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!

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 😋

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!

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.

Hard work pays off!

Out-of-school success for a proud member of 5M.
If you believe, you can achieve!

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…

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 🥰

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! 😋

Celebrating our families

This week in reception we have been discussing our families! We drew pictures of our families and made paper chains to celebrate! Using our fine motor skills we were able to glue and stick to make the chain.

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 🤩

Forest fun

We’ve explored our forest this morning! We played hide and seek behind the trees! We had to be careful not to trip!

PE

Reception are working on their fundamentals in PE. This week we worked on our throwing and catching skills.

Fine motor

The children are enjoying driving the cars on the new and improved road this morning!

Science Week 🔬👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🧬

Today reception have explored changing materials! Today we turned cream into butter and buttermilk. We shook the cream until it separated into butter and buttermilk. We can’t wait to use our butter tomorrow for our crackers for snack!

Science Week 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🔬🧬

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

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.📝

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🧪

Art Week 🎨🖌️

For Art week reception have been exploring Spring animals. We used cotton wool, glue and paint to make a chick or a lamb.

Art Week 🎨🖌️

In reception we have been making our very own superhero’s for Art Week! We have used scissors, glue, card and sticks to make them.

PE- Fundamentals

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

Maths- Odd and Even

Today in reception we have explored odd and even numbers. We made our very own odd and even monsters 👹

ART Week 🎨🖌️

Reception created their own superhero city using; paint, card and glue. We were inspired by the book Juniper Jupiter!

Eid Moon and Star decorations

Reception have made Eid moon and star decorations using card, scissors, glue and glitter! 🌙⭐️

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!

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.

Life Cycle of a butterfly

This week reception have been exploring the life cycle of a butterfly 🦋 . We looked at the text The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛 to help us explore. We have completed lots of activities to help us understand caterpillars and butterflies.

Well-being yoga

We started our morning with some lovely yoga! It’s trickier than it looks!

DT Week 🍓🥝🥭🍍

This week is DT week! Reception have explored preparing food and tasting different fruits. We have practiced our cutting and knife skills.

DT Week 🪚🖌️✂️

For DT week, reception designed and made their own cars! 🚘 We used scissors, card, tape and oil pastels to create our cars!

DT Week

We have been exploring materials this week in understanding the world. We use blocks and foam to create houses that were stable!

Sports Day

We had a fantastic morning at our sports day with our wonderful families! We cheered for all of our friends, and are so proud of each other. Even our families enjoyed a race or two…although they are a little bit more competitive than us 😉 thank you for coming everyone 🥰

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!

Sports day 🏃‍♂️

This week was our Sports day. We had lots of fun completing our racers. We all loved watching our parents race, Thank you to everyone who was involved. We all had a lovely and exciting afternoon.

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. 😁

Making marks, making mess…and making memories!

The children absolutely LOVED getting messy today, and practised making marks in the foam. It seemed to get into all sorts of places, including on some of our faces! Our Nursery smelt amazing afterwards 🥰

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.

Cricket Day!

5M had an excellent session of cricket this morning! There was an opportunity for us to practice our resilience skills too!

Watch out for information on how to join free cricket sessions at Austin Rawlinson.
Tuesday – girls and boys after school and Sunday – girls only!

Cricket

A fantastic day of cricket in upper KS2 today. Huge thanks to Paul from Lancashire Cricket Club for delivering the sessions. Great fun at the end with a staff v pupils game! We have some incredible batters, fast bowlers, wicket keepers and fielders. Thanks to Y5 and Y6 for making it such an enjoyable day and a big shout out to all staff who were brave enough to take part! Think we’ll all sleep well tonight!

Year 6- Raft building

Year 6 had to work together to build a raft which would float and and travel 200m. Were they able to do it….

Year 6 Residential- Testing the rafts

The children took to the water in their rafts but some things didn’t go to plan…

Threading pasta

We are warming our hands up this morning and threading some pasta! A suggested we can tie them to make necklaces! This is great to help make our fingers stronger, especially as some of us will be going to Reception soon!

Now I am grown up

This week reception have been exploring growing up. We have been thinking about how we have changed since we were babies. We have used crayons to draw a picture of ourselves as a baby and then as us grown up now!

2025 Residential Completed

The children were fantastic and the memories made will last a lifetime!

Bikeability Balance !

This week had lots of fun taking part in Bikeability Balance. We learnt lots of new skills, it was very exciting! 🚴

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!

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 😉

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! 🍋

Visiting the park before it gets too hot! 😎

We made a quick dash to the park this morning before it gets too hot later! Poor Mrs Sefton’s heart was in her mouth as we got even braver on the trim trail! We are learning how to stop and assess risk when it feels too tricky or scary.

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!

RE- The Creation Story

The children have explored the Christian creation story. They created their very own jellyfish 🪼 and discussed why the creation story is important to Christians. We used scissors to cut out our jellyfish and glue to stick the tentacles on!

Harvest Festival

In RE, reception explored the Christian Harvest Festival. We explored the foods that are included in the festival. We discussed the season Autumn and the crops and foods that grow during this time.

Emotions Week!

This week reception have explored emotions. We have read lots of stories to help us understand different emotions including; The Colour Monster, The Worry Monster and The Worrysauras. The children have used a range of materials to create their very own Feeling Jars inspired by The Colour Monster!

PSHE-SCARF

In our PSHE SCARF lesson this week, we discussed the word ‘trust’. We thought about the people who we trust and why. We discussed our family and friends. Then we wrote and drew the five people that we trust!

Phonics

Reception have been working hard on their phonics! This week they have been helping Fred 🐸 to blend CVC words and learn their first 10 sounds.

PE

Reception have been exploring spatial awareness and ball skills in PE. We understand how important it is to know where we are and where our friends are, so that we don’t bump into each other whilst playing! This week we worked with our partners to pass the ball to each other.

Emotions Week- The Very Hungry Worry Monster

This week, Reception explored the text The Very Hungry Worry Monster by Rosie Greening. We discussed when and why we might feel worried. We also discussed what we can do if we feel worried and who we can talk to. Reception created their very own Worry Monster using cotton pads, pipettes and coloured water.

English

Reception had a visitor today! Build up Bear came to help us plan our own version of The Something. We have enjoyed reading The Something for English and can’t wait to write our very own story!