Reception Art Work

Reception class have been exploring and using different media and materials. This half term we have been busy looking at the work of Frank Bowling, mixing primary colours, constructing  using different resources and using glue  and masking tape to join materials. we have also been make props for our role play.

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Nursery Home Learning

nursery@stcatherines.barnetmail.net – Please use this email to communicate with your Year Group Teachers. Nursery Curriculum Letter Nursery – Going places EYFS RE – Week 1 Summer 1 – New Life EYFS – Week 3 RE    

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Reception Home Learning

reception@stcatherines.barnetmail.net – Please use this email to communicate with your Year Group Teachers. Reception Curriculum Letter Reception- Growth and Life Cycles EYFS RE – Week 1 Summer 1 – New Life EYFS – Week 3 RE    

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Nursery Weekly Update

In phonics we have been focusing on voice sounds. We have experimented with different ways of using our voices, exploring the different speech sounds that we can make, and tuning into different voices. We played a game called ‘Apple Pie’ where we had wear a blindfold and guess who said apple pie. We have also […]

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Nursery Weekly Update

In phonics we have been exploring alliteration, and trying to distinguish the initial sounds in a word. We played I Spy and gave clues by using the initial sounds. We also played digging for treasure, and we had to sort out the objects using their initial sounds. We thought of lots of words that start […]

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Nursery Weekly Updates

In phonics we have been exploring rhymes. We have been distinguishing between different words and continuing rhyming strings. We have listened to some of our favourite rhyming stories, such as The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom and Some Dogs Do.  We gave each other silly rhyming names, and created our own silly rhymes such as […]

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Nursery Weekly Update

In phonics we have been exploring body percussion. We have been distinguishing between different body sounds and trying to create patterns of sounds. We have also been learning words to describe different sounds and distinguishing between long/short, fast/slow and loud/quiet sounds. In maths we been learning about the composition of numbers 1-5, and we have […]

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Art & D & T – Reception

We have been busy creating. Reception class have used a variety of materials and tools to create mini theatres, poppies, bracelets, puppets, binoculars, bags, spiders and treasure boxes.  The children have added their names to their work and are using their phonic knowledge to write a label for their work.

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