Reception

In the Autumn Term, Reception were welcomed to school with the topic “Wonderful Marvellous Me”, where they had a chance to learn about themselves and each other. They made stick family bundles, to represent the love that ties their family unit together. As a class, they explored every sense by going on taste, sight and smell walks. They sampled different foods, and even created their own perfume! The children made and listened to different instruments, and discovered different textures. They loved making porridge with Goldilocks and the Three Bears and having afternoon tea with a tiger! After half term, Reception learnt about their bodies from the inside. They made ‘blood’ using natural food products, and an organ model using balloons and straws. They experimented with crunchie bars to learn about bone density and wrote letters to the tooth fairy. At the end of term, the children recorded a wonderful Christmas Carol concert in the music room, and enjoyed meeting Father Christmas when he came to visit the secret garden! The spring topic, “The Arctic and

Antarctic”, took the children on an exciting journey to the North and South Pole, where they discovered polar bears and penguins. From home, they learnt about the life of Ernest Shackleton, and his voyage to Antarctica. Some built his ship ‘The Endurance’, and some made tea-stained maps of the South Pole. In their magnificent online Art lessons recorded by Mrs Fox, the children made clay or dough penguins, and learnt how to draw penguins and polar bears. Towards the end of term, the children had a chance at becoming eco-monitors around the school, and learnt ten different ways to save planet earth!

...in their magnificent online Art lessons, the children made clay or dough penguins...

Reception blasted off into space for their final Summer Term topic, “To Infinity and Beyond!” They learnt a planet rap, and made an extensive planet book including fantastic facts about each of the main planets in our solar system. They used marbles and paint to create their own colourful planets and used chalk to make shooting stars! During their topic time, the children learnt about pressure in rockets, and fired their own from the patch! They also made and launched parachutes when learning about gravity, and turned themselves into astronauts using photos and tin foil! Towards the end of the term, a space ship dramatically crashed outside the classroom, bringing news of Beegu; a lost little alien who needed to find her way home. The children enthusiastically helped her by writing ‘Lost’ posters, and pinning them up around school! In science they made their own alien slime, and in art they junk modelled rockets and spaceships for Beegu!