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Signs of Winter
While the drop in temperature has made for colder mornings, it has been brilliant at showing signs of Winter for Reception. We have...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Feb 7, 20231 min read
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Hibernation Dens
This week we have been thinking about winter and hibernation. We know that hibernation means long sleep over winter, and than only...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Feb 7, 20231 min read
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Chinese New Year week
This week Reception have explored Lunar New Year week. We have had great fun celebrating in lots of different ways. We have explored...
West Park Primary School
Jan 27, 20231 min read
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Chinese New Year Author workshop
Reception enjoyed a virtual author workshop with Eva Wong Nava and illustrator Xin Li in the reading of their new book I Love Chinese New...
West Park Primary School
Jan 27, 20231 min read
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Stamps
Reception looked at stamps then designed their own special stamp. We looked at each other's silhouettes and then explored making lighter...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Jan 26, 20231 min read
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How do we know where to go?
Reception have discovered that if we don't know where to go we have to use a map. We looked at a map for the Jolly Postman story and then...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Jan 25, 20231 min read
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Making the Number 6
Last week Reception explored the number 6. We identified the number before the number 6 and spent a while exploring how 6 can be made up...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Jan 25, 20231 min read
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Silhouette Puppets
Reception looked at a stamp and talked about the Queen's face that we can see on it. We said that long ago we created a silhouette of...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Jan 25, 20231 min read
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Green Cross Code
Reception have been thinking about how to keep the Jolly Postman safe when he is out delivering his letters. We learnt about the green...
West Park Primary School
Jan 9, 20231 min read
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Heavy and Light
As part of our work around the Jolly Postman we have been thinking about whether things are heavy and light. We used the language of...
West Park Primary School
Jan 9, 20231 min read
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Snow Play at the Newhampton Arts Centre
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 had a lovely time watching the Snow Play. Mr Green had been on his holidays and came home to find that Mr...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Dec 13, 20221 min read
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Making 5
In reception we are finding different ways to make 5
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Oct 20, 20221 min read
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Kipper's Birthday
This week we have read Kipper's Birthday and had lots of fun doing activities based around this story. Look at our Photos, we have been...
mdavenport92
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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Water Aid
Today we raised money for Water Aid. We found out that people in some countries have to walk miles and miles to fetch dirty water that...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Jun 17, 20221 min read
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Trip to the Zoo
What did we see at the zoo? Can you talk about these animals? We went on the land train to the top of the hill, then we climbed up the...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Jun 7, 20221 min read
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Butterflies
Today we saw our caterpillars had turned into beautiful butterflies. We had a close look at them before they flew away.
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Platinum Jubilee Celebrations
We made more castles and celebrated the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with jewels in the forest and parachute games with Nursery followed by a...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
May 30, 20221 min read
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Learning about castles
We are really interested in castles and who lives in them. We have talked and written about all the jobs that people do in castles. We...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
May 26, 20221 min read
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Eco Day
We went to the park and had a special story about "The tree" which is an environmental fable. We discussed what would happen if all the...
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
May 23, 20221 min read
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This week we are reading:
We prepared all the vegetables and made some vegetable soup. Can you remember what we used? We used beetroot to paint our own beetroots.
Sharan sbrreach@cloudw.co.uk
May 11, 20221 min read
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