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Stars of the Week: All of Reception

Reception were such enthusiastic learners throughout every book week activity! Every day you looked forward to checking if anything had changed in the library, and were so careful when we were able to visit the dragon. Your behaviour during the author workshop was excellent and the creativity you showed making the dragon eggs and paper plate dragons was fantastic! Additionally you all looked fantastic in your Book Day costumes – well done all of you!

During our dragon themed Book Week, Reception read the story Tell Me A Dragon. We made some beautiful dragons, as well as dragon eggs. Once we had made our dragons, we wrote a description of them, using adjectives such as big, fierce, angry to describe what they looked like and how they act.

We loved reading with our Reading Buddies from Class 4 as well as having a parent come and share a story with us.

Here are some photos of us enjoying Book Week.

Next Week: We will be showing off all that we can do in Assessment Week. On Wednesday we are looking forward to our trip to learn more about ‘Habitats’.

Stars of the Week: Jonah and Laura

This week we made pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. Well done to Jonah and Laura who were full of enthusiasm and questions when we were making pancakes.

We learnt about the meaning of Shrove Tuesday and how to follow a recipe to make pancakes. The children enjoyed mixing the ingredients together, watching Debbie with the frying pan and most of all – adding their toppings and eating them!

It has also been Book Week this week, keep an eye out for our next blog post showing all the activities we have been getting up to.

Next week: In Maths we will be learning about the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9; exploring number bonds, addition and subtraction. In Literacy will introduce our new topic of ‘Habitats’. And, in Phonics we will be writing Phase 3 words in sentences.

Stars of the Week: Lara and Alberto
Well done to our stars of the week Lara and Alberto. Lara did some brilliant maths this week, making 5 in different ways and starting to show and say number bonds to 5.
Alberto has been a great ‘coder’ this week. He was able to make code-a-pillar move, as well as move BeeBot around the mat.
Well done both of you!

This week we starting learning about why Easter is such an important time for Christians. We heard about how Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on a donkey. As he rode in people put their coats and palm leaves on the ground for the donkey to walk on. We made some palm leaves to think about Palm Sunday.

Next week It is book week! We will be participating in lots of fun activities all about dragons. Don’t forget to dress up as your favourite book character on Friday!

Stars of the week: Soraya and Thomas

This week we have been reading the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Our construction challenge was to build a bridge strong enough to hold the three goats and the troll. Well done to Soraya and Thomas who took their time to build some brilliant bridges, even when they found it tricky! Take a look at some of the bridges that have been built this week.

Next week: In Phonics we will be learning all about ‘air’ and ‘er’ words, and words with double letters ‘dd mm tt bb rr gg pp ff’. We will be using the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ to continue with our traditional tales topic.

Stars of the Week: Jonah and Micah.

Well done to Jonah and Micah who drew pictures on the interactive whiteboard of people who they can talk to to help stay safe online.

This week we celebrated Safer Internet Day. We talked about how the internet can be a wonderful thing that helps us learn and explore. We also spoke about it sometimes being a bit tricky. We talked about who we can talk to if we see something that we don’t like. Some suggestions were: Mummy, Daddy, Debbie, Miss Bowen, Miss Godsell, Mr Scott, Big Brothers and Sisters. We then drew pictures of those special people.

After half term: We will be practising our number bonds to 5, as well as writing descriptions about characters from traditional tales. In Phonics, we will be practising reading longer words.

Stars of the week: Lucia-Jane and Ava
Well done to Ava and Lucia-Jane who on our trip were enthusiastic learners! They were able to answer lots of questions and enjoyed exploring all the different parts of the Cathedral.

This week we visited Southwark Cathedral to explore the different parts of the Cathedral. Rosemary and David were our guides and they showed us around the parts of the Cathedral, like the font, the pulpit and the special seats where the Bishop sits. We also spotted Hodge the Cathedral Cat! We looked at the stained glass windows and enjoyed spotting different things in the windows.

After our Cathedral tour, we participated in a candle workshop. We made our own candles from beeswax and then made a clay candle handle. We all enjoyed making the candles and once the clay is dried, we will be bringing them home.
Here are pictures of our visit.

Next week: In Phonics we will learn the sounds ur ow oi ear. In literacy we will be exploring the tale of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ and exploring pattern in Maths. We will be painting our candle holders and enjoy developing our gymnastics skill in PE.

Stars of the week: Sienna & Christine

Well done to Sienna and Christine who this week showed some excellent gymnastics skills. They were listening and observing the gymnastics coach, and they also showed great enthusiasm.

This week was our first lesson with the gymnastics coach. All of the children thoroughly enjoyed the lesson which was focused on developing the skills for a forward roll. They are looking forward to developing some more techniques and using the apparatus.

Next week in Reception:It is assessment week, so we will be showing all of the wonderful learning that we have done so far in Writing, Reading and Maths.

Stars of the week: Laura & Grace

Well done to Laura and Grace who this week did some amazing writing in their new Literacy books! They thought carefully about the sounds they could hear in the words and then wrote down all the sounds they could hear. Well done girls!

This week was our first week using our Maths and Literacy books. All the children did amazing work in their books, taking care and showing a lot of pride in their books. We look forward to being able to show parents more work in our books soon!

Last week you saw us preparing our portraits and here they are on display in the hall alongside work from Nursery and Year 1. We are very proud of all our Reception Artists!

Next week in Reception: We are exploring the traditional tale Little Red Riding Hood. In Maths we are using our super subitising skills to start doubling numbers. In Phonics we will learn oo, ar & or.

Stars of the week: All of Reception
Well done to all of Reception for settling straight back into school after a lovely break. All the children were eager to share their holidays adventures, look around some of the changes in our classroom and spend time with their friends.

This week we are making our self portraits to contribute to the whole school display that will be put up in the hall. Check back next week to see our final pieces, but for now, here are some pictures of use preparing our backgrounds and foregrounds.

Next Week: In Phonics we will we starting Phase 3 with ai, ee, igh, oa. We will use Writing books for the first time in literacy and be comparing and estimating in Maths. Our new topic about Terrific Tales will start next week – all about fairy tales, fables and cultural tales.

Stars of the Week: All of Reception

Well done to all of Reception this week for an amazing performance of the Nativity. You all sang beautifully, said your lines clearly and made all of your teachers very proud! We think that your parents enjoyed the show too!! Well done!

This week in Reception we have been enjoying the festive season!
EYFS Christmas Party
On Monday we had our party in the hall with Nursery! We loved dancing to the music, and enjoyed playing games like musical bumps and pass the parcel.

Christmas Crafts
This week we enjoyed some Christmas Crafts. We decorated baubles and made some Christmas Stars.

Christmas Jumper Day
Here are pictures of us wearing our fabulous, festive jumpers.

Christmas Lunch
Also on Wednesday we had a special lunch in the hall! We pulled crackers and ate a delicious Christmas dinner!

Nativity Performance!
On Wednesday we performed our Nativity for our families!
A video of the Nativity can be seen here.
Here are photos of the performance. We hope that you enjoyed the performance! Thank you to all who came!

Over the holidays: We have sent home the tricky words that we have been learning this half term. It would be great if you could practise reading these. They are words that are tricky as they may not be decodable, or we are yet to learn the digraph/adjacent consonants in them.

Next term: We will focus on applying our phonics to our writing as well as start to develop our sentence writing. Our topic for the half term is “Terrific Tales” – looking at traditional tales and stories.

We hope that you all have a very safe and Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you all in 2022!