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Reception News

Here you can read all about recent activities taking place in Reception.

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  • Reception: What do plants need to grow?

    Published 12/06/26
    Following on from last week’s bus journey through London, we have been making and labelling our own maps of London. It was lovely to see how many of the children remembered the landmarks that they had learnt about last week, such as Big Ben, in
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  • Reception: What are the stages in the life cycle of a butterfly?

    Published 04/06/26
    This week we have read All Aboard the London Bus by Patty Toht. We explored some famous London landmarks including Big Ben, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and the Tower of London. We also had discussions about where London is and wh
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  • Reception: Where do you think the Gingerbread men are now and how did they get there?

    Published 22/05/26
    We were sent some photos of our missing  Gingerbread men… They have been all over the school,  Worcester Park High Street, flew to Iceland to visit the Puffins and Geysers and they are currently in the Bahamas, apparently!
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  • Reception: How did we make Gingerbread Men?

    Published 15/05/26
    This week we have started the story The Gingerbread man. The children have had great fun repeating the phrase ‘Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!’ The children used their phonic knowledg
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  • Reception: What is your favourite part of the Three little Pigs and why?

    Published 08/05/26
    It has been a very short week, but we have still worked hard. We are continuing to retell the story of the Three Little Pigs and the children are becoming proficient at retelling it themselves.
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  • Reception: Can you retell the story of The Three Little Pigs?

    Published 30/04/26
    We have had a wonderful time enjoying the sunshine this week! We read the fairytale, ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and the children have been writing their own story maps.
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  • Reception: How would you escape from inside a monster?

    Published 24/04/26
    This week in Reception we have been to Drawing Club! We read ‘The Day Louis Got Eaten’ by John Fardell.  Louis and his sister Sarah go out for a walk when unfortunately, Louis gets eaten by a monster...
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  • Reception: What do you remember about the festival of Eid?

    Published 17/04/26
    The children have been learning about the Muslim festival of Ramadan and the special celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr, which happened near the end of the last term!
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  • Reception: Can you tell your family the story of the first Easter?

    Published 27/03/26
    This week we learned the Easter Story. We retold the story of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem and made palm leaves which we waved as the people would have waved as he arrived. We learned about the last supper and we had bread and wine (blackcurrant squas
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  • Reception: What can you remember about the planets in our Solar System?

    Published 19/03/26
    In Reception this week, the children have been learning about our Solar System. They have learnt about the properties of the different planets, discussing how many moons each planet has, which planets are gas giants, which are cold and which are hot
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  • Reception: What did you learn about the Moon this week?

    Published 12/03/26
    This week in Reception we have been to the Moon! We read the story ‘Whatever Next!’ by Jill Murphy. We retold the story using props and we have been learning about what it would be like to actually go to the Moon. What would we need and w
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  • Reception: Can you tell someone the story of The Hairy Toe?

    Published 06/03/26
    We have had another fabulous week of Drawing Club. We read the book ‘The Hairy Toe’, with illustrations by Daniel Postgate. The Hairy Toe is a spine-tickling traditional tale. An old woman finds a hairy toe and soon, the owner comes looki
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