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Excellent Work WB 07.12.20

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This week, the excellent work in Reception was created by Henry W in RJS and Reece in RDG. Both boys made amazing snowmen as part of our wider curriculum art work. Well done!

Henry, you took real care over your work and assembled each piece accurately to represent a fantastic snowman! You thought about the shapes and colours and demonstrated good fine motor skills. Super effort!

Reece, you showed increasing focus and persevered when you found things trivky to make a lovely snowman. You worked hard to use your cutting skills successfully and enjoyed talking about your snowman and his features as you worked. Great!

Excellent Work WB 30.11.20

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This week, the children who have been chosen for their excellent work are...

Ajuni in RJS and Oliver in RDG.

Ajuni, you did a great job of sounding out when you were writing your own version of the Stickman story. You used your phonics skills brilliantly to hear and say the sounds in words. Well done.

Oliver, you showed great creative skills when making your bauble decoration. You chose the colours carefully and used your cutting and sticking skills to create an excellent final decoration. Super work!

Super Stickmen!

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Well done to many children in RJS who made amazing stickmen as part of their homework this week!

We are so impressed with your hard work and effort - what a brilliant job you have done!!!!

Reception Curriculum Information for Parents 2020-21

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We are always keen to ensure that parents know as much as possible about the learning that your child enjoys in school. We would usually hold a Curriculum Workshop in order to share an overview and information about teaching and leanring in Reception and give you an insight into the structure of the Early Years and the activities that your child participates in each day.

This year, restrictions mean that we are unable to invite parents into school to have such a workshop but I have put together a PowerPoint full of the information that would have been shared in the meeting this year.

Please follow the link below to take a look and learn a little more about life in EYFS...

https://whcps.sharepoint.com/sites/staff/Closure%20Homework/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2Fstaff%2FClosure%20Homework%2FReception&p=true&originalPath=aHR0cHM6Ly93aGNwcy5zaGFyZXBvaW50LmNvbS86Zjovcy9zdGFmZi9FaWdycEI1N0hScFBuVkVDZ1F6Ymxic0JjOUNUa00zZDZmY3BkTmZCX3NDc3BBP3J0aW1lPWlJdVFwQjZTMkVn

Excellent Work WB 23.11.20

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This week our excellent work has been created by Erin in RDG and both Sammy and Izaan in RJS! Well done to all of you, what fabulous work you have produced!

Erin, you listened really well in your maths lessons and were confident in using what you had learnt to find one less than different numbers. You were able to complete the task and the extra challenge question that you were asked too! What a super learner! Well done!

Izaan and Sammy, you both made your teachers very proud this week by showing fantastic resilience and perseverance skills to make your winter mittens. You listened carefully and then developed your threading skills with great independence - you barely needed any help from an adult at all! Wow! Great work boys!

Excellent Work WB 16.11.20

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This week, our excellent work was created by Edie in RJS and Amelie in RDG.

Edie, you have used your creative skills to create a lovely picture from the story of Stickman. You were able to talk about the picture; who the characters were and what setting they were in. You know and understand the Stickman story really well. Brilliant!

Amelie, you too have created a super image from the story of Stickman using your creative craft skills. You have selected the shapes and materials well to build a picture of Stickman and his family next to the family tree. Well done! A super job!

Money money money

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This will be our final blog to be posted on the website as we will be changing the way in which we will share our learning activities with you over the coming weeks. Look out for the letter which will explain a little more...

Please do still visit the website weekly as we will be continuing to share the work on our excellence board this way but, for now, enjoy looking at our learning for this week. We have had lots of fun!

We have begun to explore the story of Stickman in English and have been learning to retell the story with actions. We have been doing such a good job! We know the story brilliantly already! As part of this, we have enjoyed continuous provision activities on the theme of Stickman including using construction materials to build tree houses, retelling the story with our small world tuff spot and using collage and craft skills to create images from the story. We have been developing maths skills too by measuring stick characters from the story using a range of resources and ordering sticks according to their size...

Our wider curriculum learning has focused on money this week. In science, we have explored the most effective ways to clean pennies and investigated which materials and techniques are best to use. We have used our art skills to create money trees using coin rubbings and have continued to work on our fine motor and cutting skills to construct coin caterpillars!

