Reception

Reception children have looked at different celebrations around the world. We talked about birthdays and made our own birthday cupcakes. We learnt about Diwali and made some Diva lamps using clay. We spoke about how people celebrate Christmas and made our own Christmas cards.

During the Forest school session for Reception Class we went on a winter woodland walk and used the large map of the Dell which had been created by the Year 2 class last year as part of the platinum award for the Woodland Trust. It had photos of some of their favourite places and showed where they were on the map.
We found the black wall and the big tree stump in the middle of The Dell, the doughnut log, the yew tree and also found another tree which makes a good den.

In addition we noticed different things during our winter walk in The Dell – a nest high in the trees; and had a go to balance on the fallen tree branch.

Reception children have enjoyed their first few Forest School sessions this half term. They have been using our school grounds to do lots of fun activities such as building dens, painting leaves and bark and looking for mini beasts.

The children had a go at making our mini beast hotel nice and cosy for them ready for winter. They all filled a pot with different natural resources such as leaves, cones, straw etc.