Reception

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Successful development in this area gives children the best opportunity for success in all other areas of learning. Within the school’s Christian ethos children begin to know who they are, where they fit in and can feel good about themselves. They also need to develop respect for others, get on with others and enjoy learning.

Communication, Language and Literacy

Children will be encouraged to listen and talk about their experiences with each other and will begin to express their feelings, ideas and needs. They will enjoy stories, poems and rhymes and act them out. They start to share books and begin to read at first their own names and signs in the class and later on an Oxford Tree reading Book. They will use ‘Jolly Phonic’ skills to recognise letter sounds and they will begin to write for a variety of purposes.

All Saints' Day Celebrations: down at Church and in our role play area

Highlights from Autumn Term

Native American Fun Day

Improving our entrance and view from our sink!

Summer time

Visit to the Mountain Rescue HQ on their 70th anniversary

It is the 70th Anniversary of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue	We watched a film about a rescue
We learned about the rescue shelter	Inside the rescue shelter
We went in the vehicles	Catherine made us mountain rescuer biscuits

World Book Day.

The snail escaped!	The Snail and the Whale
We spent the day reading the stories in which these characters appear - it was great fun!

Spring term-Some of what we have been doing

ONLINE SAFETY - we read a story about Goldilocks taking photos of herself in the 3 bears house. We learned this was not a good idea at all.

A cautionary tale!	The naughty photo stays there forever!
Now everyone can see what she did forever!

People who help us - a visit from the Police

Measuring distance - we measured and counted how far between our houses with lollysticks

It is important to know your address

We made a model town	We looked at our town on a map	We each made our house
We found our road	We measured between our houses	Each house has a number and a road name

We learn to look closely and observe

Look at the frozen water	Looking and discussing.	Use a magnifying glass
I found all these!	Can you see the ice crystals?	What can you see?
Melting ice under the digital microscope	We love the digital microscope

Our Nativity play

Advent in Reception class

Advent socks and Nativity scenes	Making wooden snowmen	Collecting winter leaves for our ice pictures
Painting wooden snowmen	Doing a bit of Christmas shopping	Look at all the cake colours!
Sewing for our calendars	If we put water on these they will freeze into ice pictures	Baking a cake
Hot chocolate on the chilly mornings	Lighting the smelly candle	Calming Christmas colouring with our morning snack
Singing for the old folks	Keeping cosy in the classroom

We made a wreath for Remembrance Day out of bottle tops

Look at our wreath made out of old bottle tops

Funeral for a bird

Sadly, we discovered a dead pigeon on our first day.	We discussed what happens when something dies

We buried it	We held a funeral and said prayers
We decorated the grave

September 2023, First Day in Reception Class

Blue group	Yellow group
Green group	Red group

Our Reception children were very excited when their new chairs arrived for their classroom - what a difference they make!

Collective Worship and RE in Reception Class

Christian Teddy is always here for us when we need him	Adrian, our Vicar comes to Worship regularly
Online worship with Niscu	We have lots of stories in Worship
We made crosses for Jesus	We try to be a kind, happy and helpful class
A puppet show online for one worship	Another Vicar told us all about being hopeful
This is our class prayer

Rainbow Challenges

Bird Watching

As it was the Great Garden Bird Watch we got a new bird table and made our own binoculars. Here we are in our outside area having fun spotting birds.

Practical maths about measuring

Visiting the mountain rescue

Arriving at Cockermouth mountain rescue HQ	We were given home-made biscuits and milk
We were allowed inside the vehicles	Here are the vehicles
We tried out the rescue shelter

We made mobile phones so we could practise ringing 999 and telling our address

Our phones have free calls and texts and a great data plan just like a real one!	We can call 999 and tell the operator our address
We needed to write and order numbers to make our mobiles	Our mobiles even have special apps for all sorts of things!
The coloured bits are the phone apps

Learning about Cockermouth and our addresses.

We looked at road signs to understand about our addresses	We each made our own house with our number on the door and road sign next to it
We built our town	This is main street
This is the old railway track	We walked to different places near us. Here we are above the river Cocker