Reception News

Year 6 enjoyed watching the pantomime this year with their buddies (socially distanced of course!)  

We enjoyed wearing our Christmas Jumpers to raise money for Save the Children

We had so much fun today. We came to school in our Christmas jumpers. As a treat we watched a pantomime in the hall and had popcorn. This year an actor had filmed a pantomime in his garden for us to watch as they couldn’t come into school. In the afternoon we took part in a Santa Dash around the …

It is always a challenge to produce a Reception Class Nativity with 30 excited 4 and 5 year olds at Christmas time! Due to restrictions this year it has been an even bigger challenge. However we are so proud and impressed with our Reception Class. They have worked so hard learning songs and dances and their behaviour has been fantastic …

This week in Reception Class we have been looking at the story of the, Three Little Pigs. Our outdoor challenge this week was to make a safe home for one of the pigs. Lots of the children decided to use leaves but then realised they would blow away in the wind so they had to adapt their ideas. I think …

We have been very busy this week in Reception Class. We have been taking part in Anti -Bullying week where we have come to school in odd socks to show we are all different and that is fine. We also made a huge heart full of our hand prints to show together we can stop bullying. We have also taken …

Reception Class were amazing this week and impressed us all with their hooping skills. They had a fantastic session with Tracey from Hoopstarz. We were so proud of the children especially since some children had never used a hoop before. Well done Reception Class.

As part of our Fire Safety Day Reception Class had to look at the difference between hot and cold. We also had to find out how and why it is important to be careful around fire. Mrs Groark lit lots of candles in class so we could see how fire can give us light and heat. We also had a …

Reception Class have had lots of Halloween fun this week. Some pumpkins were kindly donated to us so we sketched them using pastels. We then split into teams to design and carve our pumpkins. Once we finished we tried to make our faces look the same as the pumpkin! We dressed up in Halloween costumes and our writing was to …

We enjoyed a spooky and socially distanced buddy time to see what our buddies were dressed as on our spooky day. We all agreed they looked great! We did some socially distanced halloween dancing before saying goodbye!  

October 17 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, so right now is a great time to explore Article 27. During the pandemic child poverty has increased by 15% globally, with almost 1.2 million children worldwide living below the poverty line – 4 million of these children live in the UK. Leading up to this important day in …

Reception have been looking carefully at the changes outside. On letter l day we went outside to collect some leaves. We used these leaves in class to do some transient art work. Back outside we looked more carefully at the trees. We looked at the patterns on the bark and did some tree rubbings we also tried to do some …

This week has been such a busy week in Reception Class. We have been introduced to the letter sounds c, k, u, b, and f.  We have looked at mixing colours on coffee filters, collecting conkers, making and flying kites, investigating boxes and bubbles and visiting the allotment to see what flowers and vegetables we could find underground. We are …

Reception Class had lots of fun in their ICT lesson this week. Mr Graham took a group outside and set the children some challenges to carry out with their digital cameras. Who could take a photograph of something made of plastic, wood etc. Inside the children worked with the Bee Bots. They had to make them move forwards, backwards and …

Reception Class enjoyed their run today. They showed us how fit they were by running around the yard and field lots of times. Reception Class should sleep well tonight! Well done.      

This week our Reception Class have been in school everyday full time. They have been introduced to a different letter sound each day. The activities for that day have been linked to the sound of the day. On “m” day we had a marshmallow challenge where the children had to use a catapult to fire marshmallows onto a spot they …

We have been so impressed with our new Reception Class. They started school on Monday looking so smart in their school uniforms. They have settled so well into our class routines and have especially enjoyed our morning wake up shake up sessions. They have stayed for their first school dinner, made new friends with Year 1 who are in our …

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I am so proud of our new starters who have been visiting their new school for some Stay and Play sessions. Even though some of them have felt a little bit nervous they have settled so well. It has been lovely to see them making new friends and investigating their new indoor and outdoor classrooms with big smiles on their …

We have finalised our timetables today. Please remember to send your child in PE kit on their PE days. This will begin from Monday 7th September. PE days for this half term are: Year 1: Monday & Tuesday Year 2: Monday & Friday Year 3: Wednesday & Thursday Year 4: Tuesday & Friday Year 5: Wednesday & Thursday Year 6: …