Blog Author: Janine Brady

This week Reception have been reading a story called 'The Tiny Seed'. The children watched as the tiny seed travels and blows across seas, deserts and mountains, braving many hazards along the way, before finally finding a place to settle and grow into a beautiful flower.  The children learnt an…

Reception have been developing their catching skills. They have built up their skills over the past 2 weeks and were very excited to show off their talent in this weeks PE lesson, bouncing and catching a ball to their friends. 

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Reception have enjoyed reading the story 'Tiddler'. They have been learning about the ocean and identified the different oceans on a map. They were very excited to see real life characters from the story, even though they were a bit smelly! They then completed a writing task focused on…

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…