Ribbit............Ribbit..........Ribbit.........Reception!

This week our learning has been and will continue to be based around The Frog Prince..........what a rude princess she is AND she broke her promise!!!!!!!!!!! This is terrible behaviour, we must write a sorry letter to the Frog, he was so kind to her and all he wanted was to share a meal with her and sleep on her pillow!!!!!!!!!!! We should also never judge a book by it's cover!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQ4DdzCZMA

We will definitely be investigating all about the life cycle of a frog!
There has been some fantastic design and technology so far this week, making working wells!
Our maths learning will be investigating lengths of jumps, time it takes to jump around a course, sharing flies out fairly between frogs (pretend flies......), designing and making ponds with partners with specific items in (based around language of comparison), playdough and painted frog spawn, speckled frogs - counting..................we will also be exploring the concept of part, part whole.

Please do share the story at home.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0511594

Tomorrow for forest schools it is the turn of Owl, Winnie and Rabbit group.

Thank you for coming to share our story on Monday! If any of you would like to read to the class, that would be lovely and very special!

Next week we will be basing our learning around the Oscar Wilde Story - The Selfish Giant. This will lead into beginning to plant in our outdoor area, new planters - if anyone has any seeds they can offer or gardening expertise, or even would like to come in and do some gardening with the children, pop in and see us!!!!! I plan for our summer term to be based around nature, indoor and outdoor plants, bugs, wildlife.................

See you all tomorrow.....................ribbit!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNESF-vhXtc

Comic Relief - Reception

Thank you to all of you who were able to come along and support the 2019 Comic Relief Reception and Pre-School PoW's Got Talent. It was fantastic to see so many children confident, brave and willing to stand up and share their talent whilst raising money for charity - they should be very proud of themselves and there were definitely some talents to be nurtured there.............another one for the memory book! Do pop along and see the office if you are interested in taking up a musical instrument in the future.

Don't forget the Comic Relief cake and merchandise sale after school tomorrow and Thursday. Home clothes day on Friday too!

The children were buzzing with excitement on Friday as, for our Big Write, they all wrote messages for the dragons and hid them round the classroom..........we are trying to save Camelot. This week we read the story of George and the Dragon and have been thinking how we could trap a dragon and if we catch one, what we should do with it.


Thank you to all of you who have brought in some of your topic related home learning, we love sharing your creative ideas and learning.

Mr. Spracklen has nearly finished replying to all the letters that you sent him over half term..........I am sure he would love you to write back to him!!!!!

Our wow words of the day this week so far are: wonderful and superb............please use them at home and, by all means, encourage the children to come up with their own wow words. We are passionate about introducing new vocabulary and developing communication and language skills.

It s the last forest schools for Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger tomorrow, it will change to the other three groups next week. Dress for wet and cold conditions for tomorrows forest schools.

See you all tomorrow!

Mrs. J and the Wonderful and Superb Reception Team!

Reception - King Arthur.....................

Our Reception children continue to astound us every day! The energy, enthusiasm and excitement has been electric over the last couple of weeks.....................

We hope you all enjoyed the class assembly last Friday - we were so proud of how confident they have all become! The film is definitely one to dig out in a few years too!

Our week so far began with an urgent request from King Arthur..................he needed more knights!!!!!!! This led to great discussions on what qualities were needed to be a knight, what were their jobs, how did you become a knight, who was King Arthur...............

We found out yesterday, via another messenger that Camelot was under attack so we had to explore all different ways that we could protect the kingdom...............making catapults and testing how far they shot, building castles with turrets, moats, portcullis and battlements, making shields and swords and seeing which ones were the longest, designing dragons that could be trained to help us...............

We think this is not the end...............continued next week!

Interwoven in our learning this week has been Book Week with the grand opening of the library on Monday and a visit from the author David Solomons. Today we were read a story by a member of the Waterstones team who also gave us all a free book! Yesterday we visited the book swap and were all able to find a new book! Ofcourse, today was World Book Day and didn't you all look tremendous, spectacular, breath taking, extraordinary! (Wow words of the week!) Jane Hurdiss, another author, also came into our assembly to read us her stories.
It was also wonderful to see so many of you able to come to our story time on Monday afternoon! Please come along next Monday between 3:00 and 3:10pm.


Please could we ask for all RWInc reading books come back for tomorrow so that we can hand out new ones, there is also some topic themed home learning this week - please choose an activity from the list!
Thank you for all the feedback from yourselves and the children in last weeks home/school communication home learning. We really welcome your comments.

Thank you also for all the objects that you have donated for our natural maths counting resources, it looks amazing and sooooooooo inviting!


See you all tomorrow from,


Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Sunshine and Little Miss Sunshine.

Reception - learning and class assembly

What a very busy week of learning we have had!


Mr. Spracklen came in on Monday morning stating that he would like to buy our house! So, we set to work making it ready to sell....................kitchen, toilet, bath, sofa, TV, wall paper, curtains, clocks, books were among some of the things that the children worked on together to furnish the house. Today, an estate agent Martin from Meyers came in to value the property and to sell it, with the help of Rufus and Amber. It was valued at £250,000! Mr. Spracklen was overwhelmed and couldn't resist buying it.............SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Martin also kindly left each child some stationary from Meyers - it was so valuable having them come in and contextualise the learning. Edie decided that you need to work harder to get the money to buy a house, Grace and Henry C decided that you can borrow the money from a bank! Learning about the value of money and life skills already!!!!!!!!!!

