After half term we will be starting a new class topic in Reception…. ‘Castles and Fairytales‘.

For the ‘Castles’ part of the topic the children will be learning all about medieval life, castle jobs and the legend of Robin Hood. We will be designing and making our own shields,  painting Knights, building castles and much more.

For the ‘Fairytale’ part of the topic we will be focusing on the traditional stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White. The children will learn to make character descriptions/comparisons and they will have the opportunity to write/make invitations, letters, crowns and storyboards.

We will be celebrating our topic with a ‘Fairytale Themed Day’, where the children can come to school in fairytale fancy dress and we will play games, listen to medieval music and have a magical themed party picnic.

We hope the children will thoroughly enjoy this topic.

Last week we were lucky enough to have a visitor in school…

Mr Smith from Weston Road Academy came to see us to talk about dinosaurs and bring us a large collection of fossils to look at.

We were all given the opportunity to hold and feel the fossils various textures and Mr Smith explained to us that many of these fossilised creatures would have lived at the same time as the dinosaurs.

The children were very excited to ask questions and were able to use some lovely vocabulary to describe the fossils as we passed them around. Mr Smith was impressed by the children’s ever growing knowledge of dinosaurs and his visit prompted many more interesting questions from the children.

Thank you Mr Smith, for a great visit, we hope to see you again soon.

Today we have had a visitor in class!

Mr Smith from Weston Road Academy came to visit us and bring a selection of fossils for us to see. We all had the chance to hold and feel the fossils and Mr Smith explained that they were fossilised creatures that would have lived around the same time that dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

All of the children were very excited and amazed by the shapes of some of the fossils. They used some lovely words to describe the textures and Mr Smith was impressed with their fast growing knowledge of dinosaurs.

Thank you for a great lesson Mr Smith.

We are all very happy to be back at school and we have been very busy learning about our new topic ‘The Rain-forests.’ So far we have learnt about why rain-forests are so important to our climate. We have been learning about all of the names of the trees, animals and plants. We have created some wonderful pieces of art work for our display and we have put our rain-forest display up in class and it looks magnificent! We have created persuasive posters this week and have participated in a class debate on why it is important to preserve our rain-forests. We have also been to King Edward’s this week and we have taken part in a skipping and cheer leading festival. It was really fun! We have had lots of birthdays since we have been back and this week we are celebrating Jack and Sophie’s birthday! Happy Birthday to you both. We will look forward to updating you on all the work we have been doing next week.

Have a lovely weekend!

During this half term, the Reception class will be journeying back in time, around 65 million years, to learn all about the different types of dinosaurs that once roamed our planet.

We will be learning about a selection of dinosaurs, their habitats, food preferences and hunting skills/protective body armour.

We will also be making fossils, measuring dinosaur footprints and even digging for dinosaur bones when we spend an afternoon as archaeologists.

We have been busy learning about the festival of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. We have made our very own Menorah candles using hand prints. They will look lovely on our festival display. Also, we have been making our Hanukkah cards too. Yesterday, we went on a pedestrian safety walk down Dickys Lane. We all learnt how to cross the road safely. We had lots of fun playing netball and we would like to wish Bryony a happy 8th birthday for yesterday! We are excited about next week because we are learning about Advent.

Have a lovely weekend :-)

Thank you to all of the children in class 2 and the school who have come to school in the pyjamas and have donated some money! Hopefully Woodseaves primary will raise lots of money for Children in Need! We would like to wish Emily a Happy Birthday for Sunday. We hope you have a lovely day!