The Big Sheep Christmas lunch

Can you find Isla?The whole school thoroughly enjoyed their Christmas lunch at the Big Sheep

Brave children on the death slides!

Can you find Isla?

Baking

Miss Kiff came on this morning to find Sebastian baking something. 

Christmas challenge!

Can we make a paper chain long enough to go round the entire classroom? Here we are having a good go!

Sebastian's getting festive!

Last night Sebastian was feeling festive and decided to make some snowflakes. 

Sebastian

After lunch we came back into class to find that Sebastian had move again and was zip lining with a candy cane!

Weight lifting

Miss Kiff came in this morning to find Sebastian doing some weight lifting...he is making sure he's strong enough to lift up all your HUGE presents! 

Sebastian Snowboots

Inside the parcel was one of Santa's elves, he's called Sebaatian Snowboots. The story says that he goes back to Santa each night to let him know whether or not we have behaved during the day. How exciting! I'll be on my best behaviour!

Christmas has come early!

A parcel arrived for reception class today, I wonder what it is. It says 'special delivery from Santa'...

Back online!!

Apologies for the lack of blogging but I have had some technical difficulties, we are back up and running now so you can expect regular blogging from our class! 

Fruit time

Since starting school Reception children have begun to manage their own fruit time. They decide when they are hungry, wash their hands to get rid of any germs and sit down to a very sociable table with their friends. 

It's hard to believe how much fruit the children eat...they are a very healthy bunch!

Back to School!

Wow...it's September already and you are about to start school. Miss Kiff is so excited to get to know you all and looking forward to visiting you at home, this week and next. 

See you soon!!

St Helen's Garden Centre

Today we have been thinking about our role-play area for this topic. We've decided on creating our own garden centre. We have begun to design the centre, we've made some flowers and a picket fence for the outside. Next week we will begin to use it to learn in a range of curriculum areas such as literacy  (writing receipts, lists of flowers and seeds), maths (counting, problem solving, money), understanding the world (knowledge of plants, changes, bugs and insects, local environment, purposes of technology), communication and language (speaking, listening, understanding), PSED (building relationships, taking account of others' needs, sharing and taking turns). 

Symmetry

We have started our new topic of 'The very hungry caterpillar' this week and we have already squeezed a lot into our week. We focused on maths this week and in particular, symmetry and patterns. We have all mastered shape patterns, colour patterns and repeating patterns so we looked at the beautiful symmetrical patterns on 'The very hungry caterpillars' butterfly. We created simple symmetrical patterns using counters on ladybirds, drawing our own butterflies and painting symmetrical patterns.

Picnic on the moon

Today we have spent the day learning about healthy food and made some food for our picnic on the moon. Sadly the great British weather didn't hold out for us and it has rained all day so we went to 'Plan B' and had our picnic inside.

We investigated making patterns with our fruit and vegetables.

Spring is here!!

This afternoon Class 1 let us have a look at their chicks. Everyone in Reception had the chance to hold the chicks. We talked about signs of spring and new life. 

Healthy eating

Mrs Barrs visited Reception this afternoon to talk to us about being healthy. We came up with some good ideas about being healthy and impressed Mrs Barrs with our knowledge. We drew our own 'healthy lunchbox' and labelled the food items.

Shared learning

This afternoon year 3 children came down to reception to share their Easter stories with us. The year 3s worked very hard learning about Easter and were keen to share what they had learnt. We thoroughly enjoyed having them visit us and we hope to go and share our learning with them soon.

Independent learning

One of our independent learning challenges today was to create a repeating pattern in our maths area. Here is a fantastic example.

RE Good Friday

Today in RE we have been learning about Good Friday. We talked about why it is know as Good Friday and the class came up with some excellent ideas;'it's not good that Jesus died but he helps us and God helps us too. We remember him when we eat hot cross buns and they are good.'

We did some art based on Good Friday.