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This week in Reception

This week, as part of our Time Travellers Topic, we have been thinking about families and talking about how we have changed since we were babies. We will be looking at photos of some of the grown ups as babies and seeing if we can guess who the babies are! We will be using our …

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This week in Reception

Four weeks of fabulous learning – you are all settling into your new school routine beautifully! This week the children have loved exploring more of the exciting areas in Reception including Music (inside and out), our malleable area and our investigation area. There is so much for us to see and do! Inclusion Week This …

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Our first PE lesson

Reception have been doing a fantastic job in their second week at Merry Hill School! We have been talking about our Golden Rules then showing how we follow them so we can all feel happy together.  The children have been looking after property by changing for PE and putting their uniform inside their PE kits …

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This week in Reception…..

We have had a very busy first full week in reception! We made lots of new friends and settled into our new classes. It has been a week of lots of ‘firsts’….. We had our first library visit where we all chose a book to bring home and are looking forward to sharing them with …

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This week in Reception

This week has been our very first week in Reception. We have come into school so confidently and surprised our teachers by how grown up we have been. We have learned the names of our teachers and made lots of new friends. We have changed from our shoes, into our wellies when we have played …

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This Year in Reception

To the Elephants and Zebras of 2023, We have loved every minute of watching you grow this year. We are so proud of all you have achieved. You are now so fast at getting changed for PE. We cannot catch you out in phonics recap anymore – “There you are!” You have tried so many …

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This week in Reception

Literacy We have loved learning ‘How to be a pirate’ in Literacy. We can now recite the instructions with the actions and it is such fun. Our ‘Pirate speak’ has definitely improved over the last week or so “Ahaa me hearties!”. We have been making and labelling pirate maps as well as creating our own …

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This week in Reception

This week we have started learning about pirates. Literacy In Literacy we are learning to, “Listen to and talk about selected non-fiction texts to develop a deep familiarity with new knowledge and vocabulary., ” (Development Matters 2021). We are  reading and following instructions about how to be a pirate. We have noticed that each instruction …

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Sports Day!

On Friday we were very excited as Reception’s first Sports Day had arrived! We had all been practicing hard and were now ready for the event. We came into school wearing our PE kit and trainers for a fun filled morning. First we got into our teams and headed up to the field, then we …

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This week in Reception

This week in Reception we have been trying to find ways to keep cool. We enjoyed some quiet time in a tent, pretending we were at the beach, making seaside pictures, using water to send boats and ducks down the guttering, walking the plank and drawing with melting ice. During Mindful Monday we were honing …

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