We have had a thoroughly enjoyable second half of this Spring term. The boys have all worked extremely hard and they should be proud of their achievements. Thank you very much for your continuing support and the thoughtful gifts we received.

Have a wonderful Easter break!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reception Oak

We began our week with a wonderful visit from a PAT dog (Pets as therapy). The boys found out what they do was and they asked some excellent questions.

During Maths we looked at halving, we began by halving shapes:

Furthermore, we looked at halving numbers:

 

During Literacy we retold the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The boys cut out and sequenced the pictures and they wrote fantastic accompanying sentences:

 

During Expressive Arts and Design and Understanding the World we have been learning all about Easter and the Easter story. The boys have been making several arts and crafts. We hope you enjoyed your chocolate nests and baskets they made:

 

Here are some other things we got up to:

  

 

The star boys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Michael

Tuesday: Rudy

Wednesday: Ryan

Thursday: Break up at 12 o’clock for Easter!

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

 

 

This week in Maths we revisited subtraction. The boys wrote number sentences in their books, which they did very well.

We also revisited 2D and 3D shapes. All the boys were able to identify the shape names and describe their properties including corners, edges and faces.

During PE we continued to practise throwing and catching. We also practised negotiating space and changing direction. 

In Drama the boys continued to work on the story ‘The Gruffalo’:

In Literacy we listened to the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We sequenced the story through drama focusing on the story language. We then retold the story in our writing.

During Understanding the World we investigated floating and sinking. We discussed many factors that would affect how an object behaves when placed in water. The boys enjoyed predicting which objects would float and sink.

Here are some other things we got up to during our Child initiated learning time:

The theme for show and tell next week continues to be Traditional Tales.

The star boys are as follows:

Monday: Ishan

Tuesday: Kanyi

Wednesday: Leo

Thursday: Louis

Friday: Matthew

Have a lovely weekend!

This week in Literacy we looked at Traditional tale characters. We wrote speech bubbles for our characters and  included familiar phrases such as “Run run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man!” We displayed our characters and speech bubbles on a fairy tale scene:

In Maths we have been looking at time. We focused on an analogue clock and in particular o’clock and half past.

In our Understanding the World lessons we have learnt why people use ‘Wanted’ posters and the boys created a wanted poster for the Big Bad Wolf. In Computing we continued to look at the Bee-Bots and navigate these on a grid:

During Expressive Arts and Design we focused on making Mother’s Day arts and crafts. The boys took particular care and attention when making these.

 

At the beginning of the week we were very lucky to have year 3 visit reception. Each child from year 3 paired up with someone in reception and as a pair they thought of a new Mr Men character to make into a book. We look forward to seeing year 3 again next Monday when they share their books.

 

On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day. We made our own door book cover linked to the story of ‘The Jolly Postman’:

 

Our World Book Day theme was space and it was wonderful to see many miniature space men and aliens.  We did a variety of space themed activities including singing space songs to the whole school, designing space ships and we had a story telling session with year 8.

Here are some other things we got up to:

The theme for show and tell next week is ‘Traditional Tales’. Please bring in an item related to your favourite character from a traditional tale story. The star boys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Arjun

Tuesday: Babaseyi

Wednesday: Francesco

Thursday: Gautam

Friday: Harry

Have a lovely weekend and a wonderful Mother’s Day!