Image of Reception- balancing skills
28 February 2023

Reception- balancing skills

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…

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Image of Reception- Pancake Day
21 February 2023

Reception- Pancake Day

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…

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9 February 2023

Reception- Mental Health Week

Reception discussed the things that made us feel connected. We joined hands to connect and we had to get the hoop around the circle without breaking the chain. We took turns to choose one thing that we like or enjoy, those who also felt connected to it too joined the chain. To finish the lesson,…

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9 February 2023

Reception - Art - Charcoal Self Portraits

Reception #enjoyed working with charcoal to create their self portraits this week. We explored the types of marks we can make with the material and drew our faces, adding in details. 
 

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8 February 2023

Reception-Safer Internet Day

The children learnt all about how to keep safe online, the focus was ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’. The children listened to a story called 'Chicken Clicking', a story about a little chicken who kept clicking online, buying lots of items without…

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1 February 2023

Reception- Whatever Next!

Reception are continuing with our theme 'Out of this world!'. We have enjoyed drawing a space rocket during computing and writing captions from the story 'Whatever Next!' #enjoy #evolve 

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1 February 2023

Reception - Art - Resist Drawing

Reception have #enjoyed creating resist drawing today, using the story The Rainbow Fish for inspiration. We used oil pastels to draw our fish, and loved watching the ‘magic lines’ appear when we added the paint. 
 

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27 January 2023

Reception- Full and Empty

Reception have been learning all about capacity. We have used words such as full, empty, half full, nearly empty and nearly full to describe what we could see if each cup! #enjoy #evolve

 

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Image of Reception- Rocket crashes on the school field
24 January 2023

Reception- Rocket crashes on the school field

Reception arrived back into the classroom after lunch to discover a very loud crashing sound, we wondered where is was coming from. We checked the school camera and found something very unusual outdoors, we ran to investigate. We found an engine, rocket ship parts, food, space boots and a space…

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20 January 2023

Reception- Blubber experiment

Reception- This week we have been learning about penguins and how they keep warm in the icy waters. We wanted to see how the blubber keeps the penguin warm, so we decided to do an experiment. We placed one hand in the icy cold waters with no protection, then placed our other hand in the ice cold…

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17 January 2023

Reception- Chinese New Year

Reception enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year this afternoon. They did lots of fun activities whilst learning all Chinese culture and traditions #enjoy #embrace #evolve

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13 January 2023

Reception-Lost and Found

Reception had a delivery of a penguin, we discussed and debated where it might have come from. We then found the book 'Lost and Found'. We enjoyed reading the story and learnt that the Penguin was from the South Pole. We looked where the South Pole was on a map. We then wanted to help the penguin…

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