Reception

Nurture, Aspire, Achieve

Welcome to Reception

We have two classes in Reception:

Class RS: Mrs Smart

Class RT: Mrs Turner

PE Day: Wednesday/Thursday

Please check this page regularly for updates on what we have been doing in class during the week, important updates and reminders and information about upcoming topics and events.

Reception Blog

week 5

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Some Autumn activities going on this week.

We have used cotton buds to dot autumn leaves onto trees.

We have had coloured leaves to place on the numbered tree, placing the correct amounts to the correct numeral.

We have looked at the number 3, the children have begun saying number sentences relating to 3. Some children have formed three using the rhyme, around the tree, around the tree, that is the way we make a 3.

More sounds and harder to read and spell words have been added to our wall. We are proud of how much progress the children seemed to be making.

We have drawn pictures to represent what the signs of autumn are and some children have attempted to label them.

Can we ask that you keep practising the letter sounds that are sent home along with the action words. The action words are helping the children to sight read certain words so when they eventually come up in a book they will be easily spotted and help the reading be more fluent.

We have managed to get into our mud exploration area too this week which turned out quite muddy and fun. Some of the children explored this area whether making mud pies or just generally jumping in the soggy mud. It would be really helpful if you could help your child with zips, they can then access the mud suits independently.

These a few other pictures of some of the things we have been doing within the classroom.

We have a star of the week, each week. Here are our stars this week!

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Week 4

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On a morning our children now come into school and write their name on a slip of paper and put it into a coloured pot which represents our zones of regulation where the children decide how they are feeling. This helps us to find any issues with our children and address them straight away as well as monitoring the childs well being throughout the day.

As a class we have also produced a piece of work for our class news wall. This first piece is a picture of ourselves and or name writing. This will be updated every half term and will show the progression of the childrens writing.

We have covered a lot this week. We have looked at the number 2, the different ways 2 is made, why things are 2, what a 2p coin looks like.

In our topic we have moved on to what we can do as a child and how it is different from being a baby.

We have also added some more phonemes to the ones we learnt last week. Ask your child what they are, maybe how they are formed. We have also learnt some harder to read and spell words, which we have to just read on sight because they can’t be sounded out. The new phonemes have been sent home to help practice the sounds and also some handwriting sheets that the children can practise the formation on.

Included in the photographs are some of the children’s writing and also some of the children reading within the phonics lesson itself.

Along with the learning photos I have included some photos of the children in provision.

We ask you if you could talk to your child about what they have learnt through the week so that they can remember and embed that learning.

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Week 2 - 3

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We hope your child has settled into school well.

Has your child spoke to you at all about what we have learnt?

We have started to look at some letter sounds. We have done ' s,a,t,p'. We have learnt how to say the phoneme (sound) and looked at the grapheme (how to write it). We have done a lot of robot talking blending, where we use our arm actions to segment the words down clap hands together to blend.

In our topic we have started to talk about babies and what babies do and how they are different. We have looked at our baby photos and spoke to a grown up about what is different.

In our maths lesson we have started right back to number 1 where we talk about what we have 1 of, what 1 looks like.

We have coloured ourselves and wrote our name for the display wall outside our classroom showing everyone who we are.

Here are some more photos of the other things we have been up to.

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Reception 21/22 Our first week

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We have been very excited about getting to know each other. We have spent our time exploring and playing in all our areas inside as well as outside.

We found out about what we do at snack time as well as where we have our lunch.

We have compiled our class promise and learnt about active listening on the carpet. See if your child can tell you our song for listening!

Here are a few photos of us all enjoying our first couple of days with a selection of photos of the activities on offer this week.

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Last few weeks of the school year.

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We have had a very busy but fun few weeks of this last half term. We have had visits from the nursery children who will be joining us in september as our current reception class moves on.

We were fortunate that the year 1 classes were empty for a day so we went and visited them to experience what it would be like as a yr1 pupil. The children really enjoyed exploring this.

We had the unfortunate event that reception class bubble burst and had to go back to the dreaded online lessons. All the children did amazing again with this and couldnt be more proud in how they adapted once again.

We did also manage to squeeze in a sports day. Due to restrictions we couldnt have parents watch but the children were amazing and all took part and also encouraged each other to do their best.

Because of the isolation period we missed out on our school funday but this didnt stop us doing our own funday. The ice cream van came back for the ones that missed out and we also had a big water party in the play area where the children enjoyed squirtingeach other and generally having a real fun time. Luckily for us the weather has been really kind and enabled us to do this.