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Weekly update of activities in Reception

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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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  • 31/01/25

    Friday 31st January 2025

    This week in Reception we have been looking at number bonds of 6 in Maths. We have been reading the book "Commotion in the Ocean" and were lucky enough to have one of our parents visit to read it to us! We have been writing about sea creatures and have been playing with our...
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  • 23/01/25

    Friday 24th January 2025

    We have been working really hard in reception this week. Focusing around our theme of animals we have each done some writing on "How to care for animals?".  We have also had the chance to become both vets and pet shop owners in our role play areas.  For R.E this w...
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  • 16/01/25

    Friday 17th January 2025

    Reception have had a fun week making crafts related to our story of "The Very Busy Spider". We have made masks of animals from the story. We are well on our way in learning our phase 3 Spring 1 sounds and in maths we have been practising our number ordering. We also done a little expl...
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  • 09/01/25

    Friday 10th January 2025

    Reception are very excited to be back after the Christmas break, and we wish you all a Happy New Year! This week we are looking at a story called The Very Busy Spider and have been making crafts and doing lots of literacy work around this. We have also been working on our number recognitio...
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  • 18/12/24

    Friday 20th December 2024

    This week Reception have had lots of fun during our last week of the term. We had our Christmas fair, watch our school peers in the talent show, attended the school disco and went to our first mass at Church. We even had a special visit from Father Christmas and much much more...
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  • 11/12/24

    Friday 13th December 2024

    This week Reception have been busy with final rehearsals and the performance of their Nativity. They really enjoyed this, and we hope you enjoyed watching it! They have also been working very hard making Christmas wreaths and practising their maths and phonics.
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  • 05/12/24

    Friday 6th December 2024

    This week Reception attended their first ever Advent assembly and were able to help light the first candle of Advent. We have started to get into the spirit of Christmas and decorated our very own Christmas tree. We also made our own fruit for the Hungry Caterpillar and much, much more! What a...
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  • 27/11/24

    Friday 29th November 2024

    This week, Reception have been preparing for the Christmas Fair by building a snowman with Ms Braybrooke that will be used in one of the stalls.  The children had fun painting it and gave it a name, "Softy". 
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