What a fantastic week of learning we have had in Reception this week! In phonics, we have been continuing with our phase 2 sounds, and the children were introduced to h, b and f/ff…
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Advent to Christmas in Reception!
This week in Reception we have enjoyed another week of festive fun and cheer- with plenty of amazing learning in between! In Phonics, we have taught the new sounds m and d, as well as…
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This week has been feeling very Christmassy in Reception and our Early Years area. We started the week off by learning about advent and that it is a time to wait and prepare for Jesus’…
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This week in Reception, we have continued with Phase 2 Phonics, learning the sounds a, t and p as well as s. We have practiced writing our new sounds in as many places as we…
Read MoreAnother busy week in Reception!
This week in Reception, we have begun introducing the children to Phase 2 Phonics, with our activities focusing on the letter ‘s’ and the ‘sss’ sound it makes at the start of words like ‘snake’…
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This week, we started our new topic, ‘Let’s Celebrate’ sharing our experiences of how we celebrated Halloween over the half term holidays. We read the story Funny bones and made moveable skeletons using split pins…
Read MoreLittle pigs… little pigs… let me come in!
This week in Reception, we have been enjoying our learning around ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ On Monday morning we came into school and realised we had had another visitor in our classrooms- this time, the…
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This week in Reception, we have been enjoying retelling the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. We were very excited to find some Bear footprints in our classroom and a present from the bear!…
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This week, we have developed our ‘All About Me’ topic to talk about our friends, what they mean to us, and how we can be good friends to each other at school. We read the…
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Reception have been learning about comparing amounts this week in maths! We have used autumnal objects to count and compare amounts, recognise numbers and say which amounts are more/less or the same. If you go…
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