On Tuesday, we all went on our very first school trip. We had a fantastic time and really enjoyed seeing and touching all the animals. The children were incredibly well behaved and did us all proud. It was a very enjoyable but tiring day!

We have spent this week getting ready for our trip. We have looked at the route on google maps, used the road map, bus and bears to play ‘trips’ and we wrote a list of the things we would need.

As part of our Mental Health week, Reception had an assembly where we talked about our worries. The children were very sensible and very brave and shared concerns such as

“starting a new dance class”

“moving up a group at beavers”

“going to the cinema”

“at night when it’s dark”

We talked about ways we can reduce our worries such as:-

Doing something to take your mind off it-walking, colouring in, playing a game

Hand breathing

Talking about it.

We also shared the book Ruby has a worry by Tom Percival.

This half term, our role play area has become a garden centre with a café. You can browse the flowers, seeds and gardening tools we have available, smell the candles to decide which one you would like and then relax with a hot drink.

The children really enjoy using it and are learning how to work in a shop and how to be a good customer.

This week, we have started to collect their own dinners. We have used please and thank you to tell the dinner ladies what we would like to eat and we have managed to walk carefully with our trays carrying them to our tables. We’re very proud of ourselves.

Well done Reception.