Class R
Welcome Class R 2024/2025
Welcome to BIG school!
Please click on the links below to see some of the work that we have been doing.
Let's start with Autumn Term 1 - Marvellous Me!
Here come the Summer Term 2024!
SUMMER 1
OUR BOOK - MAD ABOUT MINIBEASTS
SNAILS
LADYBIRDS AND DANDELIONS!
WE'RE GOING ON A MINIBEAST HUNT!
WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOME TINY ONES.....
World Bee Week!
The day a bee came to visit us!
Today a very sleepy bee was discovered in our outdoor area. We gave it a drink of sugary water to give it some energy. The children loved observing it - they watched it clean itself with its legs.... AMAZING!
Bee facts, how honey is made, honey and toast tasting, collage, finger printing, buttercups and a surprise abundance of slugs - a gorgeous week in Class R!
COUNTING OUR TEEN NUMBERS - WHAT ARE THEY?
We are growing up...
Look at our writing...
HAPPY HALF TERM EVERYONE - KEEP SAFE AND SEE YOU SOON!
Welcome back to school!
Our Spring Term - Part 2!
Our Spring 2 Class R newsletter - thank you for reading.
WEEK 1:
We launched into our new topic this morning which is called 'Search for a Hero'. Please look at our newsletter, coming out later on in the week, which will share some of the exciting learning that we have planned.
Here is our new book that we enjoyed sharing:
Using our Superhero language in our play...creating stories and sharing with our friends....
SUPER PHONICS!
In our phonics this week, we have been reading and writing longer words. We have been counting syllables and chunking up the word so that we can read it, for example vel/vet = velvet:
WELLY WEDNESDAY
Today we learnt all about DAFFODILS!
We went on a 'DAFFODIL HUNT' around the school grounds:
LOOKING FOR DAFFODILS ON THE SCHOOL FIELD...
We asked the question:
WHY AREN'T THERE ANY DAFFODILS ON THE SCHOOL FIELD?
We had some super answers:
"because they might get squashed by the footballs,"
"because they haven't grown yet,"
"because nobody has planted them!"
We then found out all about DAFFODIL BULBS and looked closely at them - we learned that they are plated under the soil and enjoyed planting our own.
Week 2
OUR POP UP LIBRARY SESSION WITH OUR
BUDDIES AND OUR FAMILIES
What a wonderful start to World Book Week! Thank you so much for sharing some beautiful books and stories this morning - it was so special to welcome parents and carers into school.
Story telling plates - can you guess the book?
Thank you for our first 3 plates that were delivered to school this morning - you have until Thursday to bring yours too - we can't wait to see your designs!
Please and thank you
Remembering our manners and enjoying our fruity snack!
What is the same?
Today we carefully observed some daffodils and some tulips. We learnt that tulips come in all different colours and that they grow from a bulb too. We looked at what was the same about them. Here are our ideas:
"They both have yellow on them."
"They are both flowers."
"They both have those green parts......stems."
"They have both been chopped off the bulb."
Poppy asked a great question: "Why are they called tulips?" - we looked on the internet to find out the answer:
The name "tulip" is thought to come from the Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to look like for the person who discovered it.
WELLY WEDNESDAY
Marching into March!
This week we have been marching around our playground looking for signs that Spring is well and truly on its way! We noticed how some of the daffodils had opened up since last week and how the crocus have flowers on them now. We could hear the sparrows singing in the trees and enjoyed watching them fly above us!
We love sharing books in Class R!
Happy Easter everyone!
This week we enjoyed finding out about some Easter traditions, including egg rolling, making Easter cards and making Easter cakes! We shared the Easter story and found out that this is a very important story from the Bible. The Bible is a very important book for Christians.
SPRING 1:
GIVE IT UP FOR MONDAY!
So much learning and fun to be had in R!
Our role play was making pancakes, sand play was dumpers and diggers, maths was odd and even numbers and our phonics trigraph was ‘air’.
This week is the the start of the Great British Bird Watch.
We have made bird cake to feed the birds in winter. We will be looking through the classroom window to see what type of birds we can spot. We have made some to take home too and hope to see more birds in our own gardens.
Making music 🎶
FUNDAY FRIDAY!
We started our day making play dough ginger cookies, having hot chocolate and gingerbread men for snack and then we listened to the story.
Happy New Year! 🎉
Our first week back in 2024 and we have been on a 3D shape hunt around the classroom, look what we found!
AUTUMN WALKS
Class R put on their wellies and enjoyed their walk around the school grounds looking at the hard work Gardening Club have done.
They noticed the bird feeders,the hanging baskets and the grasses that have been planted. We finished with Autumn leaf fun!
