Otters (Reception): Gallery
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 
Date: 23rd Jun 2021 @ 3:38pm
Otters have been busy letting their lights shine this afternoon. We have had a STEM afternoon building using sticks of spaghetti and marshmallows. We have had some wonderful creations! Well done Otters.
Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 12:37pm
It’s Friday which means it is pen disco day in Otters. Everyone has shown great perseverance in their fine motor skills as we pen danced to one of our favourite i sing pop songs. The improvement in their pencil skills is transferring into their written work now which is fantastic! Well done Otters.
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:32pm
This week Otters have been letting their lights as we moved onto subtraction in our maths work. This tricky concept was embraced by all as we used pictures of people on a bus, then counted passengers getting off, to then work out and how many were left. The children then wrote their own number sentences to represent this.
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:30pm
Otters have been enjoying the first bit of sun for a long time today. We used the water trays to fill, pour and empty a variety of containers exploring the language around full, empty and half full. We tried an tested lots of different pipes and containers to see which would hold the most then to finish we gave our dinosaurs a bath!
A Caring Christian Family Where We Grow Together
Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:37pm
This week we haveing been thinking about what it means to be part of 'A Caring Christian Family Where We Grow Together'. Afterwrads we created some amazing artwork.
Date: 13th May 2021 @ 11:59am
Yesterday Otters designed and made their ‘it’s not a box, it’s a boat’. Today we got to test them out to see if they would float. They did! We then had boat races to see who’s was the fastest. What fantastic designers our Otters are and their lights have definitely all shined brightly this week.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 3:25pm
Otters have produced some super writing from our literacy text
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 7:52am
Otters have been looking at double numbers this week. We used our magic doubling mirrors to find a numbers double.
We also had an idea to turn an egg box into a caterpillar, following our not a box theme. Its not an egg box ... it
