Reception – Apple and Lime
May 09 2025
This week in our topic lessons we have been reading and focusing on the story ‘Rocket Mole’. This story created lots of discussions around how we know so much about space and where humans have visited in space already. When reading this story the children had the challenge of thinking of a new way to …
May 02 2025
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 …
Apr 25 2025
We hope you all had a lovely Easter break. Reception have had a great few days back at school. The new playgroup has been a huge hit with the children. We have enjoyed exploring all of the new equipment during our playtimes and lunch times. In Phonics this week we have recapped the phase 2 …
Apr 04 2025
In topic this week we looked at photographs of seaside holidays in the past and discussed the similarities and differences to seaside holidays now. These photographs sparked a lot of discussions and questions from the children. They took a particular interest in the bathing machines and that women had to get changed in these and …
Mar 28 2025
In Maths we introduced ‘grouping’ and thought about different ways of sorting and grouping objects by their attributes – such as colour, size or function. Towards the end of the week the children then used their previous experience of investigating doubles to begin to practically explore even and odd numbers. We used Numberblock characters to …
Mar 21 2025
On Friday Reception had their first school trip to Hertfordshire Zoo. We had an amazing time walking around the dinosaur trail and visiting lots of different animals in the zoo. We were also lucky enough to attend a ‘penguin mini meet’ where one of the zoo educators talked to us about the penguins, their habitats …
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 …
