Welcome to Reception!

Look at what we have been doing in Reception.

Spring Term 2 - Will you read me a story?

We have enjoyed reading lots of stories together this half term. We have focused on some familiar stories, such as Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.

We made some bears and Goldilocks faces out of paper plates and used them to act out the story. We also drew maps to help Goldilocks get to the bears house.

We learnt about the different parts of a story and came up with our own characters.

We celebrated World Book Day by wearing a book character costume - there were princesses, super heroes and even a worm! We brought in our favourite book and told the class all about it!

Spring Term 2 - Will you read me a story? - WOW!

We started our topic with a letter arriving from Jack. He was telling us about his adventures up the beanstalk and that the giant was chasing after him. He asked us to look out for giant footprints around the school - we saw them in lots of different places!

We planted our own beans to grow a beanstalk. We used soil and water. We are going to look after them by putting them out in the sunshine and making sure they have enough water. We can’t wait to see how high they grow!

We also coloured our own castles to put at the top of our beanstalks.

We are looking forward to reading lots of stories and also celebrating World Book Day soon!

Spring Term 1 - What happens when I fall asleep? 

We have had a great half term learning about night and day!

We have talked about what we do during the day and what we do at night. We told each other how we get ready for bed and which order we get ready in the morning.

We learnt about different animals that come out at night.

We read lots of different stories about aliens, space and nocturnal animals - one of our favourites was 'Night Monkey, Day Monkey.

We learnt about different jobs that happen during the day and night and had visitors from different people in school and some grown-ups from home. It was great to hear about each job. We also talked about which jobs we would like to have when we are older.

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!