Welcome to Reception!

Look at what we have been doing in Reception.

Spring Term 1 - What happens when I fall asleep? - WOW!

We had an exciting WOW day to start our new topic. 

We had a letter from Spaceman Spencer who had left us a box of things that he had found when he was in space and wanted us to investigate them and discover what we think they are from and used for. We pretended we were in a rocket and launched into space…5…4…3…2…1… blast off!

We painted a big rocket for us to travel to the moon in. We also designed our own spacesuits. 

Autumn Term 2 - Why do squirrels hide their nuts?

We have enjoyed our topic on Autumn and different festivals that have happened this half term.

We learnt about hibernation and talked about the animals that hibernate. We learnt about lots of different animals that live in the woods too. 

We looked at the season of Autumn and talked about leaves changing colours and the types of weather that we have. We also talked about Winter and how it is different from Autumn.

We learnt about lots of festivals, including Diwali and Christmas. We took part in the nativity play with year 1 and 2. We sang beautifully and danced well too!

Autumn Term 2 - Why do squirrels hide their nuts? - WOW!

We had a great WOW day to start our new topic. 

We talked about the animals we are going to be learning about and made some hedgehog bread rolls. We mixed the ingredients together carefully and shaped our dough to look like hedgehogs. After they had been cooked we took them home and enjoyed eating and sharing them with our family.

We talked about Autumn and went on a walk around the school playground to collect leaves. We found lots of different colours and sized leaves!

Autumn Term 1 - Do you want to be friends?

We have enjoyed our first half term at school. We have got to know our new friends in our class and played lots of games to find out about each other. We read lots of stories about friendship and talked about what makes a good friend.

We have enjoyed our swimming lessons and have shown lots of courage and perseverance when learning new skills in the pool.

We started our phonics lessons and have done really well learning our new sounds and beginning to learn to read.

Our First Week

We have had a great first few days at school.

We investigated our classroom and played with our new toys and games. We made some new friends and we are starting to learn their names.

We met Mr Barnett and he took us to the hall to show us where we are going to have PE, we played some PE games - it was fun!

We were also super brave and had our lunch in the hall. We tried hard to eat with our knife and folk and our grown ups were very impressed with seeing lots of clean plates!