Autumn 1 Term Plan - 2021

I Am Me!

Summer 2 Term Plan - 2021

New Horizons

Friday 16th July 2021

This week Reception have enjoyed sports week! We have spent lots of time on the school field participating in a variety of different races, including a dress up race, egg and spoon race and the bean bag race. We were lucky enough to have wonderful weather each day and we all got a sticker for doing so well!

Friday 9th July 2021

Over the past few weeks we have been waiting for our chicks to hatch. When we came into school on Monday morning we found 5 chicks, we were all really excited! During the week we have enjoyed watching them grow and hearing them cheep. We all got to stroke them on Tuesday and on Friday we each got the opportunity to hold one of the chicks, we were all really gentle and kind. 

They have now gone home with one of our Reception friends. We hope to see them again, to see how much they have grown. 

Thursday 1st July - 2021

For the past few weeks we have been taking care of some caterpillars in Reception.  We have really enjoyed looking after them; watching them grow and seeing them change into beautiful butterflies.  After our transition morning where we met our new Year 1 teachers and got to see our new classrooms, we talked about how our butterflies were also ready to spread their wings and have a new adventure.  We wished them luck and watched them fly away.  The children thought it was fabulous!

Monday 21st June - 2021

This week, we have really enjoyed exploring another Supertato adventure - Supertato Veggies Assemble.  Evil Pea escaped again and he wrote to us saying he was was going to turn the school freezers off and set all the peas free!  We went on a hunt to find Evil Pea and catch him before it was too late!  We found lots of clues and caught him in the end!  On Friday, we wore green and had a Pea Party to celebrate!

Week beginning 14th June - 2021

This week, we have had a wonderful time exploring the Supertato story.  We made our own Supertato superheroes and also designed and made our very own superhero capes! We have also been really creative in our writing by designing new Super Veggies superheroes. 

Week beginning 7th June - 2021

This week we have been reading the hungry caterpillar and been learning all about the life cycle of a Butterfly. We have created mobiles, pictures and even made our own butterfly wings! We really enjoyed turning into caterpillars ourselves and trying the foods that he had eaten on his journey to becoming a butterfly. 

Summer 1 Term Plan - 2021

If you go down to the woods today...

Thursday 27th May - 2021

We have been reading someone swallowed Stanley and have been thinking about saving the environment. Today we became fishmongers and explored lots of different fish. We really enjoyed observing the tentacles of the octopus!

Week beginning 17th May - 2021

Last week, we set a home learning challenge to help the children prepare for our 'Somebody Swallowed Stanley' project.  We have had some wonderful projects handed in this week and it has been lovely to see so many children getting creative at home, in so many different ways! 

Friday 14th May - 2021

This week, we have been exploring the book 'Who's Bad and Who's Good Little Red Riding Hood?'

In the story, Rabbit misleads Little Red Riding Hood and Granny.  We thought about what he would say if he was to apologise and we wrote our own sorry letters.  We are so proud of our amazing writing!

Tuesday 11th May - 2021

This week, we have been exploring the book 'Who's Bad and Who's Good Little Red Riding Hood?' In Parrot Class, the children have been using their 'Junk DNA' loose parts to create wolf pictures.  They have come up with some fabulous creations!

Thursday 6th May - 2021

We had a visit from Little Red Riding Hood's Granny today.  She told us that the Big Bad Wolf has been seen in Bideford!  We went for a walk with Granny around school searching for clues and to see if we could find the wolf.  We found lots of clues including giant foot prints, Little Red Riding Hood's red cloak and even a den where we think the wolf was hiding!  When we got back to class, we made wanted posters and wrote about the things we had found.

Week beginning 26th April - 2021

This week, we have been exploring the book ‘Goldilocks in Space.’  We enjoyed finding out about the planets and making our own solar systems.  We talked about the things Goldilocks might need on her space adventure and had lots of fun with our play project; designing her a new rocket as well as lots of other amazing space gear!  We used junk modelling to bring our creations to life and we really enjoyed sharing our creations and looking at what our friends had made.

Week beginning 19th April - 2021

We have had a wonderful first week back at School.  We have really enjoyed seeing our friends again and sharing our holiday news.   This week, we have focussed on the story of  'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and have had lots of fun exploring the story in different ways.   

Friday 23rd April

We had such fun with our play project all around the three bears. Children had many discussions and worked well together. They made chairs, houses, castles, traps, posters and many more things. It was amazing to see how engaged they all were.  

Spring 2 Term Plan - 2021

Wednesday 31st March - 2021

We have really enjoyed learning about Easter this week and have had a fun filled last day of term in Reception.  In the morning, we had fun making Easter nests.  We enjoyed making them but especially enjoyed eating them! In the afternoon, we went on an Easter egg hunt. Unfortunately, we didn't find the Easter Bunny but we did find the eggs he left for us.  Happy Easter! 

Week beginning 22nd March - 2021 

We are been really involved in our play this week and have made the most of the sunnier days. We have been working co-operatively with our friends and sharing resources with each other. We have built houses, castles and cars. We have made potions, tea and stews! We have been digging and playing on the bikes. We are so lucky that we learn so much whilst we are playing. 

Wednesday 17th March - 2021

Parrots have enjoyed exploring doubling this week using objects, mirrors and games. Some of the children even created their own doubling games and taught them to each other!

Tuesday 16th March - 2021

Swans have been exploring doubling. They have been busy recording their doubling on whiteboards using circles. The children have really enjoyed maths this week. 

Monday 15th March - 2021

Robins have been exploring doubling this week. They have looked at many ways to do it but we really enjoyed exploring doubling using the mirrors the best. 

