Big cook, little cook

This morning, we have made our own sausage rolls! We brushed the milk onto the pastry, and rolled the sausage up! We can’t wait to eat them at snack time!

Subitising 3

Did you know…we can now subitise 3! This means, if we see 3 objects together, we no longer need to count them! We know there are 3 objects just by making links and noticing patterns.

Octopus Opener 🐙

We have been familiarising ourselves with our new driver text Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and learning lots of new vocabulary. Today, Octopus Opener helped us to sequence the events from the beginning of the story.

Chinese New Year

This morning, we have started our Chinese New Year Celebrations! We talked about all the special things that are done during this festival, and we found out the red is a special colour: it brings good luck! We used our fine motor skills to thread gold ribbon through our own red envelope and added a special coin 😋

What is safe to go into my body?

Today, we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We know that food and drink are safe, but we must remember to ask adults first. We might think a bottle looks like it has juice, but we should check. We talked about how medicine is safe, but we should never take medicine without a grown up – only medicines that are meant to be for children are safe. We also had a go at opening a medicine bottle…but it was too tricky! The special lid is to keep us safe.

Year 3 Performing Poetry

Today, Year 3 enjoyed performing and reciting the poems we have been exploring in lessons.

Sharing knowledge in RE!

One of our pupils gave a fantastic first-hand insight into the Muslim faith during a Q & A session today.
Such a valuable way for children to learn from each other and celebrate diversity!

What is safe to go into my body?

Last week, we talked about what was safe to go onto our bodies such as sun cream, soap, plasters. Building on our learning, this week we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We talked about medicine and how this is only safe when it is given to us by a trusted grown up. We also looked at vitamins and at first, we thought they were sweets! Vitamins and medicines come in special bottles and tubs with lids that we can’t do to make sure we don’t have too much.

Tasting Chinese food

Yesterday, we continued our Chinese New Year Celebrations and tasted some Chinese food! We tasted spring rolls, prawn crackers and rice! We even tried using chopsticks for the first time!

Life savers big question 3!

What can we use our money for?

We discussed how often we consider our life saver values when we make a financial decision and shared ideas of how to be generous, thankful and wise with money.
Many of our children said that they believe they should save for the things they want but only after spending on the things they need. Some said that they would like to give more to charity too.

Dogs Trust

KS2 had a lovely visit from Angela at the Dogs Trust this morning. We discussed how to be safe and kind to dogs out and about.

Our link school in Qatar

We were so excited to meet the children in Flamingo class all the way in Qatar! We sang some songs, read a lovely story and made some new friends 🥰 see you again soon Flamingo friends 🦩

Den Building

We have worked hard to build a den using our words ending in ing such as: building, playing, pushing, pulling, clipping and covering.

CO (Carbon Monoxide) safety assembly!

We learnt an important message today about Carbon Monoxide (otherwise known as CO) safety.

You can’t see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it!

Homework task:

• Check if you have a CO alarm in your home!

• Make a note of the signs and symptoms to look out for and also the number to call if you suspect any CO in your home.

Tubes + cars = FUN 🤩

We’ve made our own car tracks and tunnels with some tubes and boxes today! We balanced the tubes on the furniture and drove our cars down to see how fast they could go! We had to work as a team.

Big Cook, Little Cook

Have a look at our ingredients…what do you think is on the menu today? We had to listen really carefully to Mrs Sefton as she told us the steps of the recipe…

Collaboration and communication in action!

5M helped each other to improve their writing by sharing ideas and giving feedback. Some used a dictionary to check difficult spellings.

Staying safe, indoors and outdoors

Last week, we talked about how we stay safe both indoors and outdoors. The children were fantastic – they knew straight away that we must follow rules to stay safe. The children were able to confidently talk about the rules we have in nursery to keep our classroom safe and happy, so we moved outside. We looked at the road, and talked about some of the dangers we might come across and how we can keep ourselves safe.

Stay and Learn

Thank you to all our families who joined us for stay and learn this morning! It was a huge success and the children really love welcoming their families into their classroom. We made our own dough, made some porridge and tasted it just like Goldilocks, cutting and sticking, and fine motor activities. The children really enjoyed it and we hope you did too 🥰

School Council meeting

Our school council were busy this morning, thinking of ideas for special rewards for reading at home and also for charities to donate to as part of our Social Impact Schools Award.

Valentine’s hugs

Today, we talked about how Valentine’s Day is all about love and friendship. We talked about all the people we love, and spoke about ways we can express our love to our family and friends. Lots of children suggested hugs, so that’s exactly what we did! How better to spread joy than to paint each other a picture, and give each other a cuddle…then our paintings will match! True friendship ❤️🥰

Visit to ‘the park’

We enjoyed visiting the new ‘park’ today! We conquered some fears (because crossing a wobbly bridge is much scarier than it looks sometimes!), and used our core muscles to help us keep our balance. We had 2 children who initially wouldn’t cross the bridge, but with some encouragement, they not only did it with help, but they then did it all by themselves! We create safe opportunities for children to take risk 🥰

Big cook, little cook

Today we made shortbread biscuits! We weighed the ingredients, and mixed them together. Once they were ready, we let them cool…but they didn’t last much longer than that! 😋

Tasting pancakes

We tasted some pancakes and some toppings today! They were absolutely delicious 😋 happy Pancake Tuesday!

