Understanding the World in Reception

We have been applying our maths knowledge to observe our ducklings by creating tallies of the amount of times that they eat or drink water.

Autumn watch in reception

Reception – Science

Today we learnt about fertilisation! We looked at the stages of growth in flowers but in dandelions in particular. Watch our video to find out what fertilisation is! We will be continuing to be learning about plants and trees at school, but would love you to tell us what your favourite flower is! We would […]

Wednesday walk round

Low winter sun alert!

Preschool have been moving their bodies in different ways to make shadow shapes. Some of us even tried to make the letters of the alphabet!

Frosty days in Preschool

We have had lots of fun looking for frost and ice whilst wrapped up in our coats and scarves. The changes to our garden have been really beautiful today and we will be making frost and ice art tomorrow.

Reception – learning about hearing aids

We were lucky enough to have a visitor come in and talk to us about her hearing aid. Her name is Mrs Peters! As you can see from the video the children were very engaged! Mrs Peters had a model of our ear and showed us how our ear works!

Reception Science – learning about our body

In Reception we have a doctors role play corner, so, we have been learning all about our bodies. One of our friends drew a picture of “stuff in her body” We asked her what this was and she told us it is inside our body and goes round. This prompted us to take a look […]

Reception Science – compost bins

We had great fun exploring the wildlife area. We needed pebbles and stones… We had to put them at the bottom of our compost bins. We used trowels to add soil. We had fun! We were able to identify that this was a bulb, and can now identify parts of a bulb. We discussed what […]

Reception – The Natural World

In Reception we have been looking at seasons, we now have an understanding of the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around us and have been exploring the natural world around us by finding items to put in our mini compost bins!