Blog by Penny Kemp

Reception have had a busy week being builders after watching the houses being built in the field next to ours! They have been cooking and baking in the nature kitchen, learning phonics and maths, doing PE and lots of other activities! Here are a few snapshots of their week. 

What is a word processor and what do we use it for?

This is a question we discussed this week and began learning how to write digitally using a word processor. We also learnt about the the speed of emails!

The children studied a keyboard and started to learn where the keys are and what they…

Our Eco monitors, who are Duke and Alex this week, have been kept busier than usual this week as they’ve had extra plants to care for! We already have two Peace Lillies, a fern, a succulent and a Spider Plant but this week I brought in there ‘mystery’ plants.

The groups of children have been…

To finish our history learning (looking at significant explorers in the past) we looked at a modern explorer this week. Zara Rutherford has just broken records to be the youngest woman at 19yrs old to fly around the world solo in a microlight this week. 
 

The children thought about where they…

Our Reception children have had a great week as you can see from the photos below. We have been busy winter explorers looking for winter birds and learning about the different birds we are likely to see during the winter months.

We have been exploring capacity by filling different containers…

Continuing our learning about significant explorers the children researched and learnt about Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and Ibn Battuta a scholar who travelled for 29 years exploring in the early 1300s. 

The children used iPads to research the…

This week we have begun our story writing based upon the fabulous story “We Are Going On A Bear Hunt” written by Michael Rosen linked to our theme ‘Explorers’. 

Most of the children are already familiar with the story and it is one of our favourites so we made it extra special by performing it…

Following our learning last week where we talked and wrote about what it meant to be a good friend and who are our friends, this week we learnt about Jesus’ special friends.

We told the story ‘The Calling of the Disciples’ Luke 5: 1-11, Luke 5: 27-28 and the children retold the story through…

In our music lessons this half term we are learning all about tempo and dynamics. We began by answering the question how does music make the world a better place and had a great discussion, here are some of their answers ...

” It makes me feel happy and wonderful inside” Nathaniel

” it’s…

It has been lovely to see each other after our Christmas break and everyone has started the new term refreshed and ready to learn!

We have had a busy, fun-filled week (take a look at the photos below) where we have begun our topic for the term called ‘Explorers’. The Reception children have…

All the children made a snowy scene for a Christmas card to send home to their families this year using lots of different skills to create it.

They had to follow instructions carefully at each stage and did so well! First they created the snowy backdrop with wax crayons. Then they each drew two…

More of our class have been using the programme Paint to create Christmas themed pictures this week and having a lot of fun!