Our Reception Class visited Seven Stories on Friday morning. They listened to the story 'We're Going On A Bear Hunt' and saw the cave where the Bear was hiding! They had the opportunity to explore the 3rd floor devoted to stories for young children. There they dressed up as story characters, drew pictures and read stories. During the second part of the morning the children watched a puppet show called 'Supermarket Scrooge'. The show was extremely funny and all of the children enjoyed it, particularly when they had to join in with some funny dances!

Those books look interesting Euan and Alex.

The children in Key Stage 1 joined in with the visiting music workshop where they learnt about pitch in music. The musicians read and acted out the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and children were chosen to accompany them with instruments. They also joined in with singing high, low and medium notes. All the children enjoyed playing instruments, learning some new songs and moving to the music.

The musicians acting out the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Children enjoying taking part in the workshop.

Last half term the children in Reception Class were visited every Thursday afternoon by Dr Renwick a music teacher. The children explored high and low sound, the dynamics of fast and slow, long and short, loud and quiet. They enjoyed playing musical instruments made from wood, metal and plastic and they had the opportunity to learnt lots of new songs.

This is great fun!

There are 22 pupils in Reception Class and this term we will be looking at ourselves.

On Wednesday 23rd May 2007 Reception Class visited Bill Quay Farm to learn more about goats. They groomed the goats and then watched them having their nails cut before collecting some bunches of nettles to feed them with.

Reception Class visited Bill Quay Farm to look at 4 different types of garden willow, butterfly, vegetable and the orchard. The children were involved in planting their own beans and collecting samples of different coloured plants.

On Tuesday 17th April, Reception class visited Heighley Gate Garden Centre. The visit was to enhance the topic they have been studying, 'Growing Things'. They were able to sow their own seeds and bring them back to school so that they can water them and watch them grow. They also visited the pet department where they looked at the parrot, guinea pigs, fish and lots more. They played 'eye spy' around the garden centre looking for things such as plant pots and mistletoe. After dinner they played in the large play area where they had lots of fun!

On Thursday 27th March reception class visited Bill Quay Farm, they saw baby lambs on the farm and then watched the baby lambs been put into the fields. They were also given a sample of a fleece from a sheep.

The class were also interested when the ewes and lambs were sprayed numbers on their fleeces to identify lambs to ewes.

As part of Multicultural Week, Reception class celebrated Chinese New Year.
We made Chinese decorations including lanterns and money wallets and we tasted Chinese food such as noodles, prawn crackers, fortune cookies and the Chinese fruit, lychees. We ate some of the food using chopsticks. On friday we came to school dressed in Chinese clothes for a party.

Funky Monkey and the Juicy Fruits Roadshow visited Reception and Pre school. Emma the puppeteers brought her puppet friends to tell the children about "gunky" food that they can only eat a little bit of and "funky"food that they should eat more of.
After the show Reception class made fruit puppets from card with funky fruit heads. The puppets had courgette, pear and apple heads. The children had great fun they learned a lot about healthy eating. Every day they have a healty snack in their classroom.

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Reception class visited Caedmon Hall to see a puppet theatre performance of 'Little Red You Know Who' a modern version of 'Little Red Riding Hood'. At the beginning we discovered what was in Red's red box. Red shoes, a red hankerchief, a red nose, a red hat etc. All the things in the box were used to help tell the story everybody loved the visit.

A warm welcome from Reception, we are learning all about our bodies this term. We have lots of fun learning our letter and numbers and working in the sand and water and other areas around our classroom. We are busy painting some pictures to hang on our classsroom walls.

As an end of term treat, Reception class have been for a delicious Italian meal at Pinocchio. They were able to choose what they wanted to eat and were even able to help make their own meal.

Here are some pupils making their own pizzas - now what shall I put on?

Mmm...delicious!!!