning about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our friend and looks after us. We took streamers and bubbles outside to demonstrate the Holy Spirit is a feeling, like the wind, we can’t see it, but we know it is there.

Nursery – Caterpillars

In Nursery class we have some caterpillars. We are very excited to watch the caterpillars grow into butterflies!

Developing our reading and writing skills – Reception Continuous Provision

Nursery – There was a Princess Long Ago

Nursery class are enjoying our new topic ‘Once Upon a Time’. We had lots of fun learning and singing the song ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’.

Cinderella Role Play in Reception

Celebrating Earth day in Reception class

Easter egg hunt in Reception….he’s been!

Clean teeth experiment in Reception class!

Vegetable taste testing in Reception, inspired by this week’s focus book ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’

Junk modelling using 3D shapes in Reception

Jack and the Beanstalk roleplay in Reception

Practising our bonds to 10 in Reception

Nursery – Shadows!

Science Week: Nursery Class had lots of fun exploring shadows using animal puppets, a white sheet and torches. When we have some sunshine we are going to see if we can find our own shadows!

Sorting healthy and unhealthy foods in Reception class

Mothers day cards and cakes in Reception class

We made some beautiful cards and chocolate strawberry crispy cakes to take home for our Mummy’s.

Investigating plants outdoors

Instead of throwing away the daffodils from our observational drawings we took them outside and took a close look inside the flowers and stems using our magnifying glasses and tweezers.

Nursery – World Book Day

Nursery Class had lots of fun joining in with World Book Day celebrations.

Nursery have been busy planting sunflower seeds.

This half term our topic is ‘Sunshine and Sunflowers’. We sequenced cards showing the life cycle of a sunflower and planted our own sunflower seeds. We are very excited to see them starting to grow.

Looking for signs of Spring around our school

In Reception class we went on a Spring walk and used our senses to investigate signs of Spring around us.

Spring flower art in Reception

Reception and Y6 reading buddies

Nursery class enjoyed a visit from Acorn Farm

Nursery class had an exciting morning. We helped Farmer Gregg and Farmer Marie feed the animals their breakfast. We also stroked the animals and some children felt brave enough to hold a rat. Well done everyone.

A visit from Acorn Farm!

Celebrating Chinese New Year in Reception

We listened to some traditional Chinese music and expressed ourselves by matching the flow of music with our ribbons.

Mark making outdoors

Reception – Choosing instruments to make icy sounds

We chose different sounds and instruments for the different icy pictures, such as smooth soft sounds for shiny ice, twinkly sounds for glittery ice and dripping sounds for the icicles.

Making play-dough is so much fun

Nursery enjoyed making red play-dough. We measured out the ingredients and mixed it all in a large bowl. To make the play-dough we used flour, salt, oil, food colouring and cream of tar tar. We took it in turns to help pour and mix the Ingredients.

Making bird feeders in Reception.

Winter den building in EYFS

Ice melting experiment in Reception – How can we rescue teddy from the ice black?

Exploring the snow

We had lots of fun playing in the snow. We made a snowman and lots of footprints!

French Day

Nursery Class have had a lovely morning taking part in activities for French Day. We looked at the colours of the French flag and coloured in our own French flag. We listened to Nursery Rhymes in French and tasted yummy croissants and brioche buns. What a busy morning!

French day in Reception!

Reception – We loved our interactive virtual author visit. Anne-Marie Anang with her wonderful book I am Nefertiti!

Exploring Weight and Capacity in Reception

In Maths Nursery have been learning all about number 1. Today we made ‘1 Spoon Flapjacks’. We used honey, oats and butter. They tasted delicious.

Riding the bikes and scooters on the big playground is so much fun!

Nursery Autumn Painting

Nursery have been enjoying taking part in autumn activities. The children finger painted autumn trees and created leaf print paintings. 🍂

Bonfire Fun

EYFS enjoyed using the sticks and leaves to make a fire. They enjoyed marshmallows and hot chocolate too!

Collecting twigs and sticks

EYFS had a busy morning collecting sticks and twigs in the woods. We are going to use them to make a bonfire. We are very excited.

EYFS enjoyed exploring the pumpkins

Reception Bonfire and Firework Pictures

Reception Autumn Walk

Reception enjoyed an autumn walk. Look at all the autumn treasures they found.

Nursery Autumn Walk

Nursery class enjoyed going on a walk in the woods to collect autumnal objects. We found lots of different coloured leaves, conkers, sticks and acorns. On our walk through the woods we could hear birds tweeting and could see birds nests. It was an exciting morning.

Exploring programmable toys.

We gave our BEEBOTs the correct instructions using positional language to direct them to specific places on our map.