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Reception

To contact Mrs Atkinson, please email jatkinson@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk

Welcome to our Reception Class page.  Here you will find out what we have been doing each week and what we have planned for the term.  We base our learning around books linked to a theme but also adapt our plans to take into account children's interests and key events and celebrations throughout the year.

Please see below for our termly overviews, weekly news and photographs of our learning.  

Information

• PE will be on a Monday.  Please send your child to school in their outdoor PE kit  every Monday This is dark shorts/jogging bottoms, white t-shirt and school jumper/cardigan. 

• Please send your child with a pair of wellington boots.  We will use these throughout the week so please leave them on our welly rack in the outdoor classroom.  We will be going outside for Muddy Monday every Monday so please ensure they have them available in school.

• Please read with your child at least 3 times a week (more if you can) and practise their phonic cards everyday.  Please send in a book bag, reading books and phonic wallet everyday.  Reading signatures will be counted on a Thursday and certificates given out on a Friday.  

• Share a Story books will be changed on a Friday.

• Please send Phonics Folders into school everyday.  A new sheet will be put in the folder as each new sound is taught (normally 3-4 per week)

Our Learning!

Term 1

This term we are focussing our learning around the theme of 'Bears'.  The children will be learning new routines and starting to learn to read by learning the first letter sounds in their phonics sessions.  Our focus book for this term will be We're going on a bear hunt, before moving on to Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Week 1 and 2

 The children have all settled brilliantly into school life! I am so impressed with how well they are playing together and they are all enjoying joining in with small activities and getting familiar with their new surroundings.  They have shown that they are all budding artists by painting brilliant self portraits.  They have used shapes to make some wonderful pictures and they've practised their listening skills by playing a range of listening games and going on a listening walk around school with their listening ears!

Week 3 and 4

We have had a very busy fortnight! We started by reading 'We're going on a Bear Hunt'.  We re-enacted the story in story trays and then created collage maps to help us retell the story.  We loved acting out the story.

We then moved on to another bear story - Goldilocks and the three bears! We learnt how to sort and enjoyed playing games like odd one out and guess my rule.  We sorted items by size for the three bears, sorted monsters and sorted natural items by our own criteria.  We made and tasted different flavours of porridge.  Unsurprisingly baby bears chocolate flavour was the most popular!  

We have loved taking part in our first Drawing club sessions! We have created drawing of the characters, the setting, a map and we have written a letter to say sorry to the bears!

Week 5 and 6

Reception invited their own teddy bears to a teddy bears picnic! Everyone practised writing their name and then wrote an invitation to their soft toy.  The soft toys came to school and had a sleepover with Bernard Bear and Old Bear.  The children were very surprised the following morning to find they had all moved, were reading books and had eaten all of Mrs Atkinson's chocolate!  Everyone had great fun sharing cakes with the bears in the sunshine.

Reception have also started their Muddy Monday sessions.  They have loved exploring the wildlife area, observing the pond and challenging themselves to walk along the tightrope!

This week Reception have focussed on a different story set in the woods.  Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.  The children have made puppets to retell the story and acted out the story using costumes and props.  They have practised their cutting skills to cut out and make an owl.

After seeing a rainbow during Muddy Monday, the children used paint and sponges to explore printing.  They made some beautiful rainbows!

Week 7

 We finished our first term at school with a wonderful trip to Randwick Woods.  Bernard Bear went missing and the children set off to rescue him.  We had a super morning exploring the woods, climbing trees and searching for clues to help us find him!

Term 2

This term our learning will focus around superheroes! We will continue learning our chapter 2 phonemes and really focus on blending these sounds together to read simple words.  Our first text will be Charlie's Superhero Underpants

Week 1

 We have had a wonderful first week back learning about different celebrations.  The children were very keen to talk about their experiences of Halloween.  We explored pumpkins and made exploding potions.  We then moved on to learning about the festival Diwali.  We created rangoli patterns using paint and on the iPads.  We also learnt about the life of a little boy in India.  We compared what things were similar to our life and what things are different.  Finally we talked about all of the beautiful fireworks we had seen this week.  We had great fun printing firework pictures and making pictures on the iPads.