Reception: Blog items
Reception- Sports Week Gymnastics
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:14pm
This week Reception have enjoyed taking part in Sports Week.
They had an exciting time doing gymnastics with Mr Rartcliffe where they were able to climb, jump, balance, swing and roll using the large equipment in the hall.
They followed the rules, showed resilience, respect and teamwork as they negotiated their way around the hall using the different types of equipment.
They learnt about why they need to keep themselves fit physicaly, socially and mentally.
"I can climb and jump because I eat lots of fruit to keep me healthy" Dina
"I am hot because I am exercising and the blood is pumping around my body... drinking water will cool me down and hydrate me" Harry
"We have to take turns to jump or we might hurt ourselves" Riley
Reception Making a healthy snack
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 11:57am
This week in Reception we have been learning about how to keep our bodies and minds healthy. As part of our learning we have been identifying a range of different foods which who be a good healthy snack. We talked about the importance of making healthy choices and why they are important. All of the children designed and made their own healthy snack. We tasted the differetn fruits and talked about which ones where ourfavourites and why.
"I like strawberries, they are nece and juicey" Freyja
"Kiwi is my favourite" Kevin
The children then safety used the equipment to chop amd slice the friut and then put it on their kebab stick. Together we all enjo0yed eating ourfruit kebabs.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 2:08pm
Over the past few weeks Recption have enjoyed looking after and caring for our classroom ducklings; Sonny, Donal, Sophia and Mr Duck. From the moment our duck eggs arrived the children enjoyed observing them in the incubator eagerly awaiting them hatching.
"Look the egg is cracking" Hayleigh
"I can see his bill" Aurora.
Once the ducklings hatched the children have been busy learning about the ducks lifecycle, what they eat and how to care for them. They learnt lots of new vocabary and practiced building different sentences using the new words. The children also enjoys painting and collaging the ducks, writing sentences about them and researching different facts about ducks.The children thoroughly enjoyed holding the ducklings, making sure they had enough food and water and even cleaned out the cage. Have a look at our fantastic learning!
Reception- The Three Little Pigs
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 2:29pm
This week Reception have been reading the story The Three Little Pigs. We retold the story, learnt new words and discussed why it is importatnt to work hard like the third little pig and not become lazy like the other two little pigs who quickly made their houses out of straw and sticks. Look at what else we did too!
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 2:23pm
Yesterday, Reception took part in Forest School. They had fun playing games, such as Twit and Whoo (hide and seek),helping each other look for wildlife , including minibeasts, and creating models of nature with playdough.
"I found a worm" Evan.
"I made a playdough fish" Freya C.
"Bees go on flowers and drink the sugar in them" Freyja.
Take a look at our photos!
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 1:38pm
This week we had a very special delivery in Reception. Some duck eggs arrived on Monday in an incubator. The children were very excited to observe the egg and were lucky enough to watch them hatch. We now have four ducklings; Sonny, Sophia, Mr Duck and Donald. The children have had the opportunity to hold the ducklings, watch them swimming in the water trays and even feed and clean our thei cage with adult support. We look forward to learning more about them and thei lifecycle next week.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 11:36am
This week the children have been enjoying hunting for minibeasts in our outdoor area. They used magnifying glasses and viewing jars to inspect them. looking at their colour, number of legs, if they have antennae and naming them too.
"I think i have found a wood louse" Perisa.
"This minibeast has antennae" Kevin.
"I've found a butterfly on the bush" Dina
"Look at the snail...it's on my finger...it's small" Levi.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:24pm
This week we have been reading the story The Bog Bay. It about two little girls who discover a magical pond in Bluebell Wood. Inside the pond they find a 'Bog Baby'- a jelly like creature with ting wings and a spikey tail. The girls take the Bog Baby home to look after and care for it- they even make it a special home in a bucket. However, soon the Bog Baby gets sick and the girls realise (with the help of their mum) that the need to return the Bog Baby to magical pond where it lives.
The children have then crated their own Bog Baby models using clay trying hard to include all his different features- googly eyes, a spikey tail and tiny wings. They had to carefully mould the clay to the correct shape and use the skills; slip, score and blend to ensure they correctly attached all the different features. When the clay had dried they painted their models and made a magical pond for it to live in using a range of different meduims and materials at the creative area.
Have a look at our wonderful models!
