Week 4: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

This week in Reception we focused on the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Children learnt to retell the story in their own words and they wrote their own sentence about the story. It is great to see them attempting to write independently using their phonics skills.

In Topic class, we discuss the same story and talked about the bridge the goats had to cross to get to the other side of the valley, where the sweet green grass grew. Children worked in teams to build their own bridges. Working together as a team is not easy, we must share our ideas and listen to others' opinions. RB and RP showed great teamwork skills! 

In Maths we learnt about capacity and children really enjoyed working with the water beads and experimenting with different jugs. We have learnt the difference between empty, half-full and full.

In ICT we spent some time in the ICT Suite to develop our computing skills. Children practised their phonics skills whilst developing their mouse control. 

It has been a lovely week and we hope you have a wonderful weekend! 

Week 3: Happy Chinese New Year!

What a fantastic week it has been and how nice it was to end it with our Chinese New Year celebration! Thank you to all the parents who could be there and joined us for our special assembly. 

In class, we have been busy with two new sounds /ai/ and /ee/ and children have practised reading and writing words using all the sounds we have learnt so far. Their progression is outstanding! 

In Maths we have introduced the concept of weight and did lots of experimentation to find out light and heavy objects. 

In ICT we learnt to use the photocopier and made copies of our work!

Week 2 : The Little Red Hen

The highlight of our week has been making bread, just like the hen did in the story The Little Red Hen! Children really enjoyed being great helpers and working together. This week, they have also worked with the new sound /ng/. In Maths, we introduced the concept of length and children have learnt to compare objects by saying if they are longer, shorter or taller. It has been a fantastic week!

We have also been practicing for our Chinese New Year assembly!

Welcome back! Term 2 : Week 1

We were so pleased to welcome the children back to school this week and it has been a short, but exciting week in Reception! Children reviewed all the Phonics sounds learnt in Term 1 and really impressed their teachers! It is great to see they are ready to learn new sounds. 

In English, children shared about their holidays and they attempted to write a sentence along with a picture. 

In PSHE we talked about being responsible and children had to care for a toy for a period of time. They all demonstrated a great sense of responsibility.

In Topic, our story was The Little Red Hen. Children made masks representing the different characters.