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This week in reception

This week we have begun thinking about the ocean and the creatures that live in it. We have had lots of fun playing with our own beach, walking the plank and fishing for sea creatures without using our hands. Here we are enjoying the sunshine in the garden. The children are very confident now at …

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This week in Reception

This week we have continued to look at Edward Tingatinga and practised using different media to make various parts of his artwork. Last week was ‘Walk to School Week’. As part of this, we learned about Road Safety. We are supporting children to, “Know and talk about the different factors that support their overall health …

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This week in Reception

Physical Development In PE lessons we have been continuing to develop our ball skills and our focus this week has been throwing. The children learnt some specific vocabulary ‘underarm,  target, overarm, aim’. First we discussed how we can throw a ball and how we can improve the distance that the ball travels. The children practised …

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This week in Reception

Literacy This week we have started to learn a new story called ‘Stuck in the Mud’, where poor Daisy the cow is stuck and Farmer Tom is asking the other farm animals for help to pull her out!  This is not from a book but a Talk for Writing original, written by Pie Corbett. The …

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This week in Reception

This week we have been working on improving our fine motor skills in a variety of ways. We have made a boat and passengers  out of play dough for Mr Gumpy, followed instructions to draw a boat, built a bridge for the animals in the story to cross and used one to one correspondence to …

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This week in Reception

This week we have begun learning about Edward Tinga Tinga. Here we are in Mindful Monday practising a variety of art skills. We used watercolours to make sunsets, extended animal patterns, printed a silhouette of a tree and copied some Tinga Tinga artworks. You can find out more about Edward Tinga Tinga here: We have …

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This week in Reception

This week we have introduced the topic, “Summer Fun”. The weather has certainly helped to make us all feel as though summer is not far away. We have been very excited to discover two new areas: A newly grassed area in the garden A book making station We have already used these areas lots to …

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April is the Month of the Military Child

Each year we love taking the time to celebrate our military children here at Merry Hill. Service children can face challenges with parents in the armed forces. Yet these children are also an amazing asset to families, schools and the local community. The Month of the Military Child helps us remember this and helps us …

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This week in Reception

Understanding the World- Festivals, festivals!This week we have been learning about special festivals. We have been very fortunate to have visitors coming into school to help us learn more about them.  ‘Children in Reception will be learning to: recognise  that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways’. (Development Matters, Sept 2021) …

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This week in Reception

 We hope you had a special time at the weekend; the children were so excited to show you their Mother’s Day cards. Here are some photos that we can now share of the process involved! The children loved making observational drawings of daffodils, whist learning about St David’s day but also did an extra special …

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