Reception – Apple and Lime
Mar 14 2025
This week Reception have been on an adventure into the deep ocean. We have focused on the book ‘What a submarine sees’ and discussed different types of sea creatures, how we know what sea creatures are in the ocean and how the ocean changes in different areas. We then looked at how a submarine actually …
Mar 07 2025
In Maths this week we have been focusing on ordering numbers and then comparing them in relation to each other e.g. ‘more than’ and ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’. This week, ‘less than’ is used instead of ‘fewer than’ when the focus is on each number’s position in the counting sequence. In Phonics this week …
Feb 28 2025
It has been a busy week back at school for our Reception children! 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 has been ‘The Rainbow Fish’. We …
Feb 14 2025
We have been very busy in Reception this week as the children became authors and wrote their own books all about dinosaurs! They each choose different dinosaurs to draw and write a fact they had learnt about this dinosaur. We focused on using our segmenting and blending strategies for writing such as ‘robot arms’. We …
Feb 07 2025
In Maths this week we have recapped comparison of groups of objects, without being diverted by colour, shape or size. We have had a big focus on using the key language of ‘more than’, ‘fewer than’ and ‘an equal number’ to describe how many objects there are in each set. We use ‘Fewer than’ rather …
Jan 31 2025
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 24 2025
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 10 2025
We have had an amazing first week back in Reception. Well done to all of the children for coming back to school so well! They have come back really settled and have remembered all our school expectations and routines. We have had some very excited children this week as we have started to learn all …
Dec 13 2024
In topic time this week we have continued our focus on Antarctica and penguins. We read the story ‘Blue Penguin’ and focused on how everyone is different and why this makes us special. We were very lucky to have letters delivered to the school from the Blue Penguin. We practised our phonics skills to write …
Dec 06 2024
Reception have really enjoyed the storybook ‘Penguin Huddle’ this week in topic lessons. We spent time making story predictions and discussed the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We then thought about what we already knew about penguins and what else we would like to find out. We researched these questions using non-fiction books and …