Reception Awards!

The children in Reception have been working really hard, both at school and at home. We are very proud of all their achievements and below are the children who received certificates last week.

Alder Class
Reading Awards
Bookmark -Adra, Arnish, Jessica, Amelia, Mason, Jefflyn, Hope, Veer,
Silver - Tayla
Platinum - Abdul-Aziz

Reciprocity-
Resourceful- Liroshan,Toby, Veer
Star Writer- Amelia, Archie.T
E for Excellence- Ibukun, Jefflyn

Aspen
Reading Awards
Bookmark- Elliot, Stanley, Blake, Darcie, Zayd, Harry, Rojure, Stefania, Grace,
Reciprocity- Lily
Reflective- Safiyyah
Resilience- George
E for Excellence- Dhriti

Apple
Reading Awards-
Bookmark- Chidera, Merlyn, Olivia, Dina, Freddie, Victoria, James
Bronze- Evie, Georgia, George, Ali, Osazemen
Silver- Hugo,


Reciprocity- Connie
Resilience- Freddie, Emmy, George
Happy Teacher- Merlyn
E for Excellence- Sophie, Teo, Billy

Great Alder Bake Off

Today was a super exciting day for Alder Class. The children were excited to take part in their first school trip of the year. The children happily walked to Lidl in preparation for our baking and decorating biscuit session. Once we arrived at Lidl the children loved taking lift selfies and then using their shopping list to find the ingredients needed.

Each group had the responsibility of buying ingredients for the biscuits and then using the self service checkouts. Once the items were selected we payed for our goods. The children loved using the tills and paying for the items. After we bagged the ingredients up and made our way back to school.

After washing our hands, the children then worked in groups to follow the biscuit recipe. The children used their phonic skills to read the instructions and worked collaboratively to make their biscuits. Thank you to all our adult helpers who worked with the children today!

Next the biscuits were baked during lunchtime and after lunch the children decorated their biscuits. We’ve had a fantastic day full of fun and look forward to more baking next term. We hope the children thoroughly enjoyed making their biscuits today and share their adventure with you and maybe even a bite of their biscuit!

“Are we nearly there yet, look there’s Lidl.” Ollie
We need flour, sugar and butter.” Lily-Mae

Aspen's trip to Lidl!

Yesterday Aspen class was ready for a day of shopping and baking! After talking about road safety and how we stay safe when we leave school, we headed to Lidl to buy our ingredients and decorations. The children walked very sensibly and when we arrived at lidl each group had two items on their shopping list that they had to locate and purchase. Once each group had paid for their items it was time to head back to do some baking!

When we got back to school it was time for the children to bake their biscuits! In groups the children followed a recipe to make their biscuits. There was lots of turn taking and teamwork to count out the correct number of spoons of sugar, butter and flour. They then rolled out their dough and cut out their biscuits ready to go onto a tray and bake. 

The children then went off to enjoy their lunch while the biscuits baked and cooled. After this, it was time for the fun part, decorating! The children loved icing their biscuits and covering them in chocolates and sweets! There was lots of delicious looking biscuits and lots of smiles at the end of the day when they could take their masterpieces home! We hope they enjoyed eating them as much as they enjoyed baking them! 

"I love biscuits, mine looks yummy" Harry 

"We're looking for marshmallows" Lemar 

"I can't wait to eat mine" Lily

Apple's trip to Lidl!

It has been a busy day in Apple class today! The children arrived at school ready for a day, full of biscuits. Our first job was to head to Lidl to buy the ingredients and decorations for our biscuits. After a quick talk about how we stay safe on school trips we headed out. The children walked beautifully and were very sensible throughout. At Lidl, each group had a shopping list and they had to locate these items within the shop. Once we had found them it was time to pay. Shopping list bought, it was time to head back to school to bake! 

Back at school the children worked in their groups to follow a recipe on how to make biscuits. They had to carefully count out the correct number of spoons of flour, sugar and butter. There was lots of turn taking and team work throughout. The children then rolled out their dough before cutting out the biscuits. Then it was into the oven and time for a quick clean up. 

Whilst the children had lunch the biscuits baked and cooled. The afternoon was all about decorating the biscuits. There was some masterpieces and lots of smiling faces. We hope the children enjoyed their biscuits and maybe shared some with you! 

"Wow this is the best day ever!" Elkah 

"I've been to Lidl before." Kiara 

"We need to find the sugar." Osazemen 

Reception Lidl Trips - help needed!

Reception will be going on a school trip to Lidl next week and we are in need of a few more parent volunteers to make this possible. If you are able to help on your child's trip day please speak to your class teacher. You would need to be available from 9-11am.

Apple - Monday 16th December 

Aspen - Tuesday 17th December 

Alder - Thursday 19th December

Thank you, 

The Reception Team 

Creating Stories in Nursery

Stories have so much to offer: they develop listening and communication skills, improve concentration and memory, bring experiences alive, create a sense of wonder and help sequence events. The Nursery children have been listening to lots of stories so we decided to let them create their own this week. We have chosen pictures that might interest them such as Spiderman or Elsa and worked as a group to create a story thinking about the characters, the setting, any problems that might happen in the story and building to a story ending. The children have really enjoyed taking ownership of the stories and have created some great tales! 


Tesha "The big spider went to.. Elsa's castle, it's a frozen, cold castle!"
Sonny "And then Hulk smashed all the ice, the spider froze." 

Reception Awards 29.11.19

The children in Reception have been working really hard, both at school and at home. We are very proud of all their achievements and below are the children who received certificates last week.

Alder Class
Reading Awards
Bookmark -
Bronze - Fariha

Resilience- Roman
MDA- Ayaan
E for Excellence- Lily-Mae

Aspen
Reciprocity- Elliot
Happy Teacher- Dhriti
MDA- Blake
E for Excellence- Rojure

Keep up the good work!