LIPA Primary and High School
Learning through the creative and performing arts
Reception
9.01.2023
This week we enjoyed learning all about the three little pigs. Reception children created story maps, built houses out of different materials and received a message from the Wolf!
3.01.2023
Reception were all so happy to see all their friends again after our Christmas holidays. We enjoyed sharing our news, exploring, playing and learning with all our friends again. We made new year wishes/resolutions to start the new year! Happy New Year!
Welcome to our Bella and Bertie's Class Page!
On this page you will find an overview of our learning each half term.
PE is every Friday, please ensure that your child wears their PE tracksuit into school on a Friday.
Coats are encouraged to be wore into school everyday with the unpredictable weather.
At LIPA Primary we use the phonics scheme ‘Read, Write, Inc.’ Please see the phonics section to see what we are learning each week in phonics and how you can help at home.
Mrs McCaskie, Miss Berry, Miss Wheaton and Miss Tierney.
8.12.22
What a wonderful week we have had in reception!
We performed for the first time to all our grownups, they were blown away with our Christmas carol singing. We also enjoyed playing in the snow, it was some childrens first time seeing snow and we absolutely loved playing in it!
05.12.22
This week we have been exploring the Christmas Story. We enjoyed sequences and retelling the story through picture cards!
28.11.22
Who visited our classroom this week? Bella and Bertie the Elves!!
We couldn't believe it when the elves appear in our classrooms this week, they have brought us a book advent calender, we have enjoyed reading new stories each day!
We also enjoyed our Christmas workshop with our grownups, we made lots of lovely reindeer food and can't wait to sell it at the Christmas fair!
21.11.22
This week the Jolly postman travelled to the north and south pole! He taught us all about artic animals and what it looks like at the north and south pole. We also wrote some letters to Father Christmas that the Jolly postman took back with him!
14.11.22 can you guess who has been to Paris this week?
It was stickman! We were blown away when we received another postcard from stickman only this week he visit Paris, we explored the beautiful buildings in Paris and enjoyed some French bread for our snack.
17.11.22 Stickman has travelled somewhere new again this week! Reception were in for a treat when stickman sent a post card from a new location. This week stickman travelled all the way to America, he taught us all about the amazing buildings and it's famous food. One of wonderful parents came in and told us all about her experience growing up in America, she kindly made is some pumpkin pie to taste and showed us American dollars. What a wonderful week of learning!
31.11.22 We had a speical visitor in our classroom this week named Stickman. He travelled all the way from India with lots of activities for us to do! We created beautiful rangoli patterns and explored the wonderful culture of India.
17.11.22 This week reception have enjoyed exploring halloween and Diwali. We carved a pumpkin together and made our own pumpkin potions. We put CVC words such as bats and rats in the potion to make it super spooky!
14.10.2022 Fireman Calum came to visit reception today and teach us all about his amazing job. We got to test out his special fire alarm and now understand what it means when we hear this noise. We think Calum is a real life superhero!
10.10.2022 This week we have been learning all about people who help us. This morning, the children were interested in police. We practiced our pencil grip and made our own police officer badges.
3.10.2022 We have enjoyed exploring patterns and how to make our own patterns this week. For snack on Wednesday the Bella and Bertie children enjoyed making patterned fruit kebabs for snack.
26.09.22 This week we had a special visitor in our classroom, it was the Colour Monster! He was very confused and left our classroom very colourful, the Bella and Bertie children did their best to identify the colour and feelings to make the Colour Monster feel better. We created our own Colour Monsters and choose a colour to represent how we were feeling. In maths we have been learning all about measurement, we explore height and lengh.
19.09.22 In math's this week, Reception have enjoyed sorting objects into different categories. We explored shape, colour and number. They have also been getting to know their friends by working together in different teams.
16.09.22 This week reception children have been learning all about what makes us different. We spoke about similarities and differences that we have and what makes us special. The children did such a brilliant job at creating self-portraits.
9.9.22- We are so proud of all the reception children who started school this week. All children were so resilient and brilliant Captain Persistents. We have had so much fun, exploring, playing and making lots of new friends. We enjoyed lots of stories with our friends and circle times to get to know each other. The reception team can't wait for the children to start full days next week!
