Reception

Welcome To Reception Class!

We hope you enjoy exploring our fantastic learning in Reception.

Class Teacher: Mrs A Attridge

Teaching Assistant: Miss S Spears and Mrs M Warth

class email address reception@fourswannes.herts.sch.uk

1st June 2020

Hello Reception, hope you have all had a lovely half term break. It has been so nice to see all the work you have done on Purple Mash over the last few weeks. It has been lovely to read your sunflower diaries too!

Thank you Ayo for sending me some photos of your plant, it looks like you have been taking great care of it! Have a look at Ayo's photos!

Don't forget if you want to email me some photos please send them to reception@fourswannes.herts.sch.uk  

Weekly Sports Challenge:

We would like to set you & your families a weekly challenge whilst we are in this challanging situation.

Monday 4th May: This weeks challenge - How many squats can you do in 30 seconds? Send us your videos to cparcell@fourswannes.herts.sch.uk and we will announce the winners next week on the school websites lastest news. 

Daily Phonics Lessons

Hi Everyone, Good news from Monday you will be able to access a daily phonics lesson online. Starting on Monday April 27th 2020 the Government have made these available at different levels. Please see the letter below for more information. Thank you so much to those of you who have been busy working on Purple Mash its been lovely to see your work. Stay Safe, Mrs Attridge xx

Monday 20th April 2020

Hello Reception, hope you have all had a lovely Easter Holidays. I hope those of you who got sunflower seeds when school closed have planted them, I would love to see some pictures if you email them to me at reception@fourswannes.herts.sch.uk

This week we are moving on to phase 4 of our phonics work. Please watch the phase 4 videos on cvcc words on espresso. 

Purple Mash

I have also set some ToDo's on purple mash for the week. Please log on and complete by the end of the week.

Any questions please email me and I will get back to you as soon as I can as some days I am needed in school so I wont be able to answer straight away. 

Keep safe, hope to hear from you all soon 

Mrs Attridge, Miss Maria and Miss Spears xxx

Monday 30th March

This week I have set four tasks on the 2do list on Purple Mash. Please use your log in that was sent to you the other day. I will be able to see what tasks you have done.  Also if you go in to mini mash don't forget to save anything you do in your tray, just like when we are in school. I hope you are all keeping up with your reading on the oxford owl site.

Mrs Attridge 

Home Learning Suggestions.

Please visit www.phonicsplay.co.uk for daily practice of phonics.

As a class we have covered phase 2 and phase 3 so please revise these and use www.espresso,co.uk/login/Authn/UserPassword for phonic activities. 

Go over any sounds your child is unsure of and try and sound out and write words contained in the espresso videos. Use Twinkl for worksheets related to the sounds they do not know. 

Maths

Daily counting and ordering of numbers using espresso.

As a class we had recently started looking at money and coin values. Why not set up a home shop paying with pennies and some silver coins.

For topic we were going to start growing sunflowers, if you were in last Thursday I gave the children some sunflowers to grow. If you have any other seeds have a go at growing those instead.

Any questions please email me. 

Mrs Attridge

Author - Terry Willis Visit - 27th November 2019

Today the children were visited by the Author Terry Willis. She read lots books to the children that she had written.   Before Terry read each story, she showed a map on the white board to show the children what part of the world the story was set in.  We learnt lots of new words Savannah, Author, Inference, illustrator were  alldiscussed with the children.  Mrs willis left us with signed copies of all the books she had read to us. 

Children In Need Day

What a fun day we had in class to raise money for Children in Need. We retold our Pudsey story, designed Pudsey a new bandana and we even got to come to school in our own clothes!

Odd Sock Day

For Anti-Bullying Week we all wore our odd socks to school to show that it's ok to be different.

Remembrance Day 2019

To remember those who have died Reception made clay poppies.

EYFS TRIP TO PARADISE WILDLIFE PARK

Nursery and Reception had a wonderful time at Paradise Wildlife Park this week.

Sunflowers

This week our class received a letter from Tilly the gardener asking us to grow some Sunflowers. She left us a packet of Sunflower seeds and asked us to  see who could grow the tallest Sunflower.

Tennis Skills

This term we are learning tennis skills, we had great fun trying to use the tennis rackets!

People Who help Us

Reception Class had a visit from the big sister of one of our class who is a Emergency first dispatcher. She told us all her about her job and what she has to do! Emilyee and Mikayla answered lots of questions from the class. Thank you so much for coming in on your day off!