Reception Class Page 2024-2025

The children have settled in beautifully to school life, getting used to new routines and building friendships. We are so proud of them! Our learning this half of term has been around the topic "Marvellous Me" and we have been learning all about what makes us special, what things about us are the same as others and what things are different. We started our morning carousel sessions and have enjoyed getting to know our year 3 reading buddies. Towards half term we also started our weekly forest school sessions and the children have loved being able to explore the meadow and wooded area. 

This half of term we have been looking at lots of different stories, including Pumpkin Soup, The Rainbow Fish and We're Going on a Bear Hunt. The children have had lots of fun inspired by our stories, from making their own pumpkin soup in the mud kitchen to building a den for a bear in forest school. We have had our first PE lessons and our first trip to the village library. The children enjoyed coming to school wearing odd socks as part of our whole school Kindness Week and they learned about how everyone is different and unique and that is a cause for celebration. We took part in an anti-bullying workshop where the children played games focusing on using kind words and "choosing respect". They even learned and performed a fantastic dance to the song "This is Me". Things are getting busy in the build up to Christmas and everyone has been enjoying learning and practising the words to the songs for our Nativity performance "Christmas with the Aliens". We look forward to sharing pictures from the performance with you soon.