Reception Week Beginning 12.6.23

Another week has flown by!

This week, Reception have taken part in the national Healthy Eating Week, alongside the rest of the school.

This year’s Healthy Eating Week had five themes to help everyone eat well: focus on fibre, get at least five day, vary your protein, stay hydrated and reduce food waste!

The children have learnt about the importance of hydration (especially important in hot weather like this week!) and enjoyed sampling the different flavoured water every day. The children tried fresh orange, lemon, lime, mint and strawberry water over the course of the week, with strawberry water being the definite favourite!

The children learnt about the importance of eating fruit, vegetables and fibre. They made their own healthy plates and absolutely loved tasting the exotic fruit that they brought in; thank you all so much for you generosity! We still have some left over which we will eat on Monday!

In English this week, we have been focussing on the story The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson.

The class were shown a short clip from the current television show ‘Spy in the Ocean’ and absolutely loved it! Many children went home and watched it with their families after. It airs on a Sunday, early evening, or you can watch it on iPlayer here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mp18/spy-in-the-ocean-series-1-1-deep-thinkers

In maths sessions, the children have been learning about addition and all the associated maths language that goes with it. They had fun making their own addition game and sharing it with their learning partner!

For one of our transition into Year 1 sessions, Reception went into their new classroom on Tuesday afternoon, with Ms Pemberton and Ms Gymer, where they had a maths lesson and a story. The children also had a chance to talk about anything that they were feeling worried about. They will be doing lots of transition sessions over the forthcoming weeks, in order to get them ready for Year 1.

Today, the children were organised into their houses for the very first time and had a sprinting event practise on the field in preparation for sports day!

We will be practising different events next week too. If your child normally wears shoes rather than black trainers to school, please supply some suitable footwear that they can change into. If you child normally wears a trainer type shoe, you do not need to send additional footwear in.

Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend,

The Reception Team