Term 5 - Can you tell me a story?

This term in Reception, our topic was Traditional Tales. We explored a range of well-known fairy tales and used these stories to inspire our learning across the curriculum. In English, the children enjoyed creating their own new characters and thinking carefully about their appearance and behaviour. They used their ideas to write descriptive sentences and practised joining two ideas together using the word “and”. We shared and explored familiar stories such as The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, building houses for the three little pigs and designing new outfits for Goldilocks.

In Maths, we focused on shape and number. The children explored how shapes can be rotated and combined to create pictures and new shapes. We also developed our understanding of number bonds and used this knowledge to write number sentences by combining numbers to make new totals, linking this learning to the way we combined shapes in our practical activities.

In Religion and World Views, we listened to stories from a range of different religions and discussed the messages within them. The children thought carefully about how these stories relate to their own lives and experiences and shared their ideas thoughtfully during class discussions. We also talked about how they can influence our experiences in the future.

Term 6 - Animal Safari

Our Animal Safari topic gave the Reception children the chance to explore the wonderful world of animals from around the globe. Through stories, songs, creative activities and hands-on learning, the children develop their curiosity about different habitats, animal features and the ways animals live, move and survive.
We learnt about wild animals from the safari, using what we had found out on our trip to Fenn Bell to deepen our knowledge. We compared different animals and explored where they live and what they need to survive. We used a range of stories to bring our learning to life as well as develop our vocabulary within the topic. We ended the term by creating our own animals using a range of features from different animals we've learnt about, reading the book 'The Greedy Zebra' to inspire us. 

In Maths, we have been using our knowledge of numbers and number sentences to deepen our understanding of sharing and grouping. We also revisited patterns and developed our skills into creating ABC and AAB patterns. We spent some time exploring positional language and using maps to support this. Finally, we have loved our consolidation of number bonds using the book 'one is a snail, ten is a crab' to complete our maths learning.

In Religion and World Views, we continued our learning of stories from different religions. We looked at stories from Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism and enjoyed discussing the messages they give us. We also looked more closely at the Qur'an and observed the similarities and differences to the bible and other religious texts.