Reception The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:11pm
The children ihn Reception have been busy completing lots of work based around the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' We have been orally retelling and sequencing the story using a range of scienfic vocabularly, learning about the butterfly lifecycle, writing sentences, painting and collaging caterpillars and butterflies aswell as lots of maths themed activities. We have been completing butterfly doubles aswell as adding and subtracting single digit numbers. Have a look at all our learning!
Reception- Keeping Safe in the Sun.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 1:36pm
Over the last few weeks, the weather has become quite warm and sunny- some days it has even been hot!
The children in Reception have been learning about sun safety.
"Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from the bright sunshine" Myla- Gray.
"You need to wear a sun hat to stop your head from getting too much sun" Lilah.
"Make sure you wear sun screen. It stops you from getting sunburnt" Hazel.
"Always drink lots of water to stay hydrated" Kevin.
"Remember to stay in the shade too" Theo.
Take a look at us keeping safe in the sun while we play outside.
Reception The Lifecycle of a Butterfly
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 2:21pm
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about the lifecycle of butterfly. We have been observing our classroom caterpillars watchikng the grow and change. The children have made some fantastic observations of what is happening.
"The caterpillar is eating the food" Oakley
"They are growing bigger and fatter" Dennis
"The caterpillar is hanging upside down. He's going to make a a cucoon soon" Lily-Mae
We have been watching videos and exploring each stage of the lifecycle in detail. We have learnt lots of new vocabularly and the children have been orally rehearsing their sentences using the correct scientific terms.
"The butterfly lays little eggs on a leaf" Freyja
"The egg hatches and the caterpillar comes out" RJ
"The make cucoons and transform into beautiful butterflies" "Kevin
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 11:47am
Reception have been creating artwork after reading the story The Dot by Peter H Reynolds. This is a story about developing a good growth mindset when being creative. Everyone painted a large dot and drew a face on it and then designed their own pattern on a smaller dot. We painted the dots pink and used pink and red felt tips to draw the features on a face and create our patterns.
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Reception Imaginative Play Outside
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 4:33pm
Outside the children have been working together in the mud kitchen to create their own narratives through imaginative and real life play. The children worked together the chop and prepare a healthy meal for their family. The developed their oracy skills by discussing together why different foods are healthy or unhealthy.
"I've made Japan soup- it full of vegatables" Kevin
"Brocolli is healthy" Levi
"I've made soup" Renesmae
"Too much sugar is bad for your teeth" Freyja
"I have icecream but thats my special treat" Harry
Reception Jack and the Beanstalk
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 8:57pm
This week the we have been reading 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The children have been learning lots of different vocabularly and using that to describe what happens in the lifecycle of a bean. They have also been collaging beanstalks, using playdough to make their own beanstalks, building castle in the construction, completing maths activities and writing sentences about the story. Have a look at some of our learning.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 8:50pm
This week we have been reading the fairytale story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The children recieved a mysterious letter from Jack. He set the children a challenge to find out what a bean needs to grow tall and strong. Using our discussion guidelines the children discussed what what they though the beans would needs and why they though this. the children demonstrated superb listening skills and took turns speaking. The children then went outside to plant their own magic bean and will spent the next few weeks caring for them.
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 2:22pm
This week Holly and Willow classes have been focusing on their running skills. They took part in relay races where they also learnt how to work together as a team.
This enables them to develop their gross motor skills, move energetically and negotiate space.
Take a look at our photos.
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 6:26pm
This week the children in Reception have been exploring why Easter is a special celebration in the Christian calendar. We started the week of attending a special Easter assembly led by our Year Six children. Back in the classroom we explored a range of new words using our vocabulary and explored the key events which took place in 'Holy Week' We even had a special visit from Reverend Matt who explained why Easter is importanct to Christains and how is celebrated throughout the year through holy communion. To support our learning during continuous provision we were set several challenges including sequencing the event of Holy week, making our own representation of the crucifixtion and completing a tresure hunt in the outside area looking for special symbols accosiated with Easter including; the cross and eggs.
"Jesus died on the cross" Freyja
"The put nails in his hands" Theo
"He had a special meal with his friends, the disciples" Lilah
"He gave them bread for his body and wine for his blood" Aurora
"They put him in a tomb" Emily
"When they went back it was empty" Dennis
"Jesus had come back to life" Lily-Mae
Reception applying our phonics knowledge
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 9:41pm
Over the past few weeks the children have been busy applying their phonics knowledge to a range of different indpendent activities in the classroom. We have been practicing reading and writing our tricky words on sight to help our reading become more fluent. We have also been identifying diagraphs in words and segmenting and blanding them to read the and reading simple sentences including phase 3 diagraphs.
