Welcome back!
We hope you had a lovely break over the Easter holidays.
As we begin our new summer term, we also start a new topic -Teeny Tiny Things.
This project has a Knowledge and Understanding of the World focus and enables children to explore details of both the natural and man-made world, using a range of methods and resources to observe things carefully.
Pitter Patter
Our topic this term is all about Dragon Tales
Dragons Tales is an exciting topic that will engage children in a number of different activities. This will allow the children to discover more about the history behind dragons, castles, and kings and Queens.
During this topic we will explore and find out about:
Reception would like to say a very big thank you to everybody that helped with our class assembly and came to watch. We had a fantastic time putting it together and learning lots about our class value. We hope that you all enjoyed watching it.
Da iawn! Reception have been working exceptionally hard this week.
Here are some of our class achievements
Pupil of the month: Lola-Rose
Pupil of the week: Scarlett
Welsh speaker of the week: Kady
We have been learning all about our class value this week. We have discussed as a whole class what the word 'friendship' means. The children have contributed some fantastic ideas.
"Friendship is when you are nice to someone" - Lacie-May
"Friendship is playing nicely" - Ella-Rose
"Friendship means caring" - Mia
"It is when you share things with people" - Dilan
"Friendship is helping" - Riley
"It is being nice to someone" - Tate
"Friendship is when you are kind" - Olivia
"It is when you make someone happy and smile" - Blake
We would like to remind you that Reception's P.E time has now changed to Wednesday. Please could we remind you that it is essential for all pupils to wear appropriate kit for their PE lessons to ensure personal hygiene and safety.
Please could we ensure that your child's name is written on every piece of clothing.
Thank you for your continued support
Autumn Term
Our topic this term is all about Glow and Glitter
This project has a Knowledge and Understanding of the World focus and enables children to explore things that sparkle, glitter, glow, reflect, shine and twinkle.
In this project children will learn about:
Materials that are shiny and materials that are not
• Materials that reflect light and those that do not
• The properties of man-made and natural materials in particular those that shine, glitter, twinkle,
glow and reflect
• Making shadows using a light source
• Fire safety and rules to keep safe indoors and outdoors
• Different sources of light and how light is important in a range of different celebrations including
Christmas
• The traditions of Christmas
• Mark making, drawing and emergent writing
• The Welsh language using words and phrases across a range of experiences both in the indoor
and outdoor environment.
Our topic has a Knowledge and Understanding focus as we learn about different types of food and where food comes from. The children will be involved in a number of cooking activities where they will observe changes in materials as they are heated and cooled.
In this project children will learn about:
• Different types of food
• Foods they like and dislike
• The senses of smell and taste
• Keeping healthy by eating a balanced diet
• Measures and money through play based contexts
• Foods from different countries
• The processes of cooking, melting, freezing and mixing
• Expressing themselves creatively using a range of different media
• The Welsh language using words and phrases across a range of experiences both in the indoor
and outdoor environment.
Here is some pictures of us cleaning and eating our apples that we picked.