Reception: Blog items
Date: 12th Oct 2025 @ 8:33pm
Following our visit from SMJ Falconry we read the story 'Owl Babies'. The children enjoyed participationing a range of activities based abround the sotry including making nest, retelling to the story at the storytelling table, using the playdough to make different sized owl babies, drawing and labelling the owl babies, collaging their own owls at the creative station and completing a range of maths themed around the story. What a busy week! Have a look fun filled week.
Date: 12th Oct 2025 @ 8:21pm
This week the children were lucky enough to have a visit from SMJ Falconry, who brough 4 owls including JD, Midge, Tike and Bugs. The children learnt lots of different facts about the owls including what they eat, their different appearances and how and when they hunt. The children enjoyed observing a flying demonstration and were even lucky enough to hold an owl. What a fabulous experience!
Reception- Sensory Experience: Making Bread like Little Red Hen
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 6:18pm
This week some of the children in Reception have been exploring making bread.
They used all their senses to explore the ingredients and had fun feeling the flour, mixing in the water and mark making - we got very messy!
We were also learning to work alongside each other and focus our attention and concentrate during an activity.
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 6:00pm
This week Reception have been learning about Harvest.
They donated food to Vincent House and then attended a whole school assembly led by Year 6.
We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live.
Thank you to everyone for their support.
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 4:31pm
This week Boundary Primary School celebrated Harvest Festival. Year 6 led the celebration assembly together with our special guest, Reverend Peter. We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live. The children and their families helped by donating food to Vincent House.Thank you to everyone for their support.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 7:29pm
This week we have been reading the traditional tale 'Little Red Hen'. Our classrooms have been flooded with a range of different activities themed around the story. We have enjoyed using the props at the storytellying table to retell the story in our own words, making bread at the playdough area, labelling the characters and completing a range of maths activiies themed around the story. We have also been learning lots of new vocabularly and sequencing the story using widgets. Have a look at all our hard work.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 7:26pm
This week the children have been reading the traditional tale 'Little Red Hen' As part of our learning the children enjoyed going to the school kitchen Redcliffes to make their own loafs of bread, just like the Little Red Hen. Before we started we talk about the iportance of hygiene and made sure we had all washed our hands properly. We also used our widget vocabularly sheets to idntify any new words and talked about what they meant. We checked we had the correct ingredients including; flour, water, salt, oil and yeast. We followed the recipe to make make our dough making sure we kneading it well. We then put it in the oven for it to cook. When it was ready we enjoyed tasting the bread.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 4:39pm
This week we have been reading the story Rosie's Walk. Although, unaware that a fox is after her, Rosie the hen takes a walk around the farmyard, leading him into one accident after another. An amusing story that helps children learn positional language.
We sequenced the story, collaged a fox, retold the story using small figures and puppets and then acted out the story in our outdoor area where we made an obstacle course to travel under, over, through and around just like Rosie did on her walk.
Take a look at our photos.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 11:25am
The children in Reception have been learning about the history of themselves. We started by reading the story 'When we were giants' and then discussed all the different stages of our life.
"First you are a baby and then you grow bigger' Lockie
"When your bigger you become an adult" Rohan.
We talked about the different theinkgs we learn at different stagea in our life and why these skills are important.
""We you go to school you learn to read" Ava
"Adults looks after children and make tea"
The children then sequenced the picutres correctly.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 11:13am
The children in Reception have been busy learning our letter sounds. They have been taking part in their daily phonics lessons focusing of regonising graphemes, oral segmenting and blending CVC words hearning the initial sound. We have been practising forming our letters correctly and labeling pictures with the intial sound. Have a look at our learning!
Reception Learning to Write our Name
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 11:36am
In Reception we are focusing on recgonsing and writing our own names. The children have busy practising holding their pencil correctly and forming the letters . They have been working with an adult aswell and independently in the classroom areas. This ia really important skill- please help support your child at home. Your child may bring home their own name card to practise with. Please encourage them to do this regularly!
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 11:34am
This week the children in Reception have been looking at the characteristic 'kindness'- Katie Kindness.
They read stories about being kind and talked about what it meant to be kind.
"You help people" Zara.
"You hug them when they cry" Dolcie-Rae.
"If someone falls over you take them to the teacher" Lockie.
"When you share toys you are being kind" Isabel.
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 11:28am
This week we have been reading the story 'Nobot the Robot'. It is a story about Barnard the Robot who loses his bottom. All of his friends work together to help him find it. The children have enjoyed taking part in lots of different activieis themes about the story inclusing collaging their own robots, making robot patterns, using the play dough to make robots, drawing and paint robots and using 2Dshapes to make robots in the maths area.
What a busy week- have a look at our learning!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 1:30pm
This week we are going to starting our topic 'All about me'. We started by thinking about what we look like and how we are similar or different to others. The children enjoyed using mirrors to look at the different features on their faces and made some thoughtful observations.
"I have blue eyes don't I' Harlie
"My name is yellow" Ava
"I have glasses" Theo
The children then painted their faces at the painting easel try hard to select the correct colours they needed. Have a look at our super paintings.
Reception learning to write their names
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 1:22pm
Over the course of this half term we are going to be focusing on ensuring that the children can recognise and write their own name, whilst holding their pencils correctly. Today the children made a great start by using their name cards to copy their names out with Miss Sharples and Miss Crystal. Some children were even able to recognise some of the letters in their name. Lots of opportunities at home to practice recognising and writing their name will help the children immensely.
