The whole school watched the children perform their Christmas show on Wednesday morning and despite being a bit like sardines squashed into just half of the hall they all seemed to enjoy the performance. A great show, despite a few minor hiccups! Their last performance to parents and grandparents this afternoon was amazing! Despite a … Read more
With the start of Advent this week comes the excitement of opening the class calendar, burning the candle and the question ‘Who will get the chocolate today?’ The children are now counting the number of sleeps until Christmas day, the adults in reception are counting the number of practices until the reception Christmas show…Will everyone … Read more
In Reception this week the children talked about Advent, the days leading up to the festival of Christmas. With the Advent house ready, whose picture will be behind doors 1 and 2 as we open them on Monday and light the Advent candle? The Christmas story was read, watched and the illustrations are fabulous. Look … Read more
With it being Road safety week we choose to look at keeping safe whilst out with an adult and crossing the road. We looked at: King of the road and Supersafe with Superted. Then we went out and practised crossing the small road outside school. We talked about what traffic is and where we should … Read more
An excellent week as the children explored the dark by sitting in the unlit ‘dark den’. We talked about sources of light, learnt about nocturnal animals and about fears of the dark as we heard the story of ‘The owl who was afraid of the dark’ by Jill Tomlinson. The children’s favourite story was ‘Can’t … Read more
The week started with circle time in small groups to give all children the opportunity to talk about their half term holiday. What a lot of exciting things you all did! Diwali started on November 3rd and the children learnt about this celebration. They made clay divas and Rangoli patterns. They will paint the divas … Read more
Shared writing of acrostic poems about fireworks by the Reception children. FIREWORKS Fireworks go boom! I want to watch them. Rockets go BANG! Ellie loves the pretty fireworks. William likes the colours. Orange, purple, pink, yellow Red, green, and blue. Kids hold the sparklers Spin the sparkler round and round. FIREWORKS Fireworks go whoosh and … Read more
Half term has arrived, a time to recharge batteries, practise skills learn so far and return fighting fit for the seven weeks that lead up to Christmas. This week we have celebrated National Apple Week by looking at and tasting different types of apples. We found out that the saying ‘An apple a day keeps … Read more
Autumn has been at the centre of all activity in reception this week as you may have noticed from our windows and outside area. In literacy we have looked at fiction and non- fiction books and poems about autumn. Through shared writing we have written our own autumn poems. You may like to look again … Read more
With just two weeks until half term and information evening on 14th October there is not much to say this Friday that I won’t be repeating on Monday. Another busy week with our trip to Wimpole Home Farm which was blessed with the best weather we could have hoped for! The children had an interesting … Read more
