How does that building stay up?

As part of our topic on buildings reception went on a walk around the local area looking for different buildings. We found terraced, semi-detached and detached houses, shops, offices, schools, churches, a gurdwara and flats. How many Handsworth buildings do you recognise?

Three Little Monkeys

Reception have learnt the story of the Three Little Pigs using Talk for Writing. This week we have innovated our own story - The Three Little Monkeys and the Big Bad Crocodile. The children made up their own actions to help them tell the story.

Safaa in RT independently wrote the new story.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Reception have been learning  about Chinese New Year. Our parents joined us to celebrate and complete lots of activities.


Making masks to retell the story of the animals' race.

Creating greetings cards to wish each other Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Making lucky red money wallets.

Chopping vegetables to make a healthy and delicious stir fry.

 

 

 

 

 

Making lanterns to decorate our classrooms.

 

Thank you to all of the parents for supporting our activity sessions

We are Palaeontologists

We are Palaeontologists

The reception children have been busy digging for fossils this week in reception. They explored the 'dinosaur rock' with various tools and carefully extracted their fossil finds. They children displayed many characteristics of effective learning; showing high levels of fascination and excitement and persisting with the challenge of digging in the rock!