Reception

This week the children wrote stories as a class. Everyone got to add a sentence or two to the story, and then they came up with the title of their stories together. We loved what they wrote so much we thought we’d share their stories with you. Sit back and enjoy! The Castle Story – by Reception Baobab One day there was a queen who saw a bear at the castle. The bear got scared when the witch came in. Then the...

This week the children in Reception have been thinking about what they would like to learn this term and/or what they would like to improve at. These are their resolutions: (looks like the Reception and Specialist teachers are going to be busy! 🙂   Reception Flame Tree I want to get better at doing more beautiful art. I want to get better at doing climbing wall. I want to get better at playing football. I want to get better at art. I want to get better at...

The Christmas period is without a doubt one of the most wonderful times of the year! In Reception, this Christmas has been particularly magical!  First of all, we had our Early Years Nativity play ( The Magical Christmas Journey) where all the children participated, showing confidence and wonderful communication skills.  It was amazing and we are so proud of the children. We also joined the rest of the school for a Christmas lunch, enjoyed a special Christmas craft day and had...

Lunchtimes at Ambrosoli are always one of our favourite parts of the day! In Reception we go over to the lunch area at 12.15, put our mats and bottles down, then line up and choose the food we would like to have for lunch that day. There are always two different choices (one meat, one vegetarian), as well as salad or vegetables, and we have a four week menu which means every day in the month it’s a different type...

Reception this week was turned into a shopping village. We enjoyed baking in the bakery, writing and posting letters in the post office, depositing and withdrawing money from the bank, buying and selling ice cream in the ice cream parlour, making jewellery in the jewellery shop, having a makeover in our hair salon, making flowers in the flower shop, reading magazines in the newsagents, buying clothes in Owino market, shopping in the supermarket, managing the building works in our construction...

This week was robot week in Reception! We launched the week with a visit from a very small, but very awesome, robot called Boxer. Boxer could do so many cool tricks, he could dance, he could play games… it was so much fun seeing what he could do. During the week the children had fun making their own robots from recycled materials in the robot workshop, making robot collage pictures, doing robot paintings, playing with the Beebots, exploring different constructions sets and...

This week and last week we are learning about shapes as part of the Maths curriculum. Last week, in particular, we looked at 2D shapes. We experimented with shapes and learned about their properties! We made models, shapes with our bodies and played games that remind us about different shapes around us. This week we will look at 3D shapes in relation to 2D shapes. Below is our experience of last week with shapes. dav ...