Reception have had such a fantastic summer term. We have been getting ready to move to year one and fully involving ourselves in big school life- attending whole school assemblies and visiting the playground at breaktime!

In English, we have been working really hard at writing simple sentences all by ourselves! We have learnt about using capital letters to start our sentences and full stops to end our sentences. We worked really hard to write sentences to describe minibeasts: This says ‘the snail has a brown and pink shell. The spider is grey.’ How fantastic! 

In Maths, we have been focusing on the numbers to 10. We have been using different manipulatives including double sided counters and dice frames to find ways to make the number 10. We have also been exploring odd and even numbers- sharing different amounts and determining whether we can share these fairly or not and therefore whether they are an even number or not.

We have been learning all about plants and growing. We learnt about the different parts of a plant and why they are important. Otters did some fantastic observational drawings of plants, thinking very carefully about the shapes and colours they needed to use.