Reception K/T
Welcome to Reception, for some children the beginning of their schooling. We understand that this can be an exciting but nerve wracking time for both children and parents. Through this stage of their learning journey, the children will be learning through a balance of child initiated play, carefully supported by knowledgeable staff and adult initiated small group activities. They will be busy exploring and discovering exciting activities both in and out of the classroom, including visits. This website will keep you updated on all aspects of your child’s learning.
Curriculum Maps and Newsletters
Week beginning 17th July - It's the final week :( It has been such a great year! This week we have watched performances from the Year 6 and collect our last In it to win it from Reception. Have a great Summer everyone and Good Luck for Year 1!
Week beginning 10th July - This week was our sports day! It was an amazing event! We ran our hardest, threw as far as we could and best of all cheered on our friends and parents!
Week Beginning 3rd July - Although it has been a short week, we have still had a busy week! This week, we have been on visits to Year 1 and met our new teachers! Also, we watched the amazing Cinderella Rockerfella production in school.
Week beginning 26th June - it was wet, muddy and windy but we loved it! The children had Muddy monsters and showed their skills making dens. Also this week, we have had our music performance of Tony Chestnut which was amazing! There is a video on tapestry if you would like to watch it.
Week beginning 19th June - Another busy week in Reception! We had a visit from Mr Parkin and his amazing music band. We learnt about music and dances from around the world - it was so much fun! Also in small group this week, we have been finding out where some of our food comes from and then we tasted some.
Pupils of the week - These 2 superstars have been amazing us with their writing skills and their amazing doubling skills!
Week beginning 12th June - This week we have been looking at doubles in maths. We used dominos to help us identify if they are doubles or not. Also in small group, we have been investigating how bees make honey!
Pupils of the week - these two superstars have been showing off their sounding out and blending. As well as, showing their great handwriting skills.
Week beginning 5th June - It is Diversity week! This week we have been allowed to wear clothes from home countries or countries from where our families are from. We have learnt about both Miss Chelmowska and Mr Tang's cultures, As well as, getting visits from Maya our school governor from Malaysia and Elena's mum who is from Greece!
Week beginning 22nd May - This week has been so much fun! We collect our prizes for in it to win it. Also, we let our butterflies go and explore the world.
Pupils of the week - These two superstars have been showing off their great writing and reading skills as well as been a great role model for the other children in the class!
Week beginning 15th May - This is Mental health week so, we have been doing lots of activities to help our mental health! We have discussed what mental health is, had a snack and catch up with our friends, practised some yoga to help us stay calm. Also, during Muddy Monsters we enjoyed exploring the outdoors (as this helps our mental health) and tried hammering nails into wood!
Week beginning 8th May - Following our trip to Gibside, the children wanted to go on a bug hunt. So during forest school this week, we dug in the ground, looked under logs and dove into bushes to see what wonderful things we could find!
Week beginning 1st May - It has been a short week but, that does not mean we have not been busy! The children have been busy at Gibside exploring Strawberry Castle and going on mini beast hunts. Also, with a new king coming in this weekend we have been making flags, crowns and even had a special lunch to help celebrate!
Pupils of the week - Well done to these two superstars! They have shown their amazing RWI sound knowledge and designed and made some great science projects!
Week beginning 24th April - What a busy week in Reception! The children have been showing off both their amazing gymnastic skills and maths numbers. Also in small group, we have made some delicious ice lollies carrying on our investigation into melting and freezing. We even had a visitor tell us all about recycling and why it is so important.
Pupils of the week - these two superstars have been amazing in RWI and settled in to a new school really well!
Week beginning 17th April - What a great first week back! As it is coming towards the end of Ramadan and therefore Eid the children have been learning all about the celebration. We have discussed, why people fast, what do they do during Ramadan and some of the fun things that happen during Eid. We tried to create our own Mehndi patterns and in forest school we even tasted some typical food people might eat during Eid!
Week beginning 27th March - What a fun week! We had Phil showing us how to toast bread in the rain as well as testing the rope swing! We have also collected our in it to win it prizes!
Our amazing pupils of the week! Well done!
Week Beginning 27th March - This week in Reception, we have been looking into space! The children have been exploring about the planets in our solar system and then made our own planets. Then in forest school, we looked at trying to make floating vehicles using balloons.
Week beginning 13th March- This week was Comic relief/ sports relief so we completed some sports activities outside. The sun even shone for us showings us that Spring is around the corner.
