Welcome to reception
Your teacher this year is Mrs Mitty
LSAs are Miss Brown and Miss King
The children have settled in well and are working hard. Click on the links below to see what we have been learning about.
Reading books will be sent home on Friday for Reception
Library Books will be sent home on Friday for Nursery
PE is on Friday 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
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!
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!!
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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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.
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!
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!
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!
This week in PE we explored different ways of travelling across benches. We also practised how to jump off and land safely.
In today’s music lesson we all took turns to play our instruments to accompany the song ‘Musical Parade’.
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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In Nursery class we have some caterpillars. We are very excited to watch the caterpillars grow into butterflies!
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’.
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!
We made some beautiful cards and chocolate strawberry crispy cakes to take home for our Mummy’s.
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 Class had lots of fun joining in with World Book Day celebrations.
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.
In Reception class we went on a Spring walk and used our senses to investigate signs of Spring around us.
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.
We listened to some traditional Chinese music and expressed ourselves by matching the flow of music with our ribbons.
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.
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.
We had lots of fun playing in the snow. We made a snowman and lots of footprints!
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!
Nursery have been enjoying taking part in autumn activities. The children finger painted autumn trees and created leaf print paintings. 🍂
EYFS enjoyed using the sticks and leaves to make a fire. They enjoyed marshmallows and hot chocolate too!
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.
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.
We gave our BEEBOTs the correct instructions using positional language to direct them to specific places on our map.
