Blog Author: Janine Brady

This week Reception took part in safer internet day. We discussed what we liked to do online. We discussed that sometimes online things are too good to be true and how to protect ourselves online. We spoke about people who we trusted and spoke about personal and non personal information.

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Reception have taken part in Children's Mental Health Week. They started the week by taking part in a live lesson all about mental health. The children enjoyed coming to school dressed in the colour of their favourite emotion from the film 'Inside Out' and enjoyed drawing a picture of their…

This week Reception have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We learnt about how CNY is traditionally celebrated, tasted Chinese food, found where China is on a map, took part in the great race learning all about the story of how the Jade Emperor used animals in a race as a way to measure…

Reception continued their search for dinosaurs, they found 3 huge poos outside and had to investigate the poo to see what type of dinosaur it could be, they looked at herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. They sorted each dinosaur into the correct categories. They then looked at past and present…

Reception have been exploring mass and capacity. We used the scales to find the mass of different objects and worked hard to make the scale balance. We also experimented using different sized jugs, ladles and spoons to explore the capacity of different sized containers. We addressed the…

This week the children discovered footprints within the classroom, we explored further and found an egg and a huge poo, we thought about what could be inside, the children thought a dinosaur so we researched more about dinosaurs. Later through the week the children could hear loud stomping noises,…

This week in PE Reception have been learning how to change direction quickly, keeping their balance. They have been moving in different ways using their whole body and have enjoyed learning how to catch a large ball. 

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What a fabulous turn out for our Christmas stay and play. The children and adults had lots of fun as they explored a range of Christmassy activities. Thank you everyone! 

#enjoy #embrace 

This week the children have been learning through lots of Christmas activities. We had a very special present from Santa, we had to help him order his journey into the correct sequence using the book 'Rudeys Windy Christmas'. We found each place he needed to visit on the globe and stuck each flag…

The children in Reception have been learning through the story 'Supertato'. We came back from lunch to find vegetables trapped and lots of green footprints on the floor, some children said 'it must be the evil pea'. We read the story Supertato and this confirmed our findings. We created wanted…

Reception have been learning all about space, we learnt new words such as Astronaut, gravity, force and adventure. We learnt all about Neil Armstrong and role-played him walking on the moon and created our own rockets and made them fly. To finish such a fabulous week, we had our own Teddy Bears…

Today Reception #embraced the snow. We made some amazing snowmen, painted the snow then experimented how long the snow would stay in our hands before it melted.

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