On Thursday morning, Reception visited their local church; St Augustine's. It was lovely to see the children show such care and respect when inside of the church, especially when looking at the artefacts. The children enjoyed chatting to Fr Paul who told them all about why the church is so special to so many people. The children made great links between what Fr Paul was telling them and what they had learned at school. To finish off our visit, Reception performed a Hymn for Fr Paul which they had been practising at school. Safe to say he was very impressed! 

As past of our summer topic, 'Lets explore our world', Reception started off by exploring their local area. The children took clip boards and pens and went around their local area making observations of things that they could find. It was great to see the children chatting to their friends about places they had been too before and places that they hadn't realised where so close by. 

This week, Reception have explored copying, continuing and creating their very own AB and ABC patterns. Take a look at some of the photos of our work. 

This afternoon, Reception were visited by two staff members from Nissan, as part of our Understanding the world topic.

The ladies told the children all about the different jobs and departments at Nissan and showed them how some of the cars are built. 

The children were then tasked to build their own car out of Lego pieces. 

We have had so much fun learning about the jobs at Nissan. 

The children have loved 'Break the rules day' at school. 

We have had children, wearing non-uniform, crazy hairstyles, filling their water bottle with juice or pop and wearing nail vanish. 

It is safe to say the children have not stopped giggling since they arrived. 

This afternoon we have had another lovely visit into Reception; this time from a Musician.

Pauline from the Music hub came along to talk about her job as a Musician.

She told us how her job role includes lots of different types of jobs including teaching music, performing at concerts and for weddings, as well as conducting large orchestras.

She brought along a violin which she played for the children and allowed them to each have a little turn. The children even had a go at conducting.

Yesterday, Reception were incredibly lucky as we had a special visit from 4 brilliant Police Officers. The Officers came to talk to the children all about their job role as part of our 'What do you want to be when you grow up' topic.

Over the course of the afternoon, the children took part in a range of different activities including; 'shooting the target', exploring the Police van, Switching on the 999 response call and trying on the uniform.

I can not begin to explain how much fun and excitement the children had.

We have had a lovely Friday celebrating the King's Coronation.

We would like to say a big thank you to the PTA who organised juice and cakes for us to share during snack time, Jill and all the lunch staff who put together a fantastic afternoon tea and to Year 1/2 and Year 2 who put on a great assembly about the life of King Charles. 

This afternoon, 10 of our lovely Reception children were invited to take part in the multi-sports festival at Gateshead Leisure Centre. The children took part in 8 different activities, each testing and developing a different physical skill. The children worked so hard, giving 100% in all activities. Well done Reception :) 

The children in Reception have worked hard on their Easter Eggs.

We had some amazing, creative entries this year. The judges found it extremely hard to choose a winner! 

Well done everyone! 

This week, Early Years received a special delivery of 10 eggs, that were nearly ready to hatch. Over the past few days, 9 chicks safely hatched out of their shells and were welcomed into the world. The children have absolutely loved looking after the chicks and watching them grow. Each day the children have made sure that the chicks had fresh water, lots of food and clean straw. Everyone showed great care and consideration when handling the chicks, they have been a lovely addition to the EYs family. 

This afternoon, one of the Librarians from our local Library visited Reception to read us two very special stories. 

The children loved listening to the Dinosaur story and enjoyed joining in with the noises and actions. 

Reception have loved developing their cricket skills this half term with Andrew. 

We have practiced throwing and catching, batting and throwing.

It has been a pleasure to have Andrew join us each week and learn from his expertise.  

Today was world Book day! 

Our focus this year was 'Reading and Sharing stories at bedtime'. 

The children came into school dressed in their PJ's and over the course of the day took part in various reading activities. 

One of our favourite activities of the day was when the parents came into school to read a story to us. We had juice and biscuits and snuggled up with our grownups whilst their read our favourite stories. 

We have had a lovely day! 

This afternoon, Reception took part in a drama activity, where they acted out the story Handa’s surprise. Each child was given a different character from the story to play. The children created their own masks and then as Miss Blythe and Miss Newham read out the story they acted it out.

It is lovely to see the children beginning to show confidence when performing in front of their peers. 

Today we have celebrated Reception completing the 3 week Reading Challenge. Each day for 3 weeks, Reception have read and listened to a wide range of stories.

As a treat, for completing the challenge, Reception were visited by our friends in Year 3/4 who kindly came down and read us some of our favourite stories. 

Whilst listening to the stories, we had a lovely cup of hot chocolate and a biscuit. 

We have had a lovely afternoon in Reception. 

Reception have had a visit from Bigfoot Productions, who came to tell us all about being safe on the internet.  We talked about the different devices we used to access the internet and what we used the internet for.

We were introduced to a character called Boo, who needed our help so he could stay safe whilst online. We learned all about the 'cyber rules' and were great at helping Boo to stay safe. 

Yesterday, Reception took part in a Musical Theatre a workshop delivered by Stage Coach performing arts.

The workshop was based on ‘Handa’s surprise’, the story we are currently reading at school.

The children had so much fun taking part in lots of different activities including; African dancing, character interpretation and creating their own jungle sound sound. 

We would like to say a big thank you to Catherine and Abigail for spending the day with us and teaching us lots of new and exciting things. 

This week in Maths, we have been finding number bonds to 5.

In todays lesson, we made number bonds to 5 using fruit kebabs. The children were given two plates of fruit and were asked to choose 5 pieces of fruit to go onto their skewer. Once each child had made their own kebab we then compared the different number bonds we had made with our partner and then with the other children on our table. It was great to see the children identify different number bonds to 5. 

This week, Reception have been reading the story 'Handa's surprise'. 

This afternoon, the children worked in groups to draw a story map of Handa's journey.

Working together, the children talked about and drew pictures of all of the different things Handa would have seen as she walked from her village to meet her friend Akeyo. 

The children were great at remembering the different parts of the story and enjoyed creating their own story maps. 

After completing the second week of the whole school 'Reading Challenge', Reception were visited by two lovely Librarians, from our local library. 

The librarians offered to read us two of their favourite Monster stories. The children thoroughly enjoyed listening and joining in. 

The Librarians also brought us a bag full of new stories that we can read as a class. We would like to say a big thank you to the Librarians for visiting us!

The children were very excited to make Pizza at cooking club tonight!

We had lots of great reviews from the parents, who said they ate the whole pizza for tea.

This half term, Reception have been learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

On Tuesday, we spent some time tasting porridge that matched the description of each bowl of porridge in the story.

Of course, we couldn't eat porridge that was too hot, so instead, we had porridge that was very salty.

The children did a blind test meaning that they had to try and work out which bowl belonged to which Bear.

It is safe to say we captured some great moments on camera.

Reception really enjoyed sitting with their friends whilst eating their Christmas Lunch today. 

This morning, Reception took part in a sponsored Santa Dash! 

Despite the cold, the children ran around the field with a huge smile on their face and were so excited to receive a certificate, candy cane and selection box. 

We would like to say a big thank you to the PTA who organised the whole event 

On Monday, Reception celebrated the first Sunday of Advent by taking part in an Advent Liturgy. 

The children talked about how important it is to 'get yourself ready for Jesus' and shared some ideas of things you could do to be prepared. 

All of the parents/guardians were invited to attend the liturgy and joined in with the songs and prayers. 

Everyone was really impressed with the Liturgy and the children enjoyed celebrating the start of Advent with their grownups. 

Reception have loved watching the World Cup this afternoon.

They were showing their support by cheering on all of the players and celebrating after each goal.

Today we celebrated Children In Need!

Reception loved dressing up in their Pudsey clothing and showing off their accessories.