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Weekly update of activities in Reception

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  • 16/05/25

    Friday 16th May 2025

    Reception have become gardeners this week, and they have each planted their own pot of peas. We are going to enjoy watching these grow together as part of our growing topic. We have been looking at representing amounts to ten in our Maths and have been doing some amazing Phonics and readin...
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  • 09/05/25

    Friday 9th May 2025

    Reception has had another busy week with lots of different activities. We had fun in PE trying to pass a ball while sitting down using only our legs and a sprinkle of team work. We were able to join in with The Crowning of Mary for which we made our own crowns and brought in some...
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  • 02/05/25

    Friday 2nd May 2025

    This week reception have continued to look at the book "The Tiny Seed". They have been recreating illustrations from the book using paint on our creative table. Reception have also been looking at subutising up to 6 and have enjoyed playing in their new flower shop role play area...
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  • 25/04/25

    Friday 25th April 2025

    This week Reception were so excited to start the new term!  We now have a farm shop and a florist as our role-play areas, and we have enjoyed exploring these themes. During a special assembly on Wednesday, Reception learnt all about World Table Tennis Day and...
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  • 04/04/25

    Friday 4th April 2025

    Wow, during the last week of spring term, Reception has been super busy. We performed 'He's got the whole world in his hands' in the Rainbow assembly last Friday. We learnt and practised some sign language to go with the song. We took part in the 'Mile a day'...
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  • 28/03/25

    Friday 28th March 2025

    Reception have been working hard this week. We have looked further into our literacy book "Mrs Armitage on Wheels". We have looked at different forms of transport and discussed how we would build a car if we could build our own.  We looked at doubling in maths a...
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  • 20/03/25

    Friday 21st March 2025

    Reception has had another lovely week at school. On Wednesday, we celebrated St Joseph's Day. We attended mass at church and were each given a little fairy cake at the end of the day. Yum!   We were lucky enough to meet the Mayor of Greenwich, and he came and looked arou...
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  • 13/03/25

    Friday 14th March 2025

    Reception have had another busy week. We joined the whole school in celebrating World Book Day last week. It was great to see all our costumes! This week is Science week, and we have been taking part in lots of different activities. Some of these included whole class stretching, cr...
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  • 05/03/25

    Friday 7th March 2025

    This week Reception have been extremely busy! We have continued writing about our book "How to be a lion" as well as painting lion faces. We have been ordering and writing numbers in Maths. We have made the most of the good weather,  planting bulbs and develop...
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  • 26/02/25

    Friday 28th February 2025

    Reception have had a productive week back at school. In Literacy, we looked at the book "How to be a lion" and discussed what lions need. We have looked at 1 more and 1 less in Maths and used shapes to build. We also got to play in our new travel agents role-play area. Our t...
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  • 14/02/25

    Friday 14th February 2025

    Reception class have had a fun week practising our phase three phonics sounds, tricky words, and we looked at 3D shapes in Maths. We continued on with some of our activities for Mental Health Week from last week. Our theme was "Know yourself, grow yourself!" We talked a...
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  • 07/02/25

    Friday 7th February 2025

    This week in Reception we have celebrated Chinese New Year and made Chinese Lanterns. We also tried to do some Chinese writing, which was very tricky! We have been creatively making a Giant Octopus to continue our animal theme and in Maths we looked at "more than" and...
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