Reception
Welcome to Reception! Our teachers are Mrs Spoors and Mrs Houston-Stewart. On Friday’s our teachers are Mrs Smith and Mrs Houston-Stewart.
We hope you will visit our page regularly to see what we have been up to.
Reception Blog Posts
Writing Skills
Every morning, when the children arrive into school, Reception class practice their independent writing skills by describing what they can see in an image on the screen. The children have been working very hard over the last few weeks to show off their skills such as...
St. Chad’s Church
Yesterday afternoon, Reception class visited St. Chad’s Church in Bensham as part of their RE topic; ‘Special Places’. Over the last couple of weeks, the children have been talking about their own special places and why they are special to them. We have also learnt...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This week during Drawing Club, Reception class we have been reading the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Our activities in class have included; creating our very own butterflies on Art table, making caterpillars out of play doh and placing them on leaves and...
Forest School Thursdays
What a gorgeous, hot, sunny morning it was for Nursery and Reception class to attend Forest School this morning. First, Phil told us that all of the Muddy Monsters were hiding in Forest School so we had to find where Eddie, Chloe, Oscar and Ella were! We then enjoyed...
Drawing Club – Jack and the Beanstalk
This week in Drawing Club, Reception class have been reading the story, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’ In our books, we used our code for the story in order for us to write a sentence about what we would find at the top of a beanstalk if we were Jack. We had some wonderful...
Forest School is back!
Nursery and Reception class were so excited to hear that our Thursday Forest School morning was back with Phil from Muddy Monsters! The sun was shining and the air was lovely and warm, so we couldn’t wait to find out what activities we would be involved in. We built...





