Blakehill Primary School

Autumn Term

Welcome to Blakehill

Wednesday 4th September -

What a wonderful first welcome session we had today. We welcomed our first twenty Reception starters. All of the children were confident and excited to begin their Blakehill adventure. The children worked with their parents for the first part of the morning. They made peg labels, magic wands and paper people for our display. After that the grown ups all left and the children explored and made friends independently.

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Thursday 5th September 2024

Today, we had our second welcome session with another twenty Reception starters.

The children loved exploring their new classroom and didn't let the weather put them off exploring our outdoor provision.

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Friday 6th September

Today we had out final welcome session with the last 20 Reception starters. The Reception team are looking forward to seeing you all on Monday morning.

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This week has been very busy. The children have settled quickly and we have enjoyed getting to know them all. Today we made listening hats and went on a walk to explore our school. We stopped and listened for sounds in our environment. Being able to listen and identify sounds is an essential skill for children to master before they begin formal phonics teaching. Please try to practise listening games with your children at home as this will really help them in school.

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We went on a trip to our school library. The children listened to a story and then chose a book each to take home. Each week the children in reception will visit the library to change their book.

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This is our first full week in school. Look at some of the lovely activities the children have enjoyed.

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In reception we use the Zones of Regulation to help us to understand our feelings.

We have four Zones. Each Zone is linked to a group of feelings. In order to learn we expect that children will be in the Green Zone. We support children to create a toolkit of resources to help to keep them in the Green Zone and ready to access learning.

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Languages Day

This week the children in Reception took part in a super exciting Spanish Workshop. Maggie the puppet visited our classroom and taught the children how to use their manners in Spanish. The children also learned how to greet others and how to count from 1-5. We used songs and rhymes to help them to learn. it was a wonderful experience. We loved it so much that we have asked if we can have some more sessions later in the year. We can't wait. We will take try to take some videos in future for you to enjoy.

This week has been very wet! that doesn't stop the children in reception having lots of fun!

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Balance Bikes

The children in Reception had lots of fun on the balance bike workshops.

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Colour Mixing to make Green!

This week we explored colour. We talked about the names of lots of different colours that the children already knew. We discovered that there are three primary colours, blue, red and yellow. With the primary colours we can make lots of new colours. This week we magic mixed blue and yellow. We made green!

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We had loads of fun learning Spanish through songs, games and actions.

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Autumn has arrived in Reception this week. So many exciting activities to try!

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Happy Halloween!

Reception are busy having fun in our Halloween themed provision!

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Neon Fun!

We have been learning the phonemes and graphemes, s,a,t,p and i in our daily phonics lessons. Today we learnt 'n'. We wrote on neon paper and had a neon party with glow sticks to celebrate.

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We learnt how to use chalk pastels. We used the pastels to create our own firework displays.

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The children in RD love exploring the outdoor provision. Can you spot our icky sticky Pumpkin Soup?

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Happy Break the Rules Day!

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Tonight it is Bonfire Night. In school today we learnt about the story of Bonfire Night. We listened to a traditional Bonfire Night poem. We made chocolate sparklers and used chalk pastels and glitter to create our own firework artwork.

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Wonder Dome Experience

The children in reception are learning about space. Today we had a planetarium in the hall and went star gazing. We learnt about the different planets and stars.

We are really enjoying learning about Space in our provision.

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Reception are making poppies for Remembrance Day.

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Space Biscuits

Today we made planet biscuits to support our space topic. Messy but lots of fun!

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Happy Children in Need Day from RD :)

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We love a snow day in Reception.

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We are going to have lots of fun learning about our phonemes and tricky words in provision this week!

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Well... it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Reception! Look at our exciting provision!

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Santa came to school! What lucky children we have at Blakehill!

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Reception did a wonderful job in their Nativity!

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Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas from RD. Today it is Christmas Dinner Day. We are all wearing our Christmas jumpers to celebrate.

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Santa read a Christmas story to the children in Reception today. He read The Night Before Christmas. The children loved seeing Santa reading to them from his home at the North Pole.

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