Reception Class Page 2024-2025

Watch this space for updates on topic overviews and activities children have enjoyed taking part in throughout the year!

What a busy end of term we had in Reception Class!

 

The children loved taking part in their first ever Nativity show "Christmas with the Aliens". They all made the most wonderful angels and joined in with all the songs and actions, remembering their parts beautifully. 

 

Despite many of the children succumbing to the flu/sickness bug during the last week of term, those remaining in school joined in the fun on our final day of term when we celebrated our very own "Shelford Christmas Day." We took part in a "Santa Dash" around the field in our festive outfits, learned about Christmas customs in other countries and made our own St Lucia Crowns to wear when eating our Christmas lunch. The children also took part in our first ever "Elfridges" Christmas shop where they carefully selected and wrapped gifts for their families to open as a lovely surprise on Christmas Day. We finished the day by decorating some delicious biscuits to eat as we watched a Christmas film before saying goodbye and as everyone went home at the end of their very first term at school. 

This half of term we have been looking at lots of different stories, including Pumpkin Soup, The Rainbow Fish and We're Going on a Bear Hunt. The children have had lots of fun inspired by our stories, from making their own pumpkin soup in the mud kitchen to building a den for a bear in forest school. We have had our first PE lessons and our first trip to the village library. The children enjoyed coming to school wearing odd socks as part of our whole school Kindness Week and they learned about how everyone is different and unique and that is a cause for celebration. We took part in an anti-bullying workshop where the children played games focusing on using kind words and "choosing respect". They even learned and performed a fantastic dance to the song "This is Me". Things are getting busy in the build up to Christmas and everyone has been enjoying learning and practising the words to the songs for our Nativity performance "Christmas with the Aliens". We look forward to sharing pictures from the performance with you soon. 

The children have settled in beautifully to school life, getting used to new routines and building friendships. We are so proud of them! Our learning this half of term has been around the topic "Marvellous Me" and we have been learning all about what makes us special, what things about us are the same as others and what things are different. We started our morning carousel sessions and have enjoyed getting to know our year 3 reading buddies. Towards half term we also started our weekly forest school sessions and the children have loved being able to explore the meadow and wooded area.