Reception News

Helping out in the prayer garden

In our collective worship we were discussing how wonderful God’s world is.We talked about the things that we find amazing and beautiful. Lots of us mentioned flowers. We then went over to our prayer garden to plant some Spring flowers around the statue of Mary.

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How do penguins feathers work?

In our science work this week we were looking at how penguin’s feathers work. We learnt that penguin’s feathers are waterproof because of the oil they produce.We had a penguin outline and used a wax crayon to produce a wax coating. We then dropped water onto the penguin. We found out that the water stayed on top of the coating …

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Sharing Bible Stories

Year 6 retold their favourite Old Testament Bible stories in RE and then, during buddy time, read their stories to their buddies.

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Chinese New Year

Reception Class are celebrating Chinese New Year this week. We started out making a vegetable Chinese stir fry. We all had a go at chopping our vegetables into smaller pieces. We compared the noodles before and after we cooked them and then we had lots of fun trying out our Chinese food.

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Polar Bears came to visit

Some polar bears appeared in our class room last week. We tried to make them feel at home by making them some interesting ice lollies. We used objects around us to make them colourful. Once we added the water we left them outside over night. It was so cold the water turned to ice. Once we brought them inside the …

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Our Castle Visit

Reception Class set off to Durham Castle in the snow this morning. They had lots of fun finding out what it would be like to live in a castle. We looked at the different parts of a castle and some of us dressed up as the King and the Prince Bishop. We got the chance to make our own castle …

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Christmas Fun

Reception Class have really enjoyed their first Christmas in St Cuthberts. After working hard for their Nativity play they have had lots of fun at their party, seeing Santa who told then they were all on the good list and coming to school in their pj’s to enjoy a film and hot chocolate. Thank you parents for all of your …

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Christmas Buddy Time

It is always lovely to have buddy time but this one was special being able to exchange christmas cards we had made and do some christmas craft.

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Reception Class Nativity

Reception Class Nativity A big well done to everyone in Reception Class for their nativity play!  Please follow the links for photos of our cast and to watch the performance for the children in school. Cast photos Performance

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Our Nativity

We were all so proud of our Reception Class today. Despite all of the many illnesses they managed to all be in school today to perform their Nativity play for their grown ups in church. They spoke with confidence and sang and danced with lots of enthusiasm. Well done Reception Class.

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Our first Christmas Dinner

Thank you to Jan, Clare and Maureen who made and served us a very tasty dinner today. It was a special dinner because it was our very first Christmas dinner in school.  

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Santa Dash

Reception Class really enjoyed their Santa dash today. A special big thank you to Mr Candy Cane, Miss Elf and your helpers for making it so much fun.    

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“I’ll huff and I’ll puff and blow your house down”!

We have been looking at the story of ,”The Three Pigs”. We looked carefully at the materials they used to make their houses, straw, sticks and bricks and discussed their properties. We then chose what to use to make our own house for the pig. Some of us used sticks and some used bricks(lego). Mrs groark brought in her wolf …

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Come & Join Our Friends Group!

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Christmas Decorations

In our last story session Mrs Groark read us a story called, “The Gift of Christmas ” by Gaby Hansen. The woodland creatures were looking for Christmas decorations to put on their tree. We the made our own decoration. Some of us even turned them into sparkly crowns.

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Mary’s Baptism

As part of our RE topic we have been talking about Baptism. We have been looking at photographs of our own special day and noticing what all of the photographs had in common. We noticed that the outfit the baby wore was white, holy water was poured on the babies head and a special candle was given. Deacon Peter kindly …

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Story Club Week 2

This week in story club our work was based on the story, “Owl Babies” by Martin Waddell. After listening to the story the children tried to make their own set of owl babies by folding and decorating paper plates and circles of different sizes.

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Story Club

Reception Class enjoyed their first after school story club. The story we were looking at this week was Elmer. We watched an Elmer story and were then set the task of making our own Elmer with a new coat. Everyone worked so well designing a new coat for Elmer.Lots of interesting Elmers went home.

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KS1 Dancing

On Thursday, KS1 children enjoyed a jam packed afternoon of dancing with Sophie from the Easington School Sports Partnership. The children were given opportunities to take part in a wide range of dance styles along with using a variety of dance props. Glow sticks and disco lights added to the party atmosphere.

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Fun with pumpkins

Some pumpkins were delivered to our class. We had lots of fun working in teams, designing a face for our pumpkin and then carving out the flesh and seeds. We tried to make the same face as our  pumpkin.

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