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Reception

Reception Environment

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Learning Links

Maths

https://numbots.com/

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-resources/ey-numberblocks-at-home/

Phonics/Reading

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

  • PE sessions

    To keep ourselves healthy and ready to learn we have weekly PE sessions.  We know the importance of warming our bodies up first and stretching.  We have a different activity each week that teaches us new skills and helps build our stamina.

    We also had a dance session with Miss Lisa.

  • Dinosaur Adventure

    We were very lucky to have Dr Polet come and have a dinosaur adventure with us.  He shared some fossils with us and then we became palaeontologists! We had to excavate our dough, match the dinosaur and then classify our picture to the correct time period.  Dr Polet even let us take our dinosaurs home.

  • Visit from the Guinea Pigs

    We had some very special visitors to Reception – our school Guinea Pigs!  Mrs Thompson brought Poppy, Daisy and Bluebell to visit.  We learnt how to care for them, what they can eat and we all were able to hold and stroke them.  They were very friendly.

    We now help care for them.

  • Pumpkin Soup Making

    This week was all about pumpkins!  After reading the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’, we explored what was inside pumpkins.  We mixed two colours (red and yellow) to make orange to paint a pumpkin and finally we followed instructions to make pumpkin soup!  This created an algorithm.  Mrs O’Connor taught us how to dip fresh bread rolls into the pumpkin soup to have a taste.  The majority thought it was delicious!

  • Seaside Day

    Reception class spent the day at the seaside!  It was a glorious day building sandcastles, paddling in the water, making kites, exploring rock pools and designing vehicles that we could use as transport.  No beach trip is complete without an ice cream at the end of the day!

    We enjoyed reading these 2 books:

  • Eric the Hedgehog

    Reception class was very lucky to have a special visitor – Eric the Hedgehog.  In our local school community, we have Pat and Corinne who look after poorly hedgehogs before returning them to the wild.  They bought Eric the Hedgehog for us to meet before he was released.  We learnt what Eric likes to eat, how to look after a poorly hedgehog and how to help hedgehogs in the wild.  We also found out that hedgehogs can swim and they have a tiny tail.

    After meeting Eric the Hedgehog some children decided to design and create hedgehog homes.

    After meeting Eric the Hedgehog some children decided to design and create hedgehog homes.

  • Stockwood Discovery Centre

    Reception class had an exciting trip to Stockwood Discovery Centre to explore transport from the past using the story ‘Mrs Armitage On Wheels’ as inspiration.  We spent the morning in the galleries investigating different sizes of wheels and we even spotted Mrs Armitage and her dog Breakspear.  After our picnic lunch we had a treasure hunt around the grounds using our senses to spot the clues.  It was a great day!

  • Reading with Parents

    The Reception parents have been invited in to school to read with their child.

  • Space

    Space

    On Tuesday 1st November 2022, Reception children became astronauts and zoomed into Space!  we explored the moon, our solar system and the biggest star – the sun!  This experience inside an inflatable planetarium sparked so many questions and conversations about space which continued back in our classroom.  We created our own solar systems, explored the surface of the moon by creating craters and became scientists to investigate bubbling planets.

  • From Little Acorns Mighty Oaks Grow

    Our school motto is ‘From Little Acorns Mighty Oaks Grow.’  Reception went on an adventure to find the mighty oak tree.  We found it at the front of our school!  We explored the texture of the tree trunk and collected a little acorn each to take back to our classroom.