Pupils of the week - These 2 superstars have been amazing at getting more independent in PE and gymnastics as well as being super creative at making sock puppets.
Week beginning 6th March - What a busy week we have had! The children showed off their amazing gymnastic skills and impressed the coach. We have also, made sock puppets in small group. Then, at the end of week we went to Beamish Museum and had an amazing time trying school, sitting on buses and testing old sweets!
Pupils of the week - These superstars have been amazing at using tens frames and cherry models as well as writing green words in RWI!
Week Beginning 27th February - This week has been such a busy first week back! The children had a great time on World Book day doing Gingerbread man related activities like acting out the story, making gingerbread men and watching his adventure around school. On Friday, it was a STEAM day (science, technology, engineering, art and maths). So the children did lots of experiments and investigations!
Week beginning 13th February - what a half term! This week, we went to the in it to win it shop and got rewards for gaining stars. Also, we have been taking a deeper look into the cut and stick area and investigating what we can design and make.
Pupils of the week - These two superstars have been amazing this week! They have been showing off their RWI skills doing amazing writing and blending!
Week Beginning 6th February - This week has been Children's mental health week so we have been talking about how to cope when we are upset as well as doing some yoga to help us calm down. It is also getting close to Valentine's Day, so we have looked at Andy Warhol's pop art printing and tried to do some ourselves.
Pupils of the week! These 2 superstars being amazing at testing floating and sinking. As well as being amazing in Muddy Monsters!
Week Beginning 30th January - Another busy week in Reception! We had Phil in teaching us hammering in Muddy Monsters and we have been exploring with water looking at capacity and floating.
Pupils of the week! These superstars have been blowing our socks off with their re-tells of Noah's Ark and knowing their RWI sounds. They are AMAZING!
Week Beginning 23rd January - This week has been another busy week in Reception! The children have been showing off there amazing gymnastic skill and Mo couldn't stop saying how amazing they were. We have also, been working hard using cherry models in maths to make number bonds to 5.
Week beginning 16th January : This week we had fun in forest school, it even snowed while we were down there exploring. Have a look at how we are progressing in our phonics skills.
20th January - Pupils of the week! These pupils have been amazing at trying new foods for the Lunar New Year and being an amazing gymnast!
Week 9th January – Happy New Year everyone! It has been wonderful to be back with our amazing class! This week, they have enjoyed a variety of number games in maths, in Read Write Inc, a variety of phonics and sound games and exploring our new ‘Spring Theme – movement’, e.g. designing their own type of transport! Also, in PE, we were so proud of the children who have-a-go independently when getting undressed/dressed and explored the variety of movements in our new spring focus of being ‘Champion Gymnastics!’
Pupils of the week - 13th January!
Well done to these two amazing superstars! They have been wowing the teachers with their reasoning skills and their amazing remembering of our phonic sounds in RWI!
Week 19th December - Merry Christmas, the children have been so excited in the build to Christmas! We had an amazing time at our Christmas party and even got a visit from the big red man. Also, Mr Parkin came in with his band to spread some Christmas cheer with songs. On Friday, we got our in it to win it prizes for our attendance at school. It has been an amazing Autumn term and we hope you all have a lovely time off and we will see you in the new year!
Week 12th December - This week was our Christmas performance week! After weeks and weeks of dress rehearsals and singing practice the children were amazing during the 3 different performances!
Week 5th December – This week, Reception had a very busy 4 day week! They enjoyed having the excellent Mo teach us football skills! The children were amazing and very excited to go and deliver some letters to the big red man. We took a very frosty and cold walk to the post office to buy stamps and then all posted our letters!
Week 28th November – This week, Reception enjoyed the cold winter weather exploring the Forest School with the Muddy Monsters! They enjoyed building dens and putting furniture in it. Good messy play! The children were amazing and very excited to decorate the Reception classroom and Christmas tree – it looks wonderful! Fingers crossed the Naughty Elf doesn’t do silly things in our classroom over these days in December; however, our Reception children are brilliant at spotting anything out of place!
Week 21st November – our wonderful Reception children continued to improve their fine motor skills when exploring with the texture of powder paints and investigating how tomake a colour darker by adding black or a colour lighter by adding white. In PE, we are so proud of the children who have-a-go independently when getting undressed and dressed for PE and improving their gross motor skills around a sensory circuit. When the rain came down (again!) this week, we still had lots of children, in Forest School, exploring the different areas! We loved playing hide and seek, moving heavy equipment with wheelbarrows and mixing potions!
