Welcome to Reception

Our Reception class is taught as a single age class.  Mrs Greenhalgh is the class teacher and is supported by Mrs Lunn, one of our experienced teaching assistants. The classroom and outside areas are vibrant and stimulating, with a mix of focused and open-ended challenges provided across each of the Foundation Stage areas of learning.  These areas are used continually, allowing children free flow access throughout the day.

Children in Reception learn through a combination of taught sessions, adult guided groups, and their own self-initiated activities during 'independent learning' time. Activities and resources are carefully planned and regularly changed to ensure they match the children's learning needs and 'next steps'. Children have the opportunity to write daily, access mathematical resources, and construct using  large and small construction materials.  They can use malleable materials such as sand, water and clay, and access a range of resources in the creative and painting areas.  Many children enjoy exploring the role play area, which regularly changes according to the themes covered in class, and is often planned and built by the children themselves! On  a weekly basis Reception children experience an outdoor learning session where, amongst other things, they access our 'mud kitchen', garden and wildlife area.

African Art

During our topic on Africa we explored different ways of making African art.  We had a go at tie dying some white t-shirts. We used elastic bands to create a bulls-eye pattern, then squirted each section with a different coloured dye. It was quite messy dying the white shirts but we all had fun.  We were all really pleased with the results.

Making Gingerbread Men.

After reading the story about 'The Gingerbread Man' we had fun making our own gingerbread men.  We used our maths skills to weigh out the ingredients and then made different sized gingerbread men.  We ordered  our gingerbread men in size from smallest to biggest.  We added jelly tot eyes and buttons. We tried to make repeated patterns using the jelly tots.

Play Dough Owl Babies

During our independent learning time some of us created owl babies using playdough.

Understanding the World

To everybody at Moreton Morrell Primary School.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and Santa brings you lots of presents.

Lots of love.

From Reception.

We Will Remember Them

We will remember them...

The children in Reception have been busy painting poppy picture as part of our Remembrance Service. The children took part in the whole school two minute silence at 11am on Wednesday 11th November. We are very proud of all the pupils. 

Look how busy we have been...

Good Morning Moreton Morrell Message From Mrs Eadon

Good Morning Moreton Morrell Message From Mrs Eadon

Good Morning Moreton Morrell Message From Mrs Eadon (Week 5)

Morning Moreton Morrell Message From Mrs Eadon (Week 4)

Little Acts of Kindness from the Foxwell Family. Jess and Sebastian were pupils at Moreton Morrell School. 

Morning Moreton Morrell Message From Mrs Eadon (Week 3)

Good Morning Moreton Morrell Message From Mrs Eadon (Week 2)

Spring Term

Ironically, the beginning of our Spring term brought with it some wintry weather! This inspired a lot of learning about materials such as ice, cornflour and papier mache, and how they change or can be used. We have been doing some practical adding and subtraction in maths, and have learned lots of facts about space! We invented our own alien characters and wrote about them. We have been very lucky to receive lots of visitors this term too. We learned about colours and feelings, and how to express them through dance, with Wriggle Dance Theatre. We have also been talking to different people who help us through the jobs they do, including our very own Lollipop Man, Mr Cleeton, and a very friendly guide dog called Dexter.

We have given you just a small taster of all our learning so far this term in the photo gallery below.

Whole-school literacy: 'Journey' by Aaron Becker

As part of a whole-school literacy initiative, we have immersed ourselves in this wonderful, wordless book. We have completed a range of work around the story, including sequencing the main events, drawing pictures and writing sentences.

As a class, we learned how to use exciting language to orally tell a story. We created this fantastic recording, in which you will hear each child in our class tell a different part of the story in their own words. We hope you enjoy it!