Blog by Tag: Reception

Introducing our Super Sentence writers... 
These children have been chosen for their special powers and hard work in writing! They have shown great concentration and some of them were even able to include finger spaces in their writing!

Each week we will be choosing three new Super Sentence…

The reception children must have been good this year as Father Christmas took a moment out of his very busy schedule to come and visit the children! 
We took the time to ask him questions about the big day, the children asked about his elves and reindeer and also found out his favourite food-…

This week has been full of festive cheer. On Monday the children in RHW were sent a mischevious Elf! After a class vote, they named him Chippy and have been very excited to find out what he got up to each day - on Wednesday he made a ball pit for Elves only. 

The children also enjoyed the…

This half term we have been provided with the opportunity to work with the sports coaches from Blackpool Football Club during our PE sessions.
We have been focussing on developing our ball skills taking increasing control and care when we roll a ball, we then moved on to rolling balls to hit a…

This term we have been reading the story 'Shh! We have a plan' by Chris Haughton. The children really enjoyed creating story maps, cold colour collages and even acting out the story in our role play area! The children used props and took on a role to become the bird catchers and catch the…

Thank you for all your support with Children in Need on Friday! The children looked 'Spotacular' in their Pudsey outfits and we really appreciate the donations that were made. 

To help us remember the children who are less fortunate than us, the children made spotty biscuits and we discussed…

The children jumped straight back into learning this week after the half-term holiday and have been showing some fantastic learning skills! 

Take a look at what they've been up to... 

 

This week in reception we have been celebrating 'Spooky Week'!

To start the spooky celebrations we worked together to make Witches gloop, a spooky potion that if consumed will turn anyone into a snake! 
The children got stuck in mixing, spelling and deciding ingredients, some of us even wrote…

At the end of each school day the children come together to take part in our daily dough disco! The children love exercising their fingers wriggling, pinching, squeezing and prodding their dough with tom thumb, ruby ring and baby small! Not only are the children getting ready to write exercising…

This week we have been learning about Repeating Patterns.
The children have been using a variety of different resources to create them: the mini-me's, Numicon, paper chains and even our bodies - they have been very resourceful!
Some of the children decided to challenge themselves by creating 3…

Today the children went on an Autumn walk exploring the school grounds for signs of Autumn!

The children found many objects, berries, conkers, sycamore keys, autumn leaves and twigs that they will observe more closely this week in the classrooms. 

They discussed different trees…