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What a wonderful first half term we have had together. Starting school is a big step, but our new Reception children have done an amazing job settling into their daily routines, adjusting to the full school day, and making lots of lovely new friends across our school community.

Our learning this term started with a celebration of classic nursery rhymes. The children built brick walls for Humpty Dumpty, crafted shiny stars and wands, built Hickory Dickory clocks, and spun spider webs for Incy Wincy, all while honing their rhyming skills with storybooks like Each Peach Pear Plum and the Oi Frog! series.

Through our Drawing Club, stories such as Blue Penguin and The Little Red Hen inspired us to draw characters and settings, predict what might happen next, and learn ambitious new vocabulary like horizon, collaborating, scrumptious, and gobble. In phonics, the children have made incredible progress learning their first 25 sounds alongside red words like I, the, my, and of. They especially loved practicing these sounds through sensory activities like stamping and writing in glitter, while 'Word Aware' helped build their understanding of everyday concept words like all, after, and around.

Maths has been full of hands-on active discovery. The children have been learning the days of the week and months of the year to structure their time. They have spent time matching and grouping objects, creating repeating patterns, and taking their learning outdoors to explore size, weight, and amounts using natural treasures like conkers on our big balance scales.

In understanding the world, we noticed the seasonal shifts as we moved into autumn and compared our local environment to icy polar landscapes through Blue Penguin. Harvest was a real highlight, as we tasted different fruits, examined seasonal vegetables, and proudly performed our song "Big Red Combine Harvester" with actions during our very first whole-school assembly. In RE, we explored what it means to belong to our families and school community, bringing in baby photos to talk about how much we have grown and changed over time.

We have also kept our minds and bodies active through Squiggle While You Wiggle, dancing with big movements and copying those shapes onto paper to build up our motor strength for writing. Add in our weekly PE games, dance sessions, and singing assemblies with the rest of the school, and it has been a truly action-packed few weeks.

We are so proud of how far our Reception children have come in such a short time, and we cannot wait to see what the next half term brings!