This week as part of our RE Curriculum Reception visited our local church – Beeches Evangelical Church. This is part of the schools commitment to visiting three different places of worship during children’s three years with us. We pick places […]
This week we have been exploring lots of activities relating to the Christian festival of Easter! We explored the religious story of Easter first and discussed that people celebrate Easter in different ways. Some celebrate it for Religious purposes, and […]
Today Crocodiles have been doing something ‘funny for money’! Campaigning and raising funds for Comic Relief. We have taken part in a non-uniform day in exchange for a donation. We have connected today with our Rights, and have considered the […]
On Friday we celebrated World Book Day. We are very keen to promote the love of reading with all of our children, and World Books Day gives us an excellent chance to share and promote our love of books. It […]
This week we have been welcoming our grown-up’s to our Learning Live sessions. Mommies and daddies have been joining us in class each day for our Phonics sessions. This gives the children a chance to show off how clever they […]
This week we have started our new story – the traditional tale of ‘The Little Red Hen’ We have been learning about growing wheat and have started a science experiment today. We have planted our own seeds in a clear […]
This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We heard the story of the 12 animals who had a race to have each year named after them. We learnt that the rat won the race and that this […]
Today in our PE lesson we got the wall bars out and explored jumping, climbing and landing safely. We had to listen carefully to the rules. If Miss T shakes the tambourine it means stop, safely climb down from the […]
This has been our second week of investigating the book ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson in Reception. We have been learning about habitats and linking these to our rights and basic needs. We learnt that all animals, including humans, need: […]
For the last 2 weeks we have been learning about the story of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen. The children have enjoyed going on their own bear hunt, sequencing the story and we have even had […]