Reception: Blog items
Date: 4th Sep 2020 @ 2:42pm
Welcome to Willow Class! What a fantastic first week the children have had in Reception. We have been busy making new friends, learning our new rules and routines and exploring our classroom. The children have coped exceptionally well and we are very proud of them. We can't wait to make lots of memories together this year.
Changes to Home Time Arrangements
Date: 3rd Sep 2020 @ 4:18pm
Changes to home time arrangements
As we have now been open for a number of days we have noticed a concerning lack of social distancing by parents and carers. Therefore, we are enhancing our COVID Safe rules.
We recommend that face coverings are worn by all parents and carers who are medically able to do so – staff will also be wearing face coverings.
To further ensure safe exiting at the end of the date, we will now stagger the collection times:
Year 3 – finish at 3:15pm
Year 4 – finish at 3:10pm
Year 5 – finish at 3:20pm
Year 6 – finish at 3:25pm
As always, for those parents/carers who have to collect children from Nursery, Reception and Key Stage 1, staff will still wait with your child until you can collect them from their designated zone.
Nursery, Reception, Years 1, 2 and 3
There will be no changes to Reception and Key Stage 1 at this time, however, this situation is under constant review. Please remember, do not call your child over to you, they will be brought to you by a member of staff.
Please follow these new procedures to help keep your child safe.
Date: 3rd Sep 2020 @ 9:23am
Date: 3rd Sep 2020 @ 9:21am
Date: 18th Mar 2020 @ 1:05pm
Children from EYFS and Key Stage One are really enjoying dancing and acting in our weekly dance and drama club. They cannot wait to perform for parents, friends and family in the Northern Ballet's KS1 version of Little Red Riding Hood in a few weeks!
We're going on an animal hunt!
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:07pm
We're going on an animal hunt! The children looked for the animals hidden outside and when they'd found them they had to name them and then look at the patterns, colours, how many legs they have and such like.
"It's a kangaroo...they have their baby's in the pocket...they jump and have two big legs and little arms" Rosalie.
"It's a snake...green...little stripes...snakes don't have legs or arms" Freddie.
"Mine's a lion...it has a mane...a long tail" Chisom.
Drawing daffodils in the garden.
Date: 16th Mar 2020 @ 10:04pm
It was a beautiful Spring day in the Reception garden. The daffodils had begun to bloom and it was a great opportunity to capture the moment as a picture- using pencil crayons. The children studied the colours of the petal and stem and then sat quietly, concentrating to create a real life picture of Spring in the garden.
"Daffodil petals are yellow" Miya.
"The stem is green" Conner.
"Daffodils grow in Spring" Chloe.
Date: 25th Feb 2020 @ 2:29pm
Once we'd made our pancakes we all came back to Reception and had pancake races! It was great fun- trying to run and toss our pancakes at the same time! Look at how we did!
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 1:40pm
Today we have enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. The children looked fantastic in their costumes and they enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities. The children enjoyed sharing their favourite story books, making books marks and they even visited the library. All children have received a book token to spend on a book of their choice which are available from local super markets.
Date: 25th Feb 2020 @ 1:24pm
Today the children have enjoyed celebrating pancake day. We visited the school kitchen to make our own delicious pancakes. We needed eggs, flour and milk. Mrs Clark had to weigh the flour using the scales to make sure we had the right amount. We mixed the ingredients up in a bowl to make sure there was no lumps. We then cooked the pancake in the frying pan. Mrs Clark flipped the pancake too! They tasted delicious!
When we got back to class we enjoyed making pancakes in the home corner, reading pancake words and even having pancake races in the garden.
Date: 25th Feb 2020 @ 2:10pm
Hurray for Pancake Day! The children were busy today and very excited because they were going to the kitchen to make pancakes! Here's how to make them :
"First you need to get the eggs, flour and milk" Connor
"Put them in the bowl" Lucas
"Mix them" Hanasa
"Put it in the frying pan to cook it" Elsie
"Mrs McAllister flipped it! " Lexiann
"Then it's ready to eat!" Rosalie
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 12:07pm
Reception have been busy exploring in the garden looking for signs of Spring. The children noticed how the garden was changing and new plants, flowers and leaves were beginning to grow.
"Look! I can see a yellow flower...I think it's called a daffodil". Jaz.
"These are growing too... these are smaller pink and purple flowers" Alexander.
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 9:59am
Holly class had a great time learning how to balance on a bike. They learnt about being safe, the parts of a bike and how to stop, go and park their bike.
Reception enjoying the climbing frames!
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 11:55am
Reception have enjoyed using the climbing frames during PE. The children demonstrated good co-ordination and control whilst climbing on the equipment, placing their feet on the bars to climb and holding some balances for some time. The children were able to jump off the equipments safetly, bending their needs to land.
Topic Overview Spring 2 2019/2020
Date: 26th Feb 2020 @ 3:50pm
Balance Bike Bonanza Willow Class!
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 12:01pm
This half term the children have enjoyed using the balance bikes. The children talked about the importance of wearing a helmet to keep them safe and identify and name the different parts of a bike. The instructors focused on teaching the children how to stop and start on a bike as well as them developing good balance and co-ordination whilst riding the bike. What great fun they had!
Year Group Newsletter Spring 2 2019/2020
Date: 25th Feb 2020 @ 7:44am
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 2:28pm
This week we have been talking about Chinese New Year. We have been discussing it's similarities and differences to festivals we celebrate. We enjoyed making Chinese lanterns and dragons, preparing our home corner for the new year by cleaning and decorating it, role playing in our Chinese restaurant, dragon dancing in the garden as well as completing lots of Chinese theme maths activities. What a great week we have had!
Date: 16th Dec 2019 @ 9:04pm
Today the children enjoyed having Christmas dinner. They took part in the Christmas traditions of pulling crackers, wearing festive jumpers, eating turkey and having fun with their friends. What a fabulous time everyone had!
Date: 13th Jan 2020 @ 8:50pm
This week the children in Holly Class had some icy surprises! The challenge was to get the objets out of the blocks of ice as quickly as possible but what would melt the ice the fastest? They used washing up liquid, sand paper, salt and warm water. We made our predictions and then set to work! We discovered that warm water melted the ice the quickest, correctly predicted by Hanasa, and sand paper and washing up liquid took the longest. The salt melted the ice almost as quickly as the warm water. Connor said, after predicting the salt would be the quickest, " I knew it was fast but warm water was quicker because it's warm".
"The ice is wet because it's melting" Kiera.
"When water is very cold it turns to ice" Lucas.
"The sun is warm and will melt ice" Mia
"The water in the tray is because the ice has melted" Rosalie.
Date: 10th Jan 2020 @ 8:32pm
Welcome back and look at our Winter Wonderland! Reception have been very busy learning about Winter, weather, snowmen and snowflakes- all through construction, art and design. We read Wintery stories and even wrote about what clothes would keep us warm in Winter, after sorting them into Summer and Winter clothes. Take a look at what we got up to...
Holly Class Forest School Fun!
Date: 18th Dec 2019 @ 8:19pm
It was a chilly afternoon but Holly Class need not worry- we made a fire to keep ourselves warm! How super exciting! We learnt about how to stay safe around a fire and were then able to toast marshmallows over it- we all agreed they tasted delicious, especially Mrs McAllister! Not only did we light a fire but we got to climb on planks over the mud and carry huge branches to make a den. It was a great way to end the half term before the Christmas holidays!
Christmas Parents Stay and Play!
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 8:11pm
Once again, the Reception parents and carers were invited in to school to look at all the fabulous learning the children had been doing over the last half term. The children were very excited to show their parents how they learn in class and had lots of fun teaching them how we learn hand writing, numbers and make Christmas crafts.
Christmas Parent Stay and Play
Date: 18th Dec 2019 @ 4:03pm
Once again, the Reception parent's were invited in to look at the children's fabulous learning. The children enjoyed showing off their work and teaching their parent's what they do at school.
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:16am
