There was much excitement in Reception on Tuesday afternoon. We had a slept afternoon with Jacob the rugby coach and then used the laptops. We looked at the screen, keyboard and ‘mouse pad’. We talked about the internet and how to keep safe when using it. We then played a CBeebies game making sure we shared and took turns.

There was much excitement in school this morning. We had a very special visitor on the playground. All the children were very excited to see him.

A huge thank you to the kitchen staff and lunchtime supervisors who managed to feed the children and staff today with a delicious Christmas dinner. Reception made party hats and we all enjoyed the food and festivities.

On Friday, we had a very exciting assembly. The author Nick Sharratt did a live zoom where he talked to us about his shark books, He explained how to draw sharks and read us his new story ‘Shark in the snow’. We all loved listening and found it very funny when he wore his shark hat.

This afternoon, Mrs Sixsmith came down for a special assembly. We talked about advent, lighting candles and how the Christian church now has purple cloth on their altar to represent Advent. We also looked at the ‘Las Posadas’ boxes we have in each classroom. These contain a porcelain Joseph, a porcelain Mary and a candle to light (a battery operated one). We talked about the Mexican tradition of Las Posadas and how we are all preparing for Christmas. We also said a prayer.

To show everyone how well our pencil control is developing, we had a go at repeating the very first squiggle we had done way back when we started school. We did very careful curved and straight lines to draw the spider. Due to our hard work in maths, we were also able to make sure we had drawn 4 legs on each side of the spider.