Welcome to the Reception Class Page 2024/25

Our Easter Service 2025

The Easter Service theme was to look at different types of crosses. In Year R we explored the Cross as the sign of treasure, mark on a treasure map.

The Cross marks the place of the most amazing treasure - the promise of eternal life (life forever) in God’s kingdom. Jesus says, “Seek and you will find.” Because of the Cross, this treasure is available for everyone to find.

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes

in him may not die but have eternal life.

John 3.16

Easter Trail with Rev.Simon

Today we went on on an Easter Trail with Rev.Simon. He set up a walk through the Easter Story on our school field ending up at the Easter Garden. We decorated pebbles and left them in our school Easter Garden. We knew what an Easter Garden needed to include because we have been learning about Christianity this term and our big question has been, Why do Christians place a cross in an Easter Garden?

Bikes and Scooters

This term in PE we are learning to ride our bikes and scooters. We have learned how to go and stop, ride slowly and quickly and to steer around obstacles. We know that we need to always look where we are going - and not at our feet - so we can ride safely. At the end of term, we will be having a sponsored bike and scooter event to raise money to help improve our Reception garden. Watch this space! 

Term 4 - Our Winter Walk

Today we went for our Winter walk! It was raining very hard! We were  very wet, cold and soggy on our winter walk. We walked to the field to observe our tree through the season of Winter. The ground was wet and we all had our hoods up! The field was very muddy and slippery, so it was a good job we wore our wellies! The tree was very bare and the sky was really dark and gloomy! I wonder what signs of winter you can see outside? Can you any signs of spring yet? 🌷

We have been learning about the seasons and observing the changes in the outside world. We looked at the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who lived a long time ago, who painted fruits, vegetables and flowers as portraits. We thought about which picture matched which season and then had a go at making our own winter portraits. Can you work out which painting matches which season?

Term 3 - How does it feel?

Today we read and acted out the story book, "Oi, Get Off Our Train!"
Each child had a real train ticket, which was checked by the ticket inspector, before they boarded the train. The train driver called "All Aboard!". We met lots of animals who then wanted to join our train. We learnt that these animals were in trouble and we even learnt the word endangered! I wonder how it feels to be an endangered species? Perhaps your child will be able to tell you all about the different animals that joined our train!

Term 3 - Luna New Year

During the week, Ramsey Class looked at countries around the world where the Luna New Year is celebrated and found them on a map. We found out about how people celebrate, made their own fortune cookies and wrote their own fortunes. We listened to the story of 'The Great Race' and learnt about the myth of the 12 zodiac animals. This year is the year of the Snake. The children learnt about Chinese dragon dancing, created their own music to make the lion puppet dance, made their own dragon and performed a great dragon dance carnival and created a dragon poem. 

We have had lots of our lovely parents and grandparents in over the last few weeks for our 'Parent Reading Friday' sessions. The children have loved listening to new stories and talking about their favourite parts. If you would like to read a favourite story to the class, just speak to one of the Reception team. 

Christmas Service 2024

Come Together in Jesus

This year’s overall theme for the Christmas Church Service was coming together.

Thank you so much for coming together with us at the church service we were so pleased to see so many parents there! Happy Christmas everyone!

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Here are some pictures from our Christmas Party. We has so much fun celebrating with our friends, we played games, won prizes, danced and had a lot of festive fun!

Autumn Walk 

After reading the story of 'The Jolly Christmas Postman', we had a call from our local Post officer to say he was poorly and needed our help to deliver some letters and parcels to people in the Village. So we went on a walk to help him out. First we went to deliver some apples to Rev. Simon, next we posted our letters to Santa, afterwards we posted some letters in the post box for Mrs Barwick, then we delivered parcels to Mrs Mitchell and Mrs Lingham. We noticed that we were at the back of the school field and could see Year 2 doing PE!

On our way home, we took a walk in the field to see what it looked like and to look at our tree. We noticed that there wasn't much growing and that the tree had no leaves. I wonder how it will have changed the next time we visit? 

When we returned to school, we made some amazing maps of the journey we took around the village. 

Term 2

During Term 2, we looked at the big question 'What makes a journey Special?'

We started by listening to the story of Rama and Sita and the special journey they took and how Hindu people celebrate 'Diwali' which is known as the festival of light. We read the story 'Whatever Next?' and created our own vehicles and stories about different journeys. The children showed a real interest in space so we looked at books and created our own planets.

We celebrated Art Week by looking at the picture 'A Regatta on the Grand Canal' by Canaletto. We created our own artwork and created boat sculptures. We read the story 'On the Way Home' by Jill Murphy and made our own story excuses and used playdough to create characters and watercolour paints to create our illustrations. We then read the traditional tale 'Hansel and Gretel' and looked at the journey they took. Some of our adults came in to help us build our own sweetie houses. The story 'Who is coming to our house?' is all about the Nativity story and Mary and Joseph's special journey to Bethlehem. We thought about our journeys we take at Christmas and the jobs that need to get done in preparation for the big day! 

In maths we have looked at numbers up to 5 and circles, triangles, squares and rectangles. 

Harvest Festival 2024

This year we were raising money at Harvest time to support the charity ‘Toilet Twinning’ so we can help ‘flush away poverty, one toilet at a time’. we can twin one of our school toilets with somewhere that really needs one. We can help fund a project in a poor community that will enable families to build a basic toilet, have access to clean water and learn about hygiene.

This morning at the church we sang a song and said prayer! We enjoyed watching all of the older children too.

Welcome to Ramsey Class!

The children have settled in really well during their first weeks at 'Big School'. They have been exploring the environment and making good relationships with the adults and children in and around their classroom. 

Here are some photos of us enjoying starting school. 

We have started our phonics learning and have learnt sounds s, a, t, p, i and n. We have been practising segmenting and blending words with these sounds like s-a-t, p-i-n and t-a-p'. The children are enjoying taking home their first books to read with their grown ups. 

In our maths learning, we have been focusing on matching, sorting and comparing. The children have found matching pairs and sets and sorting objects in different ways. How many ways can you think of to sort buttons? 

In our RE learning, we went to visit the Church. Rev. Simon talked to us about what happens in a Church and showed us some of the special things that are found in Churches. The children have learnt that Christians visit Churches to worship God. The Bible is a special book full of stories about Jesus. God is very special to Christians and he has many names like Father, Lord, Almighty and Creator. 

We have been reading the book 'Can I build another me?' We have been thinking about who we are, our likes and our dislikes, things we can and can't do and how we have changed since we were babies. We thought about what we would be like when we grew up. The children thought about what jobs they might do when they grow up and explored different roles and uniforms in their play.