Reception

We have had a week of playing number games with our mums, dads, grandmas and grandads. The children enjoyed showing the adults how to play the games and were keen to check on their counting, adding and taking away. Now you know some of the things we do in the...

  Some of us brought in some old toys that our grandparents had played with and we talked about the similarities and differences with today’s toys.   We made our own old fashioned toys – a pop-up and a ball and cup. To make the pop-ups we took photographs of each...

  We have been learning about toys and how they work. We found out that some toys can be pushed, pulled, blown and some have batteries to make them work.  We made our own toys with moving parts. We have also been learning new games from around the world – Okereke...

      Reception enjoyed playing in the snow and finding out about it. We found out that we could make different shapes -cubes, cuboids and spheres using our hands and the spaces in the racquets. We rolled the snow to make bigger and bigger snowballs and...

    This week the children of Fellside celebrated National Poetry Day. We took part in a whole school recital of poetry and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the poems that each year group had spent the week practising. Watch the videos and see if you can name...

This term we have been learning about different celebrations. We celebrated Halloween with pumpkin lanterns, dressing up  and “trick or treating.” We found out about Diwali when Hindu’s celebrate their New Year. Can you remember what Diwali means? We made Diva lamps...

We went on a trip to Shotley Bridge woods. Jess told us all about trees and how little trees grow into really big trees. We learnt about deciduous and evergreen trees. We found out about some of the animals that live in woods and even saw where a deer had slept next...

Our delightful new Reception class have settled into school life seamlessly!  Here they are enjoying their first week at Fellside. Our First Week in Reception We look forward to lots of comments from the children, parents, grandparents and extended family members .