Greenfield Primary School
Reception - Elm
Welcome to Elm Class
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Mrs Snape, Mrs Devy and Mrs Goodwin
We are Reception!
LETTERS TO PARENTS
Sports Day 2022
28th June 2022
Today the whole school celebrated Spanish Day. We wore the colours of the Spanish flag, tried some Spanish food and learnt the names for Spanish colours and numbers. 🇪🇸
24th June 2022- Our trip to the park.
23rd June 2022
We have taken part in Bikeability.
World Music Day
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17th June 2022
We have had another busy and exciting week in Reception!
9th June 2022
We have had a very exciting week in Reception as our caterpillars hatched from their cocoons safely. After a few days we were able to release them and we watched them fly away. 🦋
27th May 2022
Whole school Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
20th May 2022
This week we have enjoyed watching our caterpillars eat their food and get bigger and more active. We also went on a mini beast hunt to see what other insects we could find. 🕷🐛🐞🐝🐌
13th May 2022
Baby caterpillars have come to stay with us in Reception. We have to look after them carefully and we can watch them grow. 🐛🦋
6th May 2022
30th April 2022
We have enjoyed our first week back in school after the Easter holidays!
Easter Activities
This week the Reception children have taken part in an egg rolling competition and an Easter bonnet parade. They all had a wonderful time. Well done to everyone!
1st April 2022
25th March 2022
18th March 2022 Comic Relief
11th March 2022
We’ve had another busy and fun filled week in Reception. We have shared the story ‘Dinosaurs Love Underpants’, we have been learning about number bonds in Maths and we are beginning to use the + and = signs to write simple number sentences.
World Book Day 2022
In Reception we focused on the story ‘The Little Red Hen’. We all dressed in red and we even made and baked our own bread which we then enjoyed at snack time. 🍞😋
18th February 2022
We have had a very busy last week of this half term. We have continued to develop our independent reading and writing, we have been investigating the length of different items and we have been to the Kitchen Disco! We have explored different fruit from the story, painted it, printed patterns with it and then eaten it for snack! 😋🍎🍋🍍🥭🍇🥥
11th February 2022
Dress to Express! 😊
4th February 2022
On Friday we celebrated Number Day. We came to school with numbers on our clothes and we completed lots of number activities. 0️⃣1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣🔟
28th January 2022
This week we have shared the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We have made our own beanstalks and then used them to measure. We have also designed and then junk modelled our favourite toys.
21st January 2022
This week we have shared the story ‘Beegu’. We have made aliens and designed and made our own rockets and spaceships.👾👽🚀
7th January 2022
Happy new year! Our first week back has been a busy one!
16th December 2021
Merry Christmas from everyone in Reception!
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10th December 2021
What a busy week! We had a visit from Father Christmas and his reindeer and we performed our EYFS nativity for our grown ups!
3rd December 2021
We are now enjoying the count down to Christmas! This week we enjoyed a visit from a theatre company who performed ‘Aladdin’ for Reception and Nursery. We all really enjoyed the pantomime.👏We have been practising for our own show and we enjoyed spending our Greenfield Currency on a drink of juice and a biscuit! 🍪🥤
26th November 2021
This week we have shared the story ‘The tiger who came to tea’. We wrote shopping lists and made front covers. We invited the tiger to our class so we could ask him some questions. He told us all about his favourite food and how much he enjoys Mrs Goodwin’s baking. 😋🍰🧁
19th November 2021
This week has been very busy! The Big Bad Wolf came to visit and we made ‘Wanted’ posters. We got to ask the wolf lots of questions. He was very well behaved during his visit. We have also investigated different materials for building houses and designed and made our own houses. On Friday we joined the whole school in completing a danceathon to raise money for Children in Need. 💃🕺
12th November 2021
This week we have learnt about Remembrance Day. We joined the whole school in a special assembly. We have also been doing lots of counting in Maths and representing amounts in different ways. We have also made information leaflets in Literacy.
5th November 2021
We were back to school with a bang this week after our Half Term holiday. We have celebrated Diwali and Bonfire Night this week and also contended with an outbreak of cheeky peas! 😂 We loved reading about the adventures of Supertato and Evil Pea and linked this to some independent writing. ✏️
22nd October 2021
What a wonderful end to our first half term in Reception. This week our learning has had an Autumnal theme.🍁🍂 We have shared the story ‘The Gruffalo’, we have made Gruffalo Crumble and sequenced instructions. We ended the week with a Gruffalo song. Have a lovely half term holiday everyone. 😁
Our Gruffalo Song
15th October 2021
We have had another busy week in Reception. We took part in celebrating Black History Week along with the rest of the school. We focused on Martin Luther King. We ended with Spooky Day on Friday. Thank you to PIPs for organising this.🎃👻🕸🕷
8th October 2021
This week we have been developing our segmenting and blending skills in Phonics, we have shared the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’ and we’ve been sorting and matching in Maths. We ended the week raising awareness and money for the #helloyellow campaign. We talked about the importance of helping our minds to be healthy as well as our bodies. We had a ‘care chair’ in class and talked about what made us happy. We tried out Yoga and dressed in yellow for the day. 🙂💛
1st October 2021
This week we have done some super subitising in Maths and we have sequenced the story ‘Rainbow Fish’ in Literacy. We ended the week with an ‘under the sea’ Dance Write activity. We are developing our fine motor skills and pencil control and learning to form letters correctly.
24th September 2021
We have had another busy week in Reception. We have worked together to make a Colour Monster display in our classroom and we have been practising showing different emotions using our faces and body language. 😁🥰🙁😱 We have also been talking about our families and the people who are special to us. 😊
17th September 2021
All the Reception children continue to settle well at Greenfield Primary. They are becoming more confident in their new learning environments and they are enjoying making new friends. This week we shared the story ‘The Colour Monster’, painted our hands to print, made a silly soup using rhyming words and enjoyed some September sunshine. ☀️
10th September 2021 Our first week in Reception
We are so proud of all the children in Reception. They have all settled so quickly and have enjoyed their first week at school. 😀👏👍