Week 14th November – This week, Reception’s Forest School was on a typical autumn day of lots and lots of rain; however, the children continued to practise independently getting dressed/undressed from their waterproofs and wellies. Due to the weather, we could take advantage of puddle-jumping and continued to explore painting outside and colour-mixing with powder paints and chunky-chalks. Thank you for all your kind donations for Children in Need: Reception had lots of fun with Pudsey and Blush!
Week 7th November – This week, Reception had a virtual nurse visitor who talked to the children about germs and the importance of hand-washing lots of times across day. We also discussed last weekend’s Bonfire Night and children shared their experiences about bonfires and fireworks on Tapestry and in the classroom. The children have explored making different types of firework pictures with different resources and experimented in lots of ways with how to use paint, e.g. rolling a marble in paint. We have talked about different celebrations and watched a clip about a child celebrating Diwali with her family, discussing how this is similar or different to the celebrations we may have at home with our families. From a safe distance, the children safely watched some lit diva lamps they had made from clay: they were very excited to take their lamp home!
Week beginning 31st October- It was lovely to welcome all of our lovely children back into school after our half term break. This week we enjoyed Mo our sports coach working with us on our PE session. We introduced small group into our routine this week, beginning with learning about Diwali and making our own Diva lamps from clay.
Week 17th October - our Reception children have been amazing this week in their daily routines and with the different experiences of Muddy Monsters and a whole school wellbeing day. In our Forest School, there was lots of swinging, hooking ducks, solving water, shape and rolling problems, building, balancing and muddy pies: what fun, messy play! We talked with the children about ‘wellbeing’ and how this day is important for the children and staff’s physical, mental, emotional and social health. Friday was definitely a day for us all to join in, be creative, physical, feel comfortable and happy!
Week 10th October – For World Mental Health Day, we read the story ‘Ruby’s Worry’, talked about what a worry could be, who we could talk too if we had a worry and how the ‘The Colour Monster’ also has lots of feelings. Reception also visited Suzanne, at the Bensham Big Local Community Allotment, checked the soil for bugs and found lots of worms and some millipedes: this told us the soil was healthy. We also helped with ‘mulching’ which is another way to improve the soil.
Week 3rd October – our wonderful children continue to enjoy maths, Read Write Inc, a variety of phonics and sound games and sensory circuits in PE: we are so proud of the children who have-a-go independently when getting undressed and dressed for PE – superstars! When the rain came down this week, we had lots of children outside jumping in muddy puddles!
Week 26th September – We are so proud of the children again this week! We wanted to show you our class photograph, at the top of this page, how wonderful all of Reception sit in the dinner hall when eating their lunch and the children using their gross motor skills in PE, when walking or crawling on beams, balancing, pulling, rolling, bouncing, turning and twisting. Well done Reception!
Gateshead Great Big Green Week 30.09.22 – In Reception, we have been talking about the Great Big Green Week. This is an event in Gateshead designed to inspire our school to help nature and tackle climate change together. The Reception children talked about the story, ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’, and had great ideas for where we should put our rubbish: bins and recycled bins. They enjoyed seeing where in school we can put used batteries from home or staff, our class compost and paper bins. Think about what we all can do at home to make a difference!
See the website: Children, Sustainability page for more information from our school.
Week 19th September – following the Queen’s funeral on Monday, the Reception children have had their first full days, with some children also enjoying our Breakfast Club. Our superstar children are enjoying Read Write Inc – different sounds, I-spy, rhymes, rhyming games, Fred the frog – number time, PE, playing inside and outside and their Key Worker groups. What a fun week!
Week 12th September – our Reception children have been amazing this week! On arrival, they are becoming more independent when finding their pegs, photographs to select the dinner they would like, for their water bottle and bringing their blue, book-bag every day! All of our wonderful children are enjoying playing inside and outside, their Key Worker groups and of course, having their delicious dinners in the hall! After a busy day, and by 2pm, they are very tired!
Week 5th September- We are so impressed with how the children have settled into class, they are growing in confidence each day and learning new routines. We read ‘Colour of us’ and discussed how we had similarities and differences. Visited the hall in preparation for staying for lunch next week and read ‘The Queen's Hat’.
