Term 2, Week 7
What a magical and festive filled week we have all enjoyed in Reception this week.
We have loved getting make our Christingles and to go to the Christingle service with our buddies, celebrating a Christmas filled with Faith, Hope and Love.
We enjoyed a Christmas breakfast with Santa, listened to our friends in the school play Christmas music at the piano concert and laughed out loud at the Panto that visited our school.
With confidence we have danced our Christmas party away, with musical statues, A Merry Christmas dancing line around the school, and finishing off with some Nativity paper puppet crafts.
With aspiration and intrigue we ventured into Year 1 who had set up a marvellous museum for us to see.
Mrs Daly, Mrs Piper, Mrs Frankcom and Miss Nicholls wish each and every one of you a magical Christmas break, surrounded by loved ones, and a peaceful New Year. We look forward to seeing our superstars in 2025!
Housekeeping: We have sent waterproofs home for washing, please can they come back in on the first day back in January! Our PE days next term will be Thursdays and Fridays.
Our resilience for our nativity rehearsals has not slowed our learning across the curriculum in Reception.
In Maths we have been looking at whole and part, and confidently creating puzzles, making collages of food plates up and using construction to help us make whole and parts. We also really enjoyed practicing our counting skills with some knitted resources of the 12 Days of Christmas - we loved seeing the different characters that Mrs Daly's Grandmama knitted!
In Literacy we have been using our phonics to create some imaginative sentences.
With enquiring minds we have explored mixing paints, and painting on foil.
Mystery Reader: Thank you Mrs Mudd.
We have had a lovely week this week being aspirational and continuing Nativity practice, being the best we can be with singing and acting.
In math we have been comparing amounts. We have used the weighing scales in our independent learning to explore who has more, less or equal amounts of our cute little bears.
In outdoor learning we have been out, moving around to keep ourselves warm on a phonics hunt across the field. We found so many of the letters that we have learnt this term and we confidently made our own out of natural objects.
On Thursday we took part in our very first Advent Retreat. It was a very special afternoon and we used our empathy to experience Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus. We completed little activities to help us reflect.
The empathy continued to flow whilst we worked with our Year 6 buddies to pack Christmas shoeboxes for those in need this Christmas. We packed them full of gifts that we brought in and we hope they bring a little joy to those who receive them.
Term 2 Week 3
This week we have been walking in a winter wonderland in our Outdoor Learning, and exploring a wonderful snowy school field. We finished making our pinecone hedgehogs.
During independent learning time, some children made snow angels, creating some frosty treats in our mud snow kitchen on our way in from breaks we used our fingers to melt some frosty ice. How clever our bodies are!
For Maths we have been showcasing our confidence for finding, making and creating 5, including fewer than and more than numbers up to 5. We have have been aspirational in learning how double 5 is 10.
With resilience we have been working on new challenges in our super sentences and new peg activities.
During RE we have been faithfully sharing discussions about the hope of Jesus’ birth in a stable, where he was laid in a manger, making mangers in junk modelling area, designing big build stables and creating stable role play scenes.
A huge thanks to Mr Barron, Mr Scimeca and Mrs Wooldridge who have been in helping our learning environment get even better! We cannot wait to start using the car wash/drive through café in our track zone, on our new balance bikes!
Thank you to our Mystery Reader: Mrs Gage.
Term 2 Week 2
We have been blown our teachers away at school with our beautiful reflective Remembrance Assembly. Mrs Howells came to the classroom after to share how proud she is of us. We each got a REACH point from Mrs Daly for our confidence and empathy during the assembly. We have made lots more Poppy inspired crafts this week too.
This week in Maths we have been looking at ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’ maths problems, and showing resilience as we learn and use ‘fewer than’ in spoken sentences.
This week our focus has been on ‘empathy’ as we observed anti-bullying week. We made posters about ‘Choosing Respect’, along with a video to share with the school in Celebration Assembly.
This week in RE have we have been reflecting on the faithful journey Mary and Joseph made to Bethlehem, making donkey puppets, creating a junk modelling Bethlehem, a big build Bethlehem and a some big mark making maps of a journey in smaller groups.
We are continuing to demonstrate high expectations in our super sentence writing.
We have loved creating some pirate play items from junk modelling, allowing us to 'choose respect' and play empathetically with our friends.
We have loved our Outdoor Learning this week, where we have started making pinecone hedgehogs and hedgehog inspired homes, using our focus on choosing respect as we move around nature, recognising our field is a home for wildlife.
In PE we loved using the story: Angry Roar to inspire our confident movement. Thank you Mrs Ind for letting Reception borrow some book linked to our Anit-bullying focus.
This week's buddy time gave us time to work together on our Rotary Christmas Shoebox Appeal. We can start to bring the items in school from Tuesday. the list they created with their buddies is coming home on Monday.
Please remember to send Nativity costumes in ASAP.
Thank you to our Mystery Reader: Mrs Long!
Term 2 Week 1
We have returned abuzz with excitement over the changes made to the classroom provision, with a home corner in place of the picnic role play.
The children continue to demonstrate confidence subitising (don’t count see the amount) to 2, and showing resilience for subitising 3 and finding 4,
As part of our ‘Let’s Celebrate’ topic we have been creating aspirational rangoli patterns and diva lamps for a Diwali focus and have been creating firework pictures for Bonfire Night focus.
As we begin to look forward to moving with Faith, Hope and Love into the upcoming season of Advent we have begun our unit of Prophecy and Promise, this week we considered how Mary was chosen by God to be Jesus’ mother. We reflected on the message from the angel, and created feathers to make largescale angel wings for us to become an angel too!
Finally, we made poppy stones with our Y6 buddies ready for our Remembrance Assembly.
Thank you to our Mystery Reader: Mrs Jordan