Reception Class Nativity Assembly 'Whoops A Daisy Angel'

Whoops-A-Daisy Angel Nativity Performance

                                                                                                   

Reception have worked really hard and performed their Nativity Assembly to entertain the rest of the school and parents on Friday 13th December 2019. 

The children have learnt about the Christian story of Christmas and they  were very confident in  learning words and actions to 7 SONGS! which they sang beautifully with percussion instruments for the Nativity.

The children were confident in expressing themselves during the assembly, all the children  looked  amazing with their sparking and dazzling outfits!

 Whoops A Daisy made everyone smile 😊

The Reception Teachers are really proud of the  children, they are developing in confidence and showed their maturity during assembly.

Well done to ALL our Reception children for this wonderful experience.

 Reception children are all sparkling for the nativity

                     

          

'We all had a great time.'! 

THANK YOU ALL FOR WATCHING.   

                                                                

       

                                                    

  

    

                                

        





Understanding The World

During the year Reception go for Seasonal Walks to look at the immediate natural environment within the grounds of the school.


In our Autumn Walk children were able to -

• Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.
• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
• Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.

We look forward to seeing what changes happen over winter and spring.

Celebrations Topic "Let's Party"

We have been learning about different Celebrations in Reception and what are the common features across each of them eg food, decorations, dressing up, parties, religious significance, gift giving and receiving.

Having celebrated Diwali  before half term you can see our previous Blog for examples of children's work and parental support. Straight after the break we created some pictures of fireworks for bonfire night.

We launched our by mark making our title page and colouring some iconic images related to Xmas, Eid, Easter and Diwali with a focus on presentation - leaving no white areas when colouring a picture. Well done Zayaan.





We completed a mindmap to establish what the children already knew and what they wanted to find out more about.
Then we celebrated British values through Remembrance day by talking about a short age appropriate clip explaining its significance and creating lots of lovely poppy images using different techniques.

 



  

Both Remembrance day and Children in Need gave us the opportunity to raise money for good causes whilst learning and having fun - And we never miss the chance to dress up!

Following the childrens' interests we focussed on Weddings from the Sikh, Muslim and Christian viewpoint realising that there are many similar themes across all three. Children enjoyed trying on outfits from these special days (thank you GK/ST).

The most popular aspect of this topic was talking about Birthdays, which the children did in abundance-great opportunity to talk about family customs. Here are some examples of children's work.

 

The children have gained the knowledge that celebrations have similar themes and practised their writing, number, speaking and listening and creative skills along the way.

Look out for our next Blog all about the Nativity performance

"Whoops-A-Daisy Angel".....



DIWALI IN WELFORD RECEPTION

We have been celebrating DIWALI in Reception. The week started with an assembly by Mrs Devi who told a story in, Punjabi and English, of an elephant family preparing for and celebrating Diwali.

Diwali is about good triumphing over evil as in the story of Sita and Rama.

Some children came up on stage to dance.

Today we invited parents in to see our activities and help their children. We acted out the story of Rama and Sita.

   

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Then the children dressed up and with parents were making Diva pots, Coconut Barfi, story masks, cutting out Diwali pictures, creating RANGOLI patterns, glittering-up fireworks pictures,  writing cards, making Mendhi patterns, dancing and making decorations. The feedback from parents was very positive.

     

    

    

    

     

 

      

 

HAPPY DIWALI