RECEPTION
Miss R Innes and Mrs. S BrogdenWelcome to the wonderful world of Reception!
Our teachers are Miss Innes and Mrs. Brogden and our Teaching Assistant is Miss Tingle.
We aim to inspire, in every child, a love of learning and enable them to achieve their goals, aspirations, and dreams, by encouraging independence, confidence, and creativity.
We believe that young children learn and develop best in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs, both in the classroom environment and in the great outdoors.
We hope you enjoy looking around our class blog, which is a window into our world and the wonderful things we get up to, please feel free to add any photos or comments you have too!
Our Class Blog
Freeze framing
We read the story of the Smartest Giant in Town and thought about how the different animals felt before and after George’s help. We freeze framed how they might feel throughout. We also thought about the kindness George showed the animals and how we could replicate...
Moving to Music
We enjoyed finding the beat of different styles of music by clapping, marching, tapping and jumping.
Mystery Reader
What a lovely surprise!! The nursery children loved listening to Winnie the Witch from our mystery reader. Thank you
Newsletter 11.11.22 with Christmas Plans!
Please see the attached newsletter with lots of important information about Christmas. Built into the newsletter, there are links to forms where you can sign up for your places in the audience at the Christmas performances. Please complete these as soon as possible to...
MHA Christmas Fayre 3rd December
Please see the links below regarding the MHA Christmas Fayre in Crawcrook on 3rd December. This charity supports the elderly in our community.
Taking care
On Monday in welcome time discussion turned to ‘how do birds get fed in the winter’. We discussed how there are less mini beasts, we discovered this at forest school, and the berries are dying off. We decided to make bird feeders to care for our birds. We watched...
Dressing as the giant
We had a delivery of the Giant’s clothes in a suitcase to our classroom so we practised dressing up to see how smart we could look. We compared the items of clothing using ‘bigger than’ and ‘smaller than’.
Year 6 – Orienteering
Today, year 6 went on an orienteering trip to Thorp academy. When we got there we got put into groups and were assigned two young leaders from year 7, some of which we knew because they went to our school! The first task was a practice round to get familiar with the...
Sorting recycling using density and flow charts
As part of our science enhancement, we are learning about recycling for the next 6 weeks and this week, we have used flow charts to sort and identify plastics using basic tests. We also used density towers to sort material and see what density the object is to sort...
Sequencing our story
We have enjoyed reading our new story for this half term - The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad. We have contributed to class discussions about what it means to be proud of something or someone. This week we began to sequence our story to prepare us for our big write...
Division
This week in Maths, we have been learning about division in. We know that to divide means to share into equal groups. We started by dividing bean bags into 2 equal groups and we recognised that this was the same as halving. We then went on to divide counters into 5...
Athletics silver medals!! Congratulations!
Wow! What an afternoon we have had at the Gateshead indoor athletics competition. 20 children from year 5/6 were selected to take part in this competitive event, competing in track and field events. Each school was working as a team, rather than individual events. The...