Let's celebrate!

We will be taking a break from our 'Tiaras and towers, crowns and gowns' topic to celebrate Chinese New Year! We will be learning how Chinese people celebrate the festival as well as experiencing some of the culture. We will be preparing our home corner by cleaning, decorating and preparing food. We are very lucky to receive a visit form Xiaoli Bigg's mum who has kindly offered to come and cook for the children to taste authentic chinese cooking on Thursday. Photos to follow. If you have anything at home that could contribute to this topic then please let me know.

Winter!

We have been learning about winter since we got back from the Christmas holidays. We made cold pictures -using  a ruler to mark out the papers, panting using whites, greys, silvers and blues. Finally, we made marks using dots, lines zig zags and circles using marker pens.
We had a big block of ice - it felf so cold and smooth. When we looked closely we could see lines inside it. We tried to break it - but it was hard. We then put on safety goggles and got hammer s we could try and break it - what hard work!   

Welcome Back to school

We can hardly believe that our first term in reception class has already come to an end and the spring term has started! The children couldn't wait to tell us all about their christmas presents and the lovely time that they had. They have all settled back into the new term, excitied to see their friends and have been working hard. I can't believe how much their have grown in two weeks!

We are kicking off the new term with a mini topic based on 'Winter' which will be loosely based on the story of 'The Gruffalo's Child'. This will involve lots of out door activites where we will be mixing magic 'sleep' potions (the smellier the better!) to keep the Gruffalo sleeping while we look for his treasure. We have been using our imagination to draw pictures of Jack Frost and the children have also painted beautiful winter pictures using blues, silvers and shades of white. As the term progresses we will be looking at 'Chinese New Year' and our main topic of 'Prince and Princesses'.

Thank you to all those parents who promptly paid their snack money and can I also remind parents to return PE kits to school (if you haven't already done so) as well as the children's 'Sound books' for undating and reading books on your child's designated reading day.

As always, thank you for your continuing support and if you have any concern, query or you would just like a progress update on your child, please do not hesitate to come and see me - every effort will be made to see you at a convienient time.

What a show !

Our Christmas concert this year was called `Sparkle.`  It was about the smallest star in the sky who had a very important job to do- she became the star of Bethlehem! All the children used their loud voices to tell the story and sang their hearts out! We were all very proud.We have been working so hard on our Christmas concert this year.   

Children in Need !!!!

We had such a fun day helping "Children in Need" We dressed in spotty clothes and made spotty biscuits! Delicious! We also put our loose change on a huge Pudsey Bear. Did you see our school name on Children in Need?

What a Diwali Party!

We had a very enjoyable day indeed! The children made Rama and Sita crowns and the girls dressed up in saris. The children made a rangoli pattern to go on our doorstep and their diya lamps were placed around the infants. Fairy lights decorated every room. The children ate nann bread, samosas and pakoras and crunched on pompadoms! We had a selection of fruit and traditional indian barfi sweets (which the children made). We ate to traditional Indian music and finished the day off by decorating our hands with mendi patterns. We will developing our number skills this week with a little help from 'Ravana', the ten headed demon!!
Many thanks to those parents who attended the reading presentation last Tuesday, I hope you found it useful and informative. The reading leaflet will follow shortly.

We had a lovely time at the New Theatre and all children were both a credit to their parents and the school!

Could I please ask for the children's soundbooks to be returned to school to be updated with the next six sounds. Thank you!

Diwali

We have been celebrating diwali . We made diya lamps to help Rama and Sita find their way back from the forest. We also looked at traditional Indian clothes. Don`t we look smart?