What we are learning W/B 10/11/25

 

Year Reception: What We Are Learning 

Reception have been working really hard this week. Our focus book was The Little Hen and the Great War.

Here is what we have been up to: the children painted poppies and added them to our Reception Outside Area to remember all of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives during war. They also painted their hands red and from their hand prints made their own poppy wreaths to display outside our classroom doors. The children also recorded a poem for Remembrance Day. 

The children have also been working hard in Read, Write, Inc this week. The children have all been assessed and are now working in groups based on this. The children discussed what makes a good friend and made their own friendship recipes. They put the key words in their friendship bowls that they thought makes a good friend. They worked hard to write the initial sounds they could hear in words such as ‘h’ for ‘helps’. They also tried to sound out the words such as ‘kind’ using their set 1 sound mat.  Please continue to read 5 times a week with your children and work on set 1 sounds as well as word time words (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc). Well done Reception for your hard work in Read, Write, Inc and with your writing this week. 

In Maths this week the children have been learning all about 2D shapes. They worked hard to recognise triangles and circles in their classroom and during our outdoor shape hunt. The children also went outside and made triangles from sticks in our outside area. They also learnt about positions and could describe the positions different objects were in in our outside area. Well done Reception for your hard work in Maths this week! 

This week is also Anti-Bullying Week. We learnt about the importance of kindness and made friendship recipes and added words such as ‘help’ and ‘kind’ into their friendship recipe bowls. 

The children had an amazing day celebrating Children In Need. They all enjoyed taking part in lots of fun Pudsey themed activities. 

Well done Reception for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work! 

Reception Learning W/B 05.05.25

 

Year Reception: What We Are Learning 

This term our topic is Plants and Growth. Our focus book last week was And Tango Makes Three.

Here is what we have been up to:

This week we learnt all about eggs, hatching and life cycles. 

In Literacy we recapped our red words the,a,I,of,he,go,to,my,was,you,we,they and remembered that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. This week we learnt how to write the red word ‘she’. We wrote about the life cycle stages of a penguin.

Please continue to read 5 times a week with your children and work on set 1 or 2 sounds as well as word time words (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc).

We learnt about the North pole and looked at it on Google Earth. We thought about how cold it is there and that it is right at the top of the world. We also learnt about The Inuit. The Inuit are people who live in the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Russia. They are known for being able to live in a cold harsh environment.

In Maths this week the children have been adding and taking away to 10.

We also celebrated the 80th anniversary of VE day. Thank you for coming to watch our special singing performance and joining us for afternoon tea

Well done Reception for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work!

VE Day 80th Anniversary Celebrations! You're Invited!

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to invite you to join us in commemorating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day on Thursday 8th May at 2:30pm.

Nursery AM parents are invited to join at 10:45am.

To mark this significant moment in history, the children will be learning about the events of VE Day and its importance in shaping the world we live in today. This will be a non-uniform day and children are invited to wear the colours red, white and blue. As part of our celebrations, each class will be performing a special song to honour the occasion, and we would love for you to come and watch.

These will be performed in classrooms and following this, you are warmly invited to stay and enjoy a selection of VE Day-themed activities and afternoon tea, prepared with the spirit of the 1940s in mind.

Nursery, Reception and KS1 parents - please wait by the glass doors to be let in.

KS2 parents - please wait by the KS2 doors to the left of the office to be let in.

If you have more than one child we will send the sibling to the classroom you are in after the singing performance to join you for afternoon tea.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a memorable and meaningful afternoon.

Kind regards,

Mrs Marie

Reception Year Group Lead

Reception Learning 09.02.24

 Reminders and key dates: 

• Monday 12th February: RWI Parent session 
• Friday 16th February: End of Spring 1
• Monday 26th February: First day of Spring 2

Reading at home

Just a reminder that it expected that all children read at home at least 5 times a week. Please ensure your child is reading 5 times and you are signing the reading record to evidence this. These can be school books, library books or any books you have at home! Thank you!

Bags

Please could we kindly ask that you do not send your child in with any other bag unless it is a packed lunch or it is their reading day. We have limited space for coat and bag storage and many items are becoming lost / damaged due to the high volume of bags. Thank you!

 

Topic:

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

We read the book and encouraged the children to join in with repeated refrains and talk about the story characters and events. We talked about homes, and the rooms we have in our own house. Then we researched houses from the past, focusing specifically on Victorian kitchens. We learnt that food had to stored in cupboards and ice boxes as fridges did not exist then. Our kitchens looks very different to how they do now!

We also celebrated Chinese New Year this week

We learnt that dragons are a very important part of Chinese culture and play a large part in Chinese history. A dragon is a symbol of power, strength and good luck and was thought to protect people. Dragon dances are usually performed during Chinese New Year.

Take a look at all of the fun activities the children took part in: 

Mrs Marie, Miss Onabiyi and Miss Speirs