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Weekly update of activities in Reception

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  • 04/04/25

    Friday 4th April 2025

    Wow, during the last week of spring term, Reception has been super busy. We performed 'He's got the whole world in his hands' in the Rainbow assembly last Friday. We learnt and practised some sign language to go with the song. We took part in the 'Mile a day'...
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  • 28/03/25

    Friday 28th March 2025

    Reception have been working hard this week. We have looked further into our literacy book "Mrs Armitage on Wheels". We have looked at different forms of transport and discussed how we would build a car if we could build our own.  We looked at doubling in maths a...
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  • 20/03/25

    Friday 21st March 2025

    Reception has had another lovely week at school. On Wednesday, we celebrated St Joseph's Day. We attended mass at church and were each given a little fairy cake at the end of the day. Yum!   We were lucky enough to meet the Mayor of Greenwich, and he came and looked arou...
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  • 13/03/25

    Friday 14th March 2025

    Reception have had another busy week. We joined the whole school in celebrating World Book Day last week. It was great to see all our costumes! This week is Science week, and we have been taking part in lots of different activities. Some of these included whole class stretching, cr...
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  • 05/03/25

    Friday 7th March 2025

    This week Reception have been extremely busy! We have continued writing about our book "How to be a lion" as well as painting lion faces. We have been ordering and writing numbers in Maths. We have made the most of the good weather,  planting bulbs and develop...
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  • 26/02/25

    Friday 28th February 2025

    Reception have had a productive week back at school. In Literacy, we looked at the book "How to be a lion" and discussed what lions need. We have looked at 1 more and 1 less in Maths and used shapes to build. We also got to play in our new travel agents role-play area. Our t...
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  • 14/02/25

    Friday 14th February 2025

    Reception class have had a fun week practising our phase three phonics sounds, tricky words, and we looked at 3D shapes in Maths. We continued on with some of our activities for Mental Health Week from last week. Our theme was "Know yourself, grow yourself!" We talked a...
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  • 07/02/25

    Friday 7th February 2025

    This week in Reception we have celebrated Chinese New Year and made Chinese Lanterns. We also tried to do some Chinese writing, which was very tricky! We have been creatively making a Giant Octopus to continue our animal theme and in Maths we looked at "more than" and...
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  • 31/01/25

    Friday 31st January 2025

    This week in Reception we have been looking at number bonds of 6 in Maths. We have been reading the book "Commotion in the Ocean" and were lucky enough to have one of our parents visit to read it to us! We have been writing about sea creatures and have been playing with our...
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  • 23/01/25

    Friday 24th January 2025

    We have been working really hard in reception this week. Focusing around our theme of animals we have each done some writing on "How to care for animals?".  We have also had the chance to become both vets and pet shop owners in our role play areas.  For R.E this w...
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  • 16/01/25

    Friday 17th January 2025

    Reception have had a fun week making crafts related to our story of "The Very Busy Spider". We have made masks of animals from the story. We are well on our way in learning our phase 3 Spring 1 sounds and in maths we have been practising our number ordering. We also done a little expl...
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  • 09/01/25

    Friday 10th January 2025

    Reception are very excited to be back after the Christmas break, and we wish you all a Happy New Year! This week we are looking at a story called The Very Busy Spider and have been making crafts and doing lots of literacy work around this. We have also been working on our number recognitio...
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