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 1:17pm
Today our new Reception children have stayed for dinner for the first time. They lined up smartly in the classroom and walked down the corridor to the dinner hall. We were very impressed with how they politely asked for their dinner remembering to say please and thankyou. The children were able to choose three items from the salad bar. The children sat at the tables brilliantly and enjoyed their dinner whilst chatting to their new friends. What a super start!
Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 4:06pm
This week we have been focusing on the children learning the classroom rules and routines. We have been busy learning how to sit on the carpet properly, sharing the classroom resources and putting them away correctly and practicing putting on our waterproofs independently ready to go outside. Have a look at some of our pictures!
Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 4:02pm
Welcome to all the new children who have joined Boundary Primary in Reception. We have had a great first week together. We have been busy getting to know our new teachers, exploring the classroom environments both indoors and outdoors and making new friends. It has been lovely to see the children looking super smart in their new school uniforms. If you haven't already please can you ensure your child has their own school book bag, ready for recieving their reading books and a full PE kit in school, named and in a seperate bag. Thank you for your support. What a super start to the school year!
Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 10:08am
Reception were very excited when the home corner changed into an ice- cream shop!
Someone made the ice-creams, someone was on the till, the customers chose what they wanted by completing a form with the different flavours and styles of ice- cream and you could design your own ice-cream and ice lolly too. They took turns, helped each other and chatted about their favourite ice- lolly and ice-cream.
Then, when we returned from a day at the beach, Mrs McAllister opened up her own ice-cream shop outside, where children could enjoy a real ice-cream as a treat!
"I love strawberry ice-cream!" Myla- Gray.
"I'm making my own rainbow ice-lolly" Hazel.
"The ice-cream is so refreshing" Harley.
Date: 8th Jul 2025 @ 11:58am
As part of Hertitage Week the children in Reception enjoyed a fantastiv trip to St Anne Beach. As part of our trip we learnt about the seaside and the different features of a coastal town. We also enjoyed hunting for shells and pebbles, building sandcastles with our freinds and even had a picnic on the sand. When we returned to school we all enjoyed an icecream. To further develop our learning we identified a range of different vocabularly and talked about why people might visit Blackpool.
"I think people come to go to the Beach" Aurora
"I think that they visit so they can go on the big rollercoasters" Kevin
"There are lots of fun things in Blackpool but I like the football club" RJ
We then watched a promotional video followed by drawing our favourite tourist attractions. We even wrote about why it was our favourite.
Following on from this we compared how seaside holidays and visits had changed over time using our key words 'past' and present' We looked at a range of photographs and discuss why we thought they were in the past or the present. the children then worked together to sort them.
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 10:47am
It was Sports Day this week and, although it was a little chilly to start off, we had a fantastic time and showed lots of great teamwork and resilience.
"I love throwing a welly!" Hazel.
"The Egg and spoon race was tricky but I kept going until the end" Harry.
"I did twenty two jumps (on the speed bounce)" Lucas.
"I jumped really far up to number 4!" Riley.
"The cup stacking was fun- they kept falling down so it was tricky!" Antoni.
"I loved running fast in the running race" Harley.
"I threw the beanbag into the hoop!" Chloe.
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 10:32am
This week the children in Reception enjoyed a trip to the beach as part of 'Heritage Week'. The children had a fabulous time finding out about the different features of a coastal town as well as exploring the beach. We built sandcastles, collected different shells and pebbles and even enjoyed a picnic. When we returned to school, we cooled down in our outdoor area and everyone enjoyed an ice cream. What a fabulous day!
Reception- Sports Week Gymnastics
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:14pm
This week Reception have enjoyed taking part in Sports Week.
They had an exciting time doing gymnastics with Mr Rartcliffe where they were able to climb, jump, balance, swing and roll using the large equipment in the hall.
They followed the rules, showed resilience, respect and teamwork as they negotiated their way around the hall using the different types of equipment.
They learnt about why they need to keep themselves fit physicaly, socially and mentally.
"I can climb and jump because I eat lots of fruit to keep me healthy" Dina
"I am hot because I am exercising and the blood is pumping around my body... drinking water will cool me down and hydrate me" Harry
"We have to take turns to jump or we might hurt ourselves" Riley
Reception Making a healthy snack
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 11:57am
This week in Reception we have been learning about how to keep our bodies and minds healthy. As part of our learning we have been identifying a range of different foods which who be a good healthy snack. We talked about the importance of making healthy choices and why they are important. All of the children designed and made their own healthy snack. We tasted the differetn fruits and talked about which ones where ourfavourites and why.
"I like strawberries, they are nece and juicey" Freyja
"Kiwi is my favourite" Kevin
The children then safety used the equipment to chop amd slice the friut and then put it on their kebab stick. Together we all enjo0yed eating ourfruit kebabs.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 2:08pm
Over the past few weeks Recption have enjoyed looking after and caring for our classroom ducklings; Sonny, Donal, Sophia and Mr Duck. From the moment our duck eggs arrived the children enjoyed observing them in the incubator eagerly awaiting them hatching.
"Look the egg is cracking" Hayleigh
"I can see his bill" Aurora.
Once the ducklings hatched the children have been busy learning about the ducks lifecycle, what they eat and how to care for them. They learnt lots of new vocabary and practiced building different sentences using the new words. The children also enjoys painting and collaging the ducks, writing sentences about them and researching different facts about ducks.The children thoroughly enjoyed holding the ducklings, making sure they had enough food and water and even cleaned out the cage. Have a look at our fantastic learning!
