Wecome back and a very happy and healthy New Year wish to you all. It was lovely to see everyone back on Tuesday and the children all seemed genuinely pleased to see their friends again.Early morning child initiated play has been full of chatter and sharing news. In literacy our writing this week started by retelling news … Read more
Looking back over the term what a lot has been achieved. All children are now settled into the routines and the foundations of good learning have been laid. It has been an exciting last week, with the Christmas play completed; we got off to a great start with our visit to the pantomime Jack and … Read more
The whole school watched the children perform their Christmas show on Wednesday morning and despite being a bit like sardines squashed into just half of the hall they all seemed to enjoy the performance. A great show, with very few incidents! Their last performance to parents and grandparents this afternoon was amazing!Despite a busy week … Read more
With it being Road Safety Week we invited the Road Safety Team in to talk to the children. Unfortunately the man who was due to come in was ill on Monday and was then unable to come in on Friday as rearranged. Our lessons were planned to follow on from the professional road safety input … Read more
An exciting week as the children explored the dark by sitting in the unlit ‘dark den’. We talked about sources of light, learnt about nocturnal animals and about fears of the dark as we heard the story of 'The owl who was afraid of the dark' by Jill Tomlinson and Tom’s Afraid of the Dark … Read more
Another busy week as the children learnt some new skills and practised the old. The week started with retelling our half term holiday news which made exciting reading! Firework night led us to look at the life of Guy Fawkes and think about fireworks. The children tried to think of words that described the sound … Read more
Half term has arrived, a time to recharge batteries, practise skills learnt so far and return fighting fit for the seven weeks that lead up to Christmas. This week we have celebrated National Apple Week by looking at and tasting different types of apples. We found out that the saying ‘An apple a day keeps … Read more
Autumn has been at the centre of all activity in reception this week. In literacy we have looked at fiction and non-fiction books and poems about autumn. You may like to look again at the autumn story entitled ‘In the Autumn’ on: sebastianswan.org.uk/autumn/bkau.html The children looked at a non-fiction book on how to plant a … Read more
The hi-light of this week was of course the trip to Wimpole Home Farm. Despite a dreary start we only had 5 minutes of rain whilst eating dinner, not even enough to make us seek shelter. The rain had added to the excitement, in creating some lovely muddy muddles and as all children were in … Read more
On Monday the reception children learnt to say hello in four languages in our International Languages Day celebrations. They looked at bread from different countries and learnt about France when Mr LeCoze visited in the afternoon. With only three weeks to go until half term it is amazing to see how well these children have settled … Read more
