Reception Class

Reception Class have been celebrating and learning about the traditions of Chinese New Year this week. They read the story of the Great Race and positioned the animals using ordinal numbers. They learnt to count to ten and answer the register in mandarin. They also made lucky red... Continue Reading

Reception class enjoyed a fantastic visit on the Audley End train to see Father Christmas. They loved looking at the festive toys and received sweets and wonderful toy from Santa. Mr and Mrs Claus and the Elves all commented on how polite the children were! Continue Reading

Yesterday Chloe’s mum, Ms Van De Sande, came into to tell the class all about Sinterklaas.  She read a story and helped to make peper noten with the children – it was delicious! Continue Reading

Reception Class really enjoyed learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. We read and acted out the story of Rama and Sita and did movement work to music in P.E. We created firework pictures on the IPads, made diwa lamps and watched clips showing how a Hindu family prepare for... Continue Reading

Last week Reception class harvested apples from our orchard and then made some apple crumble for them all to enjoy during their snack time: Continue Reading

Reception Class have settled into life at Clavering Primary School.  They each have a buddy to look after them. These are pictures taken during their first day…   Continue Reading

Reception Class Spring Term 1 Newsletter Dear Parents, Happy New Year! We do hope you had a restful Christmas break. Thank you all so very much for your extremely kind and generous gifts and cards that you gave us before Christmas – we are so grateful. We very warmly welcome... Continue Reading

Reception class had a magical time today during their last Forest School session of the year.  They had  a fire and toasted marshmallows.   Then a large number of parents and grandparents as well as younger siblings joined Reception class for fun in the forest. Thank you so much... Continue Reading

The Year 6 buddies joined Reception class in the wood last Friday, so we were the Busy Badgers and the Magic Millipedes! We found a quiet place and listened to the beautiful sounds around us. The children were challenged to make something with their buddy. There was some amazing... Continue Reading

Class R, 1 and 2 had an exciting trip learning about castle life in the past at Castle Hedingham. All the children took part in a reenactment day where they learned about life in Medieval times from Lady Phillipa, a cook, musicians and dancers, a monk, an archer, a herbalist and... Continue Reading