Mrs Chapman

Mrs Chapman

Performance week in RB (13.2.23)🎼🎤🥁

This week has been Performance Week. Reception Blue have had a fantastic week developing and practising their singing and dancing skills, as well as writing and telling jokes and performing to a larger audience as a group. Monday Tuesday Wednesday…

Week 4 in Reception Blue (30.1.23) 🤗

This week we continued with our topic for this half term, ‘Our Favourite Stories’. Our story for this week was ‘Elmer’ by David McKee. We also continued with our PSHE work and focus on Citizenship.😊 Communication and Language- To listen…

Week 2 in Reception Blue 16.1.23 🌟

Our topic for this half term is Favourite Stories where we will be sharing lots of texts by the same author . We will also continue with our PSHE work and focus on Citizenship.😊 Communication and Language- To listen and…

Our first week back in Reception Blue 🤗

The children have settled in really well after the holiday and were eager to share the exciting things they have been doing with family and friends over the past two weeks. It was lovely to see them come into school…

Jack and the Beanstalk Week in Reception Blue

We have had a fantastic final week of term. We shared the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and cultivated our own Reception Blue beanstalk, complete with a giant climbing to the top and disappearing through the clouds! Please look at…

Week 4 in Reception Blue 🤗

This week we have continued with our topic ‘Fantastic Lights’ where we are learning about dark and light, seasonal changes and celebrations. We are also continuing with our SEAL/PSED focus on ‘Getting On’.😊 Communication and Language- To describe an event…

Week 2 in Reception Blue 🤗

Our topic for this half term is ‘Fantastic Lights’ where we will be learning about dark and light, seasonal changes and celebrations. We will also continue with our PSHE work and focus on ‘Getting On’.😊 Communication and Language- To listen…

Maths Week in Reception Blue

This week our focus has been Maths. Each day we have looked at a different country and, using the skills developed in our first term, challenged ourselves to work with number in a variety of ways. Please have a look…

Art Project Week in Reception Blue

This week, as part of Art Project Week, we have participated in a variety of activities, such as designing a new stamp for King Charles, listening and responding to different music, learning some simple ballet moves and making head dresses…

Week 4 in Reception Blue 😀

We are continuing our topic of ‘All About Me’ as well continuing to settle into our new routines and structures. This week our work is based around the story ‘Kipper’s Toybox’ by Mick Inkpen. Please take a look at our…

European Day in Reception Blue 🇪🇸

What a fantastic day we have had in Reception Blue today. As part of European Day, we explored Spain and the Spanish culture. We spoke some Spanish, made flags, ate some delicious Spanish food and even had a go at…

Week 2 in Reception Blue

This week we have continued our new topic of ‘All About Me’ as well continuing to settle into our new routines and structures.😊 Please take a look at our learning below and comment on what your favourite part of the…

Our first week in Reception Blue!

What a super start we have had to our Reception Blue journey! The children have settled well and have been very excited to introduce themselves to each other. They are becoming familiar with the rules and routines and have enjoyed…

A super first day in Reception Blue! 🤩

The children have had an amazing first day in Reception Blue! We introduced ourselves to each other during circle time. We also talked about our differences such as our favourite foods, and how this makes us special and unique. We…

Week 6 in Reception Blue

We have had another busy week in Reception. This week, for our final full week of learning, our focus has been Citizenship. We have been thinking about the people who help us and the importance of saying thank you to…

Citizenship Week in Reception Blue

This week in Reception Blue our focus has been on Citizenship. We have been thinking about the importance of saying thank you to people who help us, the importance of friendship and why we need to tell the truth. Please…

Week 4 in Reception Blue 🚌

We have had another busy week continuing with our topic of ‘Journeys and Transport’. Please take at some of our wonderful learning and leave a comment to explain your favourite part of the week and why. 😊 PSED– To know…

Week 3 in Reception Blue

We have had another busy week continuing with our topic of ‘Journeys and Transport’. Please take at some of our wonderful learning and leave a comment to explain your favourite part of the week and why. 😊 PSED– To know…

Week 1 in Reception Blue 🚌

We have had another busy week where the children have learnt lots. This week we started our new topic, ’Journeys’. Please take a look at our fantastic learning and leave a comment to explain your favourite part of the week…

Week 4 in Reception Blue

We have had another busy week where the children have learnt lots and gained. We have continued with our topic of Living and Growing’ and this week our focus has been caterpillars and butterflies. Wednesday was World Numeracy when we…

Week 2 in Reception Blue 🌷

We have had another super week in Reception Blue, continuing with our Living and Growing topic. Our focus this week has been plants. Please have a look at our fantastic learning and leave a comment to explain your favourite part…

Week 5 in Reception Blue

This week we have continued our Topic ‘People who help us’ by finding out about firefighters and the important jobs that they do. Please have a look at our super learning and leave a comment on the blog. Literacy-Using our…

Week 3 in Reception Blue

This week we continued with our topic ’People Who Help Us’ and looked at police officers. Please have a look at our learning from the week and comment on what you have enjoyed and why. PSED-We talked about and then…

Week 1 in Reception Blue 🤗

What a fantastic start we have had this week! The children were all so enthusiastic to return to school after the half term break and quickly settled into the routine again, remembering to follow our rules. Our new topic is…

Communication and Language in RB

This week, as part of our new topic, ’People Who Help Us’, we have talked about how teachers help us. Today, we worked in groups to discuss and put into the correct order the different things that we do in…

Week 5 in Reception Blue 🎉

What a fantastic week we have had in Reception Blue! This week we took part in lots of activities to celebrate Chinese New Year! This year it is the year of the tiger! 🐯 We created and decorated Chinese lanterns…

Week 3 in Reception Blue 🐘

We have had another super week of learning in Reception Blue this week. As part of ‘Our Favourite Stories’ topic we read ‘Elmer’ by David McKee, a story about a patchwork elephant. We described Elmer and talked about our favourite…

Room On The Broom in Reception Blue 🧹

This week we have been reading ‘Room on the Broom’, another story by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. As part of our Communication and Language development, some of the children chose and talked about a character from the story and…