Today a few children went with Mrs Tatam-Hall to the pet shop to buy some new guinea pigs!

We went in the minibus which was very exciting!

There were lots of things to see in the shop – fish, birds, reptiles and all manner of small furry animals!

In Reception we are very excited as next week we will be receiving two new donated guinea pigs. To prepare for their arrival we have been suggesting names and sketching some pictures of them as well as pictures of Ginger. Below the children excitedly sketching pictures of our newest furry friends.

We had a fabulous time getting prepared for Diwali this week, we read stories about Diwali, Mrs. Ajith brought in some beautiful Diwali dresses to show our class, and we even had a go making our own diva lamps. Great work RC!

Our class making Diva lamps

Reading ‘ The Best Diwali Ever’ and Mrs.Ajith showing us her special Diwali dress.

Our class has been working so hard with their subitising and counting. We even practice these skills during snack time. We were able to subitise the oranges and apples and count the bananas together as a group! We even noticed which fruit had more and which had fewer. Well done RC! Can you find objects at home to subitise and count? Can you compare objects to see which is more and which is fewer?

Thank you to all of the families who came this morning and the year 5 volunteers. Our class truly enjoyed sharing their ‘All About Me’ boxes with you all. They were very excited in the days leading up to this, and couldn’t stop talking about the box exhibition all day today. It was a great morning to join the school community together.
Below are a few pictures from this morning:

This week we have been learning about patterns of all kinds. We had a go identifying patterns and learned about repeating patterns. We had some helpers show us different patterns during our Maths lesson. Our ACE Mathematicians were super at finding these patterns. Can you make or find some patterns at home?

We have been enjoying story time this week! every Friday we have a special story bag and as a class pick out some characters and work together in creating a story! This week we had a scuba diver swimming on the beach who was suddenly bitten by a mouse! Then a friendly tiger appeared and roared to scare the mouse away. Luckily the tiger also knew first aid, and patched up the scuba diver so they both went swimming at the beach.

The children all enjoyed taking part! Great story RC! can’t wait for next week’s edition!

We were lucky enough to enjoy some time with our lunchtime buddies in our playground building relationships throughout the school. The children enjoyed seeing their buddies outside of the dinner hall and having a play in the playground. What a fun afternoon!

The children have been enjoying learning new letter sounds this week in their phonics lessons. We have been also practicing writing the letters on our whiteboards. This week we learned the letters m a s d t. Well done RC for having a go with your letter formation!

We also had the chance to visit the library for the first time! It was very exciting walking through the special wardrobe into our library. Mrs.Whiteley our librarian read RC a story then we were able to find an area to read our own books in. We’ll be back next Thursday!

By the end of this week we had all of our class members in! We got busy painting, making friendships, reading in the book corner and even working together on a tile pattern on the carpet. Well done RC! Reception is well under way!