Reception

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.

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.

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.

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

Exploring changes during the season of Winter in Reception class.

Christmas Celebrations in Reception Class!

Y6 and Reception elf walk

Christmas card making in Reception Class

Embedding learning at home…

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.

Reception Class Nativity

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

Shape spotting in Reception Class

Reception Class have been busy spotting changes during the season of Autumn

Today we went into our new outdoor Prayer Space for our daily Prayer and Liturgy

Baptism role play in Reception Class

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

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.

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!

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.

Supporting ‘Mary’s Meals’ in Reception Class

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

Reception Class Harvest Trail

Early map skills in Reception Class

Reception’s visit from our local community police officer.

Brightening up our outdoor area with some beautiful flowers

Reception’s Friendship Rainbow

A fun filled first couple of weeks in Reception Class

Exploring God’s creation in Reception Class

Reception Class Charter

A fun filled camping experience in the forest for Reception Class

Practising our gymnastic skills in Reception Class

Reception Class Musical Performance

Celebrating Eid in Reception Class

Holidays: How do we travel? Making transport using junk materials

Reception trip to Crosby beach

Red Riding Hood fun in Reception Class

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

We love to read in Reception class and are so proud of ourselves!

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.

Reception’s Nocturnal Animal hunt in the forest

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.

Celebrating Chinese New Year in Reception Class

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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Practising our communication and language skills through Chatta

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’s Winter walk…

Christmas party day in Reception!

Early Years Nativity – Reception Class

Reception Class’ Nursery Rhyme Week performance for parents

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.

Remembrance day in Reception Class

Exploring signs of Autumn in Reception

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.

Maths party day in Reception Class

Exploring repeated patterns using signs of Autumn.

Planting Spring bulbs in our outdoor garden

Air Ambulance visit to Reception

Making Emergency Vehicles out of junk materials in Reception Class

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

Harvest themed Prayer and Liturgy in Reception Class

Reception Class – We LOVE our physical and social development time on the bikes!

Exploring our garden in Reception

Reception – Exploring books

Reception – Creating new colours by holding hands with our friends

Reception Class – Exploring our New School

Learning outdoors in Reception Class

A fun filled first week in Reception Class

Prayer and liturgy in Reception Class – Being thankful for our differences

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!

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!!

Making healthy fruit kebabs in Reception

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!’

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!

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.