Reception

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Music Week

07-07-2025

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!

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Ready Steady Write

02-07-2025

Octopus Opening helps us to plan our writing. Using the planning circle we planned our very own opening to our story.

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Pirate Week

01-07-2025

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!

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Bike Right

25-06-2025

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!

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Art Week🎨

25-06-2025

This week we are learning all about an artist called Paul Klee. We have learnt he uses shapes when painting his pictures. Today we made our own self portraits, we used an our maths knowledge of shapes to help us! We are true Artists🎨

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Bikeability Balance !

25-06-2025

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

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Independent Writing✍️

23-06-2025

This week we have been working on our independent writing. We have had lots of fun writing this week. We have wrote all about our creations, our amazing pictures and we have even wrote about our phonics friend Fred. We are super writers !

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Tiny Tasters !

20-06-2025

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. 🥗

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Now I am grown up

19-06-2025

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!

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Aspirations Week!

19-06-2025

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.

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When I grow up I’d like to be a …

17-06-2025
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When I Grow Up

17-06-2025

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.

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Milo’s Money!

17-06-2025

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!

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Our trip to Dobbies Garden Centre!

17-06-2025

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. 🪴👩‍🌾

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Wraparound After School Club

12-06-2025
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The Storm Whale 🐋

11-06-2025

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.

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Dobbies Garden Centre

10-06-2025

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!

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Music and Beatboxing

10-06-2025

Reception had an amazing time on the Music zoom. We learnt all about beatboxing and tried some ourselves!

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Author Visit

09-06-2025

Such a lovely time today with our visiting Author Luke Temple. We listened carefully to different extracts from three of his books and asked a range of questions. Which book would you like to read in full?

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All about out half term ☀️

06-06-2025

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

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The Seaside

06-06-2025

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!

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The Storm Whale🌊

06-06-2025

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!

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Sports day 🏃‍♂️

06-06-2025

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.

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The Seashore

03-06-2025

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!

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Wellbeing Week!

23-05-2025

For Wellbeing week we had a lovely session in class. We was very calm and we learnt all about pressing our calm button if we are upset. We had lots of fun!

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DT Week

23-05-2025

Last week for DT Week we used our scissor skills to make our own cars. We spoke about different ways we could make our car for it to go faster and slower.

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Julia Donaldson

22-05-2025

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!

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The Natural World 🌎

21-05-2025

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

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Julia Donaldson

21-05-2025

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

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Julia Donaldson 📚

21-05-2025

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.

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DT Week

16-05-2025

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

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Picnic

16-05-2025

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

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DT Week 🪚🖌️✂️

16-05-2025

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

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Super kind !

15-05-2025

We are so proud of you for receiving a Super Kind certificate. Well done for your super kind actions! Thank you, for sharing your toys with our school.

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Preparing and tasting fruit 🍓

15-05-2025

This week for DT week we prepared and tasted lots of different fruits. We focused on the importance of being safe when chopping the fruit. We had lots of fun! We tasted Kiwi, Mango, pineapple and strawberries, they were delicious.

After we tasted our fruit we filled in our Evaluation sheets with our favourite fruits 🍇

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The life cycle of a butterfly 🦋

15-05-2025

This week we have been learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly. We had lots of fun representing the cycle in different ways. Our caterpillars even came to life and ate from our juicy green leaves. 🍃

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Design a picnic for our Reception friends

15-05-2025

Today we made our picnic. We followed our plan from the other day. We used a range of skills: speak, cut, grate, garnish and mix. We thought about appearance, texture and taste.

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DT Week 🍓🥝🥭🍍

15-05-2025

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

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Year 4 DT

13-05-2025

In Year 4, we are designing and making a picnic for our reception friends. Today we asked them a range of questions to find out what they like and dislike. We then went back to class to design them a perfect picnic.

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Life Cycle of a butterfly

09-05-2025

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.

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Maths, shapes 🟥🔵🔺

08-05-2025

In maths we have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes. Today we have been looking at what 2D shapes we can see in the 3D shapes. We used our printing skills to help us do this. 🎨

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Easter Egg Hunt!

08-05-2025

Today we had lots of fun doing our Easter Egg Hunt. We used our problem solving skills to help us find the eggs. We then got to eat the eggs we found. 🐣

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Rice crispy cakes!