In PE, we warmed up using the 'Simon Says' game to both test our listening skills and to explore moving in different ways. We then have been learning the five basic rolls. We have been developing control and technique by practising each roll and performing it for our friends.

Lights, lamps and action!

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We have had another busy week in Reception in which we have been very active and creative!

In our English lessons, we have continued to learn and recite our clas poem. We have added actions to help us begin to perform it and have explored the repeated language which we spotted throughout the text.

In Maths we have been continuing to explore 'one more' and have been using practical resources and stories (such as The Gingerbread Man and The Enormous Turnip) to notice 'one more' patterns and count how many characters or objects we could see each time another was added.

Our free flow choices have linked to our learning and helped us develop our fine motor, cutting, creative and problem solving skills. These activities have included; constructing paper diwali lanterns, colouring by numbers, creative colouring, using construction materials, building 'one more' towers, matching numerals to sets of objects to be able to open locked padlocks, creating rangoli patterns using both mixed media and our Numicon shapes, creating Mendhi designs suing our ICT skills and applying our phonics skills to help us building simple words to match pictures.

This week we took our PE lesson outside and used a range of games equipment to explore throwing, catching, kicking and rolling as well as finding different ways to move, travel and jump! We had great fun working both by ourselves and with our friends to develop our skills.

Out wider curriculum focus this week has been Diwali. We have learnt about the Festival of Light and begun to understand that people across the world have different traditions, celebrations, beliefs and cultures. As the festival is about light, we focused our tasks on lamps making clay diva lamps (to develop our art and modelling skills), constructing paper plate diva lamps (to develop our cutting and joining DT skills) and finding out about lava lamps in our science activity to begin to understand and investigate how they work!

We have had a busy, busy week but it has been great fun!

Excellent Work WB 09.11.20

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This week, our Excellent work is brought to us by Henry W and Jessica in RJS and by Leo in RDG.

Henry, your finished Diwali lantern shows your excellent cutting skills. You controlled the scissors well to make the slit in your lantern and used good joining and finishing techniques to construct the final lantern shape. Well done!

Jessica, you used your creative skills well to make your paper plate diva lamp. You listened carefully and followed the instructions well and then chose your decorations carefully to make a beautiful final product. Well done!

Leo, you have done a great job of beginning to write simple sentences. you have used your phonics well to sound out and spell words and thought carefully about the repeated language from our class poem. Well done!

Poetry, patterns and plenty of fun!

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This week, we have begun to explore and learn our class poem, Each Peach Pear Plum. We have listened out for the rhyming words and have been joining in with parts of the poem as we begin to learn it by heart. In our continuous provision, we have had activities linked to the poem to enjoy such as; writing a list of fruits that we would choose to put in a pie, using our fine motor skills to complete a basket picture with some simple weaving and continuing to develop our number skills by counting and recording fruits that we have put in a giant pie using large tweezers!

We have continued to explore comparing groups in our maths lessons and develop our use of mathematical vocabulary and have extended our maths investigating and learning through our free flow activities by enjoying activities linked to shape. We have drawn 2D rocket shape pictures and created shape pictures using our 2D shape templates whilst investigating and recognising the shapes using our maths word mats.

We have been very creative this week too! As part of our independent activities, we have created fork firework explosions at the easel and worked with others to make large scale firework paintings using printing techniques.

In our wider curriculum learning, we have created sparkly firework art to represent our learning about Bonfire Night as a festival which is celebrated every year and have also enjoyed making edible sparklers as we investigated the properties of materials and how they change when heated or cooled.

In our science work, we went to the forest schools area this week to investigate floating and sinking. We had to make predictions about which fruits, vegetables and objects would float or sink and then test our ideas! It was great fun being scientists again and enjoying more of our learning outdoors.

Excellent Work WB 02.11.20

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Our Excellent Work this week has been created by Matilda in RJS and Jessica in RDG. Weel done to both of you for some great learning and super work this week!

Matilda worked very hard using her phonics to sound out the names of things that we could see in the picture during our 'I Spy' game. She has been practising her leter formation and name writing lots and the progress she has made is brilliant! Great work Matilda!

Jessica used some super mathematical vocabulary when she was talking about and comparing sets of objects in maths this week. She could see which groups had more or fewer and used resources and pictures to help represent the groups. Fantastic work Jessica!