Author Archives: Kirsty Storey
Reception Knowledge Organiser
I have attached our knowledge organiser for the upcoming half term. This outlines the objectives and skills we are covering in class. We have a busy one planned celebrating the different festivals and looking at what happens in autumn. Keep … Continue reading
Welcome to Reception 2021
Hello! I hope you have all had a lovely start to Reception. The children have really settled in brilliantly and we have had a lovely week getting to know them all! I have sent home a class newsletter outlining some … Continue reading
Information about the Reception Baseline
This next week the children will be completing the government’s new statutory Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA).The RBA is a quick, set of activities carried out by the teacher, that measures the children’s communication and language and mathematic development. I have … Continue reading
WELCOME TO RECEPTION 2020
Hello everyone and welcome to Reception class 🙂 In reception we have Miss Storey, the class teacher and Mrs Gibbons and Mrs McNally the classroom teaching assistants. We are so happy to be back in school and it has been … Continue reading
Aliens Love Underpants
We have this weeks challenges based on activities inspired by ‘Aliens love underpants’. The children were reaffirming their knowledge on repeating patterns by creating underpants using printing. Creating patterns using shapes printers, sparked an interest in 2D shapes. So for … Continue reading
Alien Invasion!
As we arrived into class we noticed straight away that something was strange… Footprints! Where had our self registration pictures gone and who had left this slimy mess? After a quick discussion, we set off straight away – to find … Continue reading
Winter
We have been learning about the season Winter. We have been looking for signs and changes in our environment. The children enjoyed our winter walk and all took some brilliant photographs of different wintery pictures. This weeks challenges have all … Continue reading
Snow day!
We were all very excited on Tuesday when it started to snow. By the time we got ready to go out in the snow – wellies on, hat and scarves and coats fastened, the snow had started to thin out … Continue reading
Adding!
The children are enjoying adding numbers together. We have used a variety of different strategies to do this, jumping along our number mats, counting on our fingers, counting out groups of objects and even building addition towers. The children have … Continue reading
Whatever Next!
We have been reading the story ‘Whatever Next!’ All the children have thought about where they would go in Space. We have come up with some amazing, imaginative ideas! All the children have wrote their ideas in a sentence too… … Continue reading