Reception blog

We started our week baking cakes.  Ms Croarken made Kippers’ cake with baked beans , jam, sugar, cornflakes and milk.  It was not good!  Mrs Jilks made us a proper cake and we ate it at snack time, it tasted much better!

We also explored our sense of taste and of touch.

We went outside to collect some of the things in the natural world that God made.  We used these to make our own pictures of flowers and animals.

A big thank you for the generous gifts you sent for our Cafod collection.  We were very grateful and talked to the children about where your tins and packets are going and who they were going to help.

Thank you for all the parents who are donating to our Reception fund.  It helped towards the cake making and food tasting this week.  The children will be able to talk to you about one of the things we have bought with the money next week.

Next week we are going to visit the Memorial Park.  The visit is to look at the changing seasons and the wonderful world God made.  If it is raining we will re arrange the visit for another day.

This week we meet our Prayer Friends for the first time.  We spent the afternoon finding out about them and having our photographs taken together.  They then supported us on our first visit to Church as a class.  Thank you Year 6 for looking after us and making us feel safe.

Reception pupils have now started to bring home a library book on Friday.  This book is for sharing at home and will need to be returned by the following Friday, so that it can be exchanged for a new one.

We now also have a class ‘Prayer Bag’.  This bag contains lots of things that you can use for a family prayer service at home.  The bag will come home with one child on a Friday  and needs to come back by the following Wednesday.  The children are all really excited to be the one chosen to bring the bag home.

Thank you to all the parents who attended the Reading/Writing evening, we hope that you found it useful.  We will be providing the packs from the evening to those parents who were unable to attend this week.

Today we went on the number 10 bus into town to visit Charles Agers shoe shop.  It was very exciting, some of the children had never been on the bus before.  They were all very well behaved and followed instructions.  At the shoe shop we were welcomed and the staff talked about what happens when you go to buy shoes.  We all had our feet measured and we were given a card with our size on it and money off the next pair of shoes we buy.  We had a snack and a walk around the stock room so that we could see how many shoes they have for sale.  The staff gave us each a party bag with a book, raisins and some crayons to take back to school. We had a great morning and all children behaved excellently.

Thank you to our helpers today, we would not be able to do the trips without you.

Below are a few photographs of our day.

We have had a very busy first week.  The children have settled into school amazingly well, you should be very proud of them.   We have been counting and ordering numbers, exploring Autumn and practising writing.  The children have all now been given their first reading book and were very excited about this.  Please help them read daily and record in the reading record how they do.  More information about how to support your child reading will be given at the writing/reading evening this Thursday.    This week we are looking forward to our visit to Charles Agers and using public transport.  We will take lots of photographs for you to see.  Below are a few photographs of the things we got up to this week.  

We have to apologise for a typing error on our newsletter.  The phonics/writing evening is the 27th September not October, as stated in ‘Dates for your diary’.

We have started to send home phonics worksheets with your child.  We would like to say a big thank you to all who have supported their child to complete them and return them to school.  More information will be shared  about these on our writing evening. Thank you.