Welcome to our Reception class page!

Your children are just beginning their most exciting learning journey and what an adventure it will be. We are very lucky to have a wonderful team in Reception that work hard to develop a love for learning in all of our children and help children unlock their potential. In Reception we love to share learning and our learning successes. Here you will find regular updates about children’s learning, achievements and celebrations, as well as information regarding upcoming news and events.

Remember our door is always open so please do not hesitate to speak with us if you have any queries, concerns or questions.

Let the learning adventure begin….

WE HAVE CHICKENS! 

After lots of careful planning our Headteacher finally decided to buy us chickens. We have 4 lovely chickens that have thier own area on our playground to roam freely. When supervised, the children are able to play and explore in this area with the chickens. We took our Reception children up and what fun we had! Some of the chickens were very cheeky and tried to peck our shoes, but we were really brave as this didn't hurt.

For the past 2 weeks we have been exploring the topic of Pirates. 

Firstly we learnt how a pirate talks and what a pirate does. Then we learnt about the famous pirates Blackbeard and Pirate Anne. The children have been fascinated learning all about how evil Blackbeard was and finding out girls weren't allowed to be pirates. We continued practising our phonics sounds and we even had a go at writing a list of things pirates will need. In maths we practised counting treasure, we had to do this very carefully so we could figure out if some of our treasure had been stolen. 

Take a look at some of the learning captured this week. 

What another fabulous week we have had exploring Monsters!

The children have learnt some new phonics sounds (s a t i), practised writing them, made monster patterns, practised cutting and practised our reading. We also made a colour monster. The children used colour to show how they were feeling. We had lots of happy/loved monsters. 

Take a look at some of the learning captured this week.

Friday fun 

Every Friday afternoon we have a special treat, this is called Golden time. This Friday we spent it on the KS1 climbing frame (ssshhh don't tell them!!!). The children loved climbing with thier friends and managing their own risks. We had lots of brave children that went to the top. 

What a fun week we have had full of lots of learning!!

The children had their first PE lesson, dressed up, and did lots of learning about our topic, ‘Monsters’. We have made monster marks in shaving foam, created our own monsters, read monster stories and exploring matching things that are the same and different.

Well done to all of our Reception children for a fantastic first week at school. They have had lots of fun our week has been full of joy and laughter and we can already see some beautiful friendships blossoming.

Take a look at some of the memories captured!