Hello Parents and Carers, 

My name is Miss Clarke and I have the pleasure of teaching the beautiful Reception Class this year. With the help of Miss Conway and Miss S, we will help your children grow and thrive throughout the year. 

This page will be updated each week throughout our learning journey so please keep an eye out for our posts!

We can't wait to see what this year brings us!

Thank you, 

Miss Clarke 

Dear Parents and Carers,

This year we will be using the Early Learning Goals framework to inform the learning taking place in the classroom. The topics for each term reflect chosen texts and learning goals that will be assessed. 

The yearly plan has been uploaded here for you to refer to throughout the year. 

Thank you, 

Miss Clarke

No Pens Day was a whirlwind of creativity and fun as we explored hands-on activities that brought learning to life! The children loved role-playing a woodland picnic, using their imaginations to take on different roles and develop social skills. They painted vibrant characters from Little Red Riding Hood, combining storytelling with art, and created colorful number blocks, building towers while exploring counting and early math concepts. This day reminded us how powerful play and creativity are in fostering engagement and learning without a pen in sight!

This week, we had so much fun in the reading corner, retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood with puppets and props. We also learned about the shepherds who visited baby Jesus, exploring their important role in the Nativity story. In math, we practiced recognising and working with amounts of 3, using games and hands-on activities to make learning exciting! To top it all off, we enjoyed a special pyjama day, making our week extra cosy and fun.

This week has been a week of meaningful and engaging activities. For Remembrance Day, children created poppy crafts, participated in discussions about kindness and bravery, and observed a moment of silence. They explored The Gruffalo through storytelling, sequencing events, and dramatic play, bringing the woodland tale to life. During Continents Day, students and staff celebrated diversity by dressing in cultural clothing, exploring music, crafts, and traditions from around the world, and learning about the beauty of our global community. These activities have inspired curiosity, creativity, and a deeper appreciation for the world and each other.

Outdoor play is one of our favourite time of day! We love to develop our gross motor skills by climbing up and down the climbing frame, playing floor is lava and jumping from plank to plank, and making muddy treats in mud kitchen. 

This week we kicked off our learning by having a theme day focusing on "Into the Woods". Students dressed up as characters from our favourite woodland books such as Little Red Riding hood, The Gruffalo and so much more! The students loved using our loose parts play to construct a jet that took them to the beach where they surfed in the waves. Once they were finished, they jumped back in the jet to fly home!

This week we celebrated Our Lady of Lourdes 50th Birthday! To commemorate this momentous occasion all classes were allocated a decade. We dressed up as if we were living in the 2010's! We had a birthday dance party to popular song from the 2010's and made birthday hats! 

We’ve been having so much fun in the classroom with some amazing hands-on activities! The kids have been exploring mark making, expressing their creativity through drawings and colourful art while also building early writing skills. They’ve also been hard at work building forts, using their imaginations and learning teamwork and problem-solving. Numbers are popping up everywhere as the students practice counting and recognising them in playful ways. We’ve been especially excited to see them practice writing their own names! They’re learning letter sounds through Read Write Inc., taking those important first steps toward reading. It’s been wonderful watching them learn and grow through all this playful exploration!

This week we have been focusing on mark making! We began learning how to Fred Talk CVC words to be able to write them. Along with learning how to form letters, we have used a range of materials to help us mark make. This helps us to develop skills that will help us with our writing!

 Using scales, we filled the buckets with light and heavy objects to compare their weights. 

In Religion this week, we learnt that God created the world and us. He created us in His own image and knew that we are good. This means, we are all part of God's family and need to take care of each other. 

We explored what family means and what it looks like in our homes. Home corner is a very popular part of our classroom where students role play a range of family dynamics. 

This week, we have been learning how to write our names by creating name trains. We also got to meet our year 6 buddies that will join us for lunch every Friday and come and read to us in the afternoon. Friday's are always so much fun! 

What a busy week in Reception!

This week we learnt about the letters "m" and "a"! We worked on our letter formation my finger painting the letters and now they are displayed on our phonics wall. 

We celebrated our first birthday of the year and played some math games with each other. Miss Clarke was so impressed with the teamwork and sharing skills that she saw throughout the week! 

Well we had the best first week of Reception! It was full of fun and excitement as we settled ourselves into the routines and transitions at Our Lady of Lourdes! We shared our special items that we chose over the summer holidays and got to know each other. Spiderman even came for a visit! Can't wait to see what next week brings.