Splish, splash, splosh

 Broadford Paddling Pool

Yesterday, the children had an amazing time building their own paddling pool. We took our shoes and socks off and enjoyed the cool water. We are going to do this again tomorrow as well as extra water activities. The weather forecast is showing high temperatures. Please bring in a spare set of clothes if you want your child to enjoy the pool. Providing your child with a hat, water bottle and sunscreen in the morning is also recommended. This is a great way to keep our children cool during the heat!

Thanks

Reception team 

Reception Learning- Week 1 Summer 2

  

        RECEPTION LEARNING - SUMMER 2 WEEK 1

Maths

In maths this week we have be learning about doubling. To get a double of a number, we add the same number to itself. The children have doubled a range of different objects, used their fingers to double and learnt two new songs. See them here;

Doubles Rap Song

Doubles Song

The children were given the challenge of doubling the amount of spots on a lady bird. It was great to see their mathematical thinking while doubling the amount of spots. We also wrote our own number sentences showing we were adding numbers to themselves. 

Bentley- "2 and 2 makes 4"

Fatima- "3 and 3 equals 6, now there is 6 dots"

Noah “Double 2 is 4” 

Sophia “ 5 add 5 is 10” 

Alexandra: "Double four is eight!"

Noah: 'Double two is four"

Literacy   

This week we started reading Handa's Surprise.  Handa is a young girl who lives in a village in Kenya. She decides to take seven different fruits in a basket to her friend Akeyo who lives in a nearby village. Handa walks to Akeyo's village with the basket of fruit balanced on her head. On her journey, each fruit is taken by a different animal until no fruit is left. As she is nearing Akeyo's village, a goat breaks free from the post it is tied to and heads straight towards a tangerine tree which Handa is walking under. The goat headbutts the tree causing tangerines to fall into Handa's basket. When Handa reaches Akeyo's village, she has a shock to see tangerines in her basket. Akeyo is very happy as tangerines are her favourite fruit. We have celebrated our differences and spoken about differences between the United Kingdom and Africa including animals and fruits. Listen to the story here; 

Handa's Suprise Story

Our literacy activity involved looking at a range of fruits including avocados, bananas, mangoes, pineapples and oranges. We used a range of adjectives to describe all the fruits. The children came up with some fantastic describing words. 

Chirag- "Pineapple is hard and spiky"

Emma - "Orange is round"

Millen “ Oranges are very round and juicy” 

Olaf “ Pineapple is spiky” 

Poppy: "The pineapple is spiky"

Reception Stay and Play Session

This week we invited parents to join us in our OPAL play (Outdoor Play and Learning) .We were amazed at how much support you showed and how many of you lovely parents came to our stay and play session. We hope you enjoyed the afternoon and gained an insight in to our OPAL vision for the school and more importantly our children.

OPAL is an award-winning, mentor supported school improvement programme that addresses all the areas that schools must plan for if they want to strategically and sustainably improve the quality of their play opportunities. We are lucky to be involved in such a great program. 

 Playing outdoors in rich play environments is one of the best ways for children to develop social skills, build resilience, make more friends, be more creative and care more about the planet.

Click here to watch a video of how the OPAL programme has helped transform school playtimes and to find out more about OPAL head over to their website. 

With our carers, we built dens, blew bubbles, played in the mud kitchen, explored, played with water and much more!

Reception Stay & Play

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are excited to invite you to our OPAL stay and play session. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to play with your child/children in the school grounds. We will be making dens, dressing up, making up imaginative stories, playing with water and much more.

Reception OPAL Stay and Learn

Date: Tuesday 7th June 2022

Time: 2:10 – 3:00pm

Play time is a hidden part of the school day for you, so our Summer term 'Stay and Learn' sessions will allow you to see how play at break and lunchtime has developed during Broadford’s OPAL journey, how the children are playing and, also, gives context to the requests and pleas we send out to the school community e.g., welly requests, loose parts donations, fundraising efforts. 

If possible, please bring a loose part donation to help with den making, for instance a tyre, clean wood, tarp, plastic pipe, crate. We also are always looking for ride-on toys, scooters, old suitcases and anything form the loose parts list send out previously.

Please indicate via this form if you are able to attend. We are really excited about this project and hope that you will support us in our efforts to improve playtime for all children.

Please dress for all weathers and for play!

We look forward to welcoming you all

The Reception Team