Blakehill Primary School

Autumn Term

Welcome Session 1 - Wednesday 3rd September 2025

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 paper people for our display and decorated their lolly sticks. After the grown ups left, the children explored and made friends independently.

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Welcome Session 2 - Thursday 4th September 2025

Today we had our second welcome session. We welcomed another group of twenty Reception starters. The children were super confident and loved exploring their new classroom after decorating their paper people and lolly sticks. The children were very excited when they found out that is was pizza for dinner today.

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Welcome Session 3 - Friday 5th September 2025

Today we welcomed our last group of twenty Reception starters. The children loved exploring the classroom and the outside area in the sunshine this morning. We are very excited for you all to start on Monday.

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Our Completed Gingerbread People

Every child in Reception now has their decorated gingerbread person on our window display.

Our First Day In Reception

What a wonderful class we have this year! Look how smart the children look in their new uniforms.

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Zones of Regulation

PSHE This week in Reception we have been working on embedding routines and rules. We have been doing a short circle time each day talking about our feelings and emotions. In school we use the Zones or Regulation. The children helped to make posters to show their understanding. We did this as an oracy session each day.

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We continued our PHSE learning by reading the Colour Monster book. We then worked together to sort out photographs showing emotions. We decided which zone they should be in.

Today we had our first Phase 2 phonics lesson. The children learned the 's' grapheme and phoneme.

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Our provision supported the children in learning the 's' sound. We match some of our provision with the sounds we are teaching. There are swirls and spirals to create, squashing, scooping, sorting and squeezing in the water and sorting smelly socks in the sand.

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We are exploring the seasons in Reception (Science). We are spotting signs signs of Autumn and providing extra seasonal opportunities in our provision.

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Early Writing (L) and Fine Motor (PD)

Every day in Reception we take part in Dough Disco. We pick our favourite music and then manipulate the dough to strengthen our fingers. Our fingers need to be strong in order for us to write. We squeeze, roll, pinch, poke, smack and nip.

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National Fitness Day 2025

The children took part in a street dance workshop. Check out their moves below.

International Languages Day

The children loved wearing the colours of the French flag.

In the afternoon, the children learnt how to count to 10 and then learnt names of family members in French to the tune of 'Tommy Thumb'. Follow the link below to have a go at singing the song we learnt at home.

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The Gingerbread Man

The children have been learning the story 'The Gingerbread Man'. The children acted out the story and took on the role of the characters in the book.

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Listening Walk

The children walked around school and our outdoor areas listening for the different sounds that they could hear.

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Designing Gingerbread Men

During choosing time, some children took part in our art provision where the children used different materials such as sequins, buttons and pom poms to design a gingerbread man.

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Duck, duck, goose

In PE, the children have been learning how to move in different ways and come to a quick stop when moving fast. The children were able to practice running and stopping when moving at a fast speed in a game of duck, duck, goose.

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Autumn Walk

Reception have been learning about the changes in seasons and what they might see in Autumn. This has helped them to Understand the World around them. The children went on an Autumn Walk to look and collect for signs of Autumn such as different coloured leaved and conkers.

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Halloween Week

This week our classroom has been decorated for Halloween. The children are engaging in lots of spooky provision such as potion making, role play as different Halloween characters and making playdough spiders. Take a look below for even more of our provision activities this week.

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Reflection Table

The children have been introduced to a new area of provision. Our reflection table will be used for RE activities. This week the children have the opportunity to make Rangoli patterns like many Hindu's will be doing this week as they celebrate Diwali.

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Break The Rules Day!

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Halloween Scavenger Hunt

The children had lots of fun looking for the pictures that matched and ticking them of on their sheet.

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Maths

The children have been exploring capacity by making potions.

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Our topic for Autumn Term 2 is ...

Take a look at our space themed provision enhancements to kick start our exciting new learning.

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WonderDome

The children enjoyed learning about space in the WonderDome. They learn facts about the 8 planets, talked about stars and the moon as well as sing some space related songs.

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The children also got to watch a firework display projected inside the dome for Bonfire Night.

Bradford- City of Culture (KUW, CLL, EAD)
We have been learning about where we live. We looked at a globe and found the United Kingdom. We used google maps to find Bradford and even found our school. We have been learning about Bradford. Years ago Bradford was famous because it produced lots of wool. That is why we have a lot of Mills still in Bradford. We had a go at making sheep. We learnt how the sheep wool went to the mills to be turned into yarn and then into clothes and carpets.

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Firework Art

The children used chalk pastels to create their own firework pictures for bonfire night.

Shapes (maths, CLL)

We have been spotting and recognising 2D shapes. Today we investigated and sorted triangles and circles. We spoke about the properties of shapes including how many corners, how many sides and if the sides are straight or curved.

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We have enhanced some of our provision to develop curiosity and talk opportunities.

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Positional Language

Today we introduced positional language. The children used the bears to show their understanding. The children used vocabulary such as, in front, behind, on top, underneath and to the side.