Monday 8th March -2021

We have had a fantastic first week back at school.  We have really enjoyed exploring our classrooms again and spending time with our friends.  We have also enjoyed listening to the Cloud Spotter story and The World Made a Rainbow.  We got creative designing our own clouds and making rainbow pictures.  

Thursday 3rd March - 2021

World book day was a little different for some this year as they celebrated at home. Have a look at all their amazing costume ideas. It was lovely to see so many that dressed up as their favourite characters. 

Friday 26th February - 2021

Today we made pizzas for MR Page's challenge. We tried to make the school logo so decided to make sweet pizzas. We used chocolate and food colouring for the base, and then cut out leaves and branches out of icing. We hope you like our designs.

Thursday 25th February - 2021

We have been creating number beanstalks today. We ordered numbers to 10, 15 and 20! We had to carefully cut out the leaves, and count on the beanstalk where the leaf should go. It was very tricky but we didn't give up!

This week, we have been exploring 'Jack and the Beanstalk', we have been busy drawing pictures of the giant, sharing ideas about what we would like to find at the top of the beanstalk, thinking about if Jack was right to take the giant's belongings and exploring what a plant needs to help it to grow.

We wanted to share some of the fantastic beanstalks we have created at home with you.

Spring 1 Term Plan - 2021

Friday 12th February - 2021

Today, we had a fabulous Well-Being Friday.  We really enjoyed a morning of calming colouring while listening to some relaxing music.  We talked about how we were feeling and shared our pictures with each other.  After that, we enjoyed some parachute games and Cosmic Kids Yoga.  In the afternoon, we had great fun choosing the toppings for our pancakes and trying some new foods, including honey.  

Wednesday 10th February - 2021

This week, in school, we have enjoyed exploring the story 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes'.  We enjoyed talking about our favourite pancake toppings and drawing our designs.  We had some very healthy choices and some very interesting combinations too!  Everyone had a fabulous time taking part in pancake races outside and we used what we learned about ordinal number last week to explain our positions in the races.   

Friday 5th February 

Today we have enjoyed tasting Chinese food. We had noodle soup, noodles, egg fried rice and prawn crackers. Some of us liked it all, some of us just liked some of the food, but we all liked the prawn crackers!

As we focussed on 'The Great Race' this week, which a story based in China and tells us about how the Jade Emperor held a Great Race. 12 animals took part in this race to decide which order they would be placed in the Chinese Zodiac.

To help us learn a little more about China we explored writing in Chinese, we noticed many difference and some similarities in this writing.

Wednesday 3rd February - 2021

Today we created the Great Race. We made our own animal masks and had lots of races. We were exploring ordinal numbers in maths so we gave out numbers from 1st to 13th. We then had to put ourselves in order. It was a lot of fun. 

Tuesday 2nd February - 2021

Today we made some shadow puppets and re-told the story of the Great Race. This story told us all about the Chinese New year and the Jade Emperor. We really enjoyed the story.

Home Learning - Week 4 - January 2021

This week, we have focussed on the story 'Born Bad.'  As part of our Topic, we listened to the story 'The Mixed up Chameleon'. We really enjoyed the story and had lots of fun creating our own mixed up animals.  We had some really creative ideas and even had a go at giving these new animals mixed up names. 

Home Learning - Week 4 - January 2021

This week we have been focussing on repeating patterns in Maths. We had lots of fun being 'Pattern Detectives' at home, looking for patterns everywhere and then finding as many ways as we could to describe them. 
We also had a go at creating our own repeating patterns.  We were really creative with this challenge and used whatever we could find at home to help us make our patterns.

Tuesday 26th January - 2021

Today we had fun participating in a game of zoom bingo. It was lovely to play a game within our groups. The children in school really enjoyed playing alongside their friends at home. We can't wait to play again next week. 

This week we have been exploring 'The Three Horrid Pigs and the Big Friendly Wolf', like our friends in school. We have been been creating own on mini versions of this story and have written thank you letters to Mr Wolf from the pigs. In our topic work we have explored people who help us and thought about what we would like to do when we grow up. We have also learnt 4 new Phase 3 digraphs and in maths we have explored the number 13 and learnt how to double numbers. 

We have also been able to explore a range of extra activities including making our own playdough, making fairy wands, joining in with P.E. challenges and joining in with singing sessions. We have had lots of fun!

Friday 22nd January - 2021

Today, we made fudge in a slow cooker.  We enjoyed preparing the ingredients and talked about how they changed once they got hot and then again once we had put them in the fridge.  We had lots of fun making our fudge and really enjoyed eating it too!

Tuesday 19th January - 2021

Today we chose an activity from the 100 things to do indoors list. We chose number 35 which was to make a car using big boxes and furniture! We had a fantastic time creating ours together.

Friday 15th January - 2021

Today we have been doing Mr Page's challenge of making biscuits. We made some "Krispie" biscuits and decorated them. They were really fun to make and even better to eat!

Tuesday 12 January - 2020

Today we read the true story of the Three Little Pigs. We talked about whether we believed the Wolf! We made some puppets and acted out the story. We have had so much fun with this story so far...

Week beginning 4th January - 2020 

This week we have both, in school and at home learnt all about the story of The Three Little Pigs. We made a new houses for the pigs, using a variety of different resources. In maths we explored the number 11, using different objects, we started to learn new life skills and much more. 

Autumn 2  Medium Term Plan - 2020

Tuesday 8th December

We were all very excited today as we got to walk to the post box to send our Father Christmas letters. We walked sensibly to the post box with our friends. We can't wait to get a letter back from Father Christmas. 

Monday 7th December

When we got to school today we were so excited because we thought that Elsa had been to visit and had iced everywhere! we wanted to go and explore, so we wrapped up warm and went on an ice hunt! We really enjoyed crunching through the ice on the school field. We collected leaves that looked like diamonds!