What a busy few weeks we have had in Reception! We have continued learning about the numbers 1, 2 and 3 in our maths lessons and have even thought about 1 and 3 sided shapes. We have been exposed to all of the phase 2 sounds in our phonics lessons now and are enjoying reviewing and practising these. Our PE lessons have focused on balance and control when jumping, skipping, hopping and running and the children thoroughly enjoyed completing circuits in their lessons to develop these skills. 

We have been learning all about autumn and observing the seasonal changes. Before the half-term break, we enjoyed our autumn walk to Sheen Common, where we found a range of different leaves, mushrooms and moss. We also made and ate our own pumpkin soup. We were impressed with the children's fine motor skills during the preparation of the vegetables and were delighted with how many stated that it was 'the best soup ever'. 

This week, as a part of our 'All about me' topic, we have created family portraits. The children spent some time initially talking about their family, comparing their photo collages and spotting similarities with their classmates. We then used our collages and a mirror to start sketching our family. We carefully outlined our work with a felt-tip pen and later used water colours to add colour and a background. 

It has been a hot and fun last week in Reception. We have spent much of the time trying to stay cool!

We have enjoyed the last swimming sessions for the year, and we are looking forward to continuing these in Year 1.

You have been amazing in Reception! Thank you for all of your hard work, we wish you a very happy summer and good luck next year!

What a busy week we've had in Reception! To start with, we did some in-depth study of ants, those amazing superorganisms - did you know they live everywhere in the world except Antarctica? We looked at how they live and work, and learnt about their life-cycles.  In phonics, we are practising longer words in phonics, focusing on the endings in particular, so we are getting very good at writing 'bees' not 'beez' and 'painted' instead of 'paintid'! In maths we are starting to learn about 'sharing' amounts, and we can practise this in our play by sharing out food in pretend picnics. As well as all this, we have been enjoying all the Reception assemblies (they were so good!) and practising hard for Sports Day.  We will be tired this weekend!  

Hello! This week we are learning about bees! We have found out so many facts about them - we know now that lots of bees DON'T make honey! We know so many minibeast facts that we have been using our artistic talents to make pictures of beautiful settings for all our minibeasts, then completing observational drawings to add to them. Our phonics are so good now that we wrote FANTASTIC information in our Golden Books all by ourselves. What with our swimming and practising our class assemblies, we have been as busy as bees doing a waggle dance!