Otters (Reception): Gallery
Date: 21st Jan 2022 @ 11:00am
This week as artists we have drawn our buildings in readiness to start building them next week. To add additional detail we used charcoal, we agreed they all looked amazing.
In our maths work, we have been looking at the composition of 5 and learning our number bonds. We used a part-part-whole model to represent the different ways of making 5.
As scientists, we have been trying to free the penguins from the ice using tweezers and watching the different states of ice as it turned to water slowly throughout the day. We also enjoyed exploring our new light box an creating snowflakes using the gems.
In our phonics and written work we have started looking at the set 2 sounds 'ay''ee' 'igh' 'ow' 'oo' and 'oo' and using these sounds to write our Fred sentences. We have also used our amazing building pictures and written a description of what our building looks like.
This weeks poetry basket poem was 'Let's put on our mittens' ask your child to see if they can recite it for you.
Mrs Allen
Date: 7th Jan 2022 @ 3:23pm
Otters have been very productive designing and making their own snacks today following a simple recipe. They then washed and dried up their equipment for their friend to use.
Date: 4th Jan 2022 @ 4:18pm
What an amazing start to our new topic we have had today. We all really enjoyed our WOW starter which consisted of us becoming inventors and designing something that could help us at school. Otters worked really hard and created their own designs for a robot before building it as a group together. They then formed part of a whole school machine to create a final WOW!
Date: 14th Dec 2021 @ 3:34pm
Well what an exciting day we have had today! Christmas jumper day, a wonderful Christmas dinner then to finish off a special visitor came to see us!
Date: 30th Nov 2021 @ 7:35pm
KS1 have been busy creating their Christingles today. We have learnt that:
The orange represents the world;
The ribbon represents God's love;
The four sticks represent the four seasons;
and the sweets represent God's creations.
Date: 26th Nov 2021 @ 3:45pm
Otters have enjoyed a celebration tea party today making their own jam sandwiches and creating some tiger themed party hats. What a great end to all their hard work.
Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 9:33am
It’s been another busy week in Otters Class. We have been learning the story ’The tiger who came to tea’ as part of pur celebration topic. We have created invitations inviting him to our class and then used the magnifying glasses to hunt for clues that he had visited.
Date: 16th Nov 2021 @ 3:34pm
Otters and Hedgehogs have been working hard in PE today. We focussed on jumping skills using the right starting and finishing movement and landing with two feet.
Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 10:55am
Otters have been learning about why poppies are a symbol of Remembrance Day. They used their art skills to create some beautiful poppies that have been displayed in church for the services this week.
Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 10:53am
The mud kitchen has proved to be very popular this week. Mrs Allen has had the pleasure of tasting mud pies, grass soup and acorn smoothies!
Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 4:25pm
This week has been the start of new topic 'Celebrate'. The children were excited to see the new activities in their environment and learn about the first festival we will cover - Diwali. We made our own Diya lamps for this festival of light.
In our maths work we have been looking at shapes and their properties and sorting those with no corners and those with three corners. We then used the shapes to make our own shape pictures.
Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 12:54pm
Date: 6th Oct 2021 @ 6:43pm
This week in Otters Class we found a chrysalis in our outside garden which prompted lots of questions of what could be inside. We have explored lots of Autumnal objects from acorns and conkers to pumpkins and squash and used them to make repeating patterns in our maths work. We have used peg boards to strengthen our fine motor skills and continuing with our topic focus this week we have looked at what a family tree is and who is in our family. Well done Otters
Otters Class Learning week ending 1/10/21
Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 7:49am
Otters Class have been busy this week learning new sounds and identifying initial sounds in words. In our maths lessons, we have been comparing size using mathematical language to explain our answers.
Date: 24th Sep 2021 @ 10:52am
Otters have been super busy again this week. In our maths lessons we have used the text ’The button box’ by Margarette S. Reid. We have compared buttons looking at size, shape, colour and number of button holes.
Date: 22nd Sep 2021 @ 9:29pm
Otters Class week ending 17/9/21
Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 3:58pm
Otters have had another fantastic week. They have settled into our daily routines and are enjoying all the different activities. We started our first group of sounds this week too - m, a, s and d. To support your child further, see if you can spot anything that starts with these sounds together. You could also practise writing them, the letter formation rhymes are on our class page under phonics and reading.
Date: 8th Sep 2021 @ 5:22pm
A huge thank you to Rev. Catherine for presenting the children in Otters with their bibles. They were very excited to recieve them.
Date: 3rd Sep 2021 @ 12:32pm
What a fantastic first two days we have had settling into our new environment and making new friends. Have a wonderful weekend Otters ready for a busy week next week. Mrs Allen
Otters class - what a wonderful year!
Date: 16th Jul 2021 @ 12:37pm
Otters it has been a delight to teach you all this year! You are all superstars. Have a wonderful summer break. Love Mrs Allen
Date: 14th Jul 2021 @ 5:02pm
It's been a week of sharing our favourite activities together. Otters were asked what they wanted to do for our last week together and they came up with some great ideas: painting, making playdough, sharing their learning journals, making their own bags, creating dinosaur worlds, magic message painting, having a picnic and making their own snack. We’ve had great fun!
Date: 9th Jul 2021 @ 1:55pm
Otters have done a great job for the fun run today. They managed 4 speedy laps before heading back to cool down with an ice lolly.
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 3:35pm
We have had a wonderful first sports day at school. Otters were superstars cheering on their friends. They were super impressed with themselves that they managed to beat Mrs Allen and Mr Friel in the beat the teacher race.
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 8:12am
This week Otters have been working hard consolidating their maths skills. We have revisited doubles and used cuisenaire rods to count and make numbers to 20. They have all really shown how far they have come on their mathematical journey this year. Well done everyone.
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 3:48pm
Otters have been working hard on reading, writing and hunting for all the tricky red words today. They have blown me away with how many they can all recall now. Superstars 
