RCW: Blog items
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 8:51pm
Today the children came back to school to find a muddy note in the classroom. It said - Minibeast hunt - Go in the garden, what will you see?
In groups, the children went into the garden, they took pens and minibeast hunt checklists and searched for minibeasts.
Some children thought they might be looking for something tiny whilst others thought they could be looking for big monsters!
Eventually the children discovered the book 'Mad about Minibeasts'. Together we read the book and spotted the different rhymes. The children discovered that minibeasts are infact insects like worms, spiders and snails. They searched under rocks and in the trees and leaves and found some minibeasts.
This week the children will continue to read the book and spot the different rhyming words.
Mad About Minibeasts! Children's read-aloud (audiobook), with illustrations.
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 5:03pm
Today nursery and reception all watched a performance of the Easter story in the hall. The children loved joining in and helping the performers with the story telling. They especially enjoyed the bubbles and the amazing magic tricks turning the water into wine and making 1 fish into hundreds!
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:32pm
This week the children have been noticing signs of Spring! They spent time looking for buds, new flowers and plants in the garden.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:26pm
The children celebrated pancake day by having a flip the pancake competition, singing the pancake song and making their own delicious pancakes.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:15pm
The children celebrated Valentine's Day by making different valentines crafts and gifts for their loved ones. They used their phonics skills to read and follow instructions. The children loved Valentine's Day and talking about all of the people in their families and lives who they love very much!
Will it float? Or will it sink?
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 2:56pm
This week in Reception we had a special challenge! We had to help Noi and his Dad to make a brand new boat to help them to get home...
We experimented with different materials in our classroom to try and find which objects float and which objects sink. Some objects like our light wooden box floated on top of the water: we decided they would make a very good boat! Some objects fell all the way to the bottom of our bucket. They sank, and we thought it would not be a good idea to make a boat from these materials. Paper and rock sank really quickly!
You can find the story all about Noi and his Dad here on Youtube:
Have a look below at some of our boats...
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:43pm
This week, Reception have been enjoying continuing our learning all about Autumn and listening to our story: The Leaf Thief!
You can have a look at some of our wonderful drawings of the different animals that live in the woodland where Sam the Squirrel lives...
This weekend, why not make the most of the season and go to the park and have your very own Autumn Hunt?
There are some ideas of the things you can look for attached below.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 2:27pm
Today Reception have been learning about Remembrance Day.
We watched a special video...
We looked carefully at all of the beautiful poppies that grew in the fields and we used different media to make our own.
Which one is your favourite?
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 2:41pm
Today we have had a FABULOUS sports day!
All of the children took turns and were very safe and careful.
In the afternoon we even had a very special visit from Coach Kane and we all had a turn of moving in the special wheelchairs.
Thank you so much to all the grown ups who came along to support!
Elodie: 'I liked going under the parachute!'
Theo: 'I like the pictures of me!'
Loveah: 'My favourite was on the go karts [wheelchairs]'
Aaman: 'The obstacle course!'
Liam: 'Everything was my favourite!'
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 11:21am
This morning Reception have been participating in activities all about World Mental Health Day!
As part of Manchester's Take 10 to Read initiative, we all listened to best selling author Sue Hendra reading some of her FABULOUS Supertato stories! We decided that we feel calm and happy when we read stories!
Next, we spent some time thinking about all the ways we can feel calm and happy.
Lori-Ann likes to have sleepovers with her Nanny!
Levi likes to spend time with his brother.
Amaal likes it when her Mummy gives her a hug.
RIley feels happy when his Mummy gives him a bedtime kiss
Have a look at some of our amazing pictures below....
For more information about Children's Mental Health there are a wealth of resources available at:
https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/supporting-others/childrens-mental-health/
https://www.place2be.org.uk/our-services/parents-and-carers/supporting-your-child-s-mental-health/
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 3:29pm
Reception Sports Day will take place on Thursday the 17th of October.
Please come to school in your P.E kit on the day.
The children will participate in 4 different activities straight after morning jobs. We expect to finish around 10.15am.
We can't wait!
Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 4:53pm
We have had a wonderful first few weeks in Reception!
All of the children have settled into their new classes so well. They have been working extremely hard as we settle into our new routines.
Thank you so much for all of the support from parents bringing in book bags each day and helping with phonics homework each evening. Remember to ask the grown-ups during morning jobs if you have any questions about things you can do to help at home.
Next week we are going to be starting a brand new story! The story is call 'Incredible You!' Why not have a sneak peak below?
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend,
The Ravensbury Reception Team.
