Author Archives: Miss Ball

Throughout our topic, ‘We’re going on a Bug Hunt’, Reception have been able to view and visit real life caterpillars. Over the weeks our caterpillars have grown, eaten lots of food, and turned into cocoons. After the holidays we were … Continue reading →

In our PSHRE this term, we have been thinking about relationships! The children have been exploring what makes a good friend, how to resolve friendships and what to do when we are feeling lonely. Including building their own new friend. … Continue reading →

In our computing, the children have been exploring how to research information online on child friendly websites. We have also been exploring what is personal information and who are our trusted adults at school and at home. We know that … Continue reading →

Reception had a great time at Hedgehogs Adventure today! They hunted for their own bugs and minibeasts and made a wormery! They were very big and brave exploring and playing in the woodland! They even had time for a s’mores … Continue reading →

Reception had a great time with the fun food Chef today, making Fruit Skewers! We had to listen carefully and follow the instructions. We also practiced our cutting skills to chop up all the fruit we needed for our fruit … Continue reading →

Reception have been learning all about their new story, ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’! We have been practising and rehearsing the story and exploring our tuff tray around our new text!

Reception had a great time at the farm today! They learnt lots of things about life on the farm and what things are made and produced on the farm! First on the tractor ride to see and feed some donkeys! … Continue reading →

Reception showed off their skills in PE today with the different rolls and movements they could do! Fantastic job Reception!

Reception were busy little bees! After reading our story, ‘The Little Red Hen’ the children got a chance to make their own bread! They very carefully read and followed the instructions step by step, mixing the ingredients together to make … Continue reading →

The children have had a great time exploring the preparations and celebrations around Eid! We have looked at our story ‘The Most Exciting Eid’ and explored what happens for Muslims at Eid. Great job reception! We also made some lanterns … Continue reading →

Reception have been working hard in their Geography lessons exploring our new topic, ‘Down on the Farm’. They have been exploring what different types of farms we have and how important farms are to us. They also used ipads to … Continue reading →

This week Reception have been exploring how we can make 10! We have been rehearsing our number bonds and practicing making 10 through lots of interactive activities! Great work reception!

What a great day we had celebrating World Book Day in reception! The children all looked fantastic and we did some great recapping about our favourite stories! We love reading at Oxford Grove!

Reception did some super gymnastics in their PE, practising different movements and ways of travelling, great job Reception!

Reception had a brilliant time following instructions to make a jam sandwich! They worked so hard and the jam sandwiches were so yummy! Great work Reception!

Reception had a great time practising their songs with Mr Martin! They are extremely excited to show you all at their show soon!

Reception have been learning lots of new vocabulary in their guided reading and guided writing lessons to help with their new topic all about farms! They had fun exploring tuff trays all about farms and reading their new story Farmyard … Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks Reception have had a busy time learning how to ride bikes! Coach Mark has been a fantastic teacher ad all the children have built up lots of confidence learning to ride their balance bikes.  Well … Continue reading →

Reception had some chatter club time were we were chatting about who is in our family. We also talked about who our special people are and that we can talk to them about anything.  It is important to express how … Continue reading →

In PSHRE this term we have been learning all about how we can stay healthy to look after ourselves.  Today we have been looking at foods that are healthy and unhealthy. Learning about why we need to eat healthy food.  … Continue reading →

Reception had a great time playing hide and seek in line with our latest book, ‘Children of the world’, they had to clearly recall the instruction on how to play! We will be exploring what games different children play around … Continue reading →

This week we have been working on using our phonics to read our book of the week ‘Rosie’s Hat’ With your adult can you talk to them about what happened to Rosie’s Hat? Where did it go? Who found it? 

In our History topic we have been looking at our story ‘Once There were Giants’. In our story it follows a little girl as she grows up! We have been working on putting our pictures in chronological order, that means … Continue reading →

Reception had a great time exploring capacity by making playdoh! They had to measure out the ingredients with their teachers and mix it all together! They had great fun!

In line with our book, ‘Once there were Giants’ Reception thought about what they wanted to be when they were older. They then did some writing about this and tried on costumes. They were very excited!

Reception explored how to find one less using different games. Some children used their knowledge and played Bingo, others used bricks to show one less and other children made playdoh shapes and posted them in our letter box to show … Continue reading →

Reception used dominoes to help their understanding of finding one more. They did a great job dotting the dominoes to find different amounts. Great work reception!

Reception have been doing a great job exploring how to make different numbers with the use of numicon. They have been practising their number bonds to 5! Well done Reception!

In our PSHRE lesson Reception have been exploring why exercise is important and how we can stay healthy! We looked at the affects of what happens after we exercise, and how to effectively warm up before we start. Great work … Continue reading →

Reception enjoyed playing games and singing Nursery Rhymes whilst exploring the number different numbers and zero! They understood that when there are none left, this means that there are zero!

Reception had a fantastic time watching the Pantomime today! Everyone was so excited! What a great time!

Reception had a great day wearing their Christmas outfits! They all looked fantastic and raised money for a great charity, Save the Children! Well done Reception!

Reception did a great job rescuing the animals from the snow! They  used a timer to measure how long it took their friends to rescue the animals, understanding that they only had a minute to rescue them!  We had a … Continue reading →

Today we have been using our Colourful Semantics to build sentences that retell our story ‘Footprints in the snow’. We created a story board to help us remember key moments in our story. With our partners we built and orally … Continue reading →

This half term, reception craft club have worked really hard creating and making lots of different things! They have also put their own spin on a lot of our crafts and made them unique. Great work reception!

What a fantastic Christmas show! We are incredibly proud of reception and all their hard work, they put on a wonderful show! Thank you to all the families who came to watch and support us. Well done reception!

Reception One had a great time exploring how we are all different. We have already looked at how we are all special and how we all have our own unique families. Today, reception explored and talked about what makes their … Continue reading →

In RE this term we are learning about why God is important to Christians. We are learning all about how Christians believe God created the world and why we must look after it. How can we look after the world? … Continue reading →

In our early reading and writing reception learn lots of phonics sounds. This week we thought we would show case our superstar phonics learning! See if you can spot us doing our actions! 🙂

This week in maths we are exploring some 4 sided shapes! We are looking at squares and rectangles. What shapes do you know already know? What is the same about our shapes? What is different?

Reception have tried very hard finding 1 more and 1 less of a number! They have been using autumn items to help them! Super work Reception!

We love using the play dough in Reception! Today we have been using the play dough to represent numbers up to 5! How many cookies did you make for Miss Ridgway, Miss Ball and Mrs Clarke?

Today we have been working very hard on our letter formation! We have been working on our s a t and p. 

This week in reception we have been creating some different poppies for remembrance day. We know that remembrance day is about remembering those who fought for us.

Reception have been doing lots of work on a new Non- Fiction text this week! The text explains all about the signs of Autumn, what we should wear at Autumn and the different things that happen n Autumn time! Great … Continue reading →

In their maths, Reception did an obstacle course using their knowledge of positional language. They had to say when they went on, under, between and next to different objects!  

This week in our maths we have been learning about circles and triangles. We went on a shape hunt to find different circles and triangle in our environment. 

We love having PE on a Thursday with the sport coach Mr Jelley! We have been learning how work with others and play as a group. Through our PE we are listening carefully to instructions and working together to complete … Continue reading →