Reception: Spring 2025

We had fun celebrating Easter this week in Reception. We made Easter cards, went on an egg hunt and acted out the Easter story.

Reception class enjoyed sharing the story of Palm Sunday with the rest of the school and their families during the assembly. They bravely took it in turns to speak into the microphone and say their word so clearly. Fantastic Reception. You are all superstars.

We loved our first Reception trip to visit Newcastle Castle. We enjoyed travelling on the big coach and had enough energy to climb the spiral staircase to the roof of the castle. We could see the whole of Newcastle including the Tyne Bridge and St James’ Park. We visited the dungeons where some of us had a turn in the pillory and stocks. After lunch, we made play dough food for a feast to give the King and Queen. It was great fun.

In Reception we have enjoyed working as a group to make our own 3D castle models and loved acting out stories in the castle that we built outside. We can't wait to go on our school trip on Tuesday to see a real castle in Newcastle.

Reception have enjoyed learning all about castles. We have drawn and made our own castles. We have painted large castle walls outside so that we can make our own role-play castle in the Butterfly Garden.

On Shrove Tuesday, we enjoyed learning about why we eat pancakes. We had pancake relay races outside before eating our own delicious, sticky, pancakes!

We've enjoyed learning facts about elephants and other jungle animals. We have had fun creating our own jungle collage scene and riding on our safari jeep outside. We spotted lots of jungle animals!

Reception class have loved listening to lots of Elmer stories and talked about why Elmer is so special. We painted, drew and collaged our own patchwork Elmer the Elephant. They looked so colourful.

Reception enjoyed their visit to church where we talked about the different religious celebrations that take place there such as Weddings, Baptisms and Mass. We looked at the features we see in churches and named some of them including the altar, lectern, pews, baptismal font & tabernacle.

We liked coming to school dressed in red and yellow clothes to celebrate Chinese New Year with our Nursery friends. We danced to Chinese music, played instruments and joined in with a dragon parade. We even made our own Chinese concertina dragons.

We have enjoyed learning the names of the planets and their position in the solar system. We held the 3D planets, ordered them and moved around the sun. We have enjoyed telling stories of being astronauts and going into space on our rocket in the Butterfly Garden.

We have enjoyed listening to stories about our new topic of ‘Space’. We have been learning some new vocabulary about space including the words gravity and craters. We painted some very funny looking aliens and made playdough models of them.