Our first week in Reception (2022- 2023)

New beginnings 

 It has been lovely to meet all of the children and parents for this year's cohort! 

We are looking forward to the year ahead and cannot wait to share with you our journey! We are so proud of everyone in Reception for turning up this week and following the school rules, routines, and trying their best every day. We are certain that they will settle in school sooner than you think!

The 3 main school rules we have at Welford Primary School are:
1. Respect for all
2. Ready to learn
3. Responsible
We have been practising this all week so please ask your child so they can show you the actions!

Here are some pictures of what we have been up to this week!

 

 

 

Run, run as fast as you can

 Reception Sports Day!

This week, we had so much fun going to King Edward's School for our sports day!

We worked together in our colour groups to compete with each each!

The teams are:

Blue - Team Rosa

Yellow - Team Farah

Red - Team Malala

Green - Team Attenborough

It was lovely to see all of the parents come and watch us! Some even got involved at the end and raced with each other!

We had all sorts of races! 

- beans and a bat race

- hurdles

- quoits/ cones balancing on our heads

- changing clothes race

- sprinting

- adults racing

Thank you to all of the parents and carers that came! The children loved their sports day and are looking forward to next year!

RR 2022

RS 2022

Reception goes to Mount Pleasant Farm!

The wheels on the bus went round and round...all the way to the farm!

Our topic this term is 'On the farm'. We were very lucky to be able to go to Mount Pleasant Farm and see all the animals that we have been learning about. We asked so many different types of questions and we even had the chance to feed the animals ourselves!

Have a look at our pictures below!

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble!

This term, our topic is all about 'Potions'. We've all mastered our witch and wizardry powers, spells, and potion making skills! 

We've looked at a range of books to help us with our learning journey. Have a look below!

In our first week, we had a look at rhyming spells. We especially learnt a spell to make us super smart! Why don't you have a go below?

'Whirling, swirling, twirling too,

Make me smart with a bibbly boo!"

The fun didn't stop there! We then made magic potion bottles to turn us into spiderman, a ghost, a blueberry, and even a princess! It took us a long time to get these ingredients and we had to be very careful getting them without being caught! shhhhhh! Don't let anyone know we have them or else we can't make anymore!!😓

If you try mixing dragon scales, spiders, phoenix feathers, and add teaspoon of diamonds, you'll have made a potion to become a shiny, flying spiderman superhero! We've tried and tested it and it definitely works!

On top of that, to complete our witch and wizard look, we made our own magical wands! This really helped us to create the most fantastic spells! Check it out below and see our spells and maybe you can make one too!

"Bibbly, bobbly, boo, fairy dust, pumpkins, and bats. Turn me into a spider. Put webs on someone and make a cobweb. Put everyone in it and they will be stuck!"

"Hocus pocus! Get me a unicorn!" or even "Abracadabra! Make me into a beautiful princess! 

We have had a lot of fun this term and we let our imagination go wild! Below is our working wall which shows all the work we've done! 

Our First Term in Reception!!!

We've had a term full of fun here in Reception and have made such wonderful friends! 

Throughout this term we learnt all about different celebrations such as Diwali, Birthdays, Christmas etc. We have also made such fun things that we've taken home such as diva lamps, cupcakes, Christmas cards and calendars and so much more!!!

We've been practicing to improve our drawing every week! Have a look at our snowman!

We rode on bikes and scooters and made our own obstacle course as a team and helped each other go over, under and around till we all reached the end!

During our Christmas weeks at Welford, we watched our very first Pantomime, 'The Snow Queen' which was full of laughter and giggles! As you may have guessed, we've all been good, and so Santa came to visit us!

We hope you enjoyed watching our Nativity Scenes which is on the school website! We even got the chance to experience it ourselves through 'Now, Press, Play' and enjoyed being characters in the Nativity.

Have a look at our Christmas party pictures!

It's been an amazing term here in Reception and we can't wait to learn all about dinosaurs when we come back in January!

Have a lovely break and we shall see you again soon!!

Best wishes, 

Reception Team

Reception First Few Weeks

 First Few Weeks in Reception

The children in Reception are slowly settling in well and are learning the routines and expectations. The staff are pleased with their daily progress and are building positive relationships with them.

The children are choosing a range of activities both inside and outside eg construction play, mark making, sand, water, number work, reading, painting, small world play, playing hide and seek, role play kitchen and fine or gross motor activities.

They are learning about the School Rules - The 3 Rs

Respect - respecting each other and the adults eg sharing and saying please and thank you etc..

Ready - showing that you're ready to learn eg listening, sitting sensibly, holding a pencil properly etc..

Responsible - for your belongings (coat, bag, bottle), helping to tidy up, eating your dinner etc..

The majority of children are enjoying their varied meals and menus are available outside the classrooms. 

And their favourite part of the day is story time then home time!!

Pictures pending - awaiting updated consent list. Can't wait to share with you!

Reception staff.😀

 Sunflowers

Miss Colling wood kindly gave the whole school some sunflowers seeds to plant. 

In May we planted them with some soil, water and added some magic sprinkles and sun.

In June, after half term we were amazed by how much they had grown, helped by Mr Reid's son who had been watering them,  so we measured them...

Which group's sunflower is the tallest???