Reception Class 2020 - 2021

Welcome to our class page. Please look at this page regularly and you will be able to see what the children

in Reception Class have been learning about and the fun they have been having. This is also where you can access your child's home learning. Every week I will put up a timetable for you to follow at home. Work packs can be collected from school tomorrow which will have everything you need to access the home learning on the timetable. You then need to complete the work at home and hand it back to school on Friday and the collect the following week's work. Please get in touch with school if you have any questions or need any further help.

Reception Class have enjoyed keeping fit this week and taken part in lots of physical activities. They especially enjoyed the obstacle course and had to use all their agility skills to complete the course in the fastest time possible. The class have also been thinking about different activities to keep us active in a minute. They have been noticing the effect exercise has on our bodies and how it makes us feel.

In Reception Class we have also been looking after our vegetable plants this week and we were very excited to find peas on our pea plant and carrots. We hoping more peas and carrots will grow so we can all try them.

Reception Class have also enjoyed painting some pictures for Hillside Lodge. We talked about the kinds of paintings we thought the residents of Hillside Lodge would like and decided they would probably like bright and cheery. Six paintings were chosen to be taken to Hillside Lodge and we hope the residents will enjoy looking at them. You can see the paintings and children who painted them below.

Reception Class have continued to enjoy taking part in the ‘Dough Disco’ every day and we are hoping by strengthening our hands and developing our fine and gross motor skills, our handwriting will improve. This week because the children were so good at doubling, they have been learning to share and divide quantities of objects. Sharing fairly is tricky but the children have been making sure that they share equally.

Eating the right food is so important and in Reception Class we have been thinking about what makes a healthy diet and the good things we should eat. We have also tried a range of foods, we have tried poppadums from India, pain au chocolats from France, sushi from Japan and haggis from Scotland. Some food we liked and some we did not!

Next week, it is our Sports Day on Tuesday and all the children in Reception Class have been practising hard. There are photos below so you can see us practising our races and working hard this week.

This week Reception have been enjoying the sunshine and fresh air on their bikes and there are lots of photos on the website for you to see. Mr Hodgson has also been working with the class and practising their athletic skills in preparation for our class sports day, more information on this will follow. In number, we have been learning to double numbers and we are whizzes at this. Try asking your child to double a number between 0 and 5 at home and beyond if they find this too easy.

This week staff in Reception took part in ‘Dough Disco’ training, it was a lot of fun and the children are now taking part daily in a ‘Dough Disco’ in class, to help improve their fine and gross motor skills. Reception Class now have PE on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Please also remember to give your child a water bottle every day.

Welcome back to the final half term of this academic year! This half term in Reception Class we are going to be learning about how to stay active, healthy and fit. Please click on the link below to see what we will be learning about and the key vocabulary we are going to be learning and using. If you have any questions, please ask a member of Reception staff.

The end of a busy half term. The children in Reception Class are making fantastic progress in all areas. Here are a few photos to show you what we have been up to recently; adding, subtracting, designing, creating and more. We will soon be ready to move to Class 1.

Wednesday 13th May 2021

Zoo lab have been to visit today, we all loved seeing and handling all the different creatures. We also learnt so much about all the creatures we saw. It was a brilliant experience!

We are waiting for our caterpillars to change and we are looking forward to them changing into butterflies. We have been looking at butterflies and noticing how their wings are symmetrical and looking for other lines of symmetry.

Everybody has made their very own stick creature based on the story of 'Stanley's Stick' by John Hegley.

This week we have been thinking about lots of different things; our local area, growing up, teen numbers and sticks!

Week beginning Monday 1st March 2021

Dear Reception Class,

This is your last week of home learning and Mrs Hargreaves and I are so proud of what you have all achieved. Enjoy this week at home and remember to log onto your School 360 account for your Read Write Inc. lessons and continue to upload photographs of all your great work so we can see what you have all been up to especially on World Book Day on Thursday. Also remember to join us for 'Boogie Beats' on Monday at 1.45 pm.

We will see you all soon with smiles on your faces and please make sure you go to bed early so you are not tired!

