Reception – Apple and Lime
May 15 2026
In our topic lessons this week we have been reading the storybook ‘A day at the seaside’. We spent time focusing on the perseverance of the characters and how important perseverance is. The children then shared their own experiences of times they have persevered. After reading the story we also compared a seaside town and …
Apr 17 2026
We hope you all had a lovely Easter break. Reception have had a great few days back at school. We have started our new topic ‘under the sea’ and the children have loved getting creative and making lots of different sea creatures and props for our new role play areas. Our story focus this week …
Mar 27 2026
We have had such a fun and busy week! It started off learning all about Easter. We were very lucky to have Mrs Woods from Year 2 Crimson Class, tell us all about how Christians celebrate Easter and she answered all the questions we had about the Church too. Following this, we made chocolate nests. …
Mar 20 2026
In Phonics, we are continuing to review the Phase 2 and 3 sounds. We have been practising segmenting and blending to write words and short phrases. You may have noticed in our classrooms that we have started a new Literacy scheme called Drawing Club. The scheme focuses on the skills children need to be successful …
Mar 06 2026
This week in our Literacy lessons we have focused on the story ‘Welcome to Alien School’. We spent time thinking about questions and what we might like to ask the aliens about their school. We then thought about and made comparisons between the alien school and Alban City School. Towards the end of the week …
Feb 27 2026
Welcome back! The children have had a lovely few days settling back into school. They have been super excited to learn all about space! We have read ‘Whatever Next’ and then sequenced each part of the story. We wrote a list of everything Baby Bear took to the moon in our books and drew beautiful …
Feb 13 2026
In Phonics we have been reviewing the Phase 2 and 3 sounds, practising segmenting and blending for reading and writing. This included harder to read and spell words too. In Maths, we have been practising number formation and prepositional language. We used an object to move to different places, e.g under, over, on top of, …
Jan 30 2026
In Phonics we have completed the teaching of our last Phase 3 phonics sounds, these were ure, er and ow. We have also introduced the new harder to read and spell words ‘ball’ and ‘tall’. Towards the end of the week we practised our segmenting skills to write words that included all of our new …
Jan 23 2026
In maths we have been deepening our understanding of a ‘whole’ being made up of smaller parts through practical experiences. We enjoyed learning the song ‘5 little speckled frogs’ and using our hands and counters to represent the frogs on the log and in the pool. In phonics we have introduced some new sounds including …
Jan 20 2026
In Maths the children have continued to engage with activities that draw attention to the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. The children have also revisited the concept of cardinality – that the last number in the count tells us how many things there are altogether. We have also …
