Reception

Reception have really enjoyed exploring their new classroom and making new friends.

Reception – Autumn 2025 celebrating festivals from around the world   

Fun in the snow

Our lovely Reception children ready for their Nativity- knock knock

This term in Reception, we are learning about people who help us. As our book focus this week is Mog and the V.E.T, a special visitor from Discovery Zoo came to out school with some animals. He talked to us about how to care for animals/pets, just like a vet would.

Focusing on ‘A Superhero Like You’ by Dr Ranj this week, we’ve been thinking about what we want to be when we grow up.

After reading out non-fiction fire fighters book we junk modelled our very own firetrucks.

Counting Carl our Maths puppet went missing from our Maths area. We turned our classroom into a crime scene and hunted for clues. We stuck ‘lost’ posters all over the school and asked pupils and staff if anyone could find him. After a whole week of searching we found him on number day hiding in the hall.

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Fun at West Boldon Lodge

Our wonderful trip to Santa’s Winter Woodland at West Boldon Lodge!

Decorating our christmas trees in our home corner!

Our amazing actors and narrators in the Wriggly Nativity!

Today we popped all of our letters in an envelope and posted our letters to Santa!

As Sunday was the First Sunday of advent we changed our focal point today to a purple cloth. We talked about how Advent means waiting and we are waiting for the birth of Jesus. We added a Christmas story and our won home made Advent Wreath.

To finish off our Goldilocks and the Three Bears topic we made and tasted some porridge! We could choose banana, chocolate chips or jam to go on top. There was lots of clean bowls at the end!

Identifying and sorting circles and triangles!

On Monday when we came into school someone had broken into our home corner! We could see porridge oats everywhere and the 3 Bears sitting on the floor! We used our detective skills and think it might have been Goldilocks! We then made some Wanted Posters to help find Goldilocks!

Today we have been looking around school for circles and triangles! We took the iPads with us and we had to take as many photos as we could of circles and triangles.

Children in Need Day! The children enjoyed lots of Pudsey themed activities. Thank you for your generous donations!

Part Whole Models to make different numbers!

Remeberance Day. Throughout the week we made some lovely poppy artwork and pictures to display in our focal point. We had a class Celebration of the Word and remembered Soldiers from the past and Soldiers now. We then made our own poppy biscuits.

Using practical resources to find 1 more and 1 less! Great maths Reception

Thank you for attending our Phonics Café! Slides from the PowerPoint can be found in the Reception Curriculum page.

Making our very own Sparklers to eat!

This week we spent a lot of time making fireworks! We were learning about fireworks linked to bonfire night and Diwali! We thought about how to stay safe around fireworks too!

Making our Pumpkin Soup! We made sure to wash our hands before touching our ingredients. We also had to be very careful when using the knives and potato peelers. Lots of us loved the taste of the soup!

Thank you to all of our families who attended our EYFS Curriculum Cafe. It was great to see so many of you here enjoying learning with your children!

Black History Month. As part of Black History Month we are learning about an artist called Alma Thomas. We talked about her life and her achievements and then we looked at some of her art. We then created our own artwork inspired by Alma’s!

Reception writing sentences! WOW!

Visiting our Book Fair this week!

Today we had a visit from our School Nurses. They reminded us about the importance of washing our hands, how to protect ourselves from germs, keeping a healthy and balanced diet and brushing our teeth!

Phonics! We built a new word pot today! Great job Reception.

Week 2 of our pumpkin Soup story! We know our story and story map actions so well now we were able to sequence the story ourselves! We made our own pumpkin soup and pumpkin coffee at the pumpkin cafe! We enjoyed exploring the different parts of the pumpkin in our investigation area and we made playdough pumpkins and Autumn trees!

Autumn repeating patterns today in maths!

The children worked so hard today together as a team to build their own house!

Some of our provision linked to our new story Pumpkin Soup!

Our Ice Experiment. The children made a prediction to decide if they thought our water and animals would freeze over night.

Thank to to our amazing visitors off showing us around their ambulance.

My Happy Mind

Our Local Walk and Traffic Survey

Learning all about Chinese New Year!

Rockstar Maths Day!

Parent Celebration of the Word. Thank you for joining us!

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