Reception - Spring 1 - Week 1

Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 3:53pm

Happy New Year to everyone and we hope you had a lovely Christmas. We have loved hearing about all the children’s news about the holidays.

For RE this week we have enjoyed learning all about ‘Epiphany’ and the end of the Christmas season. We reflected on the importance of the star that guided the King’s to baby Jesus. On Thursday, Caroline kindly came in to tell the children the story of ‘Jonah and the Whale’ to introduce our new RE topic of ‘Stories Jesus Heard’. The children have since enjoyed acting out the story. Thank you so much for a lovely session.

The children also enjoyed listening to different stories all about the ‘New Year’ and talking about how this is celebrated. This brought us to start thinking about what our own New Years resolution can be.  

In maths we have been looking at the composition of 5. The children have enjoyed taking their learning outside to play different games to help us find out how 5 can be made. Great work everyone!

This week in art the children have explored dot paintings. We looked at the artist Yayoi Kusama, and talked about different ways we could make dot art work. The children then created their own finger print firework paintings.

All children across the whole school are encouraged to read each day both in and out of school. Some additional recommended Reading at Home resources can be found here. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Miss Dalley and the Reception team

Reminders:

Tuesday 23rd January - Sibling school photos (information to follow)