Reception

Summer 2

Week 6

What can we say except THANK YOU!! We have absolutely loved teaching you this year and will really miss you. We know you’re all ready for the challenge of year 1 and are looking forward to seeing how you grow and thrive during the rest of your journey at St Gilberts’s. 

Thank you to all of the parents and carers for your support in helping your child achieve their best potential this year too. We really appreciate it!
 

We have had a busy last week full of assemblies and finishing our work but we have loved our last day together at our Teddy Bear’s Picnic. 
 

Have a lovely break everyone and see you in September!

Week 5

We’ve had a fantastic week this week. We really enjoyed our class trip to Holy Cross and learnt a lot about the different objects inside the church. We also had lots of fun making gingerbread men. We then wrote about how to make the it! 
 

Thank you to all the parents that helped on our trip!

Week 4

As we are now coming to the end of the school year, we have been talking about the different changes that will happen as we move into year 1. The children are all very excited to be getting bigger and moving up the school!

We’ve had a busy week of learning and have been completing lots of challenges. We have been building walls with windows in them, writing about sea creatures, learning about washing in the past and getting into the Euros spirit by playing football. This has been great for our fine motor skills!

Week 3

We’ve had another busy week. Thank you to everyone that came to our sports day. The children all had a great time! This week, we’ve also been learning more about water and the things that live in it. We learnt about the frog life cycle and Had lots of fun in the sensory tray. We also made shell necklaces and muddy ice creams in the mud kitchen!

Week 2

We have been enjoying our extra PE lessons with Mrs. Gilmore on Wednesday afternoons. Our focus is on athletics and we have been doing lots of different activities to test our skills

Week 1

We had a very exciting start to our week when we received a letter from the Gingerbread Man! He had hidden around our school and left photos as clues for us to find him. Eventually we found him on Mrs. Winterhalder’s desk where he had also brought us all a delicious gingerbread treat to eat. This excitement really helped us to write some fantastic sentences describing the Gingerbread Man.

Summer 1

Week 7

We have had a fantastic week this week. Thank you to all of our families for coming to watch our Crowning Mary assembly. We were all so brave for standing up in front of everyone and performing!

We’ve also been learning about bees as part of our ‘into the garden’ topic. We made bee paintings, pine cone bees, learnt about the bee lifecycle and tasted honey sandwiches!

Week 6

It’s been another busy week in Reception! We learnt about Pentecost, made Pentecost fire hats and created some Holy Spirit doves to help remind us about this special time in the church.
In our maths lessons, we completed different surveys by asking our friends which minibeast/ Disney princess/ superhero they liked best and then filled in the tick charts and block graphs to match. We had so much fun taking part in this task!!

We also had a special visit from the fairies that live in our Reception garden. They asked us to take care of the garden and their minibeast friends that live there. They made some special fairy potions for us to play with!

We also released the butterflies that we have cared for over the past 5 weeks. They were so beautiful and it was a privilege to watch them change and grow over time. All of the children were really excited to see them fly away and we reminded ourselves of the butterfly life cycle and talked about how the butterflies might lay eggs in our Reception garden. 

Week 5

We are really enjoying our ‘Into the Garden’ topic at the minute. This week, we have started to learn more about plants and flowers. We have looked at the roots and leaves of different plants, labelled plant parts and planted our own sunflower seeds. We have been taking very good care of them after we learnt what plants need to help them grow. 

Week 4

This week we have revisited our learning on odd and even numbers. We worked really hard on this, learning through pairing up socks, looking at numicon, sharing counters and more. We are going to be continuing to work on this over the next few weeks. 

Each of our class caterpillars also turned into a chrysalis this week too. Watch the video below to see the caterpillar wiggling and changing. 

Week 3

We have continued to work on our storytelling through ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We have also learnt more about caterpillar life cycles, creating mini books, butterfly bracelets, ordering jigsaw pictures and more!

We had great fun on our mini beast hunt too, looking to see what other creatures we could find in our school gardens.