Reception - Chinese New Year

Hello everyone,

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have learnt the story of The Great Race' where the Jade Emperor organised a race to decide the order of the years! Ask your child to see if they can remember the animals that were in the race; there are 13 in total! 

We have also been learning about some of the traditions that take place around Chinese New Year. One of these has been Chinese lanterns. We have had a go at making our own Chinese lanterns and this afternoon we released our own full scale lantern! Needless to say it created much excitement and we were all very happy to watch it fly off into the distance! We left our email address on it so if anyone finds it, they can send us a message, and we can see how far it went! It is the little black dot in these pictures... I was a bit late with the camera! 

Reception team

Reception - Parents Evenings

Hello everyone! 

Thank you all for being so helpful and supportive this morning as we began a new structure to the routine in the mornings. It will all become much smoother the more we do it! It will be exactly the same tomorrow morning. In terms of the writing; I promise you it will get easier! Feel free to choose a different activity tomorrow morning. I will be discussing this at parents evenings as well as via the blog. 

Also, the timetables for the parents evenings went up this evening and are there for you to sign up to! They are located just inside the green door as you come in to school. 

I have to apologise already because the date is wrong on one of them! Instead of Thursday 1st March it should be Thursday 8th March. Sorry about the confusion! The time slots remain exactly the same. 

Reception team

Reception - New Routine Tomorrow

Hi all,

I trust that you have all had a very restful break along with some great fun! We are all looking forward to the next half term - lots to do! To begin our new half term we are going to introduce a different routine to the beginning of the day - this will start tomorrow. 

Self Registration

When you come in to the classroom all children will have a very important job to do - find their name in the basket and then add it to the Duplo board to let us know that you are in school on the day. This will take the place of the morning register and will allow children to spend longer on their own learning in the morning. 

Once you have registered there will be a choice of 4 writing activities. These are self selected and will come in 4 'levels' - designated by the colours. It is completely up to you which one you choose to do! You can choose to the same one every day, or a different one every day! Once done these can be placed in the 'Finished' tray underneath the Duplo basket. Children will complete one of these before going to choose their own learning in the classroom. This means that there will be no clapping and coming to the carpet until past 9.00am. Parents are welcome to stay until the normal time and help!

There will be more information shared about writing in the reception year at the upcoming parents evening as well as on blogs.

You may also notice some new 'Challenge Cards' spread throughout the classroom. Once again, these are for children to choose to do and be independent with and will change on a regular basis.

We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow! 

Reception team

Reception - Another Brilliant Day

Hello everyone,

Today there were 2 exciting things that happened in school. Firstly, we got to see some drones begin flown around before getting to have a go ourselves. Needless to say, this was very very exciting and enjoyed by everyone! Here is a link to a video: https://twitter.com/Nelkcarps/status/961179472421638145

Then, this afternoon, we had our Science Fair! It was very busy but I hope you got to see everything that there was on show - there were so many entries to this and a big thank you must go out to all of you at home for helping to make some brilliant inventions!

Tomorrow is the last day of this half-term (already, I hear you gasp!), so we will be sending home PE kits for a wash and be wishing you all a restful week. A few new things to begin after half-term... We will keep you posted!

Reception team

Reception - Science Fair Tomorrow!

Hello everyone,

Last week and this week we have been having a special focus on Science!! We have done lots of different things and learnt lots of new things too! I've put a few pictures below but please ask your children what they have been learning about, they will hopefully fill you in on all the details!!

Also, tomorrow is the POW Science Fair in the afternoon from 2.45pm! Apologies to the parents I told 2.30pm this morning!! Children can come in to school tomorrow dressed as their favourite scientist... Then from 2.45pm all parents are welcome in to school to either take their children round the science fair or help their child to show and run their home learning 'Energy' project! Please make sure that if you have something you would like in the Science Fair that it is in school tomorrow morning so we can work out how to allocate space in the hall.

The top picture is a picture of the children entering the Science Dome earlier on this morning! We learnt about constellations and the story of Orion and his trusty dog Sirius as well as looking at what you could see in the night sky.

We have also been investigating light by using torches and kaleidoscopes 

We were fortunate to be able to borrow some magnetic construction from year 3 and we have been busy making all sorts of different things! Here are some numbers that have been made.

Of course, we couldn't have a science week without making some slime!! Just cornflour and coloured water.

Using the text Aliens Love Underpants we made some of our pants using white wax crayons and then painting over them.

Lastly, today we also got to try some astronaut food! Ask your children what they thought of the space ice cream!?

Reception team

Reception - Class Award Trophies

Hello everyone,

It is that time of the term again where we are asking for all of the award trophies that went out last half term! If your child received an award last half-term (before Christmas) could you please bring it back in to school this week so we can hand them back out again to the next group of winners! Thank you.

Reception team

Reception - Class Assembly Tomorrow!

Hi all,

A note to remind everyone that our class assembly is tomorrow morning at 9.20am in the school hall. We look forward to seeing you all there and sharing what we have been up to so far since our return after Christmas. 

A reminder that next week is Science Week across the whole school! We have a very exciting week ahead. A home learning project was sent home a couple of weeks ago and these will need to be in by next week. More details on this week will follow soon! 

Reception team