Next week we move on to a new topic!

We have also been busy rehearsing for our Reception Assembly tomorrow - as stated in the Spring Term Newsletter. Please come along for 9:20 tomorrow morning and take a seat in the school hall.


There will be no story time tomorrow afternoon as we will be having our awards assembly. They will start again on Monday 3pm, do come and join us!

Forest schools is back, so for the next two weeks it will be the turn of Piglet group, Tigger group and Eeyore group.

A huge thank you to everyone who was able to come and help with the community make over days, our outside area is very nearly there!!!!!!!! Grass seed will be laid soon, so please can we ask that before and after school the children don't go on the mud! Thank you!

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs. J and the Fantabulous Reception Team.

Half Term help! Reception............please get collecting!

I hope you are all enjoying this lovely half term?


If you happen to go for a ramble in the woods or on the beach please could you collect a few items for our natural maths resources.............pebbles, shells, drift wood, leaves, sticks/twigs............we are also still in need of old keys, curtain hooks and anything gem like.

Also a couple of items for our junk modelling would be very much appreciated, we can reuse your rubbish to develop our art, design and technology skills and our creative thinking minds!

Lastly, we would really like a large sturdy log (see picture below) for our maths area and 6 sturdy wooden 10s frames. If you know anyone that might be able to help us that would be marvellous!


Next week we will be doing a short topic called "Our House".................there will be lots of fun opportunities for learning, thinking, designing, writing, creating, measuring, counting and sharing. Watch this space!

Enjoy the rest of your break!

Mrs. J and the Reception Team.

Day one of Science/Eco week in Reception and we are already super learning machines and scientists/eco warriors!

Splish! Splosh! Splash! What a wet start to the day..................but we were trying to save the ocean!!!!!!

Reception dived straight into the launch of science and eco week - they are definitely passionate about the current state of our oceans and the plastic pollution!!!!!! We used the story of the Rainbow Fish to continue the sea theme for the week......................some of the children taught us about the three levels of the ocean and the Mariana Trench as a result of our fishy discussion about the effect of the light on the sea!!!!!!!!


The children created collage posters to warn people of the dangers of plastic in the sea, we had sea themed poetry, mark making in the sand, we have a deep sea writing cave where the children cut out and decorated fish with reflective materials - they used torches to explore the effect of the light on them in the deep ocean, children were drawing and painting fish and sea creatures exploring drawing skills, focus, painting techniques and colour, the water tray became our science experiment where we learnt about surface tension by making and testing swimming paper fish! Why not have a go at bath time............ask them to show you!!!!!! (you just need a paper fish with a tale that has a "v" cut into it, and a small blob of washing up liquid placed on the "v" - lower it into the water and watch it swim!!!!!) There were fish themed information and story books to read as well as sparkly playdough to create rainbow fish.

The children absolutely love exploring science - we discussed that to be a good scientist you need to be VERY good at looking and listening. Last week we explored static electricity, over the course of this week we will be learning about the water cycle, forces, aerodynamics and chemical reactions!!!!!!! And that's just in class................then we have Mr. G coming in to teach us more!!!!!!


Don't forget the Science Fair in the school hall from 2:45 on Thursday - bring along an experiment or invention to share with everyone, or simply come and enjoy!

Mrs. J and the Reception Eco-Champions!

Reception Royalty for the day!

The Grand Ball was a roaring success!!!!!!!!


The Princes, Princesses, Kings and Queens were announced into the ball room where a glorious banquet awaited them................"cheers!" was heard many a time as the royal guests toasted each other with their champagne flutes of squash. They dined on the finest handmade biscuits in all the land following sumptuous ruby red slipper and tiara sandwiches. Music filled the air as the guests swept around the dance floor casting their finest dance moves! We were joined by The fairy Godmother herself who kindly granted each guest a wish! The finale of the occasion was entertainment provided a wonderful cast of actors and actresses!

I hope you will all agree that yesterday was a magical way to, not only conclude a topic, but also to bring it to life! It has been a half term filled with rich learning opportunities and fun. Thank you to ALL of you who were able to join us yesterday.

Home learning: bake a cake or cakes fit for a Prince or Princess! Use your maths learning to think about how to share it/them fairly, weighing, measuring, counting and using words like more, less, fewer etc. You do not need to bring them/it in to school but if you want to send a photo in or write about it in your red book, that would be wonderful too! Have fun! Yum! Yum!


Request x 3: it is not too late to bring in your jelly fish if you have not already made one, any more natural/tactile objects for our maths area would be greatly received (shells, buttons, ribbons, keys, curtain rings...........) and lastly any plastic containers saved from your recycling would be super (on Monday if possible please). Thank you.

Remember, next week is Science week - come in on Thursday afternoon from 2:45 to enjoy our science fair and do make and bring in an experiment or invention to share. Monday morning = whole school surprise, come to the front of the school a little earlier than usual drop off to join in the fun!

                                             Mrs. J and the "Roarsome" Reception Team