Blog Category: Reception

Today we went on a wonderful winter walk to Urmston Library.  We looked for signs of Winter along the way and we also talked about the changes in the season from our Autumn walk to the park.  We chatted lots about our local area and community and we especially enjoyed when we passed some of our…

Today we read the story ‘The Magic Bed’,  we loved using our imaginations to talk about where we would go in the magic bed! 

We are doing so well independently reading in our Guided Reading sessions.

Every Monday we follow a recipe to make our own Dough.  We like to add a variety of scents and textures.  This week we added Rosemary.  We are now learning how to share the dough out equally.  This morning Mason did brilliantly cutting the dough into quarters!

We love to help look after our school environment by helping Mr Sandham litter picking.

This week we were blessed with some lovely frosty mornings which went perfectly with our learning about Winter.  The children have been asking lots about penguins following a story on snowy animals so we also had some child led learning on Penguins.  We read some fiction and non fiction books…

Enjoying a story during play learning time.

For many years our Reception classes have been writing to Mr Ishii and the children in Sakura Kindergarten, Japan.  We are so excited when a parcel arrives!  Mr Ishii always writes us a letter telling us about life in Japan and what the children have been doing in their School and we write back to…