Reception Team: Miss H Dalley (Class Teacher): Blog items
Date: 24th Feb 2022 @ 8:48pm
It was so lovely to welcome the children back to school this week and hear all their news!
We introduced the children to our new topic of Animals from around the world with an exciting rainforest explorer role play area, which has been incredibly popular all week. The children have been on adventures deep into the rainforest, spotting animals and creating some wonderful stories.
Our WOW service on Wednesday was focused on the meaning of Lent, explaining all the significant days that are coming up between now and Easter. A big thank you to Anne and Caroline.
The children have impressed so much this week with their maths learning, showing enthusiasm and great reasoning skills when combining groups of numbers, using number lines and comparing heights.
We have also begun a new literacy topic, although the focus book is yet to be revealed to the children! We were shocked to discover a mysterious creature had caused chaos in our school bin store, making such a mess. This captured the children's imaginations and there were many discussions about who the culprit could be, with some fantastic suggestions and explanations.
The sun was shining for us at Forest School on Tuesday. The children took bark rubbings, enjoying the trees and being out in nature. Thank you Mrs Bevin!
We were also very lucky to have a music session with Music In Unison. The children absolutely loved playing the different instruments, dancing and joining in with musical games. We are so grateful to Tara for giving the children such a wonderful musical experience and we cannot wait until next week!
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Mrs Mallett and the Reception Team
Reception Reminders
Wednesday 2nd March – Dance (Children to come to school wearing trainers please)
Thursday 3rd March – World Book Day
Thursday 31st March – Easter Bonnet WOW Service
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 9:14pm
We cannot believe how time has flown this half term!
This week has been all about love as we explored Valentine’s Day. The children have shown incredible independent writing as well as wonderful creativity making Valentine cards for the special people in their lives. We have seen cards exchanged between friends as well as them being taken home for family members with the children showing great pride in their work!
We have been learning about some common garden and coastal birds as we took part in the Big Schools’ Birdwatch for the RSPB. The children have spotted birds coming and going from our outdoor area as well as looking and listening for them during their time at Forest School. To mark Internet Safety Day on Tuesday, we took the opportunity to research the different gulls we may see using the internet. We talked about staying safe online, remembering to always ask an adult before using the internet. If you would like any further information about this, please see our Online Safety section of the school website or click here.
In our maths learning this week we have been considering one more and different representations of the numbers 6, 7 and 8. We have used dominoes to help us create number sentences and enjoyed a game of Kim’s game to remember the missing object and work out how many objects remain. The children were great at recalling the missing object and excelled at the challenge!
During the children’s time outdoors, they began to create their very own ‘Drive through Ice Cream parlour’. This has evolved over the week and by Friday was fully stocked with menus, ice cream containers, money and sprinkles! It has been wonderful to see the children working together and having such fun with their ideas.
Love Reading have launched their 'top book picks' for this month. More, highly-rated children's reads, from a variety of authors for different age ranges, are shared with us all to enjoy.
I have also updated the Reception virtual classroom, which is attached below.
We hope you all have a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing you soon.
Mrs Mallett
Reception reminders
Monday 21st February – School reopens
Wednesday 23rd February – WOW service 2pm at St Peter’s Church
Thursday 3rd March – World Book Day
Date: 3rd Feb 2022 @ 8:19pm
What a fun filled, busy time we’ve had this week! We can’t believe it’s February already!
We began our week learning about Chinese New Year. We listened to the story of the Jade Emporer and the animals and how people celebrate by decorating their homes. The children have then spent time during the week making lanterns, dancing dragons, practising writing Chinese numbers and we enjoyed a mini-Chinese banquet to taste some traditional Chinese food!
On Monday the children arrived in class to find a packed suitcase and a message from Hattie Peck! She was asking for the children to help her hatchlings pack for their final adventure. We have seen some fantastic ideas of suitcase essentials and some even more fantastic independent writing from the children. They have shown such pride in what they have achieved.
Our RE learning continues to learn about stories Jesus told. We read the story of The Good Shepherd and considered how it feels to be lost or to have lost something special. The children reflected on their own experences and then the qualities of a good shepherd and how God cares for us all.
This week we celebrated National Story Telling Week. This gave us the opportunity to explore even more stories during our day! The children then wrote their own stories using prompt cards and their own ideas which we recorded as a story map. It was fantastic to then see the children independently creating new tales and adventures with their friends, documenting them in our big story book or mini books. We have a class of budding little authors!
The children were excited to go to forest school again this week. They played hide and seek, used natural objects in a maths challenge and were excited by further signs of spring which had appeared since last week.
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Mrs Mallett
Reception Reminders
Tuesday 8th February – Forest School – Please send your child in with a hat and gloves.
Monday 14th – Friday 18th February – Half term
Wednesday 23rd February – WOW service 2pm at St Peter’s Church
Date: 27th Jan 2022 @ 8:50pm
What another busy week in Reception!
During our WOW service on Wednesday, Caroline told us the story of Daniel and the Lions, a story that we have also been reading and thinking about during our RE lessons. The children gave thanks for bravery and the Bible stories that help us believe in ourselves.
The children have participated with such enthusiasm during our maths learning, where we have been exploring weight and capacity. They have predicted capacities of various containers, tested their predictions and showed great understanding. We set a challenge to see how many objects the children could fit in to a small container which saw them choosing a variety of small objects and great counting using 10 frames.