Pancake races!

We took turns to race with our pancakes to the gate and back! We cheered for our friends as they balanced the pancakes carefully. We dropped some, but that all adds to the fun 🤩

World Book Day

We are dressed in beautiful colours today to celebrate World Book Day! We talked about all the colours we could see on our clothes – our carpet looked like a rainbow today 🌈 we read the Colour Monster book, and spotted the colours from the story on our clothes!

World Book Day

Reception have explored lots of books this week. We especially loved The Colour Monster and The Little Mermaid! We have been inspired creatively by our books. Look at our creations:

Science Week 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🔬🧬

Today Reception have explored engineering. We programmed the Bee Bots to move across the grid.

Science Week 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🔬🧬

Reception enjoyed their butter this morning on crackers for snack!🧈

Spring 💐🌷🌻

Today Reception explored the parts of a flower!🌺 We have begun to look at how the season of spring is when plants and flowers start to grow and bloom after winter.

Science Week- Zoom with an engineer

Today Reception had a zoom with an engineer! They told us how rockets get into space! 🪐🚀🛰️

Little Red

This week reception have continued to plan their own version of Little Red. Today build up bear helped us to plan the next section.📝

Our new home corner !

We have had lots of fun choosing our learning in our new home corner. We are very lucky and have lots of new resources.

Science week

We are enjoying celebrating Science week! We’ve learnt lots of new things…did you know, if you put double cream into a pot and shake, shake, shake and shake some more…it turns into butter!!! We each made our own butter, then spread it on to some crackers to enjoy for snack. Isn’t science amazing 🤩

Science Week 🧬👨🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬🔬

Today reception explored weather for science week! We did an experiment to show how clouds rain 🌧️. We used water, foam and food colouring for our experiment🧪

PE- Fundamentals

Reception have been exploring fundamentals in PE. Today we practiced throwing and aiming towards a target. We used bean bags and hoops.

PJ day for Alder Hay

Today we wore our PJs for Alder Hay hospital. We know how much they help us!

Science Week

During Science week, we made our own butter! We poured double cream into a jar, and we shook, and shook, and shook some more until…it turned into butter! We then enjoyed our butter on our crackers 🥰

Problem Penguin

We are a couple of weeks into our half term, and we have now sequenced our Problem Penguin! Only the Elephant Ending to go and then we will have yet another story under our belts 📕

Spring has sprung!

Thursday (20th March) marked the first official day of Spring, and we cannot wait to spend more time in our beautiful garden. We celebrated the first day by planting some beautiful plants in our planter 🪴

Stay and Learn

Reception had a fun afternoon with their adults! We showed our adults our classroom. We took part in different activities such as; colour mixing, flower blooming, Easter egg designing, tulip printing and tower building with 3D shapes!

Happy Mother’s Day!

We hope all of our Mum’s, Grandmothers, Godmothers, Step-Mum’s and all the other motherly figures in our lives had a wonderful Mother’s Day ❤️ 🌷

Making daffodils

We have noticed all the wonderful daffodils 🌼 that are starting to grow. In our tuff tray, we had to use different materials to construct our own daffodil!

Maths – tall and short

We have been learning about tall, short, taller and shorter. We compared beanstalks, and talked about which was the tallest and which was the shortest.

Stay and Learn – Science

Thank you to all our families for joining us for stay and learn! We really enjoyed completing our science experiments with you – making rainbows and potions is so much fun! Thank you for supporting our stay and learn sessions 🥰

Blossom fun

We noticed that the trees had blossomed over Easter half term! We had so much fun exploring the blossom that had already fallen…and the blossom that was ready to fall 😉

Watching the crane!

We were so excited when we spotted the crane from our garden! The children used words to describe the size of the crane (huge, gigantic, enormous) and we took turns in talking about what we thought the crane might be doing.

Big cook, little cook

Mrs Sefton made us smile today…we walked into Nursery and spotted the scales and baking ingredients and we knew straight away it was time for big cook, little cook! We weighed all the ingredients, and carefully mixed them together to make lemon tarts! We enjoyed eating them at snack time.

Well-being week

We are enjoying our well-being activities this week. Today, we sat in the cool shade to listen to our chosen story for the day. This was a wonderful idea from one of our children ❤️

Picnic

Year 4 came and shared their picnic with us! They worked very hard and reception enjoyed their food. Thank you Year 4!

Julia Donaldson 📚

This week Reception are exploring the work of Julia Donaldson. The first book we read was Cave Baby. Using natural resources such as; twigs, leaves, flowers and grass, we made our very own cave paintings.

