Reception | Old Clee Primary Academy

Welcome to Reception!

Information for new starters

Reception information Powerpoint

Welcome to the Reception page. Please take the time to have a look at what we have been doing so far in Reception and also what we will be doing as the year progresses.

Our Teaching Team consists of Miss Blake, Mr Cranidge, Mrs Jones, Mrs Glentworth, Mrs Brown, Mrs Hersey and Miss Swanson.

Things you need to know -

Our P.E day is a Wednesday so please ensure your P.E kit is at school on this day.

A water bottle should be brought to school every morning, this needs to be taken home each day.

Our yellow home/school books should be brought to school every day.

Reading books and green diaries should be brought to school every day. We will change reading books every Tuesday and Friday.

Homework will go out every Friday and should be brought back to school on Thursday.

Our stars of the week are...

Sport Relief 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️

We came to school in our sports clothes. We challenged ourselves to run a mile around our playground area. We all tried our very best! We know that exercise is good for our body. We talked about the effects of exercise on our body and the different types of exercise and sports that we like to take part in. We were proud to raise money for charity.

British Science Week

We enjoyed being Scientists this week!

We went on a Rainbow Walk around school. Our challenge was to find objects for all of the colours of the rainbow. We worked together with our partner and found lots of natural and man made objects. Back in class we sorted the objects to make a rainbow.

We investigated how to make bubbles of different shapes and sizes. We made our own bubble wands. We had lots of fun making big bubbles using the hoops!

BIG BUBBLES

BUG BUBBLES

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World Book Day

We have enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. We came to school dressed as characters from some of our favourite books. We completed book reviews of books we had shared in class, decorated our own bookmarks and enjoyed a visit from the older children who read to us.

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People who help us

We have started our new topic People who help us. We have been talking about all of the people who help us in our lives, from the Police, fire fighters, doctors, dentists, even our teachers and parents. We have been working with our friends to tell a story about an emergency in our small world. It is lots of fun being doctors and nurses in the Doctor’s Surgery. In maths we have been learning our doubles facts. We been Doubling Detectives and we have used our finger prints or numicon to solve the doubles problems.

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Red day & Number day

We came to school in our red clothes to raise money for people with heart problems. We talked about where our heart is in our body and it’s how important it is. We also had fun doing lots of number activities. We decorated numbers, made a big numberline and completed maths games. We also voted for our favourite Frozen characters and made a big bar chart. We counted the number of votes and we could talk about which character was the most popular.

RBB keeping our hearts healthy.

We have learnt a Bollywood style Zumba routine which we love doing. It’s fun to do but it’s also good exercise.

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Our big numberline

We put the numbers in order and said the numbers all the way up to 27.

Our stars of week are...

Elsa’s ice challenge ❄️

This week we have been scientists! We received a special box from Elsa from Frozen. She had accidentally frozen her friends in the ice and asked for our help! We thought of different ways to melt the ice and rescue the characters. We worked together testing out our ideas such as rubbing, tapping, pouring on water, putting salt on and putting it in the sun. We were very excited when we had finally rescued all of the characters! We thought of words to describe the ice and discussed which method worked the best to melt the ice.

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Polar animals

We have been learning about parts of the world with wintery cold weather all through the year. We have learnt about the Arctic and the animals that we would find there. We have been carefully writing their names and creating polar animal art. We have enjoyed acting out the story of ‘The polar bear and the snow cloud’. This week we have learnt lots of interesting facts about polar bears.

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Our Winter walk ❄️

We went outside on a very cold day. Jack Frost had been out! We looked for the signs of Winter. We found frost on the leaves and grass. When we touched the frost it started to melt and turned into water. We left footprints in the frost. It was so cold we could see our breath!

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Star of the week 🌟

Winter ❄️

The children in Reception have enjoyed talking about their Christmas holiday. We have been drawing pictures and sounding out the words for our presents. We wrote thank you letters to Santa & posted them to the North Pole. We have started learning about Winter and have enjoyed the story Jack Frost.

Merry Christmas!

We had lots of fun counting down to Christmas! We wrote letters to Santa and made lots of Christmas crafts including some special cards and calendars for our grown ups. We enjoyed our Christmas disco and party games! We even had a visit from Santa who gave us some special reindeer food to use on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas everyone!

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Our stars of the week are...

A Little Nativity

The children have been working very hard over the last few weeks learning their lines and songs for our performance of A Little Nativity. They were very excited to get in their costumes and perform on stage to their families. Everyone was very proud of them.

Christmas jumper day 2019

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Being a scientist!

The witch from Room on the Broom left some ingredients and a colour mixing challenge for the children. The children had to mix different colours to find out which colours they made. The children then got to mix ingredients to make their own magical exploding potions.