08-05-2025

This week we have been learning all about Easter. We had lots of fun and we made our own rice crispy cakes to take home. 🧁

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Eid 🌙

08-05-2025

This week we have learnt all about. We have lots of new knowledge and we even made our own moon and star for Eid. ⭐️🌙

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How to catch a wolf🐺

08-05-2025

This week in literacy we have been following instruction on how to catch a wolf! We got everything we needed and set up our own trap. We hope we catch a wolf. 🐺

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Art Week🎨

08-05-2025

This week we have been artists. We have made our very own superhero town using water paints. We even had to use out cutting and sticking skills to make the buildings. We had lots of fun! 🖌️

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Water play💦

08-05-2025

We love our new water area equipment. We are having so much fun using our problem solving skills. Thank you for all your support at our school fundraisers which has allowed us to get all our new equipment. ☺️

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3D Shapes

08-05-2025

This week we have been exploring 3D shapes and their properties. We have used paint to print the faces of the 3D shapes.

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Stay and Learn

31-03-2025

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!

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Eid Moon and Star decorations

31-03-2025

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

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ART Week 🎨🖌️

25-03-2025

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

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Maths- Odd and Even

25-03-2025

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

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Treasure Hunt⭐️

21-03-2025

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!

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PJ day for Alder Hay

21-03-2025

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

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St Patrick’s Day ☘️

21-03-2025

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.

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Art Week!

21-03-2025

This week for Art Week we made our very own superhero town. We had lots of fun using the water paints.

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PE- Fundamentals

20-03-2025

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

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Art Week 🎨🖌️

20-03-2025

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.

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Art Week 🎨🖌️

18-03-2025

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

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Science Week 🧬👨🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬🔬

13-03-2025

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🧪

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Science Week, day 2

13-03-2025

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!

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Our new home corner !

13-03-2025

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

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Little Red

12-03-2025

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

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Science Week- Zoom with an engineer

12-03-2025

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

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Spring 💐🌷🌻

12-03-2025

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.

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World Book Day 📚

12-03-2025

We had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day📚 We did lots of fun activities, we read with our reading buddies and we even read a story in the den we built as a team.
We all made our book mark and read our favourite story the colour monster, as for World Book Day we focused on colours. We know now how to mix different colours to make new colours!

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Science Week 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🔬🧬

12-03-2025

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

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Science Week 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🔬🧬

12-03-2025

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

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Science Week 🔬👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🧬

11-03-2025

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!

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Science Week 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🧫🔬🧬

10-03-2025

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.

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World Book Day

07-03-2025

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:

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PE

07-03-2025

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

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Pancake Tuesday 🥞

07-03-2025

Today we have had lots of fun learning all about Shrove Tuesday. We made our pancakes and we even had pancake races outside.

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07-03-2025
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World Book Day 🌎📚

06-03-2025

Reception had some special visitors this afternoon. Year 4 came down to read some of our favourite stories!

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Reading Buddies

06-03-2025

Year 4 loved sharing stories with RM 📚

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Pancake Day

05-03-2025

Reception have been learning about Shrove Tuesday. To celebrate we made pancakes. Our toppings included: strawberries, lemon, sugar, syrup and cream.

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Celebrating our families

28-02-2025

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.

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Jam Sandwiches

27-02-2025

In maths reception have been exploring sequencing by ordering and following instructions on how to make a jam sandwich.

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Valentine Biscuit

13-02-2025

Today we have decorated and ate our valentine biscuits.

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Our Zoom call with our school collaboration friends from Qatar.

11-02-2025

This morning we had zoom call with our friends from Anglefish class. We were able to ask lots of questions. They told us all about how they had a visit from camels in their school. We also could not believe they start school at 7:00am!

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Stay and Learn

10-02-2025

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!

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Kapla Blocks !

09-02-2025

This week for DT Week, we used the Kapla Blocks to build the fire station which we had visited. 🚒

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Wear you scarf to school day 🧣

09-02-2025
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People who help us🚒

09-02-2025

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 🚒.

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Den Building

04-02-2025

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

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What is safe to go into my body?

29-01-2025

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.

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Peer massage

28-01-2025

Mrs Ritchie helped us use our massage skills that we have recently learned from Maria. We made sure to ask permission before we started 💆‍♀️

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Reception- Chinese New Year

27-01-2025

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! 🐉🐉

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