Reception Weekly Review

  Prime Areas

(Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design and Personal, Social and Emotional Development). 

What a great first week of Summer we have had! It was lovely to see all the children return to school refreshed and ready to begin a busy half term. This week in topic we talked about hospitals and who might help us, why we might go and our personal experiences of a hospital. There was lots of role play to be had in the middle room and unfortunately lots of sick children and teddies. It was great to see the children loving being outside with their friends - making apple pies, mixing colours, watering the plants and building using the Mobillo and community blocks. In PSHE this week we talked about our holidays and what we can do to be kind. 

Perform Drama Workshop

On Tuesday we had Perform Drama come and run a workshop all about being on a jungle adventure. The children were all jungle explorers out on a quest to find the lost white lion Snow. All the children had lots of fun and lots of giggles were heard. We pretended to be animals, safari leaders and tree statues to hide from the scary crocodile.

    English   

This term in English we will be looking at four different texts. All four texts have been shortlisted for the Carnegie illustration award. This week we have read the text ‘Grey’ by Lauren Child and Laura Dockrill. A story about a girl who feels grey – not happy or sad but just not herself. Throughout the story the girl explores different colours and the feelings associated with them. E.g., icing sugar pink could mean love or happiness. We mixed colours outside using food colouring to make different colours and described how we felt.

Phonics

This week we continued looking at words ending in -ing such as waiting, cooking and farming. We also looked at words with a range of different suffixes e.g., -s or -es. We discussed how the words are pronounced differently and can create plurals or present tense of verbs. It was fantastic to see all the children eager to join in with their reading groups after having some time away. 

  Maths 

This week, we have been focusing on counting and in particular counting beyond 20. Both classes have a counting puppet that always makes mistakes so we all worked together to ‘teach’ the counting puppet how to count beyond 20. We counted actions, sounds and objects and used different strategies when counting objects to make sure we didn't get confused. 

Information and Key Dates

Information

Please remember we close the door in the morning promptly at 8.45 to start teaching a carpet session. If the door is closed please take your child and their belongings round to the main office. We are very sorry that we have such little time to talk to parents in the morning as the children really do need support with settling and we appreciate that you are kindly be mindful of this. Thank you

 Key Dates

May Bank Holiday - 05/05/2025

 Athletics Day - 09/05/2025

Showing Assembly - 23/05/2025

Last day of Summer 1 - 23/05/2025

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 Things we need

Art

Do you have any of the following?

• Plastic bottle tops
• Boxes – large and small
• toilet rolls
• egg cartons
• cardboard boxes
• plastic bottles
• yoghurt pots
• bubble wrap
• newspapers and magazines
• shells
• CD
• recyclable straws
• Buttons

If you have any of these, we would love to have them.  Thanks