Reception – Mrs Elliott

Welcome to Reception!

Hello and welcome to our class page. We will update our page regularly with photographs and information. We hope you enjoy finding out what your children have been learning about in Reception.

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Please don't forget both Reception classes will have their PE lesson every Monday.

Your child will need a P.E. kit consisting of black shorts, a white t-shirt and easy fasten pumps please. You can also put jog bottoms in for when the weather is cold. If you wish your child to wear leggings for P.E. please put them on under their uniform.

Many thanks.

Click on the document below to see what we will cover this term

Summer 1 Parents update 2016 .docx

Summer 2 parents update 2016.docx

We had buzzing time!!

The Bee Company came to visit our school. We found out many amazing facts about bees especially Honey Bees and how important they are to us and our environment. These are just some of the fascinating facts the children remembered.

Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen.

Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey to use as food.

Many plants depend on bees to spread pollen, helping them to reproduce.

Flowers that attract bees are usually yellow, blue, or purple. (we did a bee dance some of us were bees and some flowers.)

Honeybees and bumblebees live in colonies or hives. All the bees in the colony work as a team to make honey.

Without bees we would not have certain food.

Our Victorian Day

What a fantastic day we had pretending to be Victorians!

So many chimney sweeps

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All ready for work maids?

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Lady Aaliyah and Lady Anna

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Little Victorians

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Our work is never done

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Annas portrait

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Playing small world modern and old Manchester

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Darcy remembered that children went out to work!

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Writing by Aaron and pictures of victorian houses

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Making a Victorian house and people

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In go the chimney sweeps

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The maids have lunch

Grandparents Day

A big thank you to all out wonderful grandparents who took part in this special day. The children had lots of fun asking you questions and I know you enjoyed answering them!

Our singathon

We had a fantastic day at Blackpool Zoo!

National Sports Week 2016

Week beginning 20th^tJune we celebrated National Sports Week, the children took part in a variety of sport related activities in the classroom and outdoors. Some of the activities the children participated in were relay races, football skills, multi skills and linking sport to their maths and literacy work. We invited our families to come and join us for a fun sports activity morning. Also Freddy Fit came to our school and showed us how to have fun, get fit and stay healthy!!

Fun with our families!! A huge thank you to all the grown ups who came to help us.

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Fun with Freddy Fit !!

What Did the Ladybird Really Hear?

What an exciting time we have had learning all about farm animals. We focused our learning around the book 'What the Ladybird Heard' to find out lots of interesting information about all the animals.

Writing facts about farm animals

Acting out the story 'What the Ladybird Heard'

Pretending to be one of the animals

What can you buy from the Farm Shop?

Building a dilapidated barn to retell the story

We painted a picture of our favourite farm animal

Making a map about the story

We have had a very busy week in fact there was a real 'Commotion in the Ocean' in reception! Take a look at all the learning we have been doing about under the sea.

Acting out Commotion in the Ocean

Millies story map

Ama's, Anna's and Darcy's story map

Aarons map

Counting fish

Tom was a scary shark

Eesa's super map

Jaidas great story map

Lots more counting

Counting the fish and finding the total

Oh no its a shark attack

Counting shells and writing a number sentence

Wow more adding

Its the Sharks cave yikes!

Amazing sea creature painting

fishing in the rock pool

Singing Everthing Beneath the Sea

This week it was our turn to give our guinea pigs Coco and Suzie a cuddle everyday. We loved it.

Our final day of Family Learning Week.

After our assembly with Miss Cowgill and Chris, RE became the Red Class for the day we were all mixed up with children from y2 y1 and Reception.

Our first activity in the morning was to design flags for our dens. We then used mini bamboo sticks and plasticine to make a 3D model of our den. Chris explained that building the model would help us think about working as a team, talking and planning and sharing the equipment. After playtime we put on our hats, coats and wellies and met Chris in the playground. He provided us with large bamboo sticks, cable ties and pegs. Although it rained a little we were so busy we didn't mind and we all worked very hard to build our dens.

After dinner we went back to our dens to cover them using a variety of sheets and pegs to make them waterproof. Finally we added our flags,went inside our tents and had our snacks. What a fantastic day we had!

A big thank you to all the grown ups who came to help us today we could not have done this without you!

Another super day in our Family Learning Week.

More fun with sticks!

Family Learning Week

Stanley's Stick

what an amazing day we had!

A big thank you to all the grown ups who came to help us today.

We have been learning all about Under the Sea.

Retelling the Rainbow Fish story

Soracha used the puppets to tell the story

Sharing the fish evenly into two tanks

We had to share carefully.

We even shared the fish into three rock pools

Wow Aaron shared 30 fish!

Jaida shared lots of fish too

Super writing about the Rainbow fish

Counting pearls using tweezers it was a bit tricky

Anna wrote about a mermaid all by herself

Super labelling of sea creatures

Ezel wrote about a famous Clown fish!

Finding sea creatures and talking about them

Finding facts out about sea creatures

Painting sea creatures outside

Exploring Spring and Easter.

Planting Spring flowers

Getting the planters ready

Make a hole just the right size

In goes the plant

Looking for signs of Spring

Ordering the Easter egg numbers, to 30 wow!

We are going on a Spring walk. What can we see?

Creating an Easter egg hunt map what a great team

Labelling the egg hunt map.

A super house for the Easter bunnies.

Following the map to find the eggs!

Painting lovely flowers

We observed Spring flowers and painted pictures

Sport Relief!

We had a fantastic Sport Relief day. We kept active all day taking part in street dancing and we also ran a mile! Phew it seemed like a long run!

Thank you to everyone for your kind donations.

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Wow! What a very busy week.

Our Mother's Day afternoon tea.

The children worked so hard preparing for our afternoon tea.

Lots of parents joined us for a game of Phonic Bingo, we had a great time. Thank you for coming.

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WORLD BOOK DAY

We have been doing some fantastic learning about the story of Goldilocks and the Three bears

Measuring the bears to fit in the house

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Making a living room for the bears

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James built a bedroom

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Constructing beds and houses

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Acting out Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Taking turns playing the Goldilocks board game

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Painting pictures about the story

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Does the bear fit in the bed?

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Adding and subtracting bears

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Designing beds from junk materials

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Another great design

Chinese dancing!

Kung Hey Fat Choi

The Lion and Dragon dance.

Kung Hey Fat Choi !

We have been learning all about Chinese New Year, thank you to everyone who sent in Chinese food. We have had a fantastic day celebrating altogether.

Finding out all about Chinese New Year

Telling the Chinese New Year story

Getting ready to taste Chinese food

We made Chinese hats

We made Chinese temples

Darcy made her own Chinese Dragon

Isaac showed everyone how to do the Lion dance

Making Chinese dragons

Safa served noodles from the Chinese restaurant

Neave made a paper plate Dragon

Writing numbers using chopsticks

Abdur-Rahman found China on the globe

Darcy sent a New Year card to Isaac

Issac was delighted

Tasting yummy Chinese food

We finally got the prawn crackers

Ciara loved the spring rolls

Isaac showed Sonny and Ezel how to use chopsticks

We had noodles,rice, stir fry and spring rolls

Silza said the noodles were very nice

Tasting more Chinese food!

We were very clever using chopsticks.

We really enjoyed Celebrating Chinese New Year

A big thank you.

Thank you to all the parents who made a contribution and organised the purchase of our new library books. The children were absolutely delighted with them!

Um, dois, tres

Capoeira!

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music. We had a fantastic time working with our friends in teams and with partners, helping us to develop coordination, cooperation, trust and respect. We even learnt how to say 1,2,3, in Portuguese, the language spoken in Brazil.