People who help us week!

We have had lots of special visitors this week! We have had our Lollipop man, a Doctor, a Nurse, Police officers and the fire brigade, to name a few!

Superheroes!

This week we have been role playing superheroes, writing our own superhero stories and making masks!

This week we read 'Supertato' by Paul Linnet and learnt all about the Evil Pea. To our surprise, when we came in one morning, someone had been in our classroom causing mischief....who could it be and who could help these vegetables? We set out on a search for the Evil Pea; designing and building traps and making WANTED posters to put up around the school. 

Growing

This week we have been learning all about growing! We planted our own bean, we explore the parts of real plants, we role played garden centres and we went on a walk to look for the signs of spring!

World Book Day 5th March 2025

We enjoyed decorating our classroom door to represent one of our favourite books 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. During the day we enjoyed taking part in a reading buddy session with Year 2, a book swap and even got to visit other classes during story time.

Check out some of the children's photos of them reading in unusual places too!

Celebrating 100 days of school!

This week Reception celebrated being at school for 100 days. Since the start of the year we have been counting the days and marking this off using a 100 square grid. We have also been practising counting in tens and ones up to 100! The children brought in some wonderful homework to do with the number 100. On the day we enjoyed taking part in a PE session where we completed 100 different exercises and then had fun completing different craft activities such as 100 glasses and crowns.

Chinese New Year

This week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. We made dumplings which were delicious! We learnt all about the Zodiac and even painted Chinese numbers!

Winter Walk 

This week we went on a winter walk to explore our local environment. We have also been working on making and exploring maps. 

Spring 1: Let's Go on an Adventure

Gymnastics: We had our first gymnastics lesson and explored making different shapes with our bodies.

Winter: This week we read 'Betty and the Yeti' by Ella Burfoot and discussed the different signs of Winter and the clothes that you might wear. During Play and Learn some of the children then decided to make their own puppets and used pieces of material to collage the clothes.

Nativity!

This week we performed our Nativity. We sang, danced and acted incredibly well and really enjoyed ourselves! We made models of our characters to make a small version of our show!

Pumpkin soup!

This week we read Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper, then made our own Pumpkin Soup! We wrote the recipe too. We also went on an Autumn walk and made 'Leaf man' maps to celebrate Autumn. 

Diwali

This week we have been learning all about Diwali. We made Diva lamps using clay, we painted Mendi on our hands, we did some Diwali dancing to traditional music and we listened to the story of Rama and Sita. 

Fireworks!

This week we have been writing our our firework poems and making our own rockets! Here are some of them!

International Week

This week we had our international week where we celebrated different cultures! We had parents come in and teach us about Greece, France, Madeira, USA, Italy and Spain! We learnt about the languages, the food and the traditions. We even listened to and played some Indian music!

The Three Little Pigs

This week our key text was The Three Little Pigs. We have enjoyed exploring materials for different houses, making wanted posters for the Big Bad Wolf, role playing the story and making puppets!

When I grow up...

This week we've been thinking about what we want to be when we grow up. We've drawn pictures and practised hearing initial sounds. Here are a few of them!

Colour mixing!

This week we read the story 'Mixed' and explored colour mixing with paint. We even created our own Mixed city like in the story!

Our self portraits!