To aid the smooth transition into Reception for our new starters, each child in Reception is given a buddy from our Year 6 class. The Year 6 pupils support their Reception buddy welcoming them as part of our school community with a friendly smile and a helping hand.
Reception had a fabulous session in forest school today. The session was based around this week’s focused book ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ The first job was to collect lots of sticks to be used to build a house of sticks. Next the children used their fine motor skills to make one of the characters from… Continue Reading
This week Reception have had a busy week with lots of activities and tasks available during continuous provision. The children enjoyed making fireworks with the Numicon pieces. As they completed the picture they talked about the number each piece represented. They used oil pastels and chalks to create our own firework pictures and discussed the… Continue Reading
October is Black History Month and Reception have been learning all about a lady called Rosa Parks. They learnt all about her life and the treatment of black people. One day Rosa Parks decided she would not give up her seat on the bus for a white person. Her small action brought big changes! Continue Reading
What a fun week Reception have had learning through being actively engaged in a range of tasks and activities. Here is a flavour of some of the excellent learning that went on. The children were challenged to create their own conker run. They worked out that they had to raise one end of the channelling… Continue Reading
This week the children have been practising their subitising skills using their perceptual subitising to recognise instantly the number of sounds the could hear. They enjoyed playing together in the music area banging on the instruments whilst their friend recorded how many. The children have used Numberblocks 1, 2 and 3 to create their own… Continue Reading
Reception have had a busy week with lots of activities available to them both in the indoor and outdoor provision. They have been actively learning, playing and exploring and creating and thinking critically. The children created a zoo to look after all of the animals. Over the week this developed and the children included grassy… Continue Reading
Reception have been talking about super powers and what they think their super powers are. They listened to the story ‘Juniper Jupiter’ by Lizzie Stewart and talked about all the super powers Juniper has. The children worked in small groups talking to each other about their super powers. Some children said they were super kind,… Continue Reading
Reception have been enjoying learning about the season of Autumn and the changes that occur in nature. The children have enjoyed activities in their ‘COOL’ learning (Choose our own learning) linked to the season of Autumn. The children made their own Autumn headband by using scissors to cut out autumn leaves and sticking them onto… Continue Reading
What a busy week it has been in Reception! The children have had lots of challenges and jobs to do linked to their topic of, ‘Ticket to Ride.’ The focus book of the week was, ‘You can’t take an elephant on a bus,’ by Patricia Cleveland-Peck and the children have enjoyed lots of vehicle related… Continue Reading
