Blog Author: Janine Brady

Reception have been learning all about the Easter Story. They enjoyed taking on the role of different characters then sequenced the Easter story. Then have also enjoyed lots of Easter crafts.

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Reception have been super busy in maths. They have been learning how to combine numbers to 10, doubles, number bonds to 10 using 2 and 3 parts and 3D shapes! 

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Reception have been learning all about Spring, they searched for signs of Spring outdoors and wrote all about the what they can see at Spring time. They enjoyed looking at the life cycle of a frog and got to see some frogs spawn.

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Reception have continued learning all about ducks. They created their own duckling fact file, weighed the ducks and measured how tall they are using cubes. We made our own playdough ducklings labelling each part of the duck.  We then had lots of cuddles and and gave them a bath. #enjoy #embrace…

Today Reception have #embraced world book day. They have enjoyed making dens to read in, created their own story telling chair and found some very unusual places to read. They were very excited to  read stories with some of the older children from year 3 and even got to listen to a story read by…

Reception have enjoyed reading the story 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes', we even had a visit from the wolf. We helped him to write instructions of how to make a pancake, we then designed our own pancakes using the Ipad, then added some delicious toppings to our own pancakes. Eating them was definitely the…

The children in Reception have been exploring length and height. They compared the length and height of objects within the room. They have also been learning all about time, they helped Mrs Brady to make some toast, they were asked...how long does the toast need to be in the toaster to make it…

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…