We have really enjoyed our last week in Reception and have had lots of fun. We went on a scavenger hunt to see if we could find our friend’s faces and ticked them off our list. We have been learning about bees so we decorated our own bee biscuits to take Read more…
Yesterday, our lesson started with discussions about the vandalism of the Marcus Rashford mural in Manchester and the disgraceful racist abuse Rashford, Saka and Sancho have received online after England’s defeat. We learnt about what racism is and how we can all play a part to educate others, and ourselves Read more…
This week was our final forest school and we had such a lovely day. We looked at the story ‘The King of tiny things’, about a little fairy who helps all minibeasts and creatures around the forest; he oiled a slug who had lost his slime, freed a caterpillar that Read more…
This week we have been looking at the story ‘Mad about Minibeasts!’ And have had so much fun investigating different minibeasts. In forest school, we went on a minibeast hunt, checking to see if any had visited the bug hotels we had made the previous week and made our favourite Read more…
In Reception, we have been learning about ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We have learnt how to retell the story and the life cycle of a butterfly. During the story, the caterpillar eats lots of fruit. So we decided to taste test different fruits and see which ones we prefer. Once Read more…
This week we we had so much fun in forest school! As we are learning about mini beasts and life cycles this term, we decided to link this with our forest school session. We did so well at remembering all of the rules and explained why we need rules – Read more…
This afternoon we celebrated the end of our ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ topic and ‘Queen’s Handbag’ book by holding a Queen’s afternoon tea party. We listened to the national anthem, waved our Union Jack flacks and tried scones with strawberry jam and cream. They were delicious!
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’, we found out that the little pigs made houses from straw, sticks and bricks. The big bad wolf 🐺 came and tried to blow down the houses but the brick house would not budge. We completed writing based around Read more…
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told Read more…
This week we have carried on reading the story Jack and the beanstalk. This time we have focused on ordering the story and we used character masks to help us. We used language such as first, next, then and last to retell the story and created a story map on Read more…