We have had a wonderful two weeks in Reception exploring Diwali, Bonfire Night and learning about India. The children have engaged in a range of learning including moulding clay to make diva lamps, tasting Indian food and painting firework pictures outside. We have explored the story of “Rama and The Demon King” and “A Day in India”. The boys and girls have remembered many key facts about Diwali and India and it has been very interesting listening to their questions and finding out the answers together.

It’s Autumn time and Reception class have been observing seasonal change in the outdoor environment. They have returned their autumn treasures that they found on their autumn walks with their families. They have used them to create their own display in the classroom.

Reception have enjoyed an exciting PE session today with Hoopstarz. They were amazed by all the wonderful things you can do with a hoop!

Class 1 and 2 have enjoyed lots of Halloween activities this week. They have been busy making recipes for spooky potions outside, carving pumpkins, rolling pumpkins in our pumpkin race and hammering golf tees into them to make interesting patterns. The Halloween disco was a lovely way to end our busy half term!

As part of our learning about Harvest time the children and teachers have been thinking about what they are thankful for. This was a lovely circle time where we thought of many people, places and things that we are very thankful to have.

Today the children enjoyed getting their hands dirty whilst digging up our vegetables from the garden just in time for Harvest. We have a lovely crop of potatoes, tomatoes, peas and carrots. We hope our pumpkins will keep growing for Halloween!

We are enjoying lots of activities this week linked to our story of the week ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’. Here the children are exploring lots of different vegetables, touching and smelling them, describing them. They drew some wonderful pictures of the different vegetables.

All of the children have helped to make a delicious plum crumble today. We have been exploring lots of different fruits through our story of the week ‘Oliver’s Fruit Salad’. Miss. Dixon brought the plums into school from her plum tree. The children particularly enjoyed cutting the plums and taking the stones out. We are looking forward to pouring some yummy custard over the top before we enjoy eating it!

The children have all settled in. Take a look at some of the activities we have been doing.