
Reception
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Philippians 4:13
At St Clare’s we teach our children to believe in themselves and their abilities, we remind them that with faith and perseverance, they can achieve great things in their learning journey.
Welcome to Reception
Your teachers this year are Mrs. Mitty (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) Mrs. Bowen (Thursday, Friday)
LSAs are Mrs. Barnes and Miss Firth
The children have settled in well and are working hard. See the Chatter feed to see what we have been learning about.
Day of the week | What should I bring to school today? |
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Monday | Bookbag Water bottle |
Tuesday | Bookbag Water bottle PE (PE kits will remain in school) |
Wednesday | Bookbag Water bottle |
Thursday | Bookbag Water bottle |
Friday | Bookbag Water bottle Reading Record and Phonics Book/Library Book |
PE is on Tuesday for Reception
Click the link below for details of the Reception Curriculum.
What is phonics and Read Write Inc
This is the link to show you how to pronounce the sounds
Useful documents and websites
Reception Chatter

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.



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.



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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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.



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.







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!


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.




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!



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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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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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.


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!!



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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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.


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!
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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!
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🦋 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!
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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’.




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.
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Nursery – Caterpillars
In Nursery class we have some caterpillars. We are very excited to watch the caterpillars grow into butterflies!
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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’.
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Vegetable taste testing in Reception, inspired by this week’s focus book ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’





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!
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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.
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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.
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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.




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.


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.


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.
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Exploring the snow
We had lots of fun playing in the snow. We made a snowman and lots of footprints!
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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!
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Reception – We loved our interactive virtual author visit. Anne-Marie Anang with her wonderful book I am Nefertiti!


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.

Nursery Autumn Painting
Nursery have been enjoying taking part in autumn activities. The children finger painted autumn trees and created leaf print paintings. 🍂
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Bonfire Fun
EYFS enjoyed using the sticks and leaves to make a fire. They enjoyed marshmallows and hot chocolate too!
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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.

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



