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KINGSWOOD PREP IN FOCUS 2020-21 | RECEPTION
RECEPTION I
n the Autumn Term, Reception were welcomed to school with the topic “Wonderful Marvellous Me”, where they had a chance to learn about themselves and each other. They made stick family bundles, to represent the love that ties their family unit together. As a class, they explored every sense by going on taste, sight and smell walks. They sampled different foods, and even created their own perfume! The children made and listened to different instruments, and discovered different textures. They loved making porridge with Goldilocks and the Three Bears and having
afternoon tea with a tiger! After half term, Reception learnt about their bodies from the inside. They made ‘blood’ using natural food products, and an organ model using balloons and straws. They experimented with crunchie bars to learn about bone density and wrote letters to the tooth fairy. At the end of term, the children recorded a wonderful Christmas Carol concert in the music room, and enjoyed meeting Father Christmas when he came to visit the secret garden! The spring topic, “The Arctic and Antarctic”, took the children on an exciting journey to the North and South Pole, where they discovered polar bears and penguins. From home,
...the children recorded a wonderful Christmas Carol concert...
AUTUMN TERM
they learnt about the life of Ernest Shackleton, and his voyage to Antarctica. Some built his ship ‘The Endurance’, and some made tea-stained maps of the South Pole. In their magnificent online Art lessons recorded by Mrs Fox, the children made clay or dough penguins, and learnt how to draw penguins and polar bears. Towards the end of term, the children had a chance at becoming eco-monitors around the school, and learnt ten different ways to save planet earth!