We were all very excited to go to Forest School on Tuesday with Mrs Bevin. The children understood and adhered to the rules and expectations of sitting around our fire circle and explored the woods for signs of spring finding beautiful snowdrops and emerging bulbs. A game of ‘1,2,3 Where are you?’ was the perfect end to a fun morning.
Our literacy lessons this week were focusing on Hattie Peck’s hatchlings and their birthday parties. We asked the children to decide which animal they would like to be and to write a shopping list for supplies! We had parties for echidnas, snakes, flamingoes and penguins with a lot of cake being put on the lists! The children are working so hard on their letter formation and identifying sounds within words, they show great pride in their work and we are so proud of them.
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Mrs Mallett
Reception Reminders
We have many un-named school jumpers in class – let us know if you are missing a jumper and which size. Please ensure your child’s jumpers are clearly named.
Forest school – Tuesday 1st February – Please send your child in to school with a hat/scarf/gloves.
Half Term - Monday 14th – Friday 18th February
Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 5:51pm
What another busy week in Reception!
We welcomed Caroline this week for Godly play. The children were able to learn all about Jesus’ baptism in the river Jordan by John the Baptist and had the opportunity to baptise a doll for themselves. They used special oil and named their baby before baptising them in a special font.
The children have been working so hard during our literacy lessons this week. We have continued to discover more about the main character Hattie Peck, in our book 'The Journey Home'. The children reflected on happy moments and loved sharing their memories and photos of outings with their friends and families. It was wonderful to listen to their descriptions of happy times and we even had them planning return trips to special places with their friends! The children wrote some fantastic sentences, remembering our finger spaces and full stops! We were so proud of their hard work and determination.
Continuing with our space theme, we considered why we have night and day. There were some fantastic ideas from the children! We then explored what makes night and day, using the children to show us how the earth orbits the sun. The children showed fantastic understanding and their interest in space continues to grow. We have had letters from space, rocket and planet paintings and further adventures in our space station over the week. The children’s imaginations are ‘out of this world’!
This month's top book picks from 'Love Reading' have been released today. It shares exciting new story books from a variety of authors for different age ranges.
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Reception reminders
Parent Teacher meetings - Monday 24th and Wednesday 26th January
WOW Service - Wednesday 26th January 2pm
Date: 13th Jan 2022 @ 9:33pm
It has been a fantastic week in Reception!
We began our new RE topic relating to Stories that Jesus heard, introducing the children to the Old Testament. We read Daniel and the Lions and the children remembered times that they had felt brave, documenting them in our floor book.
The children continue to enjoy our Space topic, spending time in our space station and using our small world Rocket to create wonderful stories and adventures. We have even made our own giant rocket where many of the children participated in making it ‘The best rocket we have ever seen’.
This week we took time out to consider friendships and our reception and school family. We made a class friendship web, where the children spoke about each other and what makes us a great friend and member of the class. The children showed how thoughtful and caring they are and made us all feel very lucky to have such a loving group of children. They were then inspired to create cards and pictures for each other, showing fantastic independent writing skills.
In our maths learning this week we have been so impressed with the children’s understanding of creating equal groups and the use of 5 frames. They have been enthusiastic to answer questions and confident to explain their reasoning and thoughts.
Our literacy book, The Journey Home, introduced us to the main character, Hattie Peck, a hen who loves all eggs. We learned about all the different animals that lay eggs, of which there were some surprises, and the children created their own list of favourites.
This week has seen the start of our whole class reading. The children were keen to read the new books and over the week showed incredible progress as well as enjoying reading with another child, supporting and helping each other. On Friday afternoon we spent time with our buddies sharing a story. The children really enjoy seeing their buddies and it was a fantastic way to end the week.
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Reception Reminders
Tuesday 18th January – Sibling School Photographs
Wednesday 19th January – Dance class. Children to wear trainers to school as well as Friday.
Monday 24th and Wednesday 26th January – Parent Teacher meetings
Wednesday 26th January – WOW Service at St Peter’s Church 2pm
Date: 6th Jan 2022 @ 6:08pm
We were so happy to welcome the children back into school this week. We have enjoyed watching them catch up with their friends, refamiliarise themselves with the classroom and hear all about their magical Christmas memories. It sounds like they all had a fantastic time!
To introduce our new literacy book, ‘The Journey Home’, the children created a map of a familiar journey. They did some incredible written work and we are excited to see what journeys we will go on!
The children were incredibly excited to discover our new topic, ‘Space’. We have our very own Space Station within the classroom which has already seen some fantastic space exploration stories and ideas, as well as ‘Spacedough’, outer space drawings and our very own ‘Reception Space Adventure Log Book’. It is wonderful to see the children so excited to learn more.
The weather may have been cold and wet but we have loved the opportunity to be outdoors, practising our ball skills, climbing and balancing as well as noticing changes in our outdoor area such as the green shoots on the daffodil bulbs. The children were fascinated to see their breath and pretended to be little dragons!
If you would like any further details regarding what we will be learning in Reception, the information is included in our year group overview, which can be found here, https://www.trinitystpeters.org/page/year-group-overviews/48700
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Reception Reminders
Wednesday 12th January – Dance class. Children to wear trainers to school as well as Friday.
Wednesday 26th January – WOW Service at St Peters Church, 2pm.