Hello reception families and Friends!
What a fantastic week to round off our Space Topic in Reception — Space Day was truly out of this world! Over the past three weeks, the children have been busy exploring space, learning all about planets, stars, meteors and even some wonderfully imagined aliens. Space Day was the perfect celebration of all their curiosity, creativity and hard work.
The children arrived looking amazing, dressed as astronauts and ready for launch! They proudly followed their own designs to create personalised space helmets, showing brilliant independence and problem-solving skills.
Creativity was in full flow as the children painted colourful aliens, planets and rockets — each piece as unique as its creator.
We also enjoyed a calming and imaginative space-inspired yoga session, following the story of a cheeky alien on an adventure. The children loved stretching, balancing and moving their bodies while listening carefully to the story — a lovely way to combine physical development with storytelling and imagination.
Of course, no celebration would be complete without a little something tasty! The children decorated their own star-shaped sugar cookies, carefully choosing colours and decorations (and showing great restraint before eating them!).
Later in the day, we settled down to watch the beautiful film “Here We Are” based on the book by Oliver Jeffers. This thoughtful story sparked some lovely conversations about our world and our place in it.
We finished the day with our usual Chatter Bags session, which continues to be a highlight of the week. This time, the children shared a wonderful variety of items including Swish uniforms, books, sea glass, photos, souvenirs from a monster truck event — and even a plant! The children spoke confidently, listened respectfully and asked thoughtful questions. We are really looking forward to seeing what is brought in next week.
Thank you so much for all of your support in making this week such a success — from sending in boxes, helping children dress as astronauts, to all of the kind and positive feedback we have received. We really couldn’t do it without you.
Coming up this week!
Moving into next week please can we remind children they should not be bring toys or special items from home into school (unless it is for Chatter Bags). These items can easily get lost, and unfortunately we cannot guarantee they will be looked after while at school.
Please ensure your child brings a water bottle to school every day. We have had a couple of days this week where we did not have enough spare bottles to give to all children and have had to use cups. If any families have spare water bottles at home they would be happy to donate, we would be extremely grateful — it is always very helpful for us to have spares available at school.
Many thanks,
Miss Godden and the Reception Team
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