Blog Author: Janine Brady

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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This week we are taking part in Anti Bullying week 'Choose Respect'. Today we took part in odd socks day. Mrs Brady explained that today we are wearing odd socks to show we are all unique and different. We celebrated our differences and showed kindness and respect to each other by listening. We…

Today Reception were suprised to find that a rocket ship had crashed in their outdoor area, they checked the CCTV and this is what they found! They found a book called 'Whatever Next' which they enjoyed reading, they think the rocket belongs to the bear. They wrote a list of some of the items they…

Reception have been learning all about Remembrance Day. We watched a beautiful animation, which sees war as experienced by animals. We discussed how the animals felt and learnt all about why we wear poppies, we then created our own hand print poppies and spoke about a time when we have been brave.…

Reception have been learning all about the history of bonfire night. They have enjoyed exploring reading and writing through Halloween and Bonfire themed challenges. 

#enjoy #embrace #evolve

During maths, Reception children have been looking at patterns. They looked at different types of patterns and designed their own T shirt, this moved onto AB patterns eg red,blue,red,bue etc. The children have worked hard to figure out what comes next within a pattern using objects and used the…

This week in PE Reception have been learning how to walk & run negotiating space, avoid obstacles & change direction accurately.  They have been learning to run in & out of objects with increasing confidence, walk forwards, backward, left & right and be able to stand on one foot for a short period…

Today the children were sent a challenge from Red Riding Hood as she couldn't find her way home. The children had to listen carefully as Mrs Brady spoke in Fred talk (sounding out each sound in a word eg c-a-t) the children had to then say the word eg cat. They then the found the corresponding…