Hello Reception Families and Friends,
What a magical, winter-themed week we’ve had! The children have been full of curiosity, creativity and excitement as we’ve explored our Winter topic across all areas of learning. Here’s a little peek into our week.
Trip to St Mary’s Church
One of the most exciting events this week was our visit to St Mary’s Church. The children were brilliant ambassadors for our school, showing curiosity, respect, and thoughtful questioning as they looked around the church, learned more about the Christmas story and crafted some angels!
DT – Designing and Making Boats
A real hands-on highlight this week was our DT challenge: Designing, creating and testing boats!
This week Reception finally gathered all we had learnt about boats to design and then make their own boats with the support of an adult! We are so please with how these came out and children did brilliantly at sticking to their designs.
Forest School Fun
Our Forest School session is always a weekly favourite, and this week was no exception! The children all had lots of fun potting and planting their own seed this week learning about the life cycle of plants and what they need to thrive and grow!
Adventure Time
Every day the children had time to explore their own interests through Adventure Time. This week we have been inspired by winter themed activities!
It’s been a truly wonderful week of winter learning and exploration— the children have worked so hard!
Reminders / Notes for the upcoming week:
- On Thursday, Reception are going on their class trip to Dorchester Library. We are asking children to be collected directly from the library at 3.15. This gives enough time to get back to school to collect siblings but also ensures reception can truly maximize their time at the library without the walk back to school. If you cannot collect your child on this day then you MUST let me know so we can arrange appropriate transport back to school. We are also on the look out for parent helpers for this trip, if you would like to join then please email Miss Godden.
- We are in need of spare socks in Reception. If you child has worn home any from school or if you have any your child has grown out of we would really appreciate the support with them being brought to school. Please do ensure your child has spare socks in their bags (and named!).
- Rocket Club has now ended for all children for this half term, we look forward to inviting children again in the Spring.
- We see many children are still finding it tricky to zip up their coats. We would really appreciate your support to help children build independence with this.
- We are short of a few Christmas costumes for this year! If you are crafty or have any themed Nativity costumes at home that you're willing to use for this Christmas performance at St Mary's on the 17th of December then please do let me know. We appreciate all of the support for this and I have attached below a photo to spark some inspiration:
