Author Archives: Miss Simpson

Reception enjoyed making their own fruit kebabs as part of our D&T Food topic! The children enjoyed selecting their favourite fruits, chopping them into smaller pieces and carefully skewering it in a colourful order. The best part was eating them … Continue reading →

Reception have a great time building sentences using their colourful semantics, this helps their sentence structure and cohesion! It s also great for their oracy and speaking skills, great work reception!

Reception have had a great time exploring their ingredients for a fruit salad and they had a great go at building sentences around our story! Well done Reception!

Reception have loved observing the life cycle of a butterfly over the last few weeks! We have watched them start as caterpillars, make cocoons around themselves and eventually turn into beautiful Monarch Butterflies! Today, we said goodbye to our class butterflies … Continue reading →

Reception have had an extremely fun Friday today as they dressed in their own clothes from home!   

Reception have been going ‘beyond 10’ in their maths this half term and have been learning all about numbers to 20! Today, as part of our current class story, the children enjoyed locating all 20 of the numbered paw prints … Continue reading →

Reception have had the best time at Smithills Farm today! We enjoyed lots of fun activities including donkey and tractor rides, stroking and holding animals at Pet’s Corner, feeding lots of different animals, exploring the Reptile shed and watching the … Continue reading →

Reception loved discussing what their future dreams and goals are and how they would like to achieve different things along the way. The children spoke about the various careers they would like to try and had lots of fun role-playing … Continue reading →

Reception have been learning all about different 3D shapes – exploring their names and properties. Today we tried to find as many 3D shapes in our Reception environment as we could! 

Reception have enjoyed exploring algorithms using different moving objects such as the BeeBots, the children inputted the instructions for the beebot to follow and watched as the robot completed the task. They then had a go at inputting a variety … Continue reading →

Reception have started to explore different places that you might find or go to, particularly the farm and wildlife areas! We have been looking at how a Farm differs to our local area of Bolton before exploring our local area … Continue reading →

As part of our Science topic, Reception have been welcoming the season of Spring by learning all about different features of farms – including the types of animals that they may find on a farm and the names of their … Continue reading →

Today we celebrated World Book Day by talking all about our favourite books and completing different activities all about the stories we love! The children enjoyed collaging their own Rainbow Fish, exploring lots of traditional tales, designing their own book … Continue reading →

Reception were lucky enough to pay a visit to Year 2 to meet their chicks! Reception are learning Springtime and how lots of new life is brought into the world during this time – including our chicks!  

In today’s RE lesson, the children were introduced to the biblical story of Palm Sunday – a time when Jesus arrived to Jerusalem on a humble donkey and was welcomed fondly with praise and palm leaves by the people who … Continue reading →

Today, the children explored how big movements can help us refine our fine motor control to be able to write with more accuracy and confidence! The children pinched, pulled and ripped their own streamers before practising some large, gross-motor movements … Continue reading →

Reception have had such a fun time learning about the journey of growing up as part of our ‘History’ topic! The children have learned about the different stages of our life, from being babies to toddlers, children, teenagers, adults and … Continue reading →

Reception have been learning all about what one more or one less of a number is! The children know that to add ‘one more’ makes an amount bigger and to take ‘one less’ makes it smaller. We investigated this with … Continue reading →

Reception have had so much fun in our outdoor area with Mr Jelley this week. The children have enjoyed creating a variety of festive shapes and objects using our outdoor equipment, such as snowmen, Father Christmas, igloos and even a Mr … Continue reading →

Following last week’s learning about Day and Night – Reception have been introduced to different ways of measuring the passing of time. The children discussed and investigated different ways to measure time – from clocks and stopwatches to simply the sun … Continue reading →

Reception have loved having the opportunity to put on an amazing Christmas Nativity Show for their families this term! The children worked so hard to learn song lyrics, matching actions and even some narrator lines too – and the show turned … Continue reading →

As part of our PSHRE topic, Reception enjoyed discussing and comparing their talents, hobbies and interests as part of our celebration of what makes us all unique! We all have our own talents and special activities that we like to … Continue reading →

This week has been the Hindu celebration of Diwali! Reception have done lots of fun maths activities based around this week’s class story of Rama and Sita – including using monkeys to count ‘one more’ and ‘one less’ and making … Continue reading →

This week, Reception have been exploring the numbers 1, 2 and 3 with increasing depth. The children have been investigating matching the numeral to the correct number of objects, such as matching a number ‘2’ to 2 pinecones! Reception are … Continue reading →

Reception were visited by a special guest today – Jess – who came in to tell them all about the story of Rama & Sita, introducing the children to the important story that led to the annual celebration of Diwali … Continue reading →

Every Thursday, Reception look forward to a wonderfully fun PE lesson with our PE Coach – Mr Jelley!  The children are becoming increasingly independent at getting changed every week and love going into the big school hall to do their … Continue reading →

Reception are now brilliant with our dinnertime routine! The children happily go into the hall each lunch time, line up fantastically and are able to choose between a variety of options to eat that day – vegetarian options and alternatives … Continue reading →

Reception have been working so hard this week with their reading and early writing! Our ‘Book of the Week’ has been The Colour Monster – we have been learning all about different emotions and feelings that we might have. We … Continue reading →

Reception are little superstars in the dinner hall already – and it is only day three!  Today the children had the option of enjoying:Chicken (or quorn) wrap Tuna jacket potato Cheese flan  Well done for following the rules, routine and expectations of … Continue reading →

Reception were amazing today during their dinner time in the hall! The children are becoming experts at the new routine of collecting their own dinners, finding where to sit and happily enjoying their lunch with their friends!  On the menu … Continue reading →

Reception have enjoyed exploring and getting to know the different areas of the classroom, having dinner together in the hall and getting to spend the whole day in school with their friends and teachers inside and outside the classroom.The children … Continue reading →

Today, Reception enjoyed their first School Dinner in the school hall! The children were extremely excited about getting the chance to look around the hall and eat their lunch together. On the menu today was: Cheese and tomato pizza Ravioli Sandwich Jacket Potato The … Continue reading →