Jumpstart Jonny!

Reception were so lucky to have a special visitor in school… Jumpstart Jonny! We love dancing to Jumpstart Jonny on our interactive board and we couldn’t believe we were seeing him in real life. He got our blood pumping and our hearts racing, learning so many new moves and routines. Miss Mallen even had a dance battle! She won of course and we got a super special certificate for Reception…whoopa!

Just when we thought we had seen the last of Jumpstart Jonny, he came and surprised us in our classroom! He gave us all our own Jumpstart Jonny posters to take home and signed a big one for our classroom! We are very lucky indeed.

Forest School Fun

Reception look forward to Forest Fridays every week, where we have a focused activity to participate in. This week, Ladybirds were building their funky fingers by creating leaf silhouettes using squirt paint bottles. They loved hunting for leaves of different shapes and sizes before gluing them down and getting to work! We then had time to learn through play in the Forest.

Once back inside, we warmed up with hot chocolate and flicked through the photographs which Miss Mallen had captured throughout our session, discussing which part of the session we enjoyed the most.

World Book Day

Reception and Year 6 shared some books together today for World Book Day. Year 6 came down to visit Reception and brought books for them to read. Reception also shared some of their own class books and Year 6 read to them. It was lovely sharing our favourite stories!

Reception Extraordinary Garden

‘Reception have had a lovely afternoon in the sunshine planting new seeds and bulbs in their extraordinary garden. They learnt that plants need sunshine and water to help them grow. Now we are coming in to Spring, we decided it was a good time to plant some new seeds and watch them grow. They also created a tipi out of bamboo canes and are going to put some climbing plants in the pots to create their own den to relax, read a book and get their imagination flowing!’

Spring Walk 27.2.24

This week in Honeybee’s we have been learning about the different seasons, looking at the differences between them and how we know when the season changes. Today we went on a nature walk around the school grounds to spot the signs of winter and if there are any signs of the spring starting, we use all of our senses to look for signs, we looked high and low and find lots of  interesting signs. We used the classroom iPads and took some photos of the different things we found.

The Bear Hunt Sports Festival at Maiden Castle – 27.2.24

Today, Reception travelled via coach to Maiden Castle to participate in The Bear Hunt dance festival. The children were thrilled to sit on the top deck of the double decker bus and pointed out lots of familiar places.

To warm up, the children had to perform a range of moves to mimic a bear. The children were fantastic at utilising the hall space to execute a variety of movements. They really did warm their muscles up!

We listened to a tune from ‘The Bear Hunt’ and decided this was our song of the day. Reception recognised the lyrics from the original storybook which we had read in class on Monday. The coach taught us different moves which corresponded to the lyrics, these included marching, stretching and bending. We practised the full routine several times until it was perfect!

After that, we entered the big sports hall to participate in a circuit which had a range of bear themed activities including bear walking/balancing, parachute and teddy bear hide and seek using cones.

We then finished the session with an assault course, again moving like a bear around the equipment to represent each scene within the story. Finally, we searched for the bear and found him hiding on the top floor of the building before taking a selfie with him.

Reception had such a fantastic time this morning. The children showed excellent communication and team work skills throughout. I’m sure they will sleep well tonight!

Seven Stories Trip

In reception this week went on our first school trip to Seven Stories in Newcastle! We started our day getting on the coach to go all the way to Newcastle. We were super at lining up and listening to our instructions so we could get there safely. Ladybirds first workshop was at the galleries. We loved exploring the seven types of stories. Some of us dressed up and even pretended to be monsters! After our yummy dinner we went to our seasons workshop where we talked about everything we do and wear in the different seasons and even wrote our own acrostic poems! Honeybees completed the same activities the opposite way round.

We had such a fun day on our first school trip.

Reception Special Visitor

We have been signing and sending Valentines cards this week in Reception. The children were very curious about how letters travel from the postbox to our door, therefore we needed a real expert to explain this…so, Postman Gordon came to visit us!

He explained his role as a postman and showed us different artefacts which he uses daily, when working. We were lucky enough to even try parts of the uniform on. The children thoroughly enjoyed this experience, asking plenty of questions to further their knowledge and were very excited to show Gordon the postbox which we had made in class.

We are now experts in the field and are raring to send many more letters far and wide.

Honeybees have been learning all about Chinese new year this week

Ladybirds Christmas Party

Ladybirds have had a fantastic time at our Christmas party. We participated in dancing, party games, enjoyed some delicious party food and even had a magical visit from Santa himself, where we were lucky enough to receive a gift to take home! We are most definitely in the Christmas spirit.

Reception 

Reception have had some lovely time outside this week in our outdoor area. The used their gross motor skills to climb, build and ride. They also explored natural materials in the ice. They had to use different tools smash, scrape and break the ice to free the items!

Ladybirds Snowy days

Today while we were outside, we had lots of fun with our sledges! We went down the hill and some of us went super fast! We loved playing in the snow!

Honeybees Snowy days

Reception had an amazing time enjoying the snow this week. They went outside, after getting wrapped up in lots of layers, and loved running around in the snow. Some children created snow balls, snowmen and some even slid down the small bank on the big yard. That was so much fun and the waterproofs definitely came in handy. What a special treat it was!

Honeybees baking biscuits

Honeybees have baked star biscuits this week. They followed a recipe, listened to the instructions and even tasted them after they were baked.

Ladybirds – Christmas is coming!

Ladybirds Children in Need

Ladybirds have been showing their support for Children in Need by wearing their pyjamas on Friday. Look how cosy we all looked??. We were also lucky enough to receive biscuits and juice for snack. What a treat!

Little Kickers session

Ladybirds – Making Soup

Ladybirds Book Festival

Ladybirds Leaf Hunt

Honeybees Book Festival

Honeybees Early days

Honeybees Community walk

Ladybirds Community topic

To finish our community topic, we went for a walk around our local community.  The children were great remembering the safety rules of Stop, Look & Listen before crossing the roads.  The children could point out aspects for the community and recollected when they had visited certain buildings and areas which we passed.  We looked at the unfamiliar objects such as the phone box and discussed its purpose.  The children thoroughly enjoyed identifying the house numbers and comparing the colour of houses.  Once back in the classroom, we recalled our journey and some of the children drew what they saw on route.