On Tuesday, Reception visited The Urban Factory for an EYFS Coordination Festival. We have been climbing, rolling, jumping, crawling, throwing, catching and lots more gross motor skills.
We had lots of fun!
Bede Burn and St Oswald’s enjoyed a ‘Marvellous Machines’ day on Friday. Hitachi visited us and we enjoyed learning about the different machines that help us.
Yesterday, Reception went on an adventure around our local area, visiting the park and enjoying a teddy bears picnic with our friends from St Oswald’s.
In Reception yesterday, as part of PE we were working on our gross motor skills.
Reception have had so much fun during Diversity Day today, learning all about Greece, South Africa, Australia and China. We have decorated flags, listened to music, created aboriginal art and took part in the olympics!
This afternoon our parents/carers joined us for more Diversity Day fun where we painted, coloured in, created a positivity poster and decorated our own fish outside linked to the story ‘Only One You’
Reception and their Year 6 buddies visited Shiremoor Adventure Playground for the day on Thursday where we played all day! We had so much fun jumping, climbing, roller skating, scootering, playing football, zip lining and so much more! ☀️
As part of our topic ‘On the Beach’, Reception has been learning all about crabs and we found out so many crabby facts – we even found out that the biggest crab, a Japanese spider crab has a leg span of up 4 metres!
We made our own crabs and wrote some of our most interesting facts
Reception had our friends from St Oswalds join us today for a morning full of animals!
Along with our fun animal activities in class, we had a visit from Discovery Zoo and got to hold a tortoise, millipede, gecko and even a python! 
We had a closer look at a tarantula and learnt lots of fun facts about the animals.
We had a closer look at a tarantula and learnt lots of fun facts about the animals.We have had such a fun and busy morning!
This week in Forest School, Reception helped Mr Usher by planting our seed shoots that were beginning to grow from the seeds that each class had planted .
As part of our topic ‘Animal Safari’, Reception have been finding out about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores this afternoon, looking at what they are and what animals eat.