Date: 10th Jul 2024 @ 3:48pm
After starting our new book How To Lose a Lemur, we got a new friend in class: a lemur! Our lemur is going on a new journey soon to the year 1 classrooms and he has been feeling a bit worried. We have written some letters to make him feel better and we are now working on planning a lemur party for him.
While we have been party planning, the lemur has been doing naughty things when the classroom is empty. He has been on Miss K's whiteboard, hanging from the ceiling, making a mess in the reading area, and writing notes to us. To catch him in the act, Miss K planted some secret cameras and caught the lemur in the act of stealing our party invitations to read! Check out the video below.
Where will the lemur be tomorrow? We don't know!
Goodbye Painted Lady Butterflies!
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 2:54pm
Over the last 3 weeks in Reception, we have been carefully watching our tiny black caterpillars get bigger and bigger! Last week they each made a cocoon. They hung at the top of their pot and we could see them wiggling. This week, each cocoon opened up and beautiful painted lady butterflies flew out!
They each had 2 wings that were white, orange and black. They had long antennae on their head and six legs on their bodies. They were very quiet friends to have in our classroom! They liked to fly around in their new home. We fed the butterflies sugary water called nectar.
Why don't you have a look when you are outside this weekend and see if you can spot any of our butterflies having an adventure near you?
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 3:34pm
This week in Reception, we have been reading and writing our very own poems!
A poem has rhyming words! Why not have a practise at home of making up some rhyming words of your own?
Try together to carry on the rhyming strings, it doesn't matter if some of your words dont make sense:
Cat, bat, dat...
Jug, mug, hug....
Junk, dunk, bunk...
It is very fun to make rhymes, especially the silly ones!
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:36pm
Although it has been a very rainy and wet first week back at school, spring really has sprung!
This week Reception have been out in the garden to look for MINIBEASTS! Take a look at what we have found...
Next we wrote sentences all about our favourite insects and worked really hard to draw carefully, details and anatomically correct drawings of what we found.
Date: 25th Mar 2024 @ 12:27pm
This morning we had a very special visitor called Crocodile Joe! He brought his animals from all over the world for us to see. We looked at the different sized eggs that some of the animals came from and we even got to touch some of the animals! Have a look at the pictures below, which animal was your favourite?
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 1:10pm
Reception have been very busy writing instructions about how to train our very dragons!
We decided that we needed to train our dragons to fly, to guard a castle and to breath fire. We very carefully wrote our instructions to send across the world to any and all would-be dragon trainers! Listen carefully to our recordings to see what we have written...
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 3:51pm
Thank you so much to all of the parents who came to school to read with us this morning!
We have had a fabulous day, filled with all the wonders of reading!
We especially enjoyed having Year 4 come to read their stories to us this afternoon.
Have a look at our fantastic costumes below!
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 4:09pm
Welcome back Reception!
We have had a wonderful this week starting our brand new topic 'What comes from an egg?'
We have been looking closely at different types of eggs and the animals that lay them. We have been using information texts to research as scientists! Then we used this information to write Fact Files to share with our friends.
If you would like to find out more about what we will be learning this term, check the Files section to download the half termly overview.
Date: 15th Feb 2024 @ 8:28am
This week, Reception read the story 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes' by Jan Fearnley.
Just like Mr Wolf, we very carefully wrote our own shopping lists with all the ingredients we would need to make our perfect pancake! We designed out pancake and labelled the toppings we would like. We worked as a team to make the pancake batter smooth. We really enjoyed counting our Numicon to make sure we had enough to 'buy' the toppings for our pancakes! We tasted our pancakes at the end of the day and they were delicious!
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 2:43pm
This week, we heard the sad news that King Charles has not been very well.
We know that King Charles likes to look at wild flowers. We researched different wild flowers and chose our favourite. Next, we drew a picture of it and cut it out to add to our class 'Get Well Soon' card.
Miss Wilkinson bought a stamp, and she is going to post it to Buckingham Palace after school.
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 4:04pm
This week, as artists, we have been working really hard to create our own pictures of fantastic fish and super sea creatures!
Firstly, we wrote lists detailing the different sea creatures we saw after our visit to Sealife. Next, we looked closely at the details of the animals using information texts from our class library.
I think the children have done a FABULOUS job, have a look at some of our work below!
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 4:02pm
This week we took a trip to the Sea Life Aquarium to explore under the sea!
We saw many animals including stingrays, starfish, sharks, turtles, and some very interesting fish species.
All complete with a short workshop where we got to draw our own aquariums.
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 2:04pm
This week in our maths lessons we have been using the Numberblocks to help us put the number 1-5 in the right order. Have a look at some of our amazing work!
Once we had the numbers in the right order, we made it EVEN TRICKIER by hiding one of our Numberblocks and seeing if we could work out who had gone missing...
