Boats, Pirate and Dance Day

 Hi Reception Families,

It really has been quite the week!

We had a fantastic time at sports day on Monday and our amazing train trip to Weymouth on Tuesday (see previous posts.) 

We've continued our theme of pirates this week and the piratey fun has continued.

Our main focus this week has been a DT project. We started the week by investigating the question 'what does waterproof mean?' We then conducted experiments testing variety of materials to see if they were waterproof.

We then learnt all the different types of boats and the function of different parts of a boat. We then became designers and designed our own boats. On Thursday we made our boats from junk modelling the children were careful to only choose waterproof materials.

On Friday we tested our designs to see if they would float and if they were waterproof.

The work the children completed across this sequence of learning absolutely blew us away, it was all outsanding!

On Thursday afternoon the children had their final transition session into Year One.

We were sad that you weren't able to join us for Dance Day today, but I would like to assure you that the children were absolutely amazing! I am so very proud of them!

I hope you are pleased with the children's sunflowers, they have taken excellent care of them this term, good luck continuing to grow them (they could go in the ground or into a bigger pot.)

It has been a really wonderful week this week.

I can barely believe I am typing these words, but next week is our last week together in Reception. It will be a fun filled end of the year.

On Tuesday we will be having some time with our Year 4 Buddies, on Wednesday we will (weather permitting) having some time at the park and short party in the afternoon.

On Thursday we will take part in the Leavers Assembly for Year 4.

Next week children will begin to bring home some of their work from the year so it may be handy to have an extra carrier bag with them for us to store bits in.

This week has really embodied what fantastic learners and fabulous tiny people our Reception Class are, its been a joy!

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you Monday for the final week of the year!

Ms Evans and the Reception Team