Image of Reception- Throwing a ball at a target
11 May 2023

Reception- Throwing a ball at a target

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…

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Image of Reception- Monkey Puzzle
4 May 2023

Reception- Monkey Puzzle

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…

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Image of Reception- Weighing & bathing the ducklings
28 April 2023

Reception- Weighing & bathing the ducklings

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…

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Image of Reception - Art - Flowers
26 April 2023

Reception - Art - Flowers

Last week, Reception #enjoyed painting flowers with watercolours, inspired by the artist Gustav Klimt.  This week, we explored scrunching and twisting tissue paper to add 3D flowers on top. We put all our pieces together and made one big piece of Art!

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Image of Reception- All about ducks!
25 April 2023

Reception- All about ducks!

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…

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Image of Reception- combing numbers, repeating patterns and Easter fun!
31 March 2023

Reception- combing numbers, repeating patterns and Easter fun!

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…

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Image of Reception- Dinosaurs
23 March 2023

Reception- Dinosaurs

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…

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Image of Reception- Maps to find the Evil Pea
16 March 2023

Reception- Maps to find the Evil Pea

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…

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Image of Reception- Supertato
9 March 2023

Reception- Supertato

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…

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Image of Reception- World Book Day 2023
2 March 2023

Reception- World Book Day 2023

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

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Image of Reception - DT - Designing Duck Houses
2 March 2023

Reception - DT - Designing Duck Houses

Reception have been working on their designing skills by designing a house for a duck. Using our drawing skills we started to add details to the houses to make them exciting for duck users. 
 

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