This term we have really enjoyed our topic, All About Me. We have learnt about our senses, how to make a skeleton, who's in our families and different celebrations. We have really enjoyed this topic and we are excited to continue it for a few more weeks. We are going to create different self portraits next week and then we will use our baby photos to learn about the past and how we have changed.

In phonics this week we have learnt 3 diagraphs, ss, ff, ll, and the new phoneme j. We have also started reading practise and we are super excited  to take our first books home this weekend. We have been working hard practising our blending skills.

In independent time this week, Ted, Finley and Hugo made a huge aeroplane in the construction area. It even had 3 seats and two wings. Meanwhile, Oscar, Isla and Musa had some calm time in the wheelbarrow!

Well done Beech Class! Another fantastic week. Have a wonderful weekend :)

 Mrs Moore and the Beech Class team.

We have had so much fun in Reception this half term. We have loved exploring the reception environment and meeting all our new teachers. 
we have especially enjoyed using the rollercoaster, playing with the dinosaurs and getting muddy!

The wet weather fills up our mud pit and we have loved splashing, jumping and sliding!

Hello, Beech Class! What a wonderful start to Reception you have all made! We have been very busy learning about the different areas in our environment and how to use them. We have also started phonics! The children have learnt the new sounds s, a, t! Great work Beech class.

Everyone in the class has made new friends, shown kindness to each other and been very brave. 

In our class we have 5 adults... Mrs Moore is our teacher, Mrs Kandola, Miss Bradford, Miss Chappel and Miss Bercia are here to help us learn too. We have also met Little Owl. He told us a story about his first day at school and is excited to help us with his learning this year. 

We are so excited to learn with you this year Beech Class! 

Mrs Moore and the Beech Class Team  

WOW what an amazing dinosaur day we had! 

Beech class started the day greeted by some very large dinosaurs! 2 velicraptors and pterodactyl and a triceratops! 

Then Beech class started their first activity with Mrs Kirby. They made dinosaur poo! Beech class had to work together as a team and use their Design and Technology skills to carefully melt chocolate and mix it together with rice crispies and raisins. I hope they were yummy! 

Next Beech class visited Miss Free. For their activity beech class had to carefully follow instructions and use their fine motor skills to make dinosaur play doh. Beech class also had to use their maths skills to measure the different amounts. 

Finally, Beech class made their way back to Miss Weston to make dinosaur fossils. We learnt about the history of fossils and how they were formed. Beech class then had to squish the clay into a circle shape and then carefully press their dinosaur into the clay. Beech class worked really hard.

we finished the day with a dinosaur disco and then our parents came in to look at our beautiful hand made projects! Miss Weston, Miss Dela and Mrs Kandola were all very impressed with the projects this term. Well done beech class! Have a wonderful half term break. 

This week some dinosaur eggs arrived! Beech class had a fantastic idea to make nests for them to keep them safe. The class made some brilliant plans and then used their plans to build their own nests. 

The class worked hard and shared the resources they found. Lots of children helped in independent time to find the natural resources they needed, like grass, sticks and leaves. We even remebered flowers to make their nests smell nice!

The children were very excited and worked well as a team to build theirs nests. Then Miss Weston gave them a dinosaur egg to very carefully carry to their nests. 
This week we are going to also look at the life cycle of a dinosaur. 

I wonder what will happen to their dinosaur eggs next? 

Oh no! We came back to school and found our digging patch was taped off. After further investigation, we found lots of bones in the digging patch.

We decided to become paeleontologists! We got magnifyng glasses, collected some crates as seats, got some dinosaur books and photos and got to work. 

We found a massive skull and even some teeth! We knew that there must be more clues so we looked around our outside area. 

We found feathers, teeth, scratches, footprints and even more bones. We even think we saw a pterodactyl in the sky! 

"Dinosaurs are now extinct" or are they...

Stay tuned for more information and news ! 

This term our topic has been All Around the World

we had a fantastic time learning about the different continents. I am sure you have heard our special continents song at home too!

the class really enjoyed learning about the different continents and remembered some great facts. We finished the term with a celebration. We coloured in the different continents, made our own Mona Lisa paintings, learnt traditional dances from around the world and made world biscuits. We also learned how to say hello in different languages.

some of the children taught us how there families say hello

"Buna Ziawa"

"Witam" 

well done beech class. Have a wonderful Easter break and see you in the summer term! 

Hello,

On Thursday 21st March 2024, Receotion celebrated world Down syndrome day. We all wore bright socks and took part in different activities. 

In the morning we listened to a story by George Webster. Lots of the children recognised him from CBeebies. We discussed what children and adults with Down syndrome can do... we know that they can do everything! It just might take them a little bit longer to learn how.

In the afternoon, we learnt that some people with Down syndrome can find it hard to hear. So we learnt the sign language for different nursery rhymes. We know that sign language is used to help people understand what we are saying. The children learnt the sign language for Wheels on the Bus and Hot Cross Buns. 

We also had a silent disco. We know that some children with Down syndrome don't like loud noises. So we had a very quiet disco so that everyone could enjoy dancing. At the end of the day, Junji's Mum came in to read a story with Reception. The children loved learning more about Down Syndrome.