Reception have amazed their parents and grandparents with their wonderful performances of ‘Shine Star, Shine’. All the children enjoyed themselves and spoke clearly, sang beautifully and acted out the story well. Mrs Brierley is extremely proud of everyone, well done Reception!
Reception are enjoying reading one of their Bookflix stories this week. They have learned what a speech bubble is used for and created their own sentences about each character, used the laptops to draw the Gruffalo and even made some Gruffalo paw biscuits. What a busy few days learning in Read more…
Reception are now very confident in their gymnastic sessions. Each week they listen carefully to the instructions and know to warm up before they exercise. This morning they enjoyed balancing followed by jumping off and landing safely.
Reception have been learning how their donations will be used to support Children in Need. We talked about how we are special and celebrated the achievements in our class this week. Well done Reception!
Reception are confident working with numbers to 5. This week we are creating our own number stories focussing on the language of counting backwards, taking away and less than.
Well done to all the children who collected their certificates in assembly this morning. Mrs Brierley is very proud of you all!
Reception are learning how to strengthen their arms and wrists ready to write. They enjoy our Write Dance sessions and make marks and patterns in the classroom. This week they have been making number stories and drawing them to share with their peers.
The children enjoyed our annual Harvest Assembly led by Reverend Susan. A huge thank you for all your generous donations.
Reception have been exploring different ways to represent numbers up to 4. We have been checking we can touch count accurately and used a five frame to help us see the different ways we can represent the same amount.
All our children now have a Year 6 buddy who will support them during their first year at school. Today they enjoyed showing their buddies their classroom and getting to know them. Throughout the year buddies will play with them at lunchtimes, share stories and reading books and practice their Read more…
What a lovely afternoon everyone had on their first day at school. The children explored the classroom and made lots of new friends.
All the children that started school this morning had a wonderful time. They enjoyed meeting new friends and exploring the classroom.
All the children had a great afternoon celebrating all their hard work over the last year…they danced, sang and ate some lovely treats donated by their very kind parents.
What a great day! Reception enjoyed feeding the animals, milking the cows and riding on donkeys. Their favourite part of the day was the very bumpy tractor ride up to feed the donkeys. They learnt all about the wingspan of an owl and how many times the cows get milked Read more…
Reception have listened to the story of Noah’s Ark and created their own collages. They made promises just as God made a promise at the end of the story….I wonder if they will keep them!!
The reception children had a lovely afternoon looking back over the last year and talking about everything they had enjoyed learning. They explored the big books about the different areas of the curriculum and looked at photographs of all the activities they had taken part in.
This week we have been busy using ten frames and coloured counters to find all the different ways to make ten. We have learnt that these are called number bonds.
Today we moved our sunflowers outside. The children have done a great job growing them from seeds and watering them regularly. They are looking forward to seeing them grow even taller over the half term break.
Reception performed in front of parents and grandparents this morning. I was incredibly proud of how confidently the children spoke and led the assembly without any prompting. Thank you to all the parents that came to watch, I am sure you all enjoyed it as much as the children did.
Over the last few days the caterpillars have changed and we now have many cocoons. Today we moved them from their tiny pots into the butterfly net….fingers crossed they are ready to emerge as butterflies before half term!
The children have been learning how to follow and give directions using the Bee bots. They were able to move the Bee bot forwards, backwards, left and right. We are encouraging them all to continue to use these instructions in their play and at home.
Reception are busy observing the caterpillars using magnifying glasses. They are learning about the changes that will occur and predicting when the caterpillars will start to change.
Reception had a wonderful time joining in with Anna and Sir Undercracker this morning. They listened carefully for the rhyming pairs, joined in with all the actions and learned lots of new vocabulary. I am sure the children will continue to enjoy exploring this book. Thank you Anna!
This morning we enjoyed a very interesting trip to the local market. The children had a great time and were surprised to see the many different stalls selling everything from pet food to wool and decorations. Anne and Tony made us all very welcome and the children learnt so much Read more…
The children have been learning to look for signs of spring. They enjoyed talking about the changes in the environment and used pastels to carefully sketch the daffodils.
Reception have been sharing the story of The Runaway Pancake. They have joined in with the story repetition and created the characters. Today they learned why we have Shrove Tuesday and talked about their favourite toppings on pancakes. We all enjoyed flipping and tasting the delicious pancakes.
Reception have been enjoying the warm weather outside and acting out the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They enjoyed playing the different character roles and experimented with porridge and cereals.
