3 years ago
Posted on 29th May 2021 by Mrs Croft

Writing

In nursery, we focus on pre-writing skills.

We mark make with a variety of things like pencils, chalk, paintbrushes, felt pens.

We use play dough to develop our finger muscles.

We focus on learning how to write the letters in our name and to draw careful pictures of people, animals and things we see.

3 years ago
Posted on 29th May 2021 by Mrs Croft

Tricky words

In reception, we learn to write by learning the letters and writing the sounds we can ‘hear’ in a word e.g. h a t

We also learn how to spell and read tricky words. These are words that can’t be sounded out or have sounds we haven’t learnt yet.

The first ones are here-this is a song we sing in letters and sounds. Phase 2 word song

the

into

we then look at these ones. Phase 3 word song

she

you

all

are

her

was

3 years ago
Posted on 29th May 2021 by Mrs Croft

Healthy eating

Reception have been very busy this week doing lots of work on healthy eating. We practised our cutting by making up lunchboxes and we used pastels to create still life pictures of fruit. We finished the week with pineapple eating-a very popular fruit with all of us!

3 years ago
Posted on 12th May 2021 by Mrs Croft

Mental health week.

As part of our discussion on mental health, today we read ‘My big shouting day’ for story time. We talked about feeling cross or sad and then discussed how it’s ok to be sad but that if you do want to make yourself feel better you could

-go for a walk

-play with your favourite toy

-dance

-skip

-sing a song

-cuddle a pet

The children came up with these ideas on their own.

Well done Reception.

3 years ago
Posted on 07th May 2021 by Mrs Croft

Active Friday!

Reception have had a super afternoon being active.

We have run and walked around the running track to improve our resilience and stamina. We have also been stretching our muscles, balancing and increasing our flexibility by passing bean bags to each other using 2 hands.

Thank you to those who sent their children in PE kits today.

Apologies to those who didn’t get the message.

Next Friday ( 15th May ) is pyjama day so they won’t need to come in PE kits.

Have a lovely weekend.

From all the Reception team.

3 years ago
Posted on 31st Mar 2021 by Mrs Croft

He is risen.

Over the past two weeks in school, we have all been discussing and sharing the Bible story of the very first Easter.

Rev Kev came into school to read part of the Easter story to the Reception children. We have put a link to the video below so that you can all share this story of hope at home.

Have a lovely, restful Easter and thank you all for the support you have given us this term.

4 years ago
Posted on 14th Feb 2021 by Mrs Croft

Love is in the air

Wishing you all a Happy Valentines Day.

4 years ago
Posted on 11th Feb 2021 by Mrs Croft

Fridays work 🐉

Happy Friday, Enjoy half term and a week of no home schooling!

Letters and sounds

Tricky words song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY

Have a go at making your own tricky words symphony. See the youtube clip below for ideas! Say the word and ask your child to find it. If you have instruments at home you could even use those-or make your own!

https://youtu.be/HRaGUqm_nFE

Fine motor

Have a go at these Chinese new year pencil control sheets.

chinese new year pencil control sheets

Maths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6Ge0FzHG0

Dance along with this video and make the shapes.

Topic

Use the safe search engine kidrex

www.kidrex.co.uk

to look up Chinese dragon dance videos.

Can you copy any of the moves?

Use one of the craft sheets to make a dragon

Dragon cutting skills

chinese dragon mask

Dragon colouring

Dragon colour by numbers

4 years ago
Posted on 10th Feb 2021 by Mrs Croft

Thursday’s work 🥘 🐂

Letters and sounds

Today we are looking at finding real and nonsense words using the ‘ar’ and ‘or’ sounds. Play the ‘picnic on pluto’ game to practise first.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/picnic-on-pluto

Then have a go at colouring in the real words on the sheet one colour and the nonsense words another colour.

real or nonsense words ar

real or nonsense words or

Maths

Watch this video about ordering coins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs8F_g3MGtM

Now have a go yourself. Remember we are ordering the coins by their value from smallest to largest.

t2-m-2290-coin-ordering-cut-and-paste-activity-sheet_ver_6

Mrs Garraway is very happy at this time of year because it is the Rugby six nations tournament. Have a go at joining in with rugby legend, Danny Care, and enjoy some of the rugby activities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1JYyAHKn8&list=PLcSP18b0KfWMlWu1fevzCT0yM5I8CQ5Yp

Topic

Today, we would like you to look at Chinese food or the year you were born.

There are some recipes below if you want to have a go at cooking.

Thursday-do some cooking

Or you can watch the story of why the Chinese years have the animal names and then use the wheel to find out when people in your house were born and see what animal their year is.

Mrs Croft is a dragon 🐉😂

Mrs Garraway is a rabbit 🐇

Miss Hedges is a rooster 🐓

Thursday-story

Thursday-when were you born.