St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Reception

This week, children worked together in the outside area to find minibeasts. We talked about how to handle animals with care. Children then collected natural objects and made land art based on the artist Andy Goldsworthy. In our PE lesson, children continued to develop their technique of dribbling the ball around cones. In our PSHE lesson, children named some activities to promote positive mental health. In our maths lessons, children used bar models to make numbers to 10. Children understood that the two parts added together to make the whole. Children also represented the composition of 10 using dice frames. In our RE lesson, children found out how God welcomes people and shows them they are loved and special. Children then made welcome posters for the new Reception children starting school in September.    

The children have enjoyed the outside area this week. Working together in the mud kitchen and making a large obstacle course and trying not to touch the ground! In our PE lesson, children developed their dribbling using their feet to move with a ball. They had fun playing a game of stuck in the mud using the footballs. In our PSHE lesson, children talked about foods that are healthy and some foods that are a “just sometimes” food or drink.  In our maths lessons, children used part, whole models to make numbers to 10. Children understood that the two parts added together to make the whole. Children continued to learn about sunflowers and carefully observed them. They then painted them for our class display.     

This week, children worked together in the outside area pretending to be builders and set up a café in the mud kitchen. Children gave each other instructions and asked lots of questions. In our PSHE lesson, children talked about a goal they would like to achieve by the end of Reception. In our maths lesson, children used tens frames and dice to add together amounts. Children counted on from either part and found that it makes the same whole. Children also looked at the life cycle of a sunflower and illustrated this with labels. On our welly walk, we looked for plants around the school ground and carefully observed them. Children enjoyed taking part in a whole school art project and used fruits and vegetables to print with. 

This week, children listened to rhymes about traditional tales and performed the rhymes to an audience. In our maths lessons, children sorted objects according to attributes. Children also sorted odd and even numbers using the criteria ‘odd blocks’ or ‘even tops’. In RE we read the Easter story and made Easter gardens to represent when Jesus had died on the cross. Finally, children took part in lots of Easter craft activities and had fun making chocolate nest cakes.

This week, children investigated which objects float and which objects sink. Children made predictions and then tested the objects. In our PSHE lesson, children talked about how we can care for our world and made posters reminding people to put their litter in the bin. Children then went litter picking and tidied the school grounds. In PE, children worked together to move the parachute in different ways. They had fun playing the games, ‘Find the Treasure’ and ‘Cat and Mouse’. Children also used the trim trail to develop their balance and co-ordination skills. In maths, children used dice and dominoes to investigate number doubles. Children then used objects to make doubles patterns and described what they could see. In the outside area, children used large body movements to draw curved lines with the crayons.