Julia Donaldson

Reception have explored the text Superworm! We created our very own super worms using card and pens!

The Natural World 🌎

Reception have been exploring and understanding the natural world this week!

Julia Donaldson

We have explored Julia Donaldson’s texts The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s child. We have created our own deep dark wood and made the characters!

The Seashore

This week reception are exploring the sea and the seashore. We have explored different textures in our tuff tray. We used rice crispy for sand, jelly for the sea, rocks for rock pools and shells. Around our classroom there are lots of sea activities to explore!

The Storm Whale🌊

This week we have started to learn all about our new book, The Storm Whale. When we arrived at school there was a letter with different items left. We have been using our imaginations to think where the letter could have come from and how we could help the whale. We had some fabulous ideas!

The Seaside

This week reception have been exploring the seaside and animals under the sea. Our new English text The Storm Whale has inspired us! Using pastels we coloured different animals that we find under the sea. We traced the patterns to help us improve our fine motor skills!

All about out half term ☀️

We have done some independent writing this week! We have written all about our half term and all the fun we had. 😁

Dobbies Garden Centre

Reception had an amazing time at Dobbies Garden Centre. We made our own flowers and played in the soft play. We all have lettuce seeds, a pot and soil to take home to plant 🪴 . Thank you Dobbies and thank you to everyone who helped us to walk there!

Cloud dough

We have had so much fun making our own cloud dough today! F said it felt like slime! It’s really stretchy, and smells amazing 🤩 it has definitely helped to wake up our hand muscles today!

The Storm Whale 🐋

Reception have been enjoying our English book The Storm Whale 🐋! We have been writing lots of sentences with the help of our story friends. Today Wise Owl helped us to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

Our trip to Dobbies Garden Centre!

This week we walked to Dobbies Garden Centre and we got to be like Joe, The Extraordinary Gardener! We had lots of fun making flowers and we even got to take our very own seed home to plant. We had the best time, Thank you Dobbies. 🪴👩‍🌾

Milo’s Money!

This week we have been learning all about money. We have focused on how we can save money. We had lots of whole class discussions about different way we can save money, we had lots of different ideas!

When I Grow Up

Reception were excited to show and talk about what they would like to be when they grow up! Throughout the day we heard about lots of different jobs and explained why we would like to do the jobs chosen.

When I grow up I’d like to be a …

Aspirations Week!

Yesterday we all came to school dressed up as what we want to be when we are older! We spoke all about why we wanted to be this, drew a picture of ourselves and wrote all about our aspirations.

Aspirations Week

This week we have been thinking about all of the amazing things we can do when we grow up. On Monday, we were able to come to school dressed as something that we think we’d like to be when we are bigger! We had some doctors, nurses, an explorer, police officers, fire fighters…we had such a lovely day talking about the important jobs.

Tiny Tasters !

This week was our first session with Tiny Tasters. Our reception families had lots of fun during the session. They spoke all about healthy eating, focusing on the correct and safe way to prepare their food. The children got to prepare and make their own wrap, which they even got to eat! Thank you Tiny Tasters we look forward to next week. 🥗

Bike Right

Reception had fun learning to ride bikes safely. We used the safety helmets to keep ourselves safe. They had lots of fun playing different games when riding the bikes!

Reading for pleasure

Every Thursday, we bring our book bags into school and choose a new book to share with our family ❤️

Making wraps!

Yesterday, we made our own wraps at snack time! We named smelt the ingredients first, and talked about whether we had already tried them before. We had the chance to taste each ingredient before deciding whether we would like them on our wrap. And then the fun part…we had to make our wrap! It was trickier than we expected 😉

Understanding positional language

We are learning about positional language. This game is a great way for us practise! We have to look really careful at the pictures and listen to the position of the objects.

Pirate Week

This week Reception are exploring pirates. Across our classroom are lots of pirate 🏴‍☠️ activities for us to explore such as; pirate colour by numbers, pirate tuff tray, pirate map making and pirate stories!

Music Week

This week reception are exploring music. Today we have explored lots of different instruments, learning their names and playing them ourselves. We have also followed and repeated a beat!

We have also watched a music zoom with different musicians who showed us how they play different instruments!

Imagine That!

Reception had an amazing time at imagine that! We made snow, slime and a fridge magnet. We had lots of fun exploring the science, art, imaginative and outdoor areas!

Making lemon cheesecake pie!

In big cook little cook, we made delicious lemon cheesecake pie! Mrs Sefton made us close our eyes so we could use our sense of smell to guess which fruit we would be using! Nice try Mrs Sefton, you couldn’t trick us! 🍋

Bastille Day

Reception have learnt all about Bastille Day! We have completed lots of activities to help us to understand Bastille Day and France. 🇫🇷 We have made our own flags using paint and our hands, we had our own French Bakery, and learnt some French words!

Our reception Memories !

As it is coming to the end of the year, we have been talking all about our favourite memories in reception. We all had big smiles on our faces thinking and looking at all the fun times we have had. 😃