Reception have enjoyed a wide range of stories about Superheroes including ‘Supertato’ and ‘Superkid’. They created their own ‘Supertato’ vegetables, counted out how many Evil Peas there were and wrote some wonderful sentences about how the trapped vegetables could be feeling.
This afternoon the children all completed their vehicles using their designs. They had a very productive time with their parents; joining, fixing, painting and decorating. The models they created were all unique and very creative. A huge thank you to all the parents who joined us today, what a great Read more…
Reception have been using a range of methods to find different ways of adding numbers. They are confident using the part-whole method and creating amounts in the ten frames.
Reception have been learning about celebrations around the world. This week they have listened to the story of The Great Race and how Chinese New Year is celebrated. They created dragons, lanterns, painted Chinese numbers and tasted some noodles and crackers. Thank you to Jenna for the extra treats brought Read more…
Reception have enjoyed sharing some of the Bookflix stories with their Year 6 buddies this week. They are becoming familiar with lots of the texts and enjoy talking about their favourite characters and events.
Reception and Key Stage One were amazed this morning by Adrian Bowden who demonstrated some exciting experiments and talked about properties of materials. They tested to see what would be the most waterproof material, discovered what material would make the softest cushion and mixed liquids to create enormous bubbles.
Reception have been using a range of tools and skills to create characters from one of their favourite stories this week. They have experimented to see why Stickman floats in the story and written about the different ways he is used.
Reception could hardly contain their excitement when Father Christmas made a surprise visit with a gift for everyone!
Reception and Year one enjoyed a lovely morning of Christmas crafts in preparation for their party afternoon. Thank you very much to the PTA for their kind donations towards all the food and drink for the children. Everybody had a great time!
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.
