Category: Reception Blog

This was our first week in Reception! We have learnt the rules and routines, the school values and classroom expectations. We have played phase 1 phonics games, maths games, we have read The Colour Monster and discussed how to share our feelings. We have shared likes, dislikes and hobbies and enjoyed exploring all the areas in Reception. During story time

The children have enjoyed their first days in reception and are settling in well!

What a special last week! We have enjoyed playing Phonics and maths games as well as still learning about our topic On the Beach and oceans and land around the world. We had a lovely party on Thursday and took lots of photographs. We also enjoyed looking back on our year in Reception and what we have liked the most.

The children got together to hear and the results of Sports Day. Our overall winners this year were the Red Team. A massive thank you to Mr Hancock and Mr Burgess who worked tirelessly in the heat to ensure we all enjoyed our events. Thank you to all the families who came to watch. We hope you enjoyed yourselves as

This week we have enjoyed Phonics games. In maths the children have thought about manipulating, composing and decomposing shapes and explaining shape arrangements. We had a pirate theme this week for our topic where the children being pirates, making treasure chest, making maps and writing directions for burying some treasure. We also enjoyed a surprise mini baby shower for Mrs

What an exciting week we have had this week! We have completed some of our last phonics learning this week where we learnt root words that end in -er and -est. In maths we focussed on understanding of numbers to 10 and looked at making 10 using different resources in the 5 and a bit way. We started our mini

We have had a very hot week this week! Even in the heat we still powered through and in phonics we learnt root words with -ing, root words with -ed as /t/, root words with -ed as /id/ and root words with -ed as /d/. In maths we have been practising our automatic recall of our number bonds to 5

This year, Ernesford Grange’s Art Exhibition was focused on ‘Celebrations Around the World’, teaming with RE to explore a range of different cultural celebrations through art. Every year group had a different celebration to explore and learn about, before creating pieces that were put up in our art exhibition, which our children visited in year groups. Everyone also took part