Blog by Nicky Richardson

History Walk

During our walk around Kirkham, we looked at the different buildings, objects and road signs and tried to imagine what life was like in the past.

We had a wonderful World Book Day yesterday, doesn't everyone look amazing!

Mrs Culshaw

In Reception we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We chopped some vegetables and made a yummy stir fry.  We even tried eating noodles using chopsticks.  We made lanterns and lucky money pockets and took part in a Chinese dragon dance.  We even had a go at Chinese writing. Check out some…

What a busy week we have had in Reception.  We were so proud of the children on Wednesday at their Pizza assembly. The pizzas were delicious and they performed their rhyme and song brilliantly.  Today we have had phonics drop in and our maths course.  The children love working with their mums…

Yesterday we had our Christmas party and the children enjoyed playing lots of party games, such as pass the parcel, musical statues and musical chairs. We were also very excited to have a special visit from Santa.  Take a look at the photos below.

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This week we have been learning about robots.  We have read the story "Harry and the Robots" and we have made our amazing cardboard box robots.   We have used the "bee bot" robot to learn how to program it to move  and, lastly,  we have written about our own robots that we made.

Mrs Culshaw &…

We had a wonderful time in the woods on Monday. We learnt all about the different leaves on the trees and looked at all the different colours in Autumn.  We found conkers and their shells.

Mrs Culshaw & Mrs Chandler

The children were very excited to begin learning letter sounds and have had lots of fun doing so.

This week we started phase 2 phonics. We learnt the sounds s, a, t, p. We thought of words containing these sounds and learnt some actions to help us remember them. We played I spy games and also…

This week in reception the children have been working hard to develop their fine motor skills. Every morning when the children come into school they take part in a "funky finger" activity. Take a look at the photos to see the types of activities  we do.  These skills really help us to write and…

We have had another very busy week.  The children have settled into school amazingly well, you should be very proud of them.   We have been counting and recognising numbers, learning about the Jewish Festival of Sukkot and practising writing our names.  The children have all now been given their…

We have had an amazing first full week at school.

Please have a look at our photographs.

Mrs Culshaw & Mrs Chandler

We enjoyed our lunch at school!