HIGHLIGHTS Reception
It has been another exciting year in Reception. We started our year exploring homes and houses in our topic, ‘Our House’. We created cardboard cities and familiarised ourselves with well-known stories such as the ‘Three Little Pigs’, exploring the qualities of different materials and extending our knowledge of story language. We also celebrated Black History Month by having our very own carnival; we especially loved wearing real carnival headpieces. Our following topic, ‘Light and Dark’ leant itself to learning about festivals such as Diwali and Bonfire Night. The children also loved learning how to build a fire and enjoyed recreating art inspired by Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’. The term culminated in our first ever online Christmas performance which was a huge success. This year saw the launch of a new Woodland Classroom, that has allowed Reception to go on minibeast hunts, watch the life cycle of frogs unfold in real time in our pond, build dens, saw sticks, experiment with creating transient nature art and cook up a storm in the mud kitchen. Online learning in Reception was fun-filled with a virtual trip to Antarctica with our penguin friend, Flipper, and watching our teachers dress up as pirates, disco queens and characters from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ as the pupils practised phonics and got their fingers moving in our weekly dough discos! We were so proud of how our young learners adapted
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so brilliantly to learning online and we were impressed by their focus during our daily Maths games as well as the wide variety of home projects that took place including cooking and creating their own storybooks. In Lent, we blasted off into space to explore the solar system using fruit as planets and we wrote some fabulous descriptions of the aliens we had created, and in our final term we learnt all about minibeasts and pirates. Aaaarrrggh! What a fantastic year! Ms A Rose
