Blog Author: Janine Brady

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…

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…