Blog Author: Janine Brady

Reception have been learning all about Spring and the story of Easter. The children enjoyed a nice walk looking for signs of Spring, they then wrote about what they could see. They have been retelling and sequencing the Easter story using props. They have enjoyed playing with our lavender…

This week Reception have been learning all about number bonds to 10 using 2 and 3 parts. The children have enjoyed exploring the different ways to make 10 using different coloured counters. They have also been learning about doubles to 10 and now understand the concept of doubling and the fact…

Reception enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. The children came dressed as their favourite character and brought their favourite story to school. They read Elmer and the Patchwork story and did lots of activities relating to this story. They then enjoyed using different pictures to create their…

This week Reception have been putting their skills to the test. Mrs Brady set up a circuit to give the children an opportunity to test their throwing, climbing, balance and jumping skills. Some found balancing very hard but their friends were there to give them a helping hand.

#'enjoy #embrace…

Reception have had a very special delivery of duckling eggs this week. They have been so excited to watch the ducklings hatch. They have learnt all about the life cycle of a duck and named each feature using the correctly vocabulary whilst creating their own playdough ducks.

#enjoy…

This week Reception have been talking about their senses. We looked at which senses we used when trying new food. They designed, made, then wrote about their own pancake. The children described how their pancake tasted, we had lots of funny facings when trying the lemon juice. They have also been…

Reception have loved taking part in Children's mental health week. They have explored lots of different activities, but the focus was that each and everyone one of their voices matter!

#myvoicematters #childrensmentalhealthweek #evolve

This term we have been learning lots of different skills within our maths lessons. We have been looking at subitising, mass, capacity, exploring the composition of 6,7,8, pairs, doubles and length. Wow we have been busy!

Today Reception took part in an internet safety lesson. Although we always talk about keeping safe, todays focus was being safe online. They looked at different ways that the internet could be used , then read a short story called Mo and Jazz. The story was about 2 characters who were watching…

This week Reception read the story 'Naughty bus', they have been keeping an eye out for the 'naughty bus' all week. He was spotted in different places and the children had to write about where he was last seen. This lead to the children looking at transport from the past. They compared lots of…

This week Reception have been learning all about Dinosaurs. We found three huge poos, we had to investigate! We learnt all about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. We explored the poo and from our findings we could see which poo belonged to each dinosaur. We also looked at the role of a…

This week Reception found footprints in their classroom, they discovered a letter which stated that a dinosaur had lost its egg. We searched everywhere and found it outside. We wrote letters to the dinosaur so it would come back. We are looking after it well and we are still waiting for it to…