Reception - Chromebooks and Window Cleaning?

Hello everyone,

After coming to terms with the rather fresh feel of the weather this morning we cracked on and have had a great day. 

This afternoon the children all got to use some of the new Chromebooks that we have in school to begin learning about coding. We used the J2e website which can be found on our children's links page HERE. 

We also put the children to work scrubbing the windows and anything else they could find in the outdoor area! This is great for physical development and strength.

Some clarity on the Eco home learning project that went home on Friday: There is no requirement for your creation to actually work - it can be powered by imagination. If you are not sure or have any questions, please come and see us. Mr. Macbean and Mr Spracklen are eager to judge the entries and award the prizes! 

Reception team

Reception - Home Learning Tray

Hello everyone,

It was lovely to get back into the classroom today and see what had occurred this week! I was blown away by the writing that has been completed this week. WOWZERS! Not only this, but the independence with which children are doing this is a massively positive thing.

I have put a few new bits and pieces in the Home Learning Trays above the coat pegs in the classroom. Please take some or all of these as you see fit! Once again, there is no expectation to do these. We are always happy to see these in school so please bring them in if you would like to.

-Handwriting practice

-Bingo cards - this will require an adult to read out words and then children to find them. 

-Addition to 10 game - this will require some dice and a counter.

Today we also began doing something very important in PE... preparing for our sports day! The main elements we will work on this half term are the skills and the concept of working as a team. 

Reception team

Reception - Sun Cream, Hats and the Farm...

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone that came along to the parent information session this morning. If there are any questions you had that came from it, please come and chat with us. The main message was that we will be enjoying our summer term whilst preparing ourselves for the transition to year 1 - there will be lots more information about this going forward. There was also some information shared regarding sun safety...

What with the weather being marvellous today, children will have come home with a suncream form in their bookbags. If you are happy for us to apply sun cream to your children in school then we will need one of these filled out please, to give us permission. Could you then please bring in the bottle of sun cream for us to keep at school with your child's name written somewhere upon it or on a label. Thank you. Another piece of kit that will be helpful moving forwards into the summer term is a summer hat! As the weather gets hotter we will be encouraging all children to wear these whilst outside at any time during the day. We are happy for these to stay at school if it easier. 

Please let us know if there any problems or questions with the above.

Last reminder that we have our trip tomorrow morning! Please come into school wearing play bottoms - shorts will be fine if the weather is warm - and school tops. Thank you. 

Finally, for those of you that weren't there this morning I would like to say a big thank you to all you lovely people; parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and anyone else that has helped us along the way this year! The support you have shown this year has been fantastic and we could not be as successful as we have been, without you. It is not the end yet and I am very excited for all the things yet to come this year!

Reception team 

Reception - Welcome back... Summer is Here!

Hi all,

Welcome back to what promises to be an activity packed, rewarding, tiring, fun, exciting term. It is the final term. It is difficult to think back to September and that first day, but I encourage you all to do so, just to realise how far every single has come in that time. It is remarkable. Not just the maths and literacy progress; independence, self-regulation, perseverance, behaviour, maturity and many more.

This week there are 2 points to remember:

1. Parent information session will be on Thursday (sorry, I had put this as Wednesday which was a mistake) at 9.00am in the school hall. If you want to find out a bit more about the term or have any questions that need answering, please come along. Please come along if you don't too! 

2. Our trip to the farm is this Friday. A letter went home before the Easter Holidays. Please can children wear school tops and play bottoms that you wouldn't mind possibly getting a bit muddy. If anyone is available to help then please let us know! 

Welcome back everyone!

Reception team

Reception - Last Day of Term

Hello everyone,

A fantastic last day of term today! We had a great trip out to see Dippy the Dinosaur in the County Museum - Every child got to see Dippy and examine some other artefacts that have been found around the Jurassic Coast. 

When we got back to school we had a nice relaxed lunch before we popped over to pre-school to see some new special little babies! The children got to have a little hold of a chick, pictures included. We finished the day with Awards assembly - congratulations to all of those children who won an award today! 

Children should have come home with their dinosaur stick puppets and their dinosaur eggs!  The dinosaur eggs are for you to add to at home however you would like to! Please feel free to send in pictures or the eggs themselves

We hope you enjoy the Easter holidays very much and have a good chance to relax! We look forward to welcoming you all back on 16th April for the Summer term! It's going to be great!

Reception team

Reception - Chocolate Anyone?

Hi all,

Well we had our trip to Tesco's this afternoon. The weather kept at bay and we made our way there to be presented with some of our designs out and ready for us to look at! Tesco's had then chosen 3 winners and they were Isla, Lottie and Olive! so congratulations to these children, who received a prize, but also congratulations to all the reception children! Some great Easter posters. Please keep your eyes peeled as these will be going on to the shopping trolleys in Tesco! 

HOWEVER! That was not all we got up to this afternoon. On our return we had a small Easter egg hunt in the school grounds... So I can only apologise for any especially active children this evening!! We had great fun though!

Tomorrow will have a novel start as we will be needing to be outside the school to get on our coach at 9:05am! Therefore, we will not be in the classroom other than to drop drinks, snacks and bags off. We will have some activities set up outside for you to have a go at. Please ensure you are in school by this time! We will then be off to see a dinosaur, I think? Dippy is he called? We'll find out! 

As tomorrow is also the last day of term we will be sending a few things home: PE kits will be coming home for a wash. Some of the creative projects we've been doing this half-term will also be coming home with one in particular for you to add to over the break! More to follow!

Reception team

Reception - Tesco Trip

Hi all,

A message to say that there was a mistake on the slip that went home yesterday about the trip to Tesco's. We will be leaving after lunch has finished in the afternoon. Not in the morning, as the letter suggests. Thank you to those that have volunteered to walk down with us! 

We will let you all know as early as possible with regards to the weather! Which doesn't look too rosy at the moment. 

WE WILL still be participating in the Jurassic Dress Down Day tomorrow as well! Can't miss out on that! Please ensure children have a coat with them.

Reception team