Jeremy Strong is coming to school

This Monday (2nd March) we have an author coming to visit St Margaret’s. All children from Reception to Year 6 will have a talk during the day and it will be an excellent start to the week (especially with World Book Day on the Thursday!) There will also be an opportunity to buy your own […]

Reception get involved in fitness, just like the parents/carers getting ready for Sunday!

Just like all the parents and carers that are getting ready for the Big Half we have been exercising too!

Reception’s topic is …

All about animals that come from eggs! We will be learning all about animals that come from eggs, we will be particularly focusing on reptiles over the next 2/3 weeks!

Pancake day in Reception

Today in Reception Class we selected our toppings for our pancakes! We had lots of fun eating them, here are some photos!

Missing!

Have you seen our lost bears!? It seems Betty and Buddy went on holiday, they wrote us a letter informing us they would be back Wednesday evening and would see us on Thursday morning. They sent us photos of themselves enjoying a little bit of the sunshine outside, reading a book, and eating chocolate on […]

How to make and bake our special Reception Class bread

You will need; 300g Wholemeal bread flour – we used strong stoneground 200g Strong white bread flour 1 sachet (7g) fast action dried yeast 7g salt 50ml olive oil (or vegetable/sunflower) About 300ml warm water (lukewarm) – the amount will depend on the type of flour you use, add a little at a time to […]

Reception get baking!

We had so much fun making bread today, we were SUPER excited! We loved watching it rise meaning our rolls got bigger and bigger! Here are some photos of us enjoying ourselves whilst getting messy making the bread! Thank you Mrs Woodley for helping us to ensure it was super tasty! Did you know that […]

Reception – Children’s Mental Health Week

As you are aware this week is Children’s Mental Health Week, here are some videos and photos of what we have been up to today in class. Below you will see some photos of us meditating (meditation for kids by Sada on Spotify is AMAZING!) during meditation we listened to a story about us riding […]

Letter formation in Reception class

We have really been focusing on correct letter formation in Reception class, if we can form our letters correctly it really helps us when we move on to joined up handwriting in the years to come. It is vital we start to learn correct letter formation in Reception as it is very difficult to correct […]

Reception have had a great start to the week!

We have had a great start to our week this week, Reverend Tim was kind enough to come in and play his accordion for us! As you know our topic at the moment is music and sound. We listened to the accordion and we learnt all about how to play it! We now know an […]