Welcome to Reception Class! 

The adults in the room are:

Miss Fletcher, Miss Joles & Miss Wilson.

June 2025

The children have been growing their own plants and flowers with Miss Joles from our generous parent donations. 
They have been tending to them, watering them and with the recent lovely weather, look how they’ve bloomed! 🌺 

We have enjoyed pirate themed activities and space in our class environment. The children have engaged in pirate maps, finding treasure in the tuff trays & space playdough! 

We are moving our bodies, enhancing our gross motor skills and practising a variety of jumps with Coach April in gymnastics. We have learnt to roly poly, too. 

We have been introduced to clocks. We understand it has a big hand and a little hand and there are 12 numbers on a clock in order. 

Mrs Abraham found some caterpillars eating the nursery plants! After recently learning about the life cycle of a caterpillar, Reception are keeping them in the habitat ready for when they become a chrysalis and then butterflies! 

May 2025

We have been so creative using our recycling resources to create our own bug hotels after we were kindly donated a wooden one! 

We made some beautiful blossom 🌸 trees with cotton buds. This enhances our fine motor skills.

We are looking at the artist, Georgia O’Keefe. Here we are observing her sketches of flowers and drawing our own.

We have enjoyed learning in the outdoor environment, using the water tray, building with blocks and using the resources in the sandpit. 

Guest Speakers

We have been lucky enough to have two guests come in to speak to us. The animal charity, RSPCA, gave a talk about how litter can affect animals and how we must put our litter in the bins when we go for a beach day this summer to ensure the sea life does not get tangled in our litter. 🏖️ 🗑️ 🚮 😎 

We then used the litter pickers to pick up rubbish in our environment!

We also had the fire service come in and speak to us about the dangers of fire and how we never play with matches. She also discussed what other services they provide, such as helping wild animals like horses and cows, and attending car crashes.

We were able to try on some firefighter kit too. 🔥 👨‍🚒 🚒 

Easter & Spring 🐣 

The next celebration we have been covering is Easter. The children have loved the activities out in the provision! 

We’ve had colour by number Easter pictures, making a chick with feathers and crafts, daffodil observation pictures, fine motor tissue paper egg decoration, Easter Bonnet hats, a spring walk to see what changes we can see & feel in our environment, as well as a fantastic Easter egg hunt with Miss Joles where the children were so excited to find eggs in the garden! 

March 2025
The next celebration we have been looking at is the Hindu festival of Holi. 
The children have been enjoying exploring powder paint in the provision and then used special safe coloured powder to throw in the sky as it represents new beginnings and spring. 

World Book Day.

Here we are in our favourite costumes from characters in books.
We got to meet author, Liz Ansell, who came to do special activities and workshops with us. 

The children get to learn about a variety of celebrations and festivals in school. Currently, we are looking at Ramadan. The children have enjoyed a variety of tasks, learning about different communities and their beliefs. We were very lucky to have a special guest speaker, Asad’s mummy, who kindly came in to speak to Reception about their Muslim celebration and the reasons why they fast. 

Pappadoms, the Indian takeaway in Milton, have once again kindly given meals and snacks to staff and the children all over schools and hospitals in Weston. The children were treated to some chicken tikka, spring rolls and samosas. As part of their Ramadan celebration, the Pappadoms owners decide to give back food to the Weston community. What lovely, tasty treats enjoyed by all!

Here we are making collages and creating a variety of buildings with the resources and playdough. We also had a go at making artistic Mendi patterns for hands. 🖐️ 

Spring is in its way! The children spotted daffodils growing in the garden and we used their ideas to bring some learning to class. They painted and made daffodils with card. 🍃 🌼 ☀️ 

February 2025

Our new book is ‘Supertato’, by Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet.

Here we are using garden peas to scoop, pinch, squeeze and investigate.

During busy learning, we enjoyed building using the natural resources to create our own zoo. 

January 2025

We have been practising some brilliant sentence writing. Look at our special display where we showcase our amazing work!

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Look at these number lines and number sequences some of our children did independently! They are proudly displayed in our classroom.

We are learning the story of ‘The Colour Monster’, by Anna Llenas.

We have been exploring our emotions and thinking of occasions when we have felt happiness, anger, fear, sadness & calm.

🇨🇳 🎊 Chinese New Year is impending! Here we are creating lanterns, making snips and enhancing our scissor skills. ✂️ 

Within the Reception curriculum there are seven areas of learning. These are:

• Maths
• Literacy
• Understanding the world
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Expressive arts
• Physical development
• Communication and language

How do we support these areas of learning in play? These photos demonstrate the children busy in play, learning so much as they explore their classroom...

How can you help at home?

• Reading books at least once a day. This can just be enjoying a book and looking at the pictures, not always reading the whole thing
• Pointing out words in the environment
• Sounding out words, such as; can you see the c-a-t?
• Singing nursery rhymes e.g. 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive
• Counting EVERYTHING! Socks, sweets, birds, cars etc
• Writing your child's name with them
• Allowing your child to help with tasks such as baking, cooking
• Playing games such as I spy