Blog by Anna Sayers

Smithills Farm

Reception were very excited as they set off on the caoch to the farm. We talked about the cars we saw and even played I-Spy.

When we go to the farm we had to listen to the safety instructions and then we went to feed the animals. We overcame our fears and helped…

Dinosaur Bones Found at School

On Monday Blue Tang became paleontologists and found dinosaur bones in the sand area.

We wrote newspaper reports about the bones to let everyone knew the news. We discussed where they might have come from and what the different bones are. We read…

Castles

What a fanatastic term Reception have had. After we had found the dragon egg we began to learn about knights and castles. We acted out the roles in the castle and talked about the features of a castle. Reception read their own non-fiction book about castles and then built castles…

Dragon's Egg

At the beginning of this half term, Reception were surprised to find an egg in our playground. After further investigation we found it was from a dragon and he wanted us to look after whatever was inside. We wrote to the Dragon to tell him we would look after it. The next morning,…

Fairy Tale Hunt

To begin our new topic the Jolly Postman left us some clues. We had to read the clues and follow the instructions to find the stories we are going to learn about this term. We were very excited in finding the items and deciding what story they were form. Surprisingly we didn't…

Health Professionals

We started off this term by looking at Doctors and Dentists. We had a visit from the Dental Nurse who told us all about how to keep our teeth healthy and clean. We then learnt about how to keep our bodies healthy and what different food we should eat. 

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Reception have been very busy this half term. We welcomed all the new children and their families into our school in September. The children had already had the chance to visit their new school, therefore they all settled very quickly. 

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During Spring 2 Reception learnt all about dragons, knights and castles. We started off the topic by finding some dragon's eggs and talking about what we already knew about them. We looked at the book 'The Little Dragon.' The week after a big dragon visited us and we wrote our own story about the…

During Spring 1 Reception have been learning all about dragons, knights and castles. We started off the topic by finding some dragon eggs and discussed what we knew about dragons. We looked at the book 'The Little Dragon,' and created our own story about a big dragon. The big dragon came to visit…