Reception Learn about the Lifecycle of a Frog.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 9:22pm
During our spring walk the children noticed some frogspawn in our school pond. We took a small amount of frogspawn back to the classroom to observe what was happening. The children enjoyed using the magnifying glasses to look closely at the frogspawn and used a range of new vocabulary to desrcibe what they could see. During our oracy session we introduced some new vocabularly and practiced projecting our voices when saying the words. We looked at some different images and watch some short video clips and discusses as a class what we could see and what we thought was happening in the pictures. The children practised using the a range of different sentence starters and expanding their sentences using because. The children used our signals for agree, build and challenge to beging to have a discussion with their peers.
"I think the frog is laying its eggs" Lily-Mae
"I agree with Lilly-Mae. IT's calle frogspawn" Lilah
"Next the tadpoles nibble a hole and swim in the pond" Freyja
"They get front and back legs" Rosie
"It's called a froglet because it has a long tail" Dennis.
The children then worked indentedently to correctly order the pictures in the lifecycle and label the pictures with the correct vocabulary. Some of the children even chose to paint a picture of the frog in the pond. Come and have a look at our learning.
Reception Meet The Police Horses
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 4:48pm
This afternoon, Reception enjoyed a visit from The Blackpool Police Horses. The police officers explained that horses were used as they can see over fences and walls and can travel down narrow alleys and through parkland- places that police cars may struggle to go. They then demonstrated how the horses can go left, right, forward and backwards and turn in a circle.
Reception Music during Spring Term
Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 11:39pm
We began this term by learning lots of winter songs. Snowflakes, Snowflakes and I’m a Little Snowman were some of our favourites. We learnt songs and explored music linked with Chinese New Year. Recently we have focused on learning animal songs. We all love Tiger, Tiger Orange and Black and Walking Though the Jungle. We continue to learn lots of Nursery Rhyme and songs to help with speaking, phonics as well as our musical understanding.
We can now name many percussion instruments and have experimented playing maracas, claves, drums, glockenspiels and tambourines. We can stop and start together and can nearly keep a steady beat as a class!
Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 4:08pm
This week the children have enjoyed exploring the season of spring. As part of our learning we went on a sping walk around the school grounds to spot the different signs of spring. The children working in pair to tick off what they saw. We spotted pink blossom growing on the trees, daffodils growing by the pond, buds on the trees and frogspawn in the pond. We were even lucky enough to see a see life frog.
"The blossom grows on the trees" Dennis
"I can see a bird in the nest" Kevin
"The frog lays frogspawn in the pond" Freyja
Reception Animals and their habitats
Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 9:43pm
As part of our learning about animals, today we had a visit from the fabulous Teach Rex. We had a special assembly where we were lucky enough to meet Thomas the Gorilla. We listened carefully to a story about Thomas and his family and participated in some different games to find out more about where he lives and the different foods he eats. When we when back to the classroom we further explored different animal habitats. We sorted different animals to the correct habitat and discuss why lived in this environment. We also had the opportunity to meet Rodger the Sloth and Derek the Cherokee. We has a fabulous time learning about the diffeerent animals.
"Sloths live in the rainforest" Dennis
"The gorilla had black fur" Aurora
"Thomas lives int he rainforest" Kamiyah
"Lions and elephants live in the savanna. It's hot there" Kevin
"Camels live in the desert. They have water in their humps" Freyja
Reception Learn about becoming a vet
Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 9:33pm
This half term the children in Reception have been learning about a range of different animals. As part of our learning we have been finding out the role of a vet; what their job entails, why their job important and where they might work. We have watched somw short clips of vets in practice and found out their work will all different animals including pets, farm animals and even zoo animals.We have been using a classroom role play area to use our imagination create our own scernios that a vet may face at work. We learnt lots of new words and used them whilst role playing.
"I think this dog needs an x-ray. I think he leg is broken" Kevin
"I'm putting a bandage on the cat" Dina
"He has a sore ear, I'mchecking it" Myla-Gray.
"What time is your appointment" Malaki
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