See you soon,

Miss White and Mrs Hargreaves

Week beginning 22nd February 2021

Dear Reception Class,

I hope you have all had a lovely half term holiday and a rest from homeschooling. I have looked at your reading assessments and you are all brilliant! I have uploaded your Read Write Inc. phonics lessons for this week to your School 360 account. If you are unable to access these links, please telephone school and we will help you. Your home learning timetable is below and you can access your maths lessons and other lessons through this. This week you are going to be reading, writing and talking about one of our favourite stories, 'The Tiger who came to Tea' by Judith Kerr. You are also going to be doing lots of measuring this week. Keep working hard and we will soon be back in school.

We have another 'Boogie Beats' session tomorrow at 1.45 pm. Please join the zoom session through your School 360 account where there is a link. Mrs Hargreaves and I are so looking forward to seeing you all and it was so much fun the last time.

Hopefully, we will see you all at the 'Boogie Beats' session and keep doing everything you are doing because you are all doing so well and we are very proud of you all. 

Miss White and Mrs Hargreaves

Half Term Activities

If you are looking for activities to keep you busy over half term, here are some great ideas from the Field to Fork team based at the Hirsel in Coldstream. A Field to Fork video demonstrating how to make Easy Peasy Soup and it also explains the impportance of healthy eating and where your food comes from. I hope it is useful and it might even be delicious!

The link is: https://youtu.be/azY6Dj3TfXE

Other videos from the Hirsel that you might enjoy too, can be found below.

Winter at the Hirsel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEAjj_5utgU

Feed the Birds: https://youtu.be/x60SH6RGTq8

Animals in Winter: https://youtu.be/iuJ1eLZWxsQ

Tree Shapes: https://youtu.be/QVEtL2NW0G4

Have a lovely half term holiday and see you all soon.

Miss White and Mrs Hargreaves

Week beginning 8th February 2021

Dear Reception Class,

I am writing this and wondering if we are going to get any snow. I hope so, so you can have fun in the snow! When you collected your learning pack this week, you were also given a book, 'Little Monkey' by Marta Altes. I hope you enjoy this story and lots of our work this week, will be based around this story and the adventures of Little Monkey. 

I hope you all manage to log into our 'Boogie Beats' session tomorrow at 1.45 pm. Please access the session through your School 360 account where there is a link. Mrs Hargreaves and I are so looking forward to seeing you all and it should be fun. Try and make your monkey mask before so you can sing and dance to some of the songs with your mask on.

Please also remember to watch your Read Write Inc lessons every day which can be accessed through your School 360 account. If you need some extra work or lessons, log into Oak Academy and CBBC Channel.

Keep doing everything you are doing because you are all doing so well and I am so proud of you all. The work and photos you send in are brilliant.

I hope to see you all soon.

Miss White

Week beginning 1st February 2021

Hello Reception Class,

You have all been working so hard during the month of January and now you just have to work hard for two more weeks and then you have a little holiday. You are doing so well and Mrs Hargreaves and I continue to be so impressed and proud of you all.

This week you have all been sent personalised Read Write Inc. lessons to your School 360 account. Every day there is a Speed Sounds lesson followed by one or two other lessons where you will be reading and writing words. Please remember to use fantastic Fred talking and Fred fingers when reading and writing words during these lessons. If you are unable to access your School 360 account, please call school and we will help you.

You have lots of lovely activities to complete on your timetable and I am also including a link to a story book, 'Bedtime for Monsters' by Ed Vere. This story is all about a hungry monster who wants a snack before he goes to bed. Follow this link https://clpe.org.uk/powerofreading/books-teaching-sequences/home-learning/home-learning-activities-eyfs to hear the story and there are some extra activities you can do if you want or you can just enjoy the story, read by the author. There is also a direct link to this story and activities on the weekly timetable below.

Enjoy your work this week and keep trying your hardest. Please call us school if you need any extra help and remember this week is Children's Mental Health Week and the theme is 'Express yourself'. There are different activities that you can get involved in Click on this link to access some of those ideas and watch a video from the Royal Patron HRH The Duchess of Cambridge.   https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/  On Friday 5th we would like you to to express yourself by wearing a colourful outfit. You could wear your favourite colour or choose a range of colours to express how you are feeling. Upload your photos onto your School 360 account so I can see you all happy and expressing yourself.

As I said last week, if you are finding it hard to follow the timetable or you would like some extra lessons, you can head to Oak Academy by following this link https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/reception

Remember the CBBC channel on your television will be streaming live lessons every day and there will be live Sing Up music sessions on Tuesday mornings at 9am with a different artist leading each week just follow this link https://www.youtube.com/singup

Please remember to login to School 360 and if you have any work you want to share with us, you can upload it to your School 360 account, including photos if you complete any of Miss Lee's Weekly Science Challenges.

Stay safe and continue to be good, kind and clever!

Miss White

Week beginning 25th January 2021

Hello Reception Class,

This week you are going to listen to the story 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet and do lots of work based around the story. Supertato is always there for his friends when the chips are down! Supertato is the superhero with eyes everywhere but now there is a naughty pea on the loose. Listen and watch the story to find out what happens. Enjoy your work this week and keep trying your hardest. Mrs Hargreaves and I continue to be so impressed by all your hard work and please call us at school if you need any extra help. Please also remember to click on the Speed Sound lesson link on the timetable everyday to make sure you all keep up your super reading and writing.

As I said last week, if you are finding it hard to follow the timetable or you would like some extra lessons, you can head to Oak Academy by following this link https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/reception

Remember the CBBC channel on your television will be streaming live lessons every day and there will be live Sing Up music sessions on Tuesday mornings at 9am with a different artist leading each week just follow this link https://www.youtube.com/singup

Please remember to login to School 360 and if you have any work you want to share with us, you can upload it to your School 360 account including photos if you complete any of Miss Lee's Weekly Science Challenges.

Stay safe and be good for your parents!

Miss White

Week beginning 18th January 2021

Hello Reception Class,

Another week in lockdown and another home learning pack. Mrs Hargreaves and I are so impressed by all the work you are doing at home so keep going, you are all brilliant! You should all have picked up your pack for this week and if you click on the timetable below, you can follow the links where required and complete your work. This week, your work is going to be based around 'Superheroes' which I think you will enjoy. I am looking forward to looking at all the work you have sent back to school, you have all been working so hard so keep going.

If you are finding it hard to follow the timetable or you would like some extra lessons, you can head to Oak Academy by following this link https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/reception

Remember the CBBC channel on your television will be streaming live lessons every day and there will be live Sing Up music sessions on Tuesday mornings at 9am with a different artist leading each week just follow this link https://www.youtube.com/singup

Please remember to login to School 360 and if you have any work you want to share with us, you can upload it to your School 360 account.

Stay safe and be good for your parents!

Miss White

The staff in Reception Class are Miss White, Mrs Purves and Mrs Hargreaves. We have PE every Tuesday and Thursday so please come to school in your PE kit on those days. Please send your child with their bookfolder and water bottle every day. The letter attached below gives you a little bit more information about what happens in Reception Class.

06.11.20

This week we have been learning all about People who keep us safe, Bonfire night, Remembrance Day, Shapes and Retelling the story of This is the bear. We have worked so hard

Autmn, Harvest and Halloween

This week Reception have been very busy learning about Autumn and doing some of their very own Autumn Art. We have also learned about Harvest and thought about where all our food comes from. Then on Thursday because we had all been working so hard, we had a Halloween Party and made our own costumes. It has been a very busy week!

09.10.20

We have has a busy week finishing off our castle work creating amazing castles and crowns. Working very hard on our phonics and numicorn. One day we played counting games, we loved the fishing game!! P.E this week we have been climbing, jumping and ball skills. 

This week we have been learning all about castles. The children have looked at castles in our local area; Berwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Holy Island Castle, Norham Castle and Alnwick Castle. Some castles were ruins but some castles, people still live in. We tried building our own castles with Lego and bricks. The children were very good at remembering the different parts of a castle, such as the turrets, the drawbridge and the dungeons and tried to make sure their castles had these parts in. In Boogie Beats and Yoga we danced like Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses. It has been a lot of fun!

We have also worked hard with the Numicon so that we recognise each Numicon piece quickly. we even built Numicon castles.

Star of the Week and Golden Quill winners 

Making Music

Today the children have had a great time making music! We have learnt all the names of the different instruments and tried to keep a beat when singing lots of the nursery rhymes we know. 'The Grand Old Duke of York' was our favourite today.

First days in Reception Class

We have all had so much fun coming back to school and seeing our friends again. We are all enjoying playing and learning together in our new class.

Yogi Bairns

Every Tuesday, Rhiannon from Yogi Bairns comes to do yoga with us. We all have to concentrate carefully to recreate the different poses.

Boogie Beats

Every Monday Tracy and Giggles from 'Boogie Beats' come and work with us. We love singing and dancing outside on a Monday morning!