2nd Half Autumn

Week Beginning  5th December 2022

This week we have been making Emergency vehicles from recycled boxes as a follow up from last week and they do look really interesting. We had another opportunity of having a London Underground  train driver called Nathan to come in and talk to us about their role in helping us. We learnt that the ticket officers and the train service controllers communicate with each other whenever school children go on a trip to ensure that they are kept safe during their entire journey on the train and in the station. We found out that each train has 8 carriages. He said that we are one of their most important customers who use the trains. Nathan was really impressed with our knowledge and understanding of how trains operate as we spoke about  always hearing the phrase " mind the gap" when we are on the platforms at the station. We have finished making our own recycled Christmas tree. In Maths we were looking at making our own stampoline patterns for number 5.

Week Beginning  28th November 2022

This week we have been learning about Recycling and its importance. We now know which items can be recycled. We have started to use some of the recycling items we collected to make a few things for ourselves. We made our own recycling Monster and we are in the process of making our own recycled Christmas tree. We are going to decorate our tree with baubles that we made ourselves and other things we can put on it.We used part of our outdoor area to showcase our drawings and writing skills and played shop with our friends.  We did some writing around recycling as well. We made our own recycling instruments  and we will be making emergency vehicles from boxes as well. Watch this space!

Week Beginning 21st November 2022

This week our focus was around fire fighters, we began the week by registering as fire fighter and we  carried out some drills to make sure we were fit enough to be fire fighters. We made our own fire helmets and labelled the different parts of a fire truck. Then we  did some observational drawingS of our own fire trucks that was hard work but we tried our best! We were so lucky to have a retired soldier come in and  tell us the different ways soldiers help us. His name is Steve . He told us he was a soldier for 24 years. He did jobs like helping people get food in the war, helping in Ethopia , in the Olympics by giving out tickets and controlling the crowds, he helped put up temporary shelters. Blake asked " what does oppression mean? showing his great listening skills and Steve gave a simple answer that the children understood. Well done to him! The children said they would like to be a fire fighter when they grow up. They also understood the dangers of fire and how they should keep safe. We had a really good week.

Week Beginning 14th November 2022

This week we have continued with our topic "People Who Help Us" . We began this week by talking about anti-bullying and wore odd socks to  celebrate this year's theme. We focussed on the police and looked at the different emergency services we have. First we made our own police badges and used our knowledge of numbers to create our own unique warrant number. We now know  what number to call in an emergency.  We can explain what a police officer does and what uniform they wear.  Then we labelled a diagram showing what police officers wear. We made our own finger prints using different colours. In our role play area we have a Doctor's Surgery and we have been looking after many patients and checking their welfare. We used tweezer to collect evidence from a grave and thought about the different numbers we could pick up helping us to develop our fine motor skills. It has been a really busy week for us in Reception.

Week Beginning 7th November 2022

This half term we are learning about “People Who Help Us”. Each week, we will focus on a least one person in our community that helps us. We will be doing different pieces of work around our topic.This week we looked at the lollipop person who helps us when we want to cross the road.We labelled and added our own lollipop stick to a lollipop person. We are learning how to recognise quantities as well as counting up to 10. We used playdough to cut out our sounds as we develop our fine motor skills by rolling, cutting and shaping with playdough. We talked about why people wear poppies and went to look at our school display for Rememberance Day.

Week Beginning 31st October 2022

Welcome back to R.Goodall. We are really excited to be back and we have begun learning about Diwali ,Halloween and Bonfire Night. We have taken time to make different things related to these special events. We have been improving our fine moter skills as we learn how to cut out things. We are getting better at counting and ,matching and organising our numbers. We really enjoy our music lessons as  we learn how to sing along with our friends. Have a look at some of these amazing thing we did as a class and individually.