Reception
Welcome to Reception
Our Class Teachers are:
Mrs Mason and Miss Savoy
It’s Coming Home!
Reception have enjoyed a fun filled day of football activities to celebrate England’s success in the Euros. We learnt how to play football, found the European countries on a map. We watched a game, made England flags, designed football strips and made England flag biscuits. We also sang along and waved our arms to Three Lions.
Our Sports Day

Diversity week
Australia
In Reception we have been learning about Australia. We looked on a map to find out where it was, we found key landmarks, found out about the animals that live there and Australian culture. We recreated our own Aboriginal art work and and made a camp fire and pretended we were in the outback. We learnt an Australian song and practised our dance moves. We ended the week by writing postcards about Australia.
We leant to play Volleyball and work as a team!
We looked at aboriginal art and artefacts. Then we created our own artwork using similar patterns and taking care to use dots.
Our campfire in the outback! We had fun singing songs and toasting marshmallows
We learnt to dance like a Kookaburra and then took our moves to the stage!
Our postcards home from our week in Australia!
Our trip to Little Owl Farm
Reception had a wonderful day at Little Owl Farm. We loved seeing all the animals, following the nature trail to find animal homes, holding the animals and our picnic. We had great fun in the soft play area. We brought our own eggs back to school and ate boiled eggs.
Soft play fun !
This term we are going to explore Space! We began our topic by finding out what we already knew and then we launched off into space! Next we explored astronauts and were amazed to see how they eat their lunch in space and move around in zero gravity!
We have some very creative children in Reception.








We have been working hard to improve our writing by using our phonics and neatest handwriting. This is some of our lovely writing about being an astronaut and flying to the moon.








In the Spring term we planted some radishes in our new allotment area. Today we picked our crop and were amazed to see how they had grown!
After picking and washing our radishes it was time to eat them. We all tried them but some of us weren’t too keen on the taste!













Our morning routine.
Every morning we practise writing our tricky words or writing our numbers as soon as we come in before we to do the register.
Summer Term 1
This half term we are learning all about minibeasts. We have shared lots of stories and information books. we have also explored minibeasts through the outdoors, art , investigation, music , maths and writing.
Mini beast hunting and bug hotels.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Placing and arranging butterflies
Beautiful butterflies.
Symmetrical butterflies
Butterfly view finders
Dancing butterflies
What the Ladybird Heard! Capturing the bad guys by making a trap!
Learning about ladybirds.
Spring Term 2021
We have loved welcoming back the children after lockdown. We have had lots of fun and everyone has worked really hard in phonics and maths and are making fantastic progress. Take a look at all our wonderful learning below:
We have learnt all about Spring, new life and even saw baby ducklings hatch! We've had lots of new resources to play with too, we've had lots of fun!
We've enjoyed listening to new stories such as Jack and the Beanstalk. We found and planted magic beans. Built and created the giant's castle and made our own beanstalk!
We have had lots of fun learning all about Spring, new life and baby animals. We have been planting, painting daffodils and even saw ducklings hatch. It has been very exciting to see things grow!
We have learnt about Easter celebrations and why some people celebrate it. We learnt the Easter story and have decorated our own eggs. We have made chocolate nest cakes and finally we had great fun on an Easter Egg Hunt!
Welcome to Reception , September 2020
What a busy start to Reception! We have been exploring our environment and learning how to play together .
Phonics
We have started learning our letter sounds. We have been learning m,a,s,d,t,i,n,p,g.
Curiosity and Exploration.
More fun learning as we play.
Celebrating Halloween and Bonfire Night.
We have had lots of fun celebrating and learning about Halloween and Bonfire Night.
Maths
In maths we have been finding out all about 5 and sorting in different ways.
Phonics
We do phonics everyday, we are continuing to learn our letter sounds and practise writing them.
Celebrating Diwali
9th November
This week we have had lots of fun learning about Diwali. We have listened to and sequenced the story of Rama and Sita. Reception have been very creative , making mehndi and rangoli patterns and diva lamps. We loved listening and dancing to Indian music and dancing.






Kipper's birthday
We had a birthday suprise on Monday when we came into the classroom. There was a suprise invitation and a present! We had been invited to a birthday party on Friday.









Party time
Celebrating Christmas in Reception.
We have been finding out about Christmas, we have sequenced the Christmas story, made cards, tree decorations and wrote messages. We have also continued to learn lots of new sounds in phonics and letters in handwriting.