Blog Author: Janine Brady

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…

This week Reception have been learning all about Winter. We looked at which animals migrate and hibernate during the winter time, this led to a discussion about how sea animals keep warm. We discussed that animals such as Whales have a layer of fat called blubber. We decided to do an experiment to…

This week we have been getting into the festive spirit. We have created some wonderful items for our Christmas fayre and taken part in lots of Christmas challenges. We ended the week by posting our letters to Santa, whilst we were there we bumped into Santa, what a surprise! He gave us a chocolate…

Reception were so excited (just look at those faces) to discover that Santa had been to our class whilst we were having lunch, he left us lots of pictures of himself within our classroom. We noticed that he had a box wrapped up in Christmas paper, so we looked around and found a special delivery.…

Reception have created wanted posters to catch the evil pea. Today they received a message that he was spotted at our school and photographic evidence of his last sightings were sent. The children had to use the map to plot where he had been seen. The children then followed the map and found evil…

This week Reception have been learning all about 4 sided shapes. They have explore composing and decomposing shapes by folding different shaped paper. They now understand that shapes can have other shapes within them, 'look 4 little squares make one big square'. 'Two rectangles make a square'. The…

The children have been learning how to represent 4 & 5 and 1 more/1 more less. They arranged the stones into different ways such as 2&2 and 3&1 to represent 4. They then made birthday cakes and used the candles to represent how old each of Mrs Brady's friends were using their birthday cards. The…

Reception have been learning all about space. It began when a rocket ship crashed on the school grounds. The children read the story Whatever Next and they believe the rocket belongs to the bear. The children helped sequence the story and and wrote a list of objects of what they had found from the…

oday Reception really did 'Make a noise' about bullying. The children took part in odd socks day to celebrate what makes us all unique! They had a short discussion about how they would like to encourage kindness in school. They made a list of words,
the children split up into small groups and had…

We have had a very busy week learning all about different celebrations such as Remembrance and Diwali. We marched in the hall like a soldier and thought about a time when we were brave. We learnt all about Diwali through dance. We have also been learning about the composition of numbers to 3 by…