Welcome to Reception!
Welcome to the class page for Reception!
At Stockton Wood, we Lay the Foundations for Life.
Reception Staff:
RG: Miss Roberts
RM: Miss Moore
Teaching Assistants: Miss Garbe, Miss Rowlands & Mrs Sefton.
Information for Parents
Stockton Wood is a Restorative School. In Reception, we use emojis to check-in to share how we are feeling and this helps us to manage our feelings.
We are sure the children are looking forward to a great year of learning, including listening to stories by new authors, learning outdoors, exploring the world around them as scientists and being physically active. We look forward to making many memories with them!
Class Dojos are used to celebrate achievements and praise efforts!
Reception Timetable
Although we will not require children to come into school wearing their PE kits for a couple of weeks, please find some information below for reference.
RG P.E Day: Wednesday
RM P.E. Day: Wednesday
P.E. kit includes: a plain white t-shirt, navy shorts/ jogging bottoms and a pair
of black pumps or trainers to take part in PE. Your child can come to school
wearing their P.E. kit on their class days.
We will send a letter home informing you of when children will need to start wearing their PE kits on Wednesday’s.
General Reminders
Reading is at the heart of everything we do, so please try and read with your
child every night. Ask them questions about what they have read, encouraging them to talk about the book, whether it is a story or non-fiction. This will help them with their reading comprehension.
Reading books are changed on Wednesdays, but your class teacher
can change your book again if you have been a reading enthusiast at home!
Your child should bring a water bottle to school, containing water only.
Look out for our homework matrix! These activities will explore our wider curriculum, offer creative challenges and an opportunity to earn dojos!
Meet The Teacher Powerpoint Autumn 2024
Reception Curriculum Overview 24 25
Reception Homework Matrix Spring 2
Reception Homework Matrix Spring 1
Reception Homework Matrix Autumn 2
Reception Chatter
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!
Eid Moon and Star decorations
Reception have made Eid moon and star decorations using card, scissors, glue and glitter! 🌙⭐️
ART Week 🎨🖌️
Reception created their own superhero city using; paint, card and glue. We were inspired by the book Juniper Jupiter!
Maths- Odd and Even
Today in reception we have explored odd and even numbers. We made our very own odd and even monsters 👹
Treasure Hunt⭐️
This week we used our map skills to find the treasure which the leprechaun had left outside. We had o much fun, we all found the treasure!
PJ day for Alder Hay
Today we wore our PJs for Alder Hay hospital. We know how much they help us!
St Patrick’s Day ☘️
This week we have been learning all about St Patrick’s Day. We have learnt lots of new facts and had lots of fun doing all off our different activities.
Art Week!
This week for Art Week we made our very own superhero town. We had lots of fun using the water paints.
PE- Fundamentals
Reception have been exploring fundamentals in PE. Today we practiced throwing and aiming towards a target. We used bean bags and hoops.
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.
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.
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🧪
Science Week, day 2
Today we have been making our own butter. We even got to try it on a cracker. We could not believe we were able to make our own butter. It was a lot of hard work and took a lot of perseverance, but we did it!
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.
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- Zoom with an engineer
Today Reception had a zoom with an engineer! They told us how rockets get into space! 🪐🚀🛰️
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 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🔬🧬
Reception enjoyed their butter this morning on crackers for snack!🧈
Science Week 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🔬🧬
Today Reception have explored engineering. We programmed the Bee Bots to move across the grid.
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 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🧫🔬🧬
Today we explored animals for science week! We looked at animals which live on farms. We also explored different wild animals and made our very own masks.
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:
PE
Reception are working on their fundamentals in PE. This week we worked on our throwing and catching skills.
Pancake Tuesday 🥞
Today we have had lots of fun learning all about Shrove Tuesday. We made our pancakes and we even had pancake races outside.
World Book Day 🌎📚
Reception had some special visitors this afternoon. Year 4 came down to read some of our favourite stories!
Pancake Day
Reception have been learning about Shrove Tuesday. To celebrate we made pancakes. Our toppings included: strawberries, lemon, sugar, syrup and cream.
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.
Jam Sandwiches
In maths reception have been exploring sequencing by ordering and following instructions on how to make a jam sandwich.
Stay and Learn
We have had a fantastic afternoon with our stay and learn! We enjoyed showing off our learning. Thank you to our families who helped us with our maths focus today!
Kapla Blocks !
This week for DT Week, we used the Kapla Blocks to build the fire station which we had visited. 🚒
People who help us🚒
This week we have been learning about people who help us, “Real life superhero’s!” 🦸♀️We visited the local fire station and had lots of fun learning all about the role of firefighters 🚒.
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.
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.
Peer massage
Mrs Ritchie helped us use our massage skills that we have recently learned from Maria. We made sure to ask permission before we started 💆♀️
Reception- Chinese New Year
Today, we have looked into the story of the 12 zodiac! We even made some Chinese dragons so we can celebrate Chinese New Year on Wednesday! 🐉🐉