YR Autumn 1 Newsletter
AUTUMN TERM: September - October 2023
Week 1
Welcome to
Richardson Endowed Primary School
What a pleasure it has been to welcome our 30 new Reception children and their families to their brand new school.
During our half day visits this week, we have spent time getting to know our new class friends, our new teacher, our new teaching assistants, our new learning spaces and new routines. Children, we are so proud of you all - you all did briliiantly well.
Looking forward to seeing you again on Monday!
Please enjoy some of the photographs of us getting to know all things new:
MEETING OUR TEDDIES!
LOOK AT THE HATS WE MADE TOGETHER!
PLAYING TOGETHER
BEING TOGETHER
Hello! I know you!
SHARING A MEAL TOGETHER!
Week 2
ALL TOGETHER NOW!
Monday morning and time to celebrate our first full day at BIG school!
What a super day we have had ALL TOGETHER! We have been busy learning brand new routines and getting to know our new friends. We met your teddies, looked at their accessories and found out what you had named them.
Thank you for a wonderful day children, you have made our hearts so proud!
WE'RE GOING ON A WELLY WALK...
WHAT WILL WE SEE,
WHAT WILL WE HEAR, WHAT CAN WE SMELL?
Thank you Archie for being our chief photographer today.
So proud of you!
Please find a link below to our CLASS NEWSLETTER
for this half term. Thank you.
Week 3 - here we come...
Today, Teddy brought us a story in the story bag
to share together this morning.
We spoke about the title of the book and the author being the person who wrote the story.
Here we are, retelling the story on the sensory story tough spot:
On Welly Wednesday, we went on our own Bear Hunt - listening to the sounds we could hear. We heard the rain pitter patting, the wind blowing, the birds singing, silence and children chatting...
What did we see? Our big school field, lots of mushrooms, a pear, The King's Coronation tree....us running!
Ooooh - who does this umbrella belong to? How did it get there?
Look who we found under the tree...
BIG TED AND A DELICIOUS SNACK FOR US ALL!
WE'RE EATING IN THE RAIN, JUST SNACKING IN THE RAIN - WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING, IT'S RAINING AGAIN.....!
We watched and listened to the author, Michael Rosen, read his book. We really enjoyed it and loved joining in with the different sounds. Look below for the link to watch it at home:
This week was WET WET WET - but that made out outdoor time even more fun!
Why do our puddlesuits make us go down the slide faster?
Keeping our friend dry in the rain - thank you
Thank you Mummies and Daddies for our wellies and puddlesuits, they make such a different to our outdoor learning!
In music time, we listened to the sound of the rain stick. We were so careful.
The rain washed all of the spider webs away - here we are looking at how they weaved some new ones when the sun dried up all the rain!
Enjoying the sunshine once again and practising our stilt walking!
With a spot of measuring!
DOUGH DISCO HELPS OUR FINGERS BECOME STRONGER!
Mmmmmm we loved the pizza and ice cream for lunch today!
Here we are sharing the first of our Teddy Tales - thank you!
WEEK 4...already!
Starting our phonics - practising the letter shapes...
We're going on a puddle hunt, we're looking for a big one!
Oh no! A tree! We can't go over it, we can't go over it, we'll have to go around it!
Autumn Round up!
We have had a wonderfully busy and fun Autumn term so far.
The Reception staff and children are very happy and excited to have a new outside learning area and we have been eagerly putting it to good use. We have been talking with the children about how to play nicely in this new year and take care of this special outside space!
We have been learning about our bodies through the ‘Funny Bones’ story, looking at animal skeletons and human ones (not real!) and enjoyed making our own skeletons using cotton buds.
In Maths, we have been learning about matching, sorting, comparing and looking at patterns.
Autumn welly walks have focused on spotting autumn colours, we’ve created tally charts of these, and seasonal changes. We also used bodies to make Rangoli patterns on the grass with our friends. Thank goodness for the puddle suits and wellies- it’s been a wet and muddy time!
We also met our buddies, talked about Halloween and took part in the pumpkin parade, learned about the history of the celebration of Bonfire night and created firework pictures in various ways.
We have continued to focus on the important skills of sharing, taking turns, listening to our friends and sharing our ideas with others and concentrating on our learning when we are on the carpet. We have also been encouraging nice manners during snack time and many children are using these really well.
They have all made a super start to their learning journeys in Reception this autumn term. We have already made a very promising start to our Nativity dancing and singing and can’t wait to share this with you!
We look forward to continuing to support them in their learning. I wonder what fun we will get up to next?
Take a look at last year's learning and activities from 2022-23: