This week in reception we have been gardening! We planted our daffodils bulbs for our roof top garden that will bloom in spring. Next week will plant our winter potatoes. [gallery ids="15799,15800"]...
This week in Reception we had the pleasure of visiting Homerton Fire Station. We all had a chance to get into the fire trucks, learn about how fire fighters get ready and what important tools they use. We also all got to have a go...
This week in Reception we have been immersing ourselves in the story of the Three Little Pigs. We build houses of different materials, did a character study of the Big Bad Wolf and were inspired in our writing speech bubbles for the three little pigs. We also...
This week in Reception for Black History Month we have been learning about the art of weaving. Inspired by the beautiful Kente clothe of Ghana we made individual repeating pattern strips and wove them together to create a stunning whole class piece. Come and see it on display...
This week in Reception we have been learning about repeating patterns. We learned to recognise them, correct mistakes and make our own patterns. It was tricky! We used concrete objects like beads, gems and mosaic pieces to explore this new concept. [gallery ids="15112,15113"]...
We are lucky to have such an amazing PE teacher at St John & St James. Every week we have lessons to help us strengthen our gross motor skills. This week we were developing our ability to move in different ways with obstacle courses and...
This week in Reception we have begun learning about all the different people who help us in our school and day to day lives. We ran our own GP office where we pretended to be doctors and nurses, looking after babies and each other. The...
This week in Reception we have been scientists! We learned about magnets and how they can control and move different metal objects. We explored how to use them and searched our class for metallic objects. Then, inspired by our key text Elmer, we made colourful elephants...
This week in Reception, we have been building on our spatial awareness through working with maps. We made treasure maps and then even drew maps of how we get to school making sure to note key local landmarks. No surprise that 'Big Tesco' figured prominently...
This week in Reception we have put our writing skills to work! We wrote letters to our Head Teacher, Ms Gladstone, asking whether we could go to Sports Day and she wrote us a letter back saying we could! The children were so proud delivering...