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Welcome to Reception

In Reception 1 the teacher is Mrs Wylie and her Nursery Assistant is Mrs Hamblin.

In Reception 2 the teacher is Miss Hiles and her Nursery Assistant is Miss Grant.

Our Reception Nursery Assistant is Mrs Uppal.

This term our topic is Under the Sea

We will start the term by researching different animals that you can find under the sea. During this term we will be making salt dough fish, creating ships and rafts and investigating which ones will float. Our Talk for Writing stories will be Tiddler, the Shark in the Dark and the Fish who could Wish.

If you have any questions regarding your child's learning at school please do not hesitate to ask.

Many Thanks

The Reception Team

In term 4 our topic was Extraordinary Eggs!

We started by researching all of the different animals that lay eggs. Our learning then moved on to looking at photos of ourselves when we were young and at the similarities and differences. We finished the term by looking at what keeps our bodies healthy and what we need to keep our bodies growing.

Our Talk for Writing stories were The Ugly Duckling and Tyrannosaurus Drip. Talk for writing helped our children to learn the stories so that they could retell them to you at home.

In term 3 our topic was Journeys. We learnt about all of the different transport we can use to make journeys. Our Talk for Writing story was Handa's Surprise which we have learnt very well. The story helped us to think about healthy food and we learnt some new names for animals and fruit. In Reception 2 we enjoyed tasting all of the different fruits from Handa's basket. We also celebrated the Chinese New Year of the snake and enjoyed learning and acting out the Race of the Animals story.

As a whole school we introduced our 3 school rules, be safe, be respectful and be ready to learn. In Reception we learnt a song to help us remember our rules.

Be respectful, be respectful and be safe, and be safe, be ready to learn, be ready to learn, moving on up, moving on up. (Tune: Frere Jacque)

In term 2 our topic was Light and Dark. We learnt about day and night and also the different animals that are awake in the night and day. Our Talk for Writing story was Peace at Last, the children enjoyed acting out the story in our role play area of Mr Bears garden.

In term 1 we chose our Tribe names. Miss Hiles class are The Dazzling Detectives and Mrs Chamberlain's class are The Sparkling Sunbeams.

During the first few weeks we learnt about our five Golden Rules, we used stories to help us understand each one.

Do be gentle

Do be kind and helpful

Do work hard

Do be honest

Do look after property

We also found out about 82b Gr8, these are 8 different ways to be great and be successful learners at school.

They are persistence, effort, push, collaborate, imagine, improve, concentrate and passion.

Our topic for the first term was Old and New, starting with finding out about George Palmer and our schools history. We also learnt about the similarities and differences between old and new objects.