Blog Author: Mrs McMeakin

The cubes have created lots of excitement in class and today the children were trying to build a tower that was taller than the teacher! Lots of great mathematical language was used and the children had lots of fun. 

Super creative work going on today in Reception.  Nala has built a replica of London. 

Today in the outdoor resource are the children are investigating classroom objects to see if they float or sink in a bowl of water.  They were very excited to see if their predictions were correct or not! 

Following on from our work on the Naughty Bus, today the children worked independently to build their own road and then placed passengers at the bus stop waiting for the bus. A lovely example of children developing their skills through child initiated play, highlighting the importance of allowing…

Today we visited English Martyrs’s church to see the crib with the three Kings now in attendance.  

This week the children have been making Christmas treats! First we melted some chocolate and we talked about how we had to warm the chocolate to do this. We then dipped biscuits into the chocolate and added eyes, a nose and some antlers to turn them into reindeers! We had so much…

This week in our literacy work, the children have joined the Drawing Club! Our Drawing Club has been based on the book ‘The Christmas Pine’ and the aim is to spark the children’s imagination and develop language through creating “magic codes” like letters or words into their drawings. First we…

The week we have been reading the Christmas Pine. The book tells the story of a Norwegian pine tree chosen to be the annual Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. The story’s meaning symbolises peace and friendship as the tree is a gift from Norway to the UK. This week the children designed their own…

Our home school diary task this week was to talk about bonfire night and what we did to celebrate.  We then thought about the fireworks we saw in the sky and created our own firework pictures. First we selected different colours and mixed them together, we then used a sponge to print the paint on…

Maths happens everywhere in Reception. Here we are exploring quantities and making number blocks using multilink in the garden. 

This week the children have been practising their observational drawing. We have used a selection of autumnal leaves and pumpkins of different colours, textures and size to carefully draw what we can see. We have talked about looking closely for details and discussed the autumnal colours we could…

After lots of discussion and interest about pumpkins over the last few weeks, the children have been using pumpkins to put their fine motor skills to the test! We have used hammers to carefully hammer golf tees into pumpkins!