Blog Author: Janine Brady

Over the past 2 weeks Reception have been developing their throwing skills. They have been learning over and underarm throwing. They developed the skill of throwing at a target, they placed their bodies in the correct throwing position and used their non throwing arm to point to the target. They…

This week Reception have been reading the story Monkey Puzzle. We have been learning about animals that live in the jungle. We looked at a birdseye view of a jungle and our home town of Skelmersdale and discussed the similarities and differences. We then drew a map of the jungle, carefully…

The children in Reception have continued their learning about ducks. They have enjoyed weighing two of our ducklings (Doris and Fluffy). They weighed them both on Friday and weighed them again on Monday, they were shocked to discover how big they had grown over a short amount of time, Doris…

Reception had a very special arrival last week. They have loved watching the ducklings hatch from their eggs. They have learnt all about the life cycle of a duck, created their own ducks using playdough and talked about the different parts of a duck using the correct terminology. Best of all, they…

Reception have enjoy reading the story We're going on an egg hunt'. We went on our very own maths egg hunt learning how to combine numbers. We played reading Easter bingo, wrote a sentence about some chicks, learnt all about repeating patterns and most importantly made some delicious Easter…

Reception were so excited to find dinosaur prints in their classroom, the footprints lead them to an egg. They were asked to look after it and return it when it had hatched. The egg hatched on Wednesday and we have CCTV of the dinosaur looking for it. They decided to write a letter to the dinosaur…

Today the children received a message to say the Evil Pea has been spotted at certain places within the school grounds. They received pictures of the evil pea in different places. They learnt all about maps and Mrs Brady printed off a map of the school. The children had to use the photographs of…

Reception found a tray of vegetables that were trapped, who could have done this? We called the police and they said that we needed evidence, we searched for clues and found a book in pieces. We helped put the book back together again, we read the story and found out that it was the Evil Pea. We…

Reception have thoroughly #enjoyed World Book Day. They told us all about their favourite books. We then discussed the characters and settings within stories and worked together to create life size characters. #embrace #worldbookday2023

Reception have been using different parts of their body to balance. Once they were confident in using their body to balance, they were given different challenges such as balancing bean bags on different parts of their body and completing an obstacle course without dropping their bean bag. #enjoy…

Reception have been adding toppings their pancakes. They carefully chopped up their chosen fruit and added it to their pancakes. They learnt lots of new vocabulary such as zesty, tangy, sweet, mushy and sour when describing the taste of their chosen toppings. Can